So I've done a couple of little upgrades to the blog, adding a Twitter panel, my del.icio.us links, and my Last.FM music - as well as removing the syndication panel, "This Blog" panel and the archives.

Anyway, it all seemed to be going smoothly, and then I was cruising Ben Tiedt's Blog - mostly because I'd love to steal some ideas off him for a theme, I love his icons and just the uncluttered but functional layout.

I also love the AJAX post panel he's got at work there, that really would do away with the archive section - because I'm of the belief that most new people to a blog would only check back a few pages, if reviewing it for the first time, or search or use the tags to find things that interest them.  I don't think anyone would go back archive section by section unless the blog was technical or of high value.

Most blogs I go through I just subscribe and read forward - Ben's being different because I'm interested in a bit of the Chameleon stuff to help me theme going forward.

So anyway, Ben's post panel being great because I can see all his post topics for the last few months without going through pages and pages.

Now to get back to the topic, I saw his badge down the bottom for the W3C validation and thought it'd be interesting just to see if I still validate after some changes (assuming Community Server validates fine to begin with).

1400+ Errors.

Damn it.

A good portion of those were the Twitter Javascript code that I took from a blog linked to as an example on the twitter site, and being a Javascript newbie (as I am to a lot of coding things) I'm going to be spending some time trying to figure that one out.

The funny thing is though, it complained about the <SPAN> tags I was using, which of course is an issue because it prefers lower case, but every span tag I have has been auto-generated by a plug-in for Formatted Code in Windows Live Writer.

Guess it goes to show, sometimes you need to check what your tools are doing for you - because now I've got quite a few posts to review to make sure that I am back to validating and indexing fine on search engines and all that good stuff.

Edit to add: Apparently it wasn't a problem to do with Windows Live Writer but the edit box in Community Server - off to find the issue (It was probably fixed in SP2! d'oh!)

Editted again to add: Okay, it's a TinyMCE issue - http://communityserver.org/forums/t/484934.aspx  looks like it's editting in Firefox from now on.