testing pages with a validator

[peopleherder]

Hi all,
I'v seen alot of discussions about validating the pages of a website to make everything "clean " and work well. Is this a valid point or should I not worry about it as long as my page works. I'v tried validating a couple of my pages and seem to get alot of errors that say the "ID BV_ already defined" in several lines and a few other types of errors. If my page/site seems to be working fine on IE and FFox, should I worry about validating?
I'v already stripped the home page of my site to a skeleton just to see if it would validate at all. It did, but I dont have anything on it except my logo and a header. the site is under constructions still but is at www.peopleherd.com Thanks in advance for any help or guidance.

Herd

[navaldesign]

Re: testing pages with a validator

Is is true that standards require a unique ID for each element, and BV doesn't yet respect this, but, do NOT fear. It will not affect your rankings.

[Bethers]

Re: testing pages with a validator

It's good to look to see what the problems are - and to correct ones that you can correct - but as Naval says, it will not hurt you that you have some errors.

[peopleherder]

Re: testing pages with a validator

Thanks for settling that for me. I was afraid I would be spending many late nights pulling my hair out trying to get things just right. It's great to have people to turn to for help. Thanks.