• Make sure all tags are lower case - example:
  <meta name="Author" content="Bernie" />
• Make sure to close all tags - examples:
  <strong> __ </strong>  or for empty elements like <br> are now <br />
• Instead of <i> use <em> or Instead of <b> use <strong>
• Font tags have been depreciated, so now you must use css
• Align, underline, bgcolor, width have all be depreciated in strict xhtml so you have to use css to archive the same results
• Make sure you use good meta tags or Dublin Code in the head section of your pages
• Any use of Java Script should be done through external Java Scripting.
• If your code contains a &, it must be written as &amp;.
• Attribute values must be denoted

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