Webuser Forums: W3C Validation

I have decided to change every single page of my site (roughly 600 pages)and instead of using basic html I am using CSS.

Jim from http://www.jimpix.co.uk/ recommended that I learn CSS when I first posted my site on here in the members websites area, almost 2 years ago. I have not had time to learn CSS, but I can make CSS pages in dreamweaver.

My site often gets in excess of 500,000 page views per month and so by using CSS I can tidy up the site a hell of a lot and can also reduce the bandwith used by roughly 50%.

The main reason for updating the site is to get it up to a decent standard as it seems that in the future some browsers will not support font tags and so I am using CSS instead.

Whilst I am updating the site I am also trying to get it to validate through the W3c consortium. I don't really care if the pages validate or not as long as they work in all browsers, but some people believe it matters and so I am trying to validate the pages as well, this is where I am stuck

So far I have only done one test page in CSS, which is here-
http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/taps/index.htm

I have validated the .CSS file, which had no errors. But when I try and validate the page I get this error-

Please, validate your XML document first!

Line 45

Column 42

Element type "a" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".

I validated the document from within dreamweaver and it found no errors at all!

Any advice would be appreciated?

Thanks in advance

chez

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