Sometimes i think that most Web Developers make up information as they go along. After the months of hearing people praise Web Standards, and saying that everyone should code their site to W3C Standards, now you get people saying that validation causes more problems than it does good, so for the record, how are W3C standards useful to a working web page? and does using standards make your page better or worse? I recently upgraded my Portfolio to XHTML Strict and CSS, both validate perfectly, but small problems with the way things align. I find it kinda annoying that i took the time to learn standards cause of all the hype that standards were gonna pave the way, now people say that coding to standards is pointless.