Conforming to standards and regulations is one of the many ways you can make your website universally understood.

Make sure your codes and styles validate across the board.

The World Wide Web Consortium sets the standards and also hosts a variety of web page validators.

In simple terms, validation ensures that your website complies with the standards accepted by most web designers.

Validating your Web page won't guarantee that it will appear just the way you want it.

It only ensures that your code is free of syntax errors.

There are various types of HTML validators: some only check for errors, while others also make suggestions about your code, telling you when it might lead to (say) unexpected results.

You can also work with tags, the building blocks of any code language, in the Tag Selector, the Quick Tag Editor, the Tag Inspector, and tag libraries.

In addition, Dreamweaver includes options for cleaning up and troubleshooting your code, as well as for validating your pages.

Whether the workbench uses the global or project validation preferences, only the validators selected to run on manual validation are used when you run a manual validation.

Now that you have a Web server and an application server, and you've set up a Dreamweaver site, it's time to set up your Dreamweaver coding environment before you start working directly with code.

As an experienced Dreamweaver user, you already know about Dreamweaver's document view options, which include Code, Design, and Split (Code and Design combined).