NOTE: Usually you will keep your pages fully compliant for about 5 - 10 website updates (depending on how large the updates). Do not stress. It is like laundry, the hamper never is empty. You always have to maintain your sites for high ranking.

HOW DO I validate my XHTML dreamweaver template or .DWT?

You must start my fixing all the things that are not native to Dreamweaver. Using the dreamweaver tool bar: Click on Commands and sample some of the tools under that drop down. Depending on what WYSIWYG editor was used to build your pages you will have some FAST clean up results here. From there go after the top 508 compliance issues: - fill empty alt attributes (no stuffing...) - CLOSE all tags. you can not have any open tags in XHMTL. Additionally: Empty tags are not allowed in XHTML. The

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and tags should be replaced with the trailing slashes;

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and . This should get you down to where you have only one page of validation errors; instead of ten. Maybe you can live with that knowing that your validation will go away the first time an image is missing an alt attribute on a product update request or bio update request.