It’s perfectly ok saying “Valid XHTML and CSS” but it may be nice to say that it is pretty stuffed in all older browsers. An example is IE6 and some of the old Mac browser versions. I am in no way dissing these themes though. What I have been looking for are specifically REALLY nice WordPress themes…. Here is one of them.

Catastrophe.

Absolutely lovely in the fact it is very well designed and will suit a LOT of uses. But it is certainly ‘Catastrophic’ if you view it in IE6.

Let me show you the screenshots of what I am talking about:

'Catastrophe' Theme in older Browsers eg IE6

As you can see on this website, I am using the sociable plugin.

There are NUMEROUS fixes that need to be made to make it validate W3C XHTML.

Heres ONE:
When you are wanting to display the sociable items on the index page where it will be repeated on every post for the same page. Validation result returns that it already has the ID’s specified.

CSS Basics dictate that you only use ‘ID’ ONCE on a page
‘CLASS’ is the re-usable css.

Go to the plugin sociable directory and find “sociable.php”

Edit the PHP file:
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