The Suite Spot

Much to my embarrassment, and to the amusement of my web delegates this week, when I validated the XHTML of my own index page it failed. The error came from an empty list tag in the Twitter widget; the fix for this is to add an empty list item to the source code as shown here (in bold, red text):

<ul id=”twitter_update_list”><li></li></ul>

The empty item doesn’t matter as the tweet feed replaces the content for the list; given that there has been the odd occasion recently where the feeds have been unavailable you could use a list item like this:

<ul id=”twitter_update_list”><li>Oops! – Twitter isn’t working at the moment – sorry</li></ul>

Which will have the effect of placing the blame squarely on the shoulders to which it belongs.

You can click the link above to start following my Twitter feed.