After you put the finishing touches on a set of pages (but before you go public on the Web for all the world to see), it's time to put them through their paces. Testing remains the best way to control site quality and effectiveness.

Thorough testing must include content review, analysis of (X)HTML and CSS syntax and semantics, link checks, and various sanity checks to make doubly sure that what gets built is what you really want. Read this chapter for some gems of testing wisdom (learned from a lifetime of Web adventures) as we seek to rid your Web pages of bugs, errors, and lurking infelicities. Out! Out! Darned Spot!

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