If you frequent Twitter, you’ve likely seen it yourself: tweets tweeted multiple times by the same person. The sad truth is that this is a necessary evil.

Why Tweet?

Twitter is an amazing way to communicate to hundreds (if not thousands) of your friends and followers alike. Especially if your tweets lead to income, making sure everyone knows the latest thing going on in your business can be VERY beneficial to you financially.

The Problem

Twitter has LOTS of people. If your followers are following 1,000+ other users, it’s likely your latest tweet will get lost in the shuffle. In my experience, I follow some people who update their twitter every 30 minutes. This makes it very difficult to stay up-to-date with every single person/organization you follow. Depending on how frequently you check Twitter, you could be spending quite a bit of time reading past tweets – we’re talking HOURS here people.

The [EVIL] Solution

Tweeting the same thing multiple times. There. I said it. It’s the truth. You HAVE to tweet the same thing at least twice to ensure the majority of the people who follow you even have a chance of catching a glimpse of it. Sure it’s annoying to see the same thing twice. Sure it only makes things worse. But who said Twitter was perfect? Not me.

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We’ve all heard it many times before: “This website has valid CSS and HTML“. My response? Who cares if it’s valid or not?!

The issue

Too many times people confuse having invalid code with having a broken or sub par website. This simply is not true. The W3C markup validation service should only be used to make sure nothing was missed or overlooked. However, if you have INTENTIONALLY used code that doesn’t validate (i.e. currently all CSS3 techniques), your site will not validate. This is fine. You should only be concerned if it doesn’t validate for reasons such as missed closing tags, misspelling of tag names, etc.

Why does this bother me?

100% of the sites I make DO NOT validate… on purpose! There are so many amazing tools at our disposal today, such as CSS3 features like border radius, box shadow, and text shadow to name just a few. These features add so much to the look of a website that it’s almost a sin not to use them to some extent.

Conclusion

Don’t kill yourself if your site doesn’t validate. Just because CSS3 isn’t available on all major browsers (hence why it doesn’t validate) doesn’t mean we should be afraid of using it. As long as what we use “downgrades gracefully” (as they say), anything is fair game.

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I launched a new project I call Gallery Galleria. Yes, it’s a gallery of gallery websites.

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