How can I check the code of a page on my web hosting account?

You can use the HTML Validation Tool found on the Aplus.Net Control Panel to check the code of a page on your Aplus.Net web hosting account. The tool allows you to either enter the full URL of the page you’d like to validate (i.e. http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.html), or to select one of your files stored in your domain’s parking location by using the Choose a Directory / File drop-down menus.

The HTML Validation Report contains five categories of information:

1. Verification Results: Provides a summary of the changes that could be made to your code to make it 100% compliant with web accessibility standards.
2. Link Status: Checks each of your links to make sure that they are pointing to valid and extant web pages.
3. Original Code: The actual source code of your webpage.
4. Tidy Recommendations: Recommendations on how to improve the functionality and accessibility of your HTML code.
5. Cleaned Code: Revised source code for your webpage; recommendations are compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium’s framework for “Tidy” code. For more information, see http://www.w3.org.

Note: The Cleaned Code provided in this report does not replace the original code contained in your .html file. To replace the original code in your file with the cleaned code contained in this report, you will have to copy the cleaned code from the HTML Validation Tool into your .html file by hand.

Here’s how to access and use the HTML Validation Tool:

1. Start by logging into the Aplus.Net Control Panel at http://cp.aplus.net using your Registration Number and Customer Password.
2. Select Web Hosting from the top navigation bar.
3. Next, select Hosted Domains and click on Manage Hosted Domains.
4. Now, select the hosted domain that you’d like to manage.
5. Click on the Design tab.
6. Click the HTML Validation Tool icon.
7. Now, you have to specify:

• at step 1, use the Choose a Directory drop-down menu browse to a directory inside your html.
• then, use the Choose a File drop-down menu to specify the exact file you wish to validate.
• at step 2, select the Validation Type using the respective radio buttons.
• at step 3, specify your HTML version. Leave at Auto (default), if unsure.

8. Finally, click Validate.