[Princeton]

now, you are talking about "coding style"...

I can have a page with <font> tags all over the place and still get it to validate. The difference is I know more than just "coding in html".

the difference between the style at gtwebhost and the styles that people are selling is that it is not for sale ... that style was made 3-4 years ago AND it is POWERED BY a vbulletin platform which is NOT xhtml compliant

and, I do agree with some points you made regarding said style - point taken
however, it has been edited many times since LAUNCHING the site; so, you will find some things that were not from the original

However, being standards-compliant definitively does NOT mean your page will look the same in all browsers. There are rendering bugs in just about every major browser out there, which will affect how your final page will look.

Also, it's important to remember that the W3C validator only checks up on your XHTML markup. It doesn't check your linked stylesheets. Depending on your CSS, even the best-coded XHTML page can be broken in all the major browsers.

I wholeheartedly agree with the above statement; however, that is not a problem with STANDARDS but with browsers. In time, all pages will display the same no matter what appliance you use.