Vindicated!

I have a client with a couple of web sites, some several years old. I confess that, over the years, I hadn't been careful about validating the code on some of them. So a few months ago, I asked my client if she would approve of me spending the time to bring all of the sites up to W3C compliance. She agreed, mostly, I think, because she trusts me and believed my explanation as to this being important. Because, of course, after I spent a few hours on this, she couldn't see anything different about her sites.

Yesterday, I got an email from her, which I'll post here verbatim:

"I recommended you to several members of my Advisory Circle yesterday. One of them had been looking for W3C compliant websites and mine was the only one she found!"

As you can imagine, I was quite pleased! Not only had it been shown to my client very quickly and clearly that this matter of valid code was important to other people too, but I was already benefitting as well!