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If you are a new blogger or an experienced webmaster or web designer, there is one thing that is relatively universal. 

You need to test your website, retest your website and test it again.

It is very important to test your website under many different circumstances and from a wide range of user perspectives so that you can make your website or blog universally acceptable and appealing.

The Aviva Directory provided an excellent article titled 'Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Test'.

The article provides exactly that, 31 different tests gathered from all around the internet.  These are online utilities freely available to anyone that can be used to help insure that your website or blog is validated for everything from html, to xhtml to CSS and even for accessibility in the United Kingdom and around the world.

You can check your website to determine how it might look to people visiting using Internet explorer 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Safari, even check your site using multiple screen resolutions.

The article provides several tools for checking your links to insure that there are no broken, malformed or links that have gone dead.  I highly recommend the article and the tools.  I've used about 30-50% of the tools regularly in the past and have several of them bookmarked.  There are quite a few new ones that I've bookmarked to add to my own testing toolbox!