Review of my newish web directory (edited thread)

[sfidirectory]

Hi everyone,

First of all, as admin and others may know, I have posted virtually the exact same review before. The reason why I am reposting this is because I made a typo error with my directories url. It is www.sfilinkdirectory.info, NOT www.sfilinkdirectory.com !!!!!!!! I couldn't find a way to edit the post so hence why I am reposting an edited version.

Over the last few weeks I have steadily been working on the creation of my web directory at www.sfilinkdirectory.info. At the moment I am focussing more on the technical aspects of the directory, as I want the directory to operate properly. So far I have managed to get a Google Page rank of 2 with an Alexa ranking of around 330, 000. I get approximately 200 add requests per day (although unfortunately around 75% of them are spam submissions about enhancement products etc...).

Once I know it is operating properly I will start on the design aspect. In other words, create a logo I can use to give the directory some sort of branding. I would also like to add a section on the main page that shows the newest approved links in the directory.

The thing that has frustrated me is that I am having trouble using w3c schools validator to successfully validate the site. The directory has been made primarily with PHP code (with thanks to Skalinks.com) however the validator only validates the html output of the site (since PHP is a server side script and cannot be seen by looking at websites source code via "view source" from browser - can only see html output). I am not sure how or what to change in the PHP code to make the site's html output successfully validate using w3c schools validator. I have also posted a forum post in the php section of this site's forum to see if I can get assistance with this, as well as talking with peers.

Please take the above into account when reviewing my site. I want to be able to be certain that it operates properly before I turn my attention to its overall look. If you think the directory has potential you are most welcome to submit your website for inclusion (and by the way, my directory is dofollow ).
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[meinsla]

You should only use PHP for the automated portions of the site. The entire page can be regular HTML but when you need to do something that requires PHP you can just throw in the <?php tag and start coding, the whole thing doesn't need to be "php," it just needs to be within a .php file. My site is written in PHP, but most of my pages don't even make the php declaration "<?php" until halfway down the page, and even then it's typically an inclusion. So it makes the html coding and whatnot actually very easy.

Anyway, I was curious, are sites in your directory required to link back to your site?