CSS Validation Problem

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Hi guys. Just started to learn CSS properly. For the time I've spent (literally a couple of hours) I personally think I've done pretty well so go easy on any errors you find aside my problem!

Basically when I try and validate the website I get a load of errors about end tags being omitted (even though they're all present). If I remove the DOCTYPE header then this fixes all those problems and I'm just left with a few - so my stab in the dark guess is that there's a problem with that, although I've used a standard one.

The website is http://www.idoweddingfilms.co.uk so you can validate it yourself and see what I mean.

Thanks in advance

 

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[Russinating]

Unfortunately using embed doesn't work as the validator still throws a hissy fit at the required flashvars attribute.

Being more of a designer and less of a programmer it does seem like W3C is incredibly anal. Like when it's wrong to have <a><h1> but ok to have <h1><a>. Makes no difference to how it looks or works, just seems like a rule for rules sake. Plus when my site throws up 100's of errors, yet works and looks the same in every version of IE back to 5.01, Firefox, Safari and Opera Mini on my mobile phone, just seems all pointless. Safe to say I've given up on validating and as long as it looks and works identical in every browser to every user I'm happy.