Hi Ronnie and Welcome to the forums.

The XHTML validator recognizes several options which modify its behavior. These options are configurable on a per-group basis. So, you go to the Users tab inside the backoffice and click in the group you want to modify its settings -for instance, the "Administrators" group, to which you as blog owner belong. There, you can modify the different settings of the XHTML validation.

The annoying message about CSS you can make disappear by turning off "prevent CSS tweaks" (I guess that's the name in english, I'm using my spanish version). Similarly for allowing "object" and so forth.

I hope this helps.

I really appreciate the help; I have finally stopped those CSS messages! Just as soon as I take care of the "Link" problem, I'll be ready to rock & roll.
Thanks again.

You're welcome.

What's the link problem again? I didn't understand the first time...:(

I know this one!

In your skins/_item_content.inc.php file you will find this:

		// URL link, if the post has one:
		$Item->url_link( array(
				'before'        => $params['before_url_link'],
				'after'         => $params['after_url_link'],
				'text_template' => '$url$',
				'url_template'  => '$url$',
				'target'        => '',
				'podcast'       => '#',        // auto display mp3 player if post type is podcast (=> false, to disable)
			) );

So copy that file to your skins/yourskin/ folder, then remove that section. Alternatively you can remove it from the copy in the skins/ folder and affect every skin that uses it because ... you know ... it looks for files in a specific skin folder first then uses the generic skins folder if it can't find it.

Now let me get this right by the numbers:
1.Goto skins/_item_content.inc.php & copy that entire file;
2.Paste it to skins/evocamp/ (which I am using);
3.In skins/evocamp/_item_content.inc.php, edit & remove:
// URL link, if the post has one:
$Item->url_link( array(
'before' => $params['before_url_link'],
'after' => $params['after_url_link'],
'text_template' => '$url$',
'url_template' => '$url$',
'target' => '',
'podcast' => '#', // auto display mp3 player if post type is podcast (=> false, to disable)
) );
4. And finally save the remaining file as skins/evocamp/_item_content.inc.php in the skins/evocamp folder.
Let me know if my interpretation is correct & much, much thanks.

Yup. Your evocamp skin will then find the new file before it finds the one it currently uses, and will then not show the "Link: whatever" bit.

Thanks much, EdB.