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I have 7 errors and if anyone can help me fix them I would greatly appreciate it.
You can see the errors here: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fxboxhype.com

Thanks

Thanks for the suggestions.
However, removing those excess line crashed the whole template.

Sorry for that but be careful, you might be removing the wrong closing tags. Try removing them one at a time and see. Also, don't forget to include alt tags for your images.

Basically what I am doing is just going thru all of the templates I have to see if they validate.
From what I gather it is fairly important to have a validated website, good for SE's, etc.
The only template that validates is "madeyourweb" and I hate how it looks.

I have very limited .PHP knowledge, so I just assumed I was to remove the aformentioned tags alltogether.

You are going to have a hard time since even the text editor doesn't always churn out valid XHTML. Don't worry about PHP, it is more to do with XHTML and CSS.

You might hate 'madeyourweb' but it is a good starting point to build your own using it since it is already valid. As for SEO, this is a complex issue, just because your site validates doesn't alway mean better ranking. Best tried and tested method is link exchange from popular sites, even meta tags are useless now.

When I looked there were 25 errors.
Instead of using try using and modify template_css.css #clr to .clr.

cannot be placed between and , try putting it before and after .  If you can't do that then put it between the

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