diff --git a/footer.tpl b/footer.tpl
index 629a186..94366e2 100644
--- a/footer.tpl
+++ b/footer.tpl
@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
 <hr/>
 
-<div class="left">
-<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">
-<img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" height="31" width="88" />
-</a>
-<a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">
-<img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" />
-</a>
-</div>
-
 <div class="right">
 Bibliography generated by <a href="https://github.com/NullHypothesis/bibliograpy"><tt>bibliograpy</tt></a>.
 </div>