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What are Web Standards and Why Should I Learn It ? |
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Web standards are important, and getting moreso every day. Tables for layout are out. There are many reasons to learn web standards and code your sites to adhere to them as much as you can. You don't have to become a 'standardista', but learning and coding for web standards will help you - and your clients. Yes, there's a learning curve, but a good web master never stops learning
![]() Here is a list of some resources for learning about Web Standards and why they are important. http://www.webstandards.org/learn/ http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/de...web_standards/ http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm http://www.zeldman.com/ - Jeff Zeldman, Standards guru Designing With Web Standards, 2nd edition, by Jeffrey Zeldman http://www.zeldman.com/dwws/ http://www.sitepoint.com/article/imp...-web-standards Why should you bother ?? There are good business reasons: http://www.adaptivepath.com/publicat...ves/000266.php http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/benefits/ http://www.maccaws.org/kit/primer/ Along with Web Standards, you have to also grasp Usability and Accessibility (it's not JUST about the blind !) http://www.webcredible.co.uk/ More about Web Standards, Validation and Accessibility 2/26/07 http://www.alistapart.com/articles/w...dardswentwrong 3/7/07 - Excellent articles on Web Standards and Design by Andy Rutledge at DesignView "Web Standards: Its About Quality, Not Compliance: http://www.andyrutledge.com/web-standards.php "Web Misunderstandards" http://www.andyrutledge.com/web-misunderstandards.php - It's NOT about stifling design !
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Found this link:
http://validator.w3.org/docs/why.html Interesting part: Quote:
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Last edited by maddy : 02-21-2007 at 01:25 AM. |
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NICE WORDS, IT WILL HELP US A LOT.. me as newbie, am always stick on that kind of informations which i know it would help me a lot.. Last edited by Ar3d : 02-22-2007 at 01:30 AM. |
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A fantastic list of resources, thank you. I have bookmarked this page
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i cant believe that court case. what kind of website was it like a doctor or hospital one? I can see why we should do it but to be legally liable to not provide adequate usability for the blind its a little scary.
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Three reasons to learn web standards:
1. It increase the chance of webpage to look good on all browsers. 2. Smaller page, free of junk thereby making you site faster to load, save hosting cost by reducing webspace usage + bandwidth. 3. And most important, search engine crawl your page easily giving your site more traffic.
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Its really just a plan by the powers that be to better manage the webs wild traits. Just think about how google would benefit if all websites for the most part were formatted similarly.
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I agree ladynred it is very important to learn the web standards.
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I personally user Firefox and have discovered that there are many websites on the net that do not work properly with my browser.
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Yeah ok. Thank you for the reply!
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