Web Standards: good for the Web, good for your business.

The film industry and the auto industry follow certain standards. Without them, movie studios and car plants would have a difficult time producing products for you, the consumer.

There is a movement towards web standards which is quickly gaining momentum. These standards, established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), ensures the following:

Accessibility

Ignoring web standards could be restricting the amount of visitors to your site. Web standards provides access by non-traditional browsers other media types such as smart phones. It allows access to those with sight impairments who use voice browsers.

Cleaner Code

By sticking to core coding standards of HTML, CSS, XML and DOM, developers are able to work together more efficiently. Updates and revisions of standards compliant sites can be accomplished much more quickly and cost effectively. Your site loads more quickly.

Stability

Web standards are designed to embrace future web innovations without disregarding the past. Sites using newer versions of the standards degrade gracefully so that older browsers can adequately render web pages.