Web Standards Design

Aug 21, 2007

Tools-tbnWe design websites that are usable, accessible, and built to web standards...

Part of our mission is to build websites that meet web-compliant standards as designated by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and bring this technology to the markets we serve. Web Standards allows for consistent presentation across the site. One of the benefits of web standards is cross-browser compatibility, with newer browsers getting the full experience, while the site degrades gracefully for older or less able (phone/PDA) browsers.

Web Standards reduces the cost to maintain a website. Web Standards-based pages are little more than a collection of semantically rich tags, with a pointer to a powerful CSS file. This clean separation makes it much easier for you to develop and maintain your pages. Future redesigns can be done rapidly and at a greatly reduced cost because css files generate the design.

Web standards-based designs allow usability to people with disabilities, including vision-impaired visitors. Sites can be created to adhere to Section 508 Web Accessibility.

A quote from The Web Standards Project -

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call "web standards," are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web.

Designing and building with these standards simplifies and lowers the cost of production, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Sites developed along these lines will continue to function correctly as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and as new Internet devices come to market."

Read more about our complete web design process.