According to http://webstandardsgroup.org/standards/ , “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.”
If sites are built and designed with web standards, the cost of production is simplified and lowered when delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. The sites built under these standards will maintain functioning appropriately as traditional desktop browsers advance, and as new Internet devices are brought into the market.
Benefits of using web standards?
There are many advantages to utilizing Web Standards when designing websites. I came across a website that had some pretty interesting information regarding Web Standards. “Did you know that websites designed around CSS and XHTML use as much as 60% less markup and code per page on average? Did you know that your sites run better, faster, smoother and are more usable overall? These are just a few of the advantages. By using Web Standards and the practices behind them, you can greatly improve the overall quality of your web sites over time.”
A site that has been built to web standards has many benefits that include:
• Better Accessibility
• Better SEO (Search Engine Optimization and Ranking)
• Less bandwidth intense
• Future-proof
• Run better, faster, smoother and are more usable
• Extensibility
• Maintenance - easier
• Compatibility with newer browsers
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