As a website designer and developer I always make sure that the websites I work on are compliant with the latest web standards. This is why I code using XHTML and use CSS as a means of delivering the page layout. The use of CSS as a layout tool offers many benefits but can also provide a web designer with many headaches especially for those people beginning to learn CSS. (more…)
There is nothing new about web standards. They’ve been around almost since 1994, but what are web standards and what are their benefits?
Web standards are a set of guidelines set out by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which aims to provide a blue print for the long term use and development of the internet. The general jist of the W3C guidelines revolves around making websites accessible to all web users regardless of ability, disability or method of internet access. The core tool in making standards compliant websites is XHTML and CSS (cascading style sheets). The XHTML uses sementic markup to display the websites content in a logical order. The CSS code, which is located in an external stylesheet, governs the page layout and design. Different stylesheets can be written for different media types such as browsers, printers, screen readers and pda’s (more…)