Standards compliant website design
Green Eye Digital
produce various website designs as well as developing web applications.
Part of our design and development process involves making sure we conform
to the latest W3C compliance rules.
Are you in the process of deciding on a Web Agency, or company to
build your website?
Then, you're probably aware that setting the correct requirements will
make a better final product. Relying on web standards can help you to
achieve this.
Defining the of requirements for a Web site is not easy: it's especially
difficult to set a verifiable level of quality.
Adding standards compliance to your requirements helps achieve a more
powerful, accessible, and maintainable final product, and leverages
the energies put into standards.
Open Standards for the Web
The current trend of stressing standards compliance on the Web is
not due to chance: they are a win-win for all participants.
Developed by experts and with input from the whole Web community, standards
work together to provide the foundation to build increasingly powerful
applications.
For a more powerful Web site
On the Web, being up-to-date with the latest technologies is a difficult
exercise: choosing the wrong tool or architecture can lead to losses
in money, time, or customers.
By using standards, your Web site's foundation is built upon technologies
that have been developed and tested by leading experts in the Web community.
With almost 500 companies and organizations from the IT world contributing
R&D efforts to the production
of W3C standards, these standards are truly the leading edge
of the Web.
Gearing your choices toward standards means getting the latest innovations, but only those that are solid enough to gather consensus, and hence, the technologies that are here to stay.
Benefit from accessibility designs
Making a Web site accessible is beneficial:
- beneficial because it broadens your potential audience and makes it much more usable for everyone — some level of accessibility is also required by law in a growing number of countries
Thanks to various efforts (the Web Accessibility Initiative for instance), accessibility has been integrated into an important number of standards, either natively or by using techniques specifically designed for them. Using standards technologies lets you benefit directly from design decisions that have been tested by the Web community and are complemented by a large set of tools.
More generally, open standards are reviewed from important and difficult points-of-view. For example, W3C standards are checked not only against accessibility features, but against internationalization capacities, and device independence, which guarantees their capacity to scale quickly to new audiences.