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Throughout this article you can identify specific benefits to your organization that you can gain by switching to a standards-compliant Web site. Also, some technical or Web related terms are defined there.

Are your Web pages written for all the major browsers? There was a time when Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were the only browsers available. Now there are many browsers competing each other for greater market share. Only the sites that are HTML standard-compliant will appear properly… Read full article.

In order to help spark a bit of interest in fundamentals and/or inspiration for readers Andy Rutledge have put together a little multiple-choice quiz to help test your understanding of design. While he does provide the answers for checking your accuracy, there’s no tool there to grade you or present your score for others to see. This little exercise is just for you to see just how well you grasp some design fundamentals.

Whether you are a manager, a Web developer, a Marketing or Communications team member, or perhaps an individual Web master, you have read about the interest in Web standards from many sources. You have understood that standards are beneficial for your Web site in terms of cost savings, ease of management and profitability, and so you have decided to switch - and employ standards within your Web site. See here how that works.

Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee expressed his views on the importance of web standards and accessibility, among other aspects of the World Wide Web’s future during the 15th International World Wide Web Conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the 24th of May. The article Berners-Lee applies Web 2.0 to improve accessibility gives a brief synopsis of his comments. Great reading for anyone interested in the aspect of Accessibility as it relates to the Internet.

If you are ordering a web site from a design company, or from your IT department, what requirements do you give? You want the background a certain color. Your logo has to be of certain dimensions. Your site really needs to be listed in the first ten responses for a certain set of keywords in Google. What else? What about web standards?

The article Buy standards compliant Web sites by the W3C’s Quality Assurance Interest Group does a very good job of explaining why you should make conformance with various web standards a requirement of your project. Whether it’s the (X)HTML, the CSS, the HTTP your pages are served with, or even the graphics on your site, compliance with current web standards can make a great deal of difference to the success of your web site.