Posted on May 8th, 2008
Web standards are best practices for HTML based web design. Generally a website that is ‘web standards compliant’ will be coded in accordance with the guidelines set out by the W3C.
What does that mean to you?
Any schmuck can download a free WYSIWYG HTML editor and start creating and publishing web pages. You don’t need much skill or knowledge to do that. But it takes a lot of skill and knowledge to create web standards compliant web pages. That’s because they are made correctly. They are a lot less likely to break. They are more likely to display correctly in a variety of browsers and operating systems. They will last longer. And well, they’re just better.
So, if you’re going to hire a web designer, ask them if they write web standards based code. If they don’t, they might just be one of those schmucks with a WYSIWYG editor. And that’s bad because it means they don’t really understand what they’re doing, which means the work they produce is going to be of a poor standard. Furthermore, if you need changes or tweaks made to the code, it is unlikely that they will be able to help you because they can’t hand code.
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