{"id":1126,"date":"2005-04-21T12:39:53","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2009-07-26T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T07:40:56","slug":"the-beauty-of-web-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/the-beauty-of-web-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Web Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been advocating web standards for some time now, but for those of you first hearing about the benefits of building and designing sites around web standards, the W3C has a great introduction to understanding the concepts and the relationships between web standards, accessibility, and CSS in its article, \u201cHow to achieve Web standards and quality on your Web site.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Consolidated links to websites, essays, resources, and tools related to web standards:<\/p>\n

World Wide Web Consortium<\/a>
\nThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.<\/p>\n

The Web Standards Project<\/a>
\nDevoted to adhering to W3C standards in Web page design.<\/p>\n

Designing With Web Standards<\/a> by Jeffrey Zeldman
\n\u201cDesigning With Web Standards is for every web professional who wants to reach more users on more browsers, platforms, and devices \u2013 including wireless and hand-held devices \u2013 with less work, less maintenance, and at lower cost. It\u2019s for designers, developers, site owners and managers who seek to end the costly spiral of obsolescence, where each new browser or Internet device means a whole new coding cycle and another line item on the budget. Few organizations today can afford the merry-go-round of coding and re-coding that has characterized web development until now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Business Value of Web Standards<\/a> by Jeff Veen<\/p>\n

Web Standards Awards<\/a>
\nThe Web Standards Awards aims to promote web site design using W3C standards by seeking out and highlighting the finest standards-compliant sites on the Internet.<\/p>\n

A web standards checklist<\/a> by Max Design Australia<\/p>\n

Developing With Web Standards<\/a> by Roger Johansson<\/p>\n

Web Standards Solutions<\/a> by Dan Cederholm
\n\u201cI wrote a book. It\u2019s filled with standards-compliant solutions intended to give web designers and developers ammunition \u2014 to make the best choices with markup and style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using Headings
\nhttp:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG10\/wai-pageauth.html#tech-logical-headings<\/a><\/p>\n

Search Engine Friendly URLs
\nhttp:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/article\/search-engine-friendly-urls<\/a>
\n\u201cMost search engines (with a few exceptions – namely Google) will not index any pages that have a question mark or other character (like an ampersand or equals sign) in the URL\u2026 what good is a site if no one can find it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n

Code Validator
\nhttp:\/\/validator.w3.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

CSS Validator
\nhttp:\/\/jigsaw.w3.org\/css-validator\/g\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Text-based Browser Simulator
\nhttp:\/\/www.delorie.com\/web\/lynxview\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Broken Link Checker
\nhttp:\/\/validator.w3.org\/checklink\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been advocating web standards for some time now, but for those of you first hearing about the benefits of building and designing sites around web standards, the W3C has a great introduction to understanding the concepts and the relationships between web standards, accessibility, and CSS in its article, \u201cHow to achieve Web standards and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,396,14,395],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-design","tag-w3c","tag-web","tag-webstandards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}