Web Standards
Enovate Design is a strong advocate of web standards and all our website projects are created to these best practice methods. We utilise a free validation tool provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to test that our web pages contain valid code, but that is not to say we stop there, producing valid code is only the start.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call “web standards,” are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web.Web Standards Project
Advantages of web standards
- Accessibility - a web standards compliant website is also an accessible website and therefore shares the advantages of web accessiblity.
- Browser Consistency - a web standards compliant website will display consistently across a wider range of existing and future standard compliant browsers and user agent devices.
- Higher Search Engine Rankings - a web standards compliant website removes extraneous presentational mark-up such as fonts and colours from web pages as this information is likely to be repeated across each page. By moving this information to a seperate file the size of every page is drastically reduced which increases the relevence of the page to the search engines.
- Faster Download TIme - By removing duplicate presentational mark-up from web pages into a seperate file, the file size of each page is reduced considerably, this means pages download faster.
- Ease of Maintenance - By seperating the three elements that make up a web page into seperate files; changing the font colour for links across an entire website is as easy as making a change in just one file.
Our methodology
The key to designing a website to web standards is seperating out the three types of information conventionally contained within a single web page. The three types of information contained within a web page can be classified as:
- The information it contains (data)
- The way it looks (presentation)
- What it does (behaviour)
Standard compliant coding is about seperating these three elements into seperate files; so a file that contains the data (called HTML), a file that contains information on how that data should be presented (called CSS or Stylesheet) and a file that adds behaviours, such as form validation (called JavaScript).
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