Compliance, What is web standards
Web standards are a set of compliance rules for each type of web page, dependent upon it’s doctype. The rules are set down by W3C (World Web Consortium).
It’s been said for many years that search engines such as Google can find it difficult to read a page when it is full of coding errors. It would be like trying to read a book with no full stops, capitol letters or any punctuation.
With all of our designs we create them to be W3C validated. You can actually check the validation of any page over on the W3C website http://validator.w3.org/
This is part of our commitment to making web standards standard in all web designs we do.
Here’s What W3C Say
Most pages on the World Wide Web are written in computer languages (such as HTML) that allow Web authors to structure text, add multimedia content, and specify what appearance, or style, the result should have.
As for every language, these have their own grammar, vocabulary and syntax, and every document written with these computer languages are supposed to follow these rules. The (X)HTML languages, for all versions up to XHTML 1.1, are using machine-readable grammars called DTDs, a mechanism inherited from SGML.
However, Just as texts in a natural language can include spelling or grammar errors, documents using Markup languages may (for various reasons) not be following these rules. The process of verifying whether a document actually follows the rules for the language(s) it uses is called validation, and the tool used for that is a validator. A document that passes this process with success is called valid.
With these concepts in mind, we can define “markup validation” as the process of checking a Web document against the grammar (generally a DTD) it claims to be using.