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A series of industry standards enables web developers, web servers, and web browsers to transfer and display information that we know as web pages. Compliance with these standards ensures maximum availablilty of your web site to the public. Some of these standards are managed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

Designing web pages with compliance to standards will help ensure that the array of web browsers on the market can properly display your web page. Some of the browsers on the market are Camino, Firefox, iCab, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari, and WaMCom, .

In addition to ensuring that the various web browsers can access your web page, complying with standards will also help ensure that the disabled will be able to access your web page. Accessibility resources:

Most web page are created with the HTML standard (HyperText Markup Language). Derived from the printing industry, HTML is a markup language. The web designer starts with a plain text document and marks it up, labeling paragraphs, lists, tables, etc. Expanding on that, CCS (Cascading Style Sheets) can be used to further define the appearance of your web page through alignment, colors, and fonts. Some useful resource on these topics include:

Finally, there are several tools to analyze web pages for potential errors:

  • W3C Validation Service - validator your HTML and CSS code
  • WAVE 3.0 - web accessibility tool
  • Ask Alice

    Valid HTML 4.01! Valid CSS! This web page has been validated as HTML 4.01 Transitional and the Cascading Style Sheet has also been validated.


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    Last modified February 4, 2006. Created and maintained by DM. This page has been validated as HTML 4.01 Transitional.