5 Reasons To Love Web Standards
To be successful, you have to get out of your shell and break your chains. But that doesn’t mean to break the rules of the system you got in. It can’t be expected to be a good player from someone who doesn’t keep the rules and doesn’t know them well. Don’t be too lazy to keep the rules or don’t revolt. You’re not in the position to break the rules and apply your own rules. You just want to be successful in this business and earn more money. Just act smart and dynamic.
As there are standards in each industry, there are also some standards for the web. To keep the web standards, increases the quality of your work and makes you look more professionnal. Consequently, you earn much more money. That’s already sufficient to love them but you have many more reasons to love the web standards…
What Are Web Standards?
Those standards which are defined by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) formed by institutions managing the researches for all the areas concerning the Web and developping standards are called web standards. The most interesting part of those standards are about the XHTML, CSS ve XML coding languages. Those standards were defined for your website to be viewed correctly in the future and for the content to be accessible for as many people as possible.
Who Is The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)?
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is an international association who works on developping the web standards by the help of the member organisations, their emloyees and with the public support. The main purpose of W3C which was built in October 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the network is to lead the web potential.
W3C believes that the web is a great oppotunity for communication, commerce and sharing of knowledge. That’s why one of his purposes is to get those opportunities accessible for everyone without any distinction of equipment, software, network infrastructure, native language, geographical position, physical and mental abilities.
Start To Love Web Standards
1. It Increases Accessibility
Unfortunately each browser interprets websites in a different way. If you design the websites without paying attention to the browser conformity, they will appear differently on every browser. As a consequence, some of the features won’t work and the visitors won’t be able to access the information. You have to design websites conform with popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome.
With the pressure of W3C and the public pressure, the modern web browsers I mentioned are forced to support more the web standards at every new version. Actually neither the users, neither the website owners care about that. The ones that are the most happy about this are web designers. If you code your website conform to the standards, it will be conform with the modern web browsers. So, much more people can view your website correctly and use it as you wished, increases accessibility.
2. Google Will Love Your Site Much More
Search engine optimization is a process that intends your web site to be listed on the top for searches concerning the content of your website on Google. People search for everything they want over Google which is the most popular search engine. By making the search engine optimisation, your website reachs your target group effectively and economically.
The designing of the websites conform with the web standards is very important for the future of the Internet. Because, even if the technology changes, your content will be viewed correctly thanks to the codes conform to the web standards even after many years. As Google has to care about his own future and the future of the Internet, it accords much more value to the websites designed conform to the web standards.
Besides, the content and the view of the websites conform to the web standards are coded separately. So, Google can index the content of the website much more easily and have a better understanding of it. All these make you earn more visitors interested in the content of your website. It helps you reach your goals.
3. It Lowers Costs And Workforce
As there are less codes in the websites coded conform to the web standards, the file sizes are smaller in comparaison to others. With the file size of your website getting smaller, the bandwith used by your website will also decrease. So, the server costs will decrease and this allows your website to serve much more visitors with the same infrastructure. Your website will be loaded faster because the file sizes are smaller. The users with a slow internet connection will use your website much more confortably.
If you design your website conform to the web standards, you will own a cleaner and better structured code system. Thus, to delete the content, to make additions and corrections get much more easier. You spend less time for comprehensive changements. Thanks to the structure of your website conform to the web standards, the integration to the different technologies you might want to use in the future will be faster.
4. Makes The Promotion Of Your Website Easier
Experienced web designers and organizations whos evaluations about web design accord great importance to the web standards.
When you apply web galleries to promote your website or when you ask bloggers inside the design community to examine your website, they all first check whether your website is conform to the standards or not. The same situation is valid for contests to procure you prestige. Because they evaluate your professionnality on how much you understand and apply the standards in industry.
5. It Makes You Earn More Money
Your clients will be happier with a website that is easy to access, lowers the costs, easy to update and to promote. Since the web standards increase the quality of your work you’ll get better references, promess a better service for your potential clients.
Naturally, the profits you offer your clients and yourself by understanding and using the standards of industry will make you look more professionnal. With all these, your projects will be more successfull, you will be employed on better earning projects and you will have a better career.
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