Web Standards
You might have noticed that we make a lot of fuss over these things called web standards. We’re not just bleating on – there are good reasons behind it all!
Standards compliant code means that your site will look better, render more reliably and even degrade gracefully on older platforms: all while keeping your content accessible to the end user.
As an example, this site is legible on desktop computers, PDAs and even mobile phones without having to create individual sites for each.
Not only that, but by seperating the content of the web page from the code that governs how it looks, even browsers that only show text can display your content perfectly.
On the whole, standards compliant sites are:
- accessible to more people
- easier to update
- cheaper to maintain
- more powerful and flexible
But don’t just take our word for it; the FAQ at the Web Standards Project is a good overview, or you can skip straight to the benefits of accessible websites.
At Different Pixel, all of our sites are coded by hand to conform to the guidelines laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium: the organisation which recommends how to properly write for the web.