Web Standards and Best Practices
Web Standards
We are committed to standards-based web development, and our objective is to design and implement sites that are both robust and accessible by the widest possible audience. We write to existing W3C (World-wide Web Consortium) standards for (X)HTML and CSS.
We strongly recommend the use of either XHTML 1.0 Strict or HTML 4.01 Strict. We are well-versed in coding to either of these standards.
Best Practices
Beyond conforming to standards, all Websites we develop adhere to current "best practices" such as
- complete separation of style and content,
- high content-to-markup ratio, with minimal non-semantic markup,
- hierarchical semantic structure and document flow, and
- well-organized file and directory structure.
These practices have many benefits including improved search engine results, reduced maintenance costs, and more reliable performance.
