hen the Internet first focus solely on XHTML and CSS. W3
began its boom, the has a set of standards for both
technologies used in of these technologies, and making
design were forgiving. a website W3-compliant ensures
W3-Compliance wasn’t as necessary that most all viewers will see
because there were fewer the site exactly the same way (no
browsers, fewer users, and matter what browser they’re
overall fewer technologies in using). Validation also helps
use. With the burgeoning with Search Engine Optimization
popularity of the internet, new (SEO) because clean code means
developmental tools are created easier search-engine spidering.
daily. With these tools come new
challenges – marketing, design, Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS,
cross-browser transitions, etc. is a technology often used in
All of these can be a daunting sites with many pages to make
task for those web gurus who aesthetic changes easier. The
aren’t well-versed in the W3 style sheet is an exterior file
Standards. W3 (href="http://w3schools.com" the HTML (or outputted HTML) of a
title="http://w3schools.com" site. The style sheet serves as a
target="_blank">color="#001000" color and font schemes, while
size="-2">http://w3schools.comont>) is a resource for and more. Being able to edit a
webmasters and programmers who single file, instead of 100s of
want the most for their viewing changes in many files saves time
public. There are numerous and precious web design dollars.
technologies used by programmers Validation is imperative to get
(ASP, PHP, and Javascript to name the most out of a website. That
a few), but this article will is, a user can upload or
copy-and-paste their CSS file to the HTML and XML DOM (Document
the W3 site, and they’ll be given Object Model)
a list of any errors it contains.
As XHTML grows, XHTML 1.0
Another of the technologies documents will be able to
becoming more popular is interoperate among other XHTML
Extensible Hypertext Markup documents making it a more
Language, or XHTML. XHTML is an browser transitional language.
extension of HTML 4.0, and, while
in its infancy, has become quite To conclude, using the standards
prevalent. XHTML conforms to of web development lined out by
standards moreso than HTML. As the W3 is imperative for users to
such, it is more search-engine get the most out of a site.
and user-friendly: Often, making a webpage
W3-compliant is the first step of
XHTML documents conform to XML. SEO, a marketing tool to get the
XML Tools can double as XHTML most out of your advertising
tools. dollar. Validation is easy, and
can be completed if a user has a
XHTML is an extension of HTML basic knowledge of HTML-editing
4.0. It is more user-friendly and and FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
streamlined than HTML. Using these tools, coupled with
the set of W3 standards can save
XHTML is a combination of HTML a lot of money and help the
and XML in that it can run site’s overall functionality.
scripts and applets that use both
About the Author:
David Davis, is the lead developer and project manager of RedflyStudios LTD. Web Design Ireland For more information visit http://www.redflystudios.com
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