Why should I care about web standards?
Webfooted Designs designs websites using a combination of valid XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). The purpose of this is to separate content from presentation. This has the following benefits:
file sizes are kept to the minimum (meaning shorter download times)- sites are simple to update - the content is in one file and the presentational elements are in another
- the look of the whole site can be changed by adjusting the rules in just one file, rather than for each separate page
- websites are more accessible
Different browsers can interpret website markup in different ways. To make sites available to as many different users as possible, we test on a wide range of browsers (including Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera and Lynx) on the Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Designing websites using standards-compliant code ensures greater cross-browser compatibility and also future-compatibility so that you can be confident that your site not only looks good in today's browsers but also in future versions.
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