MTIV
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Greetings DWD (deaf web developers)
I wanted to expand a little on validated website coding. Many web developers and programmers don’t consider website usability when developing a website. Much more, don’t even consider validating their html, xhtml or cascading style sheets. Why?
Validating website coding is important to the success of the websites performance. Believe it or not the fact remains that there are users online that still use Windows 98, and older versions of browsers. Who cares? Well if your developing a website for small or large businesses you don’t want to loose any potential business. Even if you can attract 5% more users by providing total usability to site users on older platforms you can increase your clients ROI.
So how does one check to see if their coding is validated in according to the standards of the W3C?
1.) HTML Validation: http://validator.w3.org/
You can enter in your url and see if your site passes validation.
2.) CSS (Cascading Style Sheet Validation)
can be found at: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html
While many may not have much feedback in relation to code validation… the end result to those that do validate their website coding will only demonstrate the quality of your end product you provide your customers.
So however you develop your websites; be it on a WYSIWYG, BBEdit or just on NotePad, make sure you understand your coding, and it validates.
Look forward to the feedback from other deafie developers!
Cheers!
MTIV
I wanted to expand a little on validated website coding. Many web developers and programmers don’t consider website usability when developing a website. Much more, don’t even consider validating their html, xhtml or cascading style sheets. Why?
Validating website coding is important to the success of the websites performance. Believe it or not the fact remains that there are users online that still use Windows 98, and older versions of browsers. Who cares? Well if your developing a website for small or large businesses you don’t want to loose any potential business. Even if you can attract 5% more users by providing total usability to site users on older platforms you can increase your clients ROI.
So how does one check to see if their coding is validated in according to the standards of the W3C?
1.) HTML Validation: http://validator.w3.org/
You can enter in your url and see if your site passes validation.
2.) CSS (Cascading Style Sheet Validation)
can be found at: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html
While many may not have much feedback in relation to code validation… the end result to those that do validate their website coding will only demonstrate the quality of your end product you provide your customers.
So however you develop your websites; be it on a WYSIWYG, BBEdit or just on NotePad, make sure you understand your coding, and it validates.
Look forward to the feedback from other deafie developers!
Cheers!
MTIV