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Website Marketing Tips #15 - W3C compliance

By admin | April 26, 2007

W3C is the organization that develops and provides the guidelines for the web code that we all use. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools)". They are the governing body and main resource for HMTL, CSS, etc. The resources are available on line at http://www.w3.org/

Checking for W3C compliance is an easy task, however, it can be more of a problem fixing the issues found.  http://validator.w3.org/

Clean code is essential for many reasons.

  1. This allows your web browser to properly interpret your web page correctly
  2. It sure makes it easier to follow your own code
  3. It may help in web page loading
  4. Although I want to say it helps your ranking, I feel that it does not have that much of an affect. I have seen very poorly coded web pages rank well, but I feel it is a professional aspect of web design that should be addressed. At some point with all search engines, poorly written code will not proceed clean code, if all other things are equal.

Clean web design code should be the foundation of all web pages.

 

JMHO

-=Smitty=- 

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