Web Standards Design

Web standards design produces efficient, cost effective user interfaces. Using XHTML insures both forward and backward compatibility with as many user devices as possible. The proper use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) enables increased separation of presentation and content. Further separation of presentation and content can be achieved by using a database to store content, defining document objects, and creating server side programs to present them. The application of these concepts depends on the particular needs of a given project, but XHTML and CSS can be used very effectively in most situations.

Some of the benefits of Web Standards design include;

More efficient maintenance
Forward (and backward) compatibility
The ability to reach the widest possible range of devices
Less code in web pages, meaning less bandwidth consumed and faster load times

Less bandwidth results in lower content delivery costs and faster load times for users. Standards coding results in code that can be understood by a wide range of devices, without specialized code to identify and respond to each different device. This results in faster development cycles and easier maintenance, again leading to cost savings.