Error Free website designs
"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where member organisations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is:
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To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long term growth for the web.
W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines. Since 1994, W3C has published more than ninety such standards,called W3C Recommendations". (Ref W3C website Aug 2006)
There are a number of significant advantages to having an error free website which include :-
- Improved search engine ranking position.
- Website's display consistently across the various browsers.
- Allow full accessibility and function with disability aids.
- Search engines easily crawl W3C compliant websites.
Any website can be checked for errors by visiting the W3C website and entering the web address into the markup validator. The facility for checking a website can be found at W3C validation markup program.
Browser Comparability
At Aw Website Development's we design our website's to comply with the W3C guidelines, by doing so the website's we produce display consistently across the major browsers, include Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google's Chrome, Opera and Safari.
Search Engine Optimisation
Valid website design is one of the building blocks of search engine optimisation, error free and fully accessible website's assist the search engines to review your site and include the site in their database.
Website's that contain invalid HTML or XHTML code may prevent the site being indexed by the search engine, pages that fail indexing are not returned by the search engine to users.
Website Accessibility
Website's that meet the accessibility guidelines provide additional information to the browser and in turn allow visual and hearing impairment aids to function fully and provide such users with the additional content they require.
Web pages that pass the validation process are offered the opportunity to download the W3C passed validation logo. The W3C tick logo can be displayed on any web page that has passed validation. AW Website Development offer a service of assisting website owners in the correction process should a website fail the validation check.