W3C validation approved websites

Who are the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ?

 

"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:

 

• 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)

What benefits do validated code offer your company ?

 

A website that has been validated as compliant with the W3C guidelines offer the following benefits :-

 

• Website are fully compatible across different operating systems and will therefore display consistently, whether being viewed on a Windows PC, Apple Mac, Linux, etc.

 

• Functionality and the look of the website shall have greater consistency regardless of the browser, i.e. Firefox, Opera, IExplorer.

 

• Proactive web design regarding accessibility for the disabled, addressing possible future legal requirements.

 

• Your website design code is optimised, eliminating unnecessary code and clutter, which improves download speed and workload on servers, etc.

 

• Error free code shall allow the Search Engines to fully access your site during indexing, and rate the website favorably.
  

 

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.

 

On completion of the validation check, a result page is displayed either confirming the page has passed validation or not. Should the page fail a detailed list of the errors is produced, to assist the error correction process, the report identifies the error type, program line and possible solutions.

 

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.