Web Standards and Site-Shack
Twelve years after Mosaic launched the first internet browser (in other words, in 1993) with a graphical user interface (aka GUI), websites are at last being constructed according to standard guidelines, ones which have been recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C and are supported by a growing community of web developers.
So what do the standards mean for you?
Plenty. Standards-compliant websites load fast, which means that your content shows up within seconds, not minutes — to delivering your content before the user tired of waiting and moves on.
Web Standards also make your site's content more attractive to search engines like Google and Yahoo while helping to generate more accurate searches.
Web Standards ensure significantly improved accessibility for persons with visual impairment, so that no website content or context is lost. And Web Standards accessibility also means that handheld devices like PDA's and cell phones can display web content without distortion or again, loss of content.
And if that isn't enough, Web Standards are considered "future-proof" — they'll make your web page look as good across the board today as they will next year. That website you've just had developed won't be obsolete three years down the road.
Site-Shack is committed to creating and building websites that support and adhere to the best practices of Web Standards. We believe that Web Standards represent the future of website design and construction, doing even more to fulfill the promise of the internet as a place where all users are “created equal — everyone can act as content providers or editors.”
The Big Year
1993 is considered the year when the WWW Revolution truly began. The
number of hosts that year reached 2 million and there were 600 websites (but no eBay, Amazon.com, Yahoo or Google).
Business and media began to take notice and the
White House and United Nations (UN) went on-line. Mosaic (later Netscape) took the Internet by storm and traffic
proliferated at a 341,634% annual growth rate.
Source: Hobbes Internet Timeline
The Websites
As Web Standards sites become the rule rather than the exception, certain pioneering designer / developers will be credited for pushing the edge of experimentation.
Start here:
CSS Zen Garden
CSS Vault
Css Beauty
Web Standards Awards
The Web Standards Project
A List Apart
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