A growing trend of endorsement with a set of standardization & best practices for building web sites including broader philosophy of web design and development, web standards seems to be mission possible for the designers for addressing larger audience. It brings more diversity in terms of browsers, more accessibility and the following fringe benefit adopting the web standards;
* One of the distinct benefits of web standards is that your site would work with all major browsers and it requires lower development costs due to its simpler development and low maintenance.
* It increase usability and accessibility, hence the pages download faster and make easier to decipher the content for screen readers.
* Better search engine ranking; by separating presentation from content increases the information & markup ratio, making CSS-based documents more pertinent with regard to the search terms
* Reduce dependency in one developer; The site designed with standards are very well documented, any other developer taking over some standard-compliant code can hit the ground running.
* Reduces bandwidth consumption.
* Provide Print version for all pages & users can customize site appearance.
* Allow your site to be accessible to a larger audience – including the vision impaired, cognitive impaired.
* Increase Clarity and conciseness
* Cheap hosting cost & site maintenance
Conclusion;
Using web standards and separating structure from presentation is going to benefit today & tomorrow, all these factors contribute to easier site management, a larger audience and a better return on investment.
