Does Your Web Site Validate?

The importance of developing websites that are compliant with the W3C.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets standards that web developers should follow when creating websites, specifically with clean and valid HTML. Web sites with validating HTML can proudly be called W3C-compliant.

To be W3C-compliant, a web site must have well-composed HTML. Errors in your HTML may result in poor search engine performance, display problems, and prevent visitors with disabilities from using your web site.

First of all, what is HTML? If you have ever looked at a web site, then you have seen HTML in action. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is basically used to create the look of a web site and tell a browser how to display it. Without HTML, the Web would not look very pretty or friendly.

Because looks and functionality are important on the Web, it is important that web sites be created using "valid" HTML. "Valid," or error-free HTML, along with other important elements defined by the W3C, will greatly improve the quality and performance of your web site:

• Web Marketing on search engines such as Google and Yahoo is more effective because search engine "web spiders" can easily read and sort through your clean HTML and deliver it to users.
• Valid HTML allows browsers such as Internet Explorer to display your web site correctly and quickly when requested by an Internet user.
• Your web site will be compatible with the latest platforms, such as cell phones and PDAs, and prepared for display on platforms of the future.

The Web continues to evolve and your website should be prepared to evolve with it.

How Can BBB Systems Improve the Quality of Your Web site?

We can build or upgrade your company's web site, making it W3C-compliant. In addition, all of our web sites created as of July 2004, including our own, are and will be made with XHTML, an improvement on regular HTML that makes websites more accessible to more people on more platforms of technology. You can test the XHTML validity of our web site, click the word "XHTML" at the top of each page.

BBB Systems can make your web site better prepared to evolve with cutting-edge technologies as they appear.

Does Your Web site Validate?

1. Go to W3C's validation page
2. Type your web site address under "Validate by URL" then click the "Check" button
3. W3C will show you any HTML errors in great detail

It's a free and painless process that lets you know if your web site is ready for the next stage of the Web's evolution.

Call us at 602-424-0914 to make your website W3C-compliant.

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