Thursday, June 08, 2006
I can't believe that there are still Web design agencies out there that are still not building their client's sites using Web Standards, or even their own sites! When I look at the new sites that they've built, they're structured with tables, use font tags, and even worse they are setting the font size using pixels. Do they not know, or do they just not care?
Unfortunately their customers probably don't even realise. Some people in our industry would say that their sites will be obsolete in a few years time. If only their customers knew! If these agencies were to switch to Web Standards they could even save themselves work.
So what are Web Standards and why use them?
In case anyone reading isn't aware of them, here are a few of the (many) reasons for using Web Standards.
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