Web Standards Mean Quality for Your Business
I haven’t written about web design here for a while because I wanted to focus on ideas on business and marketing. Yesterday I found a great article about web standards I felt compelled to share, as it expresses the reason I am so dedicated to building sites based on standards.
Try to Drive on Poor Design
There are too many graphic designers and desktop publishers come webdesigner who have gotten into the business of developing websites. What they, at best, provide their clients with is a pretty-porcine—made up to look nice on the outside and full of fat.
More Than Internet Explorer
These people are not cheats or used-car swindlers, they are almost worse. They are oblivious to the fact that their is more than Internet Explorer; that some people use assistive technology to view the web—or a mobile device; that some people turn the images off; that some people don’t use Flash or Javascript; that some people don’t have broadband connections. Or even worse sometimes someone else has to try and fix or change the code in a site only to have to spend hours trying to figure out what the hell they were doing. I have likened this to taking your car to a bodyshop to fix the engine and the ignition system. They might make things look nice but try to drive it.
I know that is extreme but it is why I am a developer. It is that I am passionate about giving organizations what they really need—a site that works under most conditions, for most users and will result in positive change.
Well Developed Code Just Makes Dollars (at least, in part)
While I don’t want to suggest that code above all else is what I focus on but I want to make it clear that every project that I work on gets the same attention to detail and quality as the last. And, although I learn more every day, it is clear to me the benefits of following the standard for quality as expressed by the aforementioned article.
What About your Industry or Field?
Are there standards in your Industry that benefit your customers? Does it make your business better or is it better to make something that looks nice but falls apart at the seams on first bend?