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April 18th, 2007 at 10:08 am star

Hello. Here is another important announcement.

Several of our customers have received calls from web design firms claiming their web site does not follow "WC3 Standards" and will show you a report that claims you have all sorts of problems with your web site. This is meant to scare you into thinking your web site is somehow flawed or incorrectly built.

www.w3.org is a very important consortium for the HTML standard. It revolves around the strict guideline of HTML programming.

Several of our customers contacted us worried.

Don't be worried. Next time that happens, ask them show you a report of Amazon.com or Ebay.com before they claim something is wrong with your web site. If you followed every WC3 standard exactly your web site would be boring and may lack important functionality to conduct business.

The WC3 standard is an HTML standard. HTML is one of the technologies used to build web sites -- not the only one. It does not mean every web site will or should follow this standard to the "T". The rules to follow are the standards used by most common browsers used by your customers. Microsoft, Firefox, Opera, and other web browsers.

Thanks, Shane Merem
www.websiteforge.com
Website Design and E-commerce

Posted in Important Notifications, Tips and Advice, Website Design by Shane Merem

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CLR Marine says:

April 18th, 2007 at 11:45 am star

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Interesting information, Thanks

Jerry says:

April 18th, 2007 at 12:41 pm star

Great information Shane... I had this discussion with one of my friends who stated that the search engines rank web sites higher if they are validated through W3c than those that are not compliant. So we did a little test. We typed in a keyword phrase and took the top results and copied the URLs and pasted them into the W3c validator. Not one of the top results was compliant to w3c standards. So much for that theory. For that matter, one of his sites which is w3c compliant is ranked below a site that is not compliant. Google and yahoo do not validate either. Last time I checked they did not have a doctype. It is my understanding that keywords and their proper use, anchor text, good content, and good incoming links are what the search engines are looking for. Any insight from others would be greatly appreciated. :-)

admin says:

April 18th, 2007 at 12:44 pm star

You hit the nail on the head Jerry! I wish more people did this investigation. You'd be surprised how upset this false theory makes people feel. And to explain what you just did -- takes a bit of time (and often people won't believe you).

Thanks for sharing.

Shane

Brian says:

April 18th, 2007 at 6:45 pm star

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Ditto to what Jerry said!!!

Jerry says:

April 18th, 2007 at 8:31 pm star

Just for laughs.....Maybe these design firms should contact the following companies because their sites don't validate to Wc3 standards:
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, BestBuy, Tiger Direct, Linux, Apache, CNN, and ESPN.