Web standard business value
Author: Acha 2004-7-3 0:37:26
Originally from: AdaptivePath.com
Author's introduction: Jeffrey Veen is one of the partners of AdaptivePath.com, specializing in the design of web design, you can learn more about Veen.com in his personal site.
Since the start of Web design, I have been added to a group design with a Web standard, it has been long time. I am more and more felt that I use W3C recommended standards to design a correct thing. When I am going to redesign the AdaptivePath.com site, my partner agrees to build it with a standard approach. But before we start, we also discuss: Do you have a lot of effort with Web standards, do you have it worth it?
Of course, redesign can establish credibility in "Web Standard Supporters", but except for the industry's praise, standard is really important for personal business sites like us? Can the Web standard bring to us? Is there any economic benefit to swittering to XHTML CSS? All the answers are: Yes.
Accelerated development
Although the HTML page has greatly promoted the development of Web, it also became a disaster. Because they have such "tolerance" in the code format, they have treated some browser private code development, which causes countless users who cannot get the best experience (see the best results of the page).
Many of our customers have established multiple versions for sites to provide the perfect design as much as possible. For our company, we only need to use a set of HTML pages, a style sheet and a small number of developments, more than 95% AdaptivePath.com website users use the Standards-C Ompliant browser, So we think that it is time to transition to the web standard.
Web standard Force you for error checks. Simplely declared what version your HTML is, the verification program will check your page according to the standards of your declaration. The verifier will strict verify and tell you what errors in detail, which shortens the time spent in quality, and guarantees your site to maintain a high degree of consistency on different browsers. Even now the browser still has some display bug, this is much better than five years ago.
Easy to maintain, increase opportunities
For many years, the Web standard group has always recommended the advantages of "maintaining visual design and content separation", which means that HTML becomes very simple (almost ridiculous), most of the XHTM L page only some of the rich seminars
Tags, and a link to a powerful CSS file. This complete separation makes your page development and maintenance simple, first because make it better coordination between the development team, such as editing and designers to work separately.
Recently, there is a project, we use CSS technology, we develop CSS files for our customers on its own development server. And they can constantly modify the design on the back-end server, we will continue to combine with their version of the CSS file without the need to pay with their version release system, our dramatic is shortened. Development time. Fast development has achieved competition and cost advantages, shorter development time is not only cost savings, but also makes resources come out, and thus get more opportunities.
Expanding access channels
Clean code brings more interests. A browser that does not support CSS can now simply ignore style sheets. In other words, there is a semantic XHTML representation that can be rendered by any browser, including non-traditional clients, such as mobile phones, PDAs, voice readers, and screen readers, etc. Wait, any device that supports these simple labels can be.
A site that complies with a Web standard can support mobile access; support Section 508 easy-to-use standards; and compatible outgoing browsers. You can get all the benefits and make it easier to develop and maintain, and even, you can save some hardware costs during this process. Save bandwidth cost
When we stripped the font, table tag and some pictures for decoration, we reduced the page size from 20.9k to 9.2k. Currently, these reductions look short, but when all pages are gathered, it is quite, which makes our site are overwhelmed.
Our site is approximately a few thousand pages visits, which can save 56% of bandwidth. Large commercial sites may be one or two minutes, and the popular hot site is more often reached a day of millions of page visits. If each page is 30-40K, plus the cached style sheet does not need to download again, and the month can save thousands of dollars per month. You will see those IT people excited for this design!
Improve user experience
Money is easy to quantify, and the compressed code also brings more hidden, additional benefits. A fast, active site can always bring a better, comprehensive user experience, this is not a secret.
In the early days of the Web, the huge graphical interface design makes the user who dials to endure slow access speed, and as the popularity of broadband has improved. However, business travelers in business travel may still be used through the hotel's telephone to become your new user. It uses clean, standardized code to help your users quickly and easily complete their purpose on the website.
Transformation proves to be worthwhile
We decided to convert to standards, not a guest's words, but because standards can bring cute economic benefits. That's why more and more cool stations began to turn to the web standard. Why didn't you start to transition to XHTML CSS?
The economic benefits brought by standardization are practical. Once our site is popularized, the business will experience the free sharing of the true promise - content.
