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1) The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you
2) The Business Benefits of Web Standards – MDC
3) the business value of web standards
4) benefits of using Web standards for business sites
Summarization:
A) Why use CSS to separate content from presentation:
Easier to make site-wide changes – one css file rather than all pages
Smaller files/ faster download – less code on the page
Less code on the page – easier to code
Allows users to customise to their own needs – style switchers
More control over code – can deliver code in preferred order for screen readers
B) Business Benefits of Web Standards
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Site wide look and feel consistency
- 3 Improved User Experience: Uses less bandwidth, loads faster
- 4 Increase Website Traffic
- 4.1 Better search engine ranking
- 4.2 Accommodate Multiple Platforms
- 5 Future-proof
- 6 Extensibility
- 7 Reduce cost of maintenance
- 7.1 Benefits of CSS over JavaScript
- 7.2 Well-formed HTML code
- 8 Compatible with newer browsers
- 8.1 The Netscape 4 and IE4 exceptions
- 9 Accessibility
- 10 Reducing dependency on any one developer
- 11 Benefits to web site visitors
- 12 Conclusion