Anyone who was willing to take the time to explore its uncharted territories was welcome to do so, making up his or her own coding and presentation rules along the way to survive in the then largely unknown Internet world. The early days of the web (which was developed in 1989) were a lot like the days of the Wild West. At the end of the chapter, you find a discussion about accessibility issues and how the federal government’s Section 508 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act prescribes additional ways content should be coded for the web. In addition to the standards that keep pages accessible and running smoothly across the web, the federal government outlines another set of standards regarding making web pages accessible to people with disabilities. You also find an introduction to following some of these standards, including using DOCTYPEs, styling page content with CSS instead of HTML formatting tags, and writing valid semantic HTML, XHTML, and HTML5 code.
In this chapter, you find out about the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and some of the goals it sets forth for web design. Most importantly, these standards help ensure that anyone and any device (such as a screen reader or search engine robot) using the web - regardless of their browser, device, or operating system - can view the content on a web page.
The standards generally focus on how a web page works under the hood, but they can also have some significant implications for a site’s design. Web standards are an important part of the web design process that every designer, coder, and programmer needs to understand and use. Understanding the differences between HTML, XHTML, and HTML5ĭiscovering why CSS is better than HTML for styling
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