W3C Standards for Web Site Design

The World Wide Web Consortium was founded on the 1st of October 1994 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web.

.In December 1994 the First W3 Consortium Meeting was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge (USA) and the First meeting with European Industry and the European Consortium branch, at the European Commission, Brussels.

At the bottom of each web page we design we place 2 small buttons that a visitor can click to instantly check that the web page they're viewing conforms to industry standards, the service is hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science [MIT/CSAIL] in the United States on behalf of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Conforming to W3C standards takes a high degree of knowledge and expertise and many website developers simply don't have the skills or knowledge to produce valid websites. We have chosen to adopt W3C standards because:

• Google prefers valid websites
• Valid Web pages load faster
• Ensures maximum browser compatibility

It's never been more important to conform to industry standards for website design.

There are well over 50 standard browsers and new website browsers are coming along all the time especially in the mobile web browsing market such as mobile phones and net books etc. Although on the whole internet speeds are rising especially with broadband, many mobile browsers are quite slow. The speed at which a web page loads can greatly increase if the page is invalid.

You can check any web page for free by simply copying and pasting the websites address from the address bar in your browser in to the box on this page

Example: to check the BBC homepage simply cut and paste http://www.bbc.co.uk into the box.