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Why Do You Design Without Standards?

I have seen some great looking web sites. But under the hoods to many of them, you’ll find tag soup. Some do not even declare a DOCTYPE, and when they do, they do not bother to validate their code.

photo credit: uhtofu

In other words, those sites reek.

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5 Comments

dani

Posted September 30, 2008 at 8:00 am | Permalink

and they asked..do we really need a doctype? so far..no complaint..
Martin

Posted September 30, 2008 at 8:17 am | Permalink

You got that right Dani! That and, “Why validate anyway? As long as Google can see my page, I don’t care about validations!”

What can you do?
dani

Posted September 30, 2008 at 9:06 am | Permalink

right Martin,

fyi, my friend’s site is the winner of busby seo challenge, their site is fully compliant with xhtml, css and accessibility

since I’m not a web developer/designer, I’ll try to promote w3c’s web standard, accessbility/usability..and say to people “try these rules..”
Martin

Posted September 30, 2008 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

Kudos for supporting web standards! What’s your buddy’s URL?
dani

Posted October 2, 2008 at 7:07 am | Permalink

http://www.imfreakz.com/competition/