W3C Valid Websites - improving website quality

The World Wide Web Consortium is the international body that is responsible for setting the standards that apply to the web. Their mission states:

"The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensuire the long-term growth of the Web." (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission)

As part of this process, the Commission provides a service that is known as the W3C Markup Validation Service. This sounds complicated, but actually it is simply an on-line tool that allows web developers to check that the text used to write a website conforms to technical specifications, and is gramatically accurate so that it can be read properly by a computer, and therefore accurately rendered on-screen.

If you are interested in finding out more about the commission or this process, then please refer to www.w3.org for more details. If you choose Easy Web Sites Ltd as your website partner, you can be assured that we subject all of our websites to the W3C validation process, and our sites are not finished until we have a clean bill of health.

As an example, go to one of our more complex websites www.transparencyworks.co.uk, and at the bottom right hand corner of the homepage, you will see "valid xhtml". Click on the link and you will run the W3C check for this site. If you would prefer to go straight to the result report, click here: http://tinyurl.com/ylrvtuc.