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"Web design standards."

OK, I've taken a bit of a ribbing lately because I went headlong into HTML years and years ago, learnt what I thought was everything, then moved onto more complicated scripting languages, forgetting some of the most basic HTML things, like putting the tag in the proper place. I know where it goes, but my mind puts it there because I've done it so often. Anyway, enough of my problems, this is the place to list all your web design standards that you think every site should comform to.

Take it away, Tyla...

OK, I've taken a bit of a ribbing lately because I went headlong into HTML years and years ago, learnt what I thought was everything, then moved onto more complicated scripting languages, forgetting some of the most basic HTML things, like putting the tag in the proper place. I know where it goes, but my mind puts it there because I've done it so often. Anyway, enough of my problems, this is the place to list all your web design standards that you think every site should comform to.

Take it away, Tyla...

Navigation should be in the same place on every site!

Current standards, and ones I work too:

XHTML 1.0 Strict or Transitional
CSS 1 & 2
XML 1.0
WAI AA
Section 508 if required
Basic HCI Principles
RNIB Guidelines
USEIT Usability Reccomendations

Nutey Cubey wrote:
> Navigation should be in the same place on every site!

Not so easy... What if your lefthanded? Japanese? Physically impaired?

Standards are more about the delivery of the site and the function behind it and what goes into making it. Things like nav location comes under client needs as well as usability and accessibility. there's a difference

HTML 4.0 at least although it will have to change to a mixture of XHTML 1 or 1.1 with CSS

Really BIG marquee text that scrolls across the screen REALLY fast!

Oh, and massive mouse pointers that leave a big trail of letters spelling out the name of the website when you move them.

But those are just the essentials really, I'll think of more.

Animated GIF's
No right-click scripts
Background that changes color every few seconds

The list is endless Grix, and will boost your websites appeal in seconds!

Nutey Cubey wrote:
> Navigation should be in the same place on every site!

Did you perhaps mean place the navigation in the same place on every web page within the same web site?

This is something that is generally used as:

a) Users get used to the web site quickly, and can find what it is they want.
b) Its also easier on the web designer / coder.

Afternoon wrote:
> HTML 4.0 at least although it will have to change to a mixture of
> XHTML 1 or 1.1 with CSS

I'd say bump on up to xHTML 1.0 Transitional for now, as it's practically HTML 4 anyway. It'll save doing it later on, and make the bump up to xHTML 1.0 Strict far easier. I'm not sure that there is any need to worry about xHTML 1.1, as the difference is minimal, and xHTML 1.x (as far as I know) isn't being developed any further. While xHTML 2 shares the same brand, it'll apparently be something completely different (though Tyla would know a lot more about that that I would).

monkey_man wrote:
> Anyway, enough of my problems, this is the place to list all your web
> design standards that you think every site should comform to.

Get the structure right. Put your tags in the correct places, and things will be made a lot easier when coding your CSS. Use the W3C's online validator ([URL]http://validator.w3.org/[/URL]) to check if your mark-up is done correctly. Don't use style HTML tags (such as , or ) as that's what style sheets are for. Once you've nailed the structure, styling the page should become a lot easier, and you can also validate your CSS from the W3C's web site ([URL]http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/[/URL]).