eduVoyage Website development service: Committed to web standards.

Web Design, Web Promotion, & Web Standards

eduVoyage run a small Web Factory in the Catalan capital of Barcelona. We create beautiful, clean, useful websites for businesses and organisations all around the world. We can also optimize your site for search engines.

Our factory is pollution free, meaning there is no wasteful coding, so your website will load faster and be easier to maintain. Our sites are also forward compatible, meaning they will work as well tomorrow and the year after and the year after that, as they do today. This is made possible by web standards.

What are Web Standards?

The World Wide Web Consortium and other groups and standards bodies introduced web standards, to:

• Clean up the landfill of outmoded and defective coding.
• Reassemble a fragmented Web.
• Make access to web technologies affordable for all.

Crucially, web standards build a common language, for creating and interpreting web-based content, which is understood by all web browsers - current and future. This compatibility is important because of the growing number of browsers in use to surf the Web, which is now accessed through mobile phones and television sets too.

In the past, incompatible browsers meant web designers had either to create multiple versions of a site - raising the question of how many versions was sufficient and which browsers were least costly to leave out - or else stick to outdated, but universal web technologies lacking in functionality or appeal.

Even after take-up of web standards by current popular and other browser makers, many web design companies prefer the irrational and shortsighted route, presumably with a fast buck in mind. This means you are left with a site that doesn’t display properly outside the latest version of Internet Explorer, diminishing your potential audience. This potential audience is set to decrease further over time, as your site is left behind by developing technology.

Web standards initiated and will continue to maintain functionality beyond the capabilities of any given browser. As new technologies should comply with web standards, for universal compatibility, sites that are web standards compliant will keep up with the pace of developing technology. In this way, web standards ensure the long-term viability of your site: more people will be able to view your site, which will be truly ageless.

Because most browsers support web standards, web standards are also important for better search engine optimization (how well your site ranks). Optimizing a site for search engines starts at the code, or language, which builds your site. Follow the link to find out more about optimizing your site for search engines.