Valid HTML/CSS

What Lies Beneath the Surface

Creating a beautiful website is one thing, but we seek to go past just the exterior and focus on what’s under the hood as well. In designing a website, there are many elements you will never see unless you put your mouse on your web page, right-click your mouse and choose “View Source” or “View Page Source” (depending on the browser you are using). At once you will see the HTML code that makes up the page you’re viewing.

A Little History

Traditionally in the past websites were laid out using a type of coding that was called “table-based layout”. Tables are basically a type of code designed for tabular data, like a spreadsheet with rows and columns. Tables were easy to use because you could simply drop in images and such into your these rows and columns to get things to layout on your web page.

And Your Point Is What?

So what? What does that mean to the website you are going to design for our business? Great question. Enters CSS. CSS is short for Cascading Style Sheet. What it boils down to is this: the coding that defines values on your web page like colors, heights, widths, etc. are now put off to the side and not on your page. This is great because we’re now able to keep attributes and values separate from content. Plus doing designs with CSS, we get a much leaner code than using tables. Why is this great? Lean code serves a lot of purposes. When a Search Engine scans through our web pages, they’re not “bogged” down with having to sort through large amounts of code that can be set to the side. Plus our web pages load faster because they have less code (and are smaller file sizes).

OK, So What’s This Valid Thing About?

See the button the bottom right corner of our website? The one with “XHTML 1.0” on the right side of the image? Click it and you’ll be taken to a page which has “W3C” in the upper left hand corner with a message on a green background which reads “This document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!”. The goal of validation is to ensure there are no errors on your web page in the coding, to make sure everything is syntactically correct.

But Wait, There’s More.

We don’t only stop at ensuring your pages are valid and correctly coded and configured, we test your website across multiple browsers (Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Fire Fox 2 and 3, Safari, Opera, and more). And that’s not all! We also test across Mac and PC. Sometimes things look great on a PC but are messed up on a Mac (and vice-versa).

Your website will be meticulously coded to ensure cross-browser and cross Operating System (Mac and PC) compliance.