Top Quality Web Design & Development

A successful web site needs to be built on a solid ground. While the average web site might look good, Rebel Design Solutions develops web sites that not only are eye-catching, but also have a solid back-end coding that is validated against the World Wide Web Consortium’s specifications

Web standards have become an essential mark of quality in the web site development community because of the many practical benefits it offers.

Improved User Experience - Less Bandwidth and Faster Loads

XHTML code is often much more compact when used in conjunction with CSS. When CSS is used to create web site layouts instead of the old-school and now deprecated layout tables, which is recommended by the web standards, web page size can be reduced by 25 to 50%. This not only translates into less bandwidth use, but also gives way to a better user experience with faster loading times.

Maintain Contact With Your User On Multiple Platforms

Standards-based code and cross-platform go hand in hand. Web Content is increasingly being accessed by a growing number of user agents other than browsers, or by browsers on different platforms - for example mobile telephones. Feed content such as RSS and Atom simply will not work without being implemented by following the requisite standard.

Assumptions about the user and their platform based on erroneous thinking about the anticipated user community are inevitably always wrong. It does not follow for example that successful business users have wide monitors. The opposite may be true. Power users and business travellers are downsizing their notebooks. Increasingly one person may need to acccess the same site using different platforms at home, in the office and when travelling. They expect a consistent experience. Web Standards gives us tools, and methodologies for dealing with this paradox and making the wider contribution of making our content universally accessible to people in different social, medical and economic circumstances.

Eliminate Unwelcome Future Costs

While invalid and sloppy HTML can be displayed correctly in permissive older browsers, as the web evolves, web browsers are becoming either less permissive, or behave differently when given invalid markup (e.g. parse invalid data and render it slightly differently). Using valid, standards-compliant XHTML markup ensures that data will still be re-usable for a long time, as specifications on how to parse the standard formats are well documented and here to stay.

Contrary to popular belief, coding to standards does not mean producing less compelling content. As a matter of fact, almost anything taking advantage of proprietary extensions can be done in a standards-compliant way, with the added benefit of being cross-platform and future-proof. By ensuring that all of the digital content owned by the operator is marked up in a consistent and standards compliant way, the content base becomes a reusable asset without any additional costs in the future.

Independence from proprietary lock-in

Standards bodies ensure that standards remain open, with publicly documented specifications, and without license and copyright restrictions. They also have the role of maintaining these standards according to users’ evolving needs. Web standards, like any industry standard, support the development of conforming tools. In this way, they are fundamentally different from proprietary standards which are closed, extendable only according to the business interests of the owners of those standards, and can be exploited only by proprietary tools whose availability in the long term is never guaranteed.

By using standards, a web site owner can ensure that its content and applications remain independent from possible lock-ins by suppliers, and can be maintained in the long term according to its own specific objectives.

Bottom Line

Thus, adhering to web standards and leaving behind proprietary markup and technologies, contributes both to web site/busniess owners goals and the userfriendliness of the World Wide Web. It also saves you from unnecessary future maintenance costs and makes your web site extensible. In addition it providies your web site visitors with a better user experience.

Rebel Design Solutions effectively integrates web design (how the site looks) with web development (how the site functions, and its technical elements and coding). We also offer custom PHP/MySQL web programming that will let you implement alll the specific features you need on your web site. In addition we offer logo design and business card designs that match your web site design, and build your branding.