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Building according to web standards
The founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, saw his invention as a world-wide, communal medium enabling everyone to communicate with one another and share information. In the huge developments the WWW has undergone (and is still going through), this ideal is often forgotten. Standards are the answer to this: web standards are guidelines for the accessible and sustainable construction of websites.
The use of web standards has a great deal to do with the accessibility of a website, but also has many practical advantages for web developers and content managers. Why are web standards important?.
Some developers think web standards hamper their creativity or simply add more ballast to an already highly technical discipline. In reality, however, web standards often ease the technical challenges developers face, which means they have more time and flexibility for creativity.
What is meant by web standards?
The term 'web standards' refers to the collection of guidelines for the publication of web documents. Most of these guidelines have been drawn up by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). 
Which standards are applicable?
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) 4.01
HTML is widely applied on the Web as a means of structuring content in text documents.
Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language (XHTML) 1.0
Although HTML and XHTML have great similarities, use of XHTML causes a number of complications. Web developers who consider using XHTML must read this chapter through thoroughly.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 2.1
CSS is a technology for the description of the presentation of HTML and XML elements.
ECMAScript 262
ECMAScript is a standard for a client-side script language.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1
DOM is a standard for describing the hierarchy of XML and HTML elements in the browser memory.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
XML is a markup language, like HTML. Typically, it is not tied to one set of rules, but it is a markup language for the description of markup languages.
