What difference does it make?

The way your web site is coded will absolutely affect how it is presented in the web browser your visitor uses. There is an organization named The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) who creates standards for technologies that are used on the web, primarily to ensure uniformity in what is being displayed across all web platforms.

The benefits of having a standards compliant web site in plentiful, it leaves you with a light weight infrastructure and at the same time it helps you retain better placement in searches and your pages will:

• Load faster
• Be cheaper to maintain
• Display in any browser
• Easily upgrade to new web technologies