Web standards are widely adopted guidelines for technologies like CSS and XHTML that help ensure websites are accessible across different platforms and users. The document discusses how web standards can make things easy through a complex approach, the importance of browser compatibility, and what the author wanted to learn and found most helpful from books on the topic, including layout design through techniques like floating, clearing, positioning, and margin/padding.

1. WORKING WITH WEB
STANDARDS
By Dylan Bathurst

2. WHAT ARE WEB
STANDARDS?
By Definition
Widely adopted guidelines for CSS, XHTML etc.
that help ensure that web sites are accessible on a
wide variety of platforms and to a wide range of
users.

3. WHAT ARE WEB
STANDARDS? CONT.
My Definition
A complex way to make things easy.
Anyone can code
The quickest way isn’t always the best way
Browser Compatibility

4. WHAT I WANTED
A blog themed site that would validate
Div based layout
Meaningful markup
Clean code!!!

5. WHAT THE BOOKS
TAUGHT ME
Designing with web standards
Theoretical
CSS Mastery
Technical
Web Standards Solutions
A lot like CSS Mastery

6. MOST HELPFUL
Layout Design
Floating This is some
text
Clearing
Positioning
Margin / Padding
#1 when it comes to web standards

7. IE 6

8. IE 7

9. FIREFOX

10. BY DYLAN BATHURST