How important is it that your site be standards compliant? There is a good article in BusinessWeek featuring Jeffrey Zeldman: Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards. Zeldman is known as a champion and one of the early advocates of the importance of technology standards on the web. Whether a web site conforms to web W3C recommended standards - properly formed XHTML and CSS, among other things - is something that many web developers care about, but 90% of web users don’t know anything about. What matters is that a site looks good and functions well. This of course, is exactly the reason standards-based design exists. Read the article here.

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