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Versadyne's websites are standards compliant, meaning that every site that Versadyne creates will look as intended on all current browsers.

What is Standards Compliance, and why is it important?

Web Standards are a set of specifications managed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It has more than 450 members, including Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe, and it develops open specifications that enhance interoperability of web languages between browsers.

There are a number of W3C standards. When a website states that it is "Web Standards Compliant", it generally means that web pages have defined a standard (by a DOCTYPE declaration), and adhere to it. Newer standards such as XHTML require accessibility features, such as the text to display if a browser can't display an image or object (for instance, on some smartphones), or if a user is blind.

There are many reasons that being Web Standards Compliant is important. One is that that standards compliant websites generally view as intended on more browsers. Another important aspect is that search engines can do a better job of spidering and indexing compliant sites, which means that well designed, standards compliant web sites will generally rank more highly.

What W3C Standard does Versadyne use?

Almost all websites and web solutions currently designed by Versadyne use the XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict DTDs (document type declarations).

In general, Versadyne does not use the XHTML 1.1 specification, as it completely separates structure and presentation. Separating design and content is ideologically desirable, and practically very useful in large or high maintenance projects. However, in small, and medium-sized projects, and design-intensive projects where pages frequently very different from each other, the overhead adds significantly to the development cost.