Moving to such a forward-thinking model, using XHTML and CSS, means that our designs can perform up to five times faster than they did before. Which means you're also five fold over your competition. Everyone else still uses dozens of tables nested within one another for their layouts; an inelegant approach that has haunted web architects since the Internet began.
Just as electrical appliances in a kitchen have international standards to adhere, the Internet also has specifications intended for websites; but 99.9% of sites today ignore them. Having a design that complies with web standards ensures that your website is future-proof and can be understood by anyone, regardless of their physical condition or the device they use.
Most websites have been built, and continue to be built, using standard HTML, a specification that has now become dated and obsolete. At András Lengyel, we design using the latest next-generation HTML, called XHTML, to make sure you're not being left behind. Put simply, XHTML ensures that your website will work as well in the future, as it does today.
Cascading Style Sheets are largely viewed by designers as being all about style. So much so, that most design companies mistakenly use them purely to control fonts, their colour and size. We don't. Not only do we use CSS for style, but for what it's engineers intended it to do from the outset - page layout. This elegant technology allows us to decrease download times dramatically.
To help aid the disabled, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines were created to describe how to make web content more widely available on traditional browsers, as well as other internet devices. Priority 3 is the highest and most stringent accessibility test devised by the W3C and the WAI, a test that we ensure your website passes every time.
Containing a similar set of guidelines to WCAG Priority 3, U.S. Section 508 is intended for governmental and federal state websites to adhere by law. Now internationally recognised, many institutions and companies require these additional guidelines out of the box. And, as usual, you're already covered.
Thanks to the work done by the W3C, our designs allow András Lengyel to develop websites that work across all internet devices. We already offer full support for mobile phones, PDAs, voice interfaces, smart phones, tablets and digital lifestyle devices that can now browse the Internet. Support for screen readers allow the disabled to interact with your products and services by literally reading your website out aloud to its audience.
Hundreds of major search engines around the world use different technologies trying to index millions of websites full of convoluted code - and some use scripting that is often drawn-out for its intended purpose. Using web standards to separate presentation from content gives search engines immediate access to index your website, enabling your site to rank higher in search results.
Many websites have been built, unknowingly, with HTML that is invalid, but still happens to display correctly in current web browsers. But as the Internet evolves with new standards, browsers may eventually become less tolerant of what they accept and display. The result? Entire websites stop working as intended. But by using valid, standards-compliant XHTML, your website will look as good in the future, as it does today.
Microsoft Internet Explorer is used by most people to browse the Internet. Inherently known for its lack of security and the plethora of viruses that infect it, have left little to be desired. Many companies have looked for free, more standards-based alternatives that are faster and feature-rich - and found them. Which is why all of our designs at András Lengyel are supported by the latest standards-compliant web browsers.
Discrimination laws all over the world require companies, governments and businesses to provide equal opportunity to disabled people. These laws are now being billed to include equal access to websites on the Internet and have already been passed in the United States, Australia and a soon-to-be Europe. Using accessible, standards-based designs from the outset lowers costs, instead of redeveloping an entire website after legal proceedings.
An advantage of using the combination of XHTML and CSS is that the code is far more compact, making it easier to read and understand. This, combined with its simplistic and elegant structure, saves an enormous amount of time for maintenance and redesigns. Changes take place in minutes instead of days, making this shorter development cycle a financial and competitive advantage to your business.