Web Standards

Web Standards refers to the standardisation of ., transmitting and displaying information across the World Wide Web. Increasingly as the internet has grown and developed, taking on board new technologies and new ways of transmitting and displaying data, it has become necessary to create standards which enable all computers to understand and display web-based information correctly.

The World Wide Web (W3) Consortium, or WC3 is the international standardisation organisation which agrees the web standards to be used, and if websites adhere to these standards then markup language such as HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) will be formatted and coded correctly, as well as correct integration of JavaScript and XHTML.

It is important for website developers to take these standards into account when designing a new website, otherwise it may not display correctly, cause errors, or cause accessibility issues for the end user.