W3C

I've been dabbling in the web design areas of the web for awhile now, I'm not that talented, but I'm happy to say I'm no trendwhore. However, While meandering through the seemingly infinite sites about design I often become inspired. Such was the case when I stumbled upon www.cssvault.com. I was amazed at what people where doing with CSS when it wasn't just limited to it's ordinary uses. I'd always liked CSS, and thought I knew a lot about it, but damn was I wrong.

This is the part of the story where I relate to BioALIEN's topic down there. A website created without a table. I first laughed, then began to wonder how that would be. I played around for a little bit, every once and awhile emulating some of the niftiest tricks I'd seen. See my test here:

http://www.buddyinfo.computed.net/blargh.html

It was a fun little project, and I plan on expanding it later on, but I'm now worried about standards, or W3C, or whatever the hell they are. I've heard about things you're supposed to do and not supposed to do, but have I ever known what the hell was going on? No.

So I ask the kind folk of GFXDiary to point me in the direction of where I can learn about W3C. I'm pretty sure it's W3C... Anyway, the web-standards thing that Zeldman is always proclaiming.

Interesting little project, nice - keep it up. At least you're curious enought to learn, thats where it all starts ;)

The W3C web standards are a set of rules defined by a body. When you're designing you should always check your work against the W3 Validators. Here they are:

CSS Validator:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer

XHTML Validator:
http://validator.w3.org/check/referer

If your site passes those validators then its 100% perfect and should work on all browsers. However, sometimes you do have to find a balance, because you cant satisfy every single browser available (new & old). :idea:

Ah, that's what I thought, but just not really up on the news. Here's a little update of sorts:

http://www.bestmanclub.com/