purple oar software

"Ensuring Your Web Presence Contributes"

Web standards

We think adhering to standards is a good idea. Standards exist in many aspects of life, usually to ensure safety and minimum quality.

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) provides online validators where any site's markup may be checked. Rolls-Royce is a brand name that oozes quality, they produce luxury cars and ultra-reliable jet engines.

This was the W3C's verdict on the Rolls-Royce web site on 13 May 2006.

Rolls-Royce W3C validation

Now one error is actually very good, and in this case it is a trivial problem. Many well known sites produce hundreds of errors.

Does it matter, they seem to work OK and appear in search engines? Relating cause and effect regardng things on the internet is notoriously difficult, but we believe if all other factors are equal, then standards compliant sites rank better than non-compliant ones.

This is our validation on 24 December 2007. Yay!

Purple Oar Software W3C no error validation image