Week 4 The Business Value of Web Standards

This time, I read an article, which indicates that the web standards can bring us the business value. The link is:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000266.php

First, web standard can help us to have a speed development. By using web standards, we can validate our pages through validation service. This shows us exactly where our errors are, reduces the time developers spend on quality assurance, and gives our site incredible consistency between browsers. In my opinion, it's true that it benefits to the site developer. Because this saves time for finding errors and lessens our development work, such as Quality Assurance. The speed development is important, because it ensures that the development is on schedule, provides cost-saving and saves time.

Second, using web standards simplify maintenance. The standards help us keeping visual design separate from content, but logically linked to each page. This clean separation makes it much easier for us to develop and maintain our pages, primarily because the division corresponds to most teams’ distinctions between design and editorial work. That makes the maintenance in the future easier. Since web site maintenance cannot be avoided, it's better that the clean separation is implemented between visual design and content for later improvement or changing of the website.

To conclude, by participating in standards development, it can bring business values to our site. Although we should spend lots of effort to achieve those web standards, the important thing is that the effort is really worth it.