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In this section, I’d like to present you works that I have done as a Web Developer. Please feel free to check out the items listed in the sidebar to get more information about the respective work.

Web Standards

I first discovered Web Standards while attending a study course at my university in 2003. I was a bit suspicious at first, but soon I found out that developing web sites with semantics in mind makes perfect sense. So I started learning how to build web sites adhering to Web Standards, meaning

  • XHTML for markup,
  • CSS for presentation and
  • JavaScript for behavior.

So I embraced Web Standards and see no reason to go back to the old days where we used to build web sites with non-semantic tables. If you are into Web Development, I tell you man, Web Standards are the way to go.

“But why?”, you ask. “Can you give me reasons why I should care about Web Standards?”. I can. Using Web Standards in Web Development leads to the following:

  • less markup, therefore less page weight and load time as well as less bandwidth usage
  • with Web Standards you have complete control over design using CSS
  • through semantic markup, your page gets SEO friendly
  • using Web Standards makes the site device independent and better portable to different types of devices (e.g. mobile devices, screenreaders). “write once, publish everywhere”
  • higher accessibility
  • no separate versions for different browsers/devices
  • no separate printer-friendly version (can be done using CSS)
  • future-proof: Web Standards ensure that the site works in todays and tomorrows browsers
  • backward-compatible: Web Standards ensure that your site performs acceptable in older browsers
  • better maintenance

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This website is the personal web appearance of Klaus Komenda, an Austrian web developer. The about section offers more info about me and this site.

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