Yes that is me wearing a beanie (I know its just "photoshop"ed but you get the idea!).

The male members of the j6 team are more than happy to wear a beanie on those cold winter camping trips... but us girls don't like to put the beanie on - no matter how freezing the weather. So why now?

Blue Beanie Day is an international online event where all peo­ple involved in web design are asked to wear a blue beanie on their heads to show sup­port for web standards.

Yes, we look goofy... but we want you to know just how important web standards and accessibility are for your website.

What are web standards?

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) established technologies which we call “web standards”. These standards are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web.

In other words, a site built to web standards should be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable and search engine friendly.

How do YOU benefit from Web Standards?

• Your website will be faster (Files will download faster as there is less code).
• It improves the accessibility of your website. Content is accessible to wider range of users and devices (such as: normal users, blind users, vision impaired users, dislexic users, motor skill impaired users, screen readers, various browsers (IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari etc), hand held devices, search engine robots etc).
• Your website is easier to maintain and produce and therefore more cost effective. The future proof code requires less redevelopment costs as technology changes.
• Your site can be restyled easily without changing much code.
• Print versions can be created without replicating content.
• Better search engine ranking.

Want more information?

Contact us to discuss how we can develop a web standard website for your business.

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