The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an organization to develop and promote open standards on the Internet. Comprised of an international consortium of companies, it is the governing body behind HTTP and HTML/XML standards.

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We recognize the power of collaboration, and try to use W3C standards whenever possible. This ensures that the web sites we build today will function in the web browsers of the future. It also allows the information on your site to be accessible to as many users as possible.

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A Document Type Definition (DTD) is a document that allows a program, such as a web browser, to properly parse a markup language that is formatted according to a specific use. HTML and its XML-based brother XHTML are probably the most common DTDs today, supplying web browsers with the guidelines for properly rendering web page elements.

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W3C Definition of DTD

Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by the Web Standards Project (WASP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven't been consistently supported by major browsers. It is not supposed to resemble a real-world web page and it is not solely designed to test browser support for CSS; it contains complex rules that cascade in the most advanced ways possible.

If you would like to learn about web technologies then spare few minutes to take a look at this really good website ( http://w3schools.com/ ) which provides free web building tutorial. The website is more useful to a novice user. I learnt about PHP from this site after which i understood what the question marks in the PHP code means. It has tutorials on HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML and other technologies like JavaScript, PHP, ASP, SQL and much more.

At LevelTen Design, one of the things we focus on when developing websites is usability. Usability on websites encompasses everything from creating usable navigation to making sure the website is accessible for the blind. Although we focus on several aspects of usability, one aspect of usability that has been ignored has been color blindness. The reality is that 8% of men and 0.5% of women have some form of color blindness.