Validation is a process of checking your documents against a formal Standard, such as those published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for HTML and XML-derived Web document types. It is similar to spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax, but is much more precise and reliable than any of those processes because it is dealing with precisely-specified machine languages, not with vaguely defined human natural language.

When designing a website it is important to code to World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for a number of reasons, there is no way to determine what type of computer, or Internet browser people will viewing your website on. Some people will use PC's with Internet Explorer 7, and others will view your website on a Macintosh using Safari. Resolution or monitor size is unable to determined because it is a personal user setting or preference. Following website design standards will help insure a website has a consistent look on any computer, including mobile telephones and PDA's.

Like anything else, the web is getting more and more intricate every day. The same goes for the standards used to create the Web. The earliest form of standards for the Internet was HTML. HTML is the basis that everything was created from then on and it worked great for giving text format. It was not so powerful working with images and the actual look of the web page. Since the dawn of the Internet, organizations like The World Wide Web Consortium have been working non-stop to make the Internet better.

Since the limitation of HTML is apparent, standards have changed to XHTML. Combining XHTML and CSS Web designers can create a consistent look with less code, and less code means faster loading web pages!

Another type of browser that will hit a website is a search engine crawler. A search engine crawler is a special type of browser that search engines (like Google) use to index the Internet. These crawlers do not look at the Internet like other browsers, in fact all they look for is text and links. In order to make the crawl faster, crawlers will have a limit of characters they will look at on any page. Following Standards and using the right techniques can help crawlers view only relevant information by allowing them to index more content on the pages in a website. This allows a website to get better results on the search engines index.

Evolution Computers validates web pages immediately after they are created to ensure no mistakes or being made and the code is valid on every web page in the website. websites with valid code are more likely to appear higher up in search standings because the web browsers can easily decipher the correct elements the website contains.

For more information about web standards and the latest Web technology please visit World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They provide many useful tools and information regarding website design standards and practices.