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When it comes to developing a blog, it is as challenging as developing any other fully fledged website. In today’s time, every other day, a new blog website comes into existence. However, to ensure that a blog website performs well and achieves good search engine ranking, it is important to ensure that the blog is developed according to the proper W3C standards. Before that, let us first discuss a bit about web standards. Web standards are nothing but the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe various aspects of the world wide web. Proper web standards make sure that the information you provide is accessible to everyone.

These web standards are defined by an international organization known as the World wide web consortium(W3C). This organization works to develop web standards. It is important to develop a blog as per these web standards. Most of the times, while developing a blog, people do not think about the web standards. It is extremely important to optimize and validate the markup. These days, blogs use plug-ins to extend the functionality. However, some plug-ins mess up the code and create invalid code.
Besides this, there are  some other aspects also which make the Markup or CSS invalid. And it is very important to validate it otherwise the functionality of the site will suffer.

In today’s time, most of the blogs are not developed according to proper web standards. Most of the blogs have some errors in their markup or CSS. In order to check it for your blog, you can get it validated through W3C validation Markup Service. You can also do it through “Web Developer” toolbar. You can download this toolbar from the list of Firefox Addons for Designers and Developers.

Now it is quite clear that it is important to develop blogs according to web standards. Although it’s been some 10 ten years when Internet Explorer 6 was launched, but people still consider it while designing their website to maintain web standards across all old and new browsers. 10 years is a long time and may be 20% users of your website still use IE6 but you could lose those 20%, if your website is not optimized for IE6. There is no doubt that most of the websites are designed with web standards and compatibility in mind. But what about blogs? Are they XHTML and CSS validated? Are blogs designed, coded and maintained keeping web standards in mind?

If you look around on the web, you will find that most of the blogs are not XHTML or CSS validated. Creating a blog, making it online and writing regularly is not the only thing to be done with the blog. Blog’s usability and accessibility should be considered as well. So, the question arises- what should be done to avoid invalid code and have a blog which is error free and according to the W3C web standards?

You can take the help of online tutorials to know about optimizing blogs according to the W3C standards. You can also search and look for resources for making blogs with W3C standards, with the help of designers, developers and blogger community.

It should be borne in mind that for good and smooth functionality, a blog must be W3c validated. Otherwise your web application development may get ruined. A validated markup will enhance the functionality and efficacy of your business web design. It will help you fetch desired results and will create a brand image of your blog.

When it comes to custom web design development for your blog, you should only hire an experienced and reputed web development service to ensure the quality results for your blog. Always check the track record and also the portfolio of the service provider to get the best services for your blog development. It will give you a good idea about the capabilities and features provided by the service provider.

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