The whole deal about putting buttons on websites we make for clients is
in my humble opinion quite retarded. You're directing traffic straight
out of your clients website and to a page where they go Wha? All of a
sudden you lost the user. Put those damn buttons on your own webpage if
you absolutely have to show everyone just how much you care about web
standards.
I assume that if you're a webdesigner (or webprogramer or some sort of
company) you've got an informative page on your site where potensial
clients may read the benefits of building webpages with standards in
mind and why you are the right person/company to do so.
What we do not need is another worthless button/badge to put on the
webpages we (actually I mean you, because I don't put those buttons
everywhere) make. No matter how we tell average people about web
standards we can't do it with a button, they'll just go Huh?. They
have no posibility to relate to it unless they read a 2000 words long
article about it and truly understand why this is so important for some
people. Even if they realize that web standards is important for some
people, they might be too selfish or ignorant that they won't give a
rats ass about it.
Your clients need to hear that they'll save money and give users a
better experience while viewing his/hers pages. They don't need to hear
that they may or may not put a button on their page if they successfully
make a website that passes XHTML validation.
If you absolutely want to tell people about webstandards write to your
local newspaper or something like that, just don't do it on the property
of your clients.
Regards
Vincent Hasselgård
Peter Williams wrote:
From: Patrick H. Lauke
Peter Williams wrote:
1 star for content to markup ratio
1 star for validation of markup and css
Let the market regulate itself. Let standards-compliant markup sites
take over because of their benefits actually manifesting themselves
(easier to maintain, faster, etc). We don't need yet another
badge...imho of course.
It's not yet another badge, it was a way to show compliance
in a way that average people could relate to. As a response
to the charge that the W3C buttons and validator links are
too techy and people business people don't get it.
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