Stephen, Until recently, my feelings were precisely as expressed in your third paragraph!
However, I just upgraded a website for a holiday business, and I explained to the owner that it was now done to standards and all that stuff. It meant zero to her, but at least she could appreciate that she/they were getting 'something extra', to the point, in fact, that she expressed the great desire to display some recognition of this fact actually on the site. I explained about the logos and their presence/visibility on the site was insisted upon! I presume this was because they may produce a sense of 'one-upmanship on the competition, or maybe just to advertise a quality thing. I dunno. You can see what I did at www.raintreehouse.co.uk - they are on p2. You'll notice that I didn't actually make the logos a link, because that would be pushing geekiness too far. Perhaps we need a simple page to link to, explaining what standards are for, in terms that the non-tech viewer can appreciate? Just thinking out loud, really . . . Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Web Standards Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:59 PM Subject: [WSG] To display or not to display validation logos? > I am just about to complete a new site for a client, and I have coded it > according to XHTML 1.0 strict guidelines. I am also using validated CSS. Do > you think it is worth displaying the W3C compliance logos at the bottom? > > Here is the web site: > http://www.fit2gether.co.uk/index.html > (let me know what you think!) > > The web site is to do with personal fitness training. Neither the client nor > the majority of site visitors would know what these logos mean so is there > much point in displaying them? > > Thanks, > Stephen > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.306 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 22/02/2005 > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
