Philadelphia Standards Organization

Roger Johansson, over at 456 Berea Street, posted the Holy 10 Commandments on why you should learn and use Web Standards. Below are just the headers and You should definitely swing on over to his site and read the whole article. He makes some valid points that can help you win over that guy in your office who is holding on to code snippets from 1996 and still using table based layouts.

1. Make yourself look professional
2. Make your clients look good
3. Maximize the number of potential visitors
4. Faster loading and reduced bandwidth usage
5. Provide the foundation for accessibility
6. Improve search engine rankings
7. Make your markup easier to maintain
8. Future-proof content
9. Good business sense
10. It’s the right way to do things

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