The creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, imagined a place for people all over the globe to play, work, socialize, and share information. As the web grew there was a need for some sort of rulesin place to keep this fast growing network under control. Web pages needed to work for everyone; from hand-held devices to the most complicated work computers, otherwise why create them? All webpages need to be compatible with various browsers. So that is what a project called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has set out to do. It encourages people to validate their work to insure it will render properly in browsers so that they're content will be put out for the world to see. Web standards that are implemented by the W3C was created in 1994 and led by the creator of the web itself, Tim Berners- Lee.
The main advantage of web standards is accessibility. It means people with disabilities can get into a world that may have been impossible for them to experience (example a person that is blind). Another reason for keeping standards for web content development is because it will allow your site to have greater visibility to search engines, generating more page hits. This in turn will create better revenue and popularity. Web standards also insure that the web is more stable. Less broken code will result in a faster more efficient web. Technology changes fast in web and ultimately code will begin to degrade when newer versions are released. By keeping web standards, old and new code is kept compatible so that new browsers can still handle rendering the outdated and up and coming fresh.
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