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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Realtor Website to World Standards

You can have a real estate website with valid code to worldwide standards from W3C, the WorldWideWeb Consortium. The technique requires coding in XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and the example website recently launched for Latin Connection Realty, Inc. meets those standards with zero errors.

screenshot of real estate website design

In addition to XHTML and CSS, the design meets accessiblity standards, also, as evidenced in the following links.

XHTML: W3C XHTML Validation Results
CSS: W3C CSS Validation Results
Accessibility: HiSoftware Accessibility Results

In addition the pages stretch to fill the screen no matter what the visitor's pc monitor size. The technical combination assures pages will display well today and into the future. This forward looking concept was part of the reasoning behind the worldwide standards recommendation for using XHTML with CSS. This explains why I refer to my advanced techniques as websites "designed for the future".

Finally, the email links are all cloaked so the info@ email and all the other real estate agent email addresses cannot be harvested by spam bots. The combined technique provides benefits to visitors and search engines.

Visit my main site and the page for website design for more details, features, and advice. Still wonder why this is important for any website, not just real estate? Email me for details.

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