Importance of Semantic Markup

November 2nd, 2007  |  Published in Blog, Web Design

Explaining the benifits web standards to clients or management is always difficult. The advantage of using them is difficult to quantify in terms of dollars. It is even more difficult to justify spending even a small amount of development time to semantic markup.Robert Nyman has put together a great article “Explaining semantic mark-up” that will help explain the benefits of using semantic markup. Here is a quick list of the key points in his article.

  • more accessible with out CSS
  • screen reader friendly
  • better search engine rankings
  • easier to maintain the code
  • faster load times because of smaller HTML file sizes
If you still have to justify using web standards or semantic markup “Explaining semantic mark-up” is a must read.

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