The Great Migration to Standards

[ This following is the letter from the editor in the 9/12/05 UIEtips, a free newsletter we send out almost weekly. – Jared]

Greetings,

At User Interface Engineering, we focus a great deal of time researching the most promising design tools and materials available to development teams.

In the past year, it seems like everyone is talking about migrating to web standards like XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). ESPN.com and Wired.com are just two web sites that have moved to CSS implementations. We’ve done so too with our conference site.

What’s the big deal about these standards? And why should web teams invest the effort to learn new coding techniques and convert over to CSS and standards-compliant sites? In today’s issue of UIEtips, we’ve asked our good friend David Poteet, President of New City Media, to talk with Eric Meyer, who (quite literally) wrote the book on Cascading Style Sheets.

At User Interface 10, Eric and Molly Holzschlag will be teaching an entire day demonstrating how structured markup and CSS can work for you and members of your web team. We’re really excited about this seminar — it’s been one of our most popular sessions for years.

Have you migrated over to a standards oriented design? Are you thinking about it? I’m really interested in your thoughts. Leave me a message in the comments below.

Enjoy this issue of UIEtips,

Jared M. Spool
Editor, UIEtips

p.s. If you’re thinking about Eric and Molly’s seminar (or any of the other great sessions at UI10), you definitely want to sign up by September 13th to take advantage of the great pricing we now have. See the conference site for more details.

Read: Why eBay needs Standards-Oriented Design: An Interview with Eric A Meyer