CornerPixel of Standards

A friend once told me that web standards was my hobby horse.  He was saying this because I was getting nit-picky with a website I was designing.  At first I got a little offended, but then I began to think about what he said and I had to agree that it was my "hobby horse", and that wasn't a bad thing.

I started playing with web design and website creation in 2005 with all my pages full of tables and built with Microsoft's FrontPage. 

Oh ya, I can see people cringing as they read that, but hey that's how I got started doing something that I REALLY love. 

As I started to learn about creating websites, I also began learning about CSS and web standards.  I was lucky in the fact that I hadn't been creating websites since the old days of table layouts, and the learning curve in learning web standards wasn't too much of an issue.  In the years of learning I have come to love web standards and how much designing a website with them is a benefit.

Now having said the above and admitting that web standards is my hobby horse, I also want to make it clear that I am not a stickler about sites being perfect.  I realize that all websites are not alike.  Some sites are built with straight markup and CSS.  Those are easy to get perfect.  Some sites are built in a CMS (Content Management System), and are a bit harder to get perfect.  Sometimes no matter how perfect or valid the designer's markup is when he/she skins or themes the CMS, when the CMS starts spitting out markup of it's own, watch out.  I can't count on my fingers the amount of times I have heard people say that they have perfectly valid markup and CSS but after the page loads in their CMS their site no longer validates.  In that case I recommend doing your best and understanding that the web is not perfect.

Having said that, CornerPixel will provide solid standard compliant websites to it's customers, and strives to insure that the sites we create are both beautiful and solidly constructed.