Web Design Philosophy
GIDI values standards that make the websites we design for you more likely to reach the people you want to reach.
You cannot predict how your visitors will access your pages. By following the standards, we help ensure that your customers find your site more easily and that they enjoy their visits.
Most of what we are doing may be invisible to you, but you can be assured that we have done everything we can to meet current standards and display web pages properly in as many web browsers as possible.
Strict Adherence to Standards
The World Wide Web is filled with sloppily coded websites. Browsers are very forgiving. They try to display pages no matter how badly coded they are, so you may not even know that most sites today do not meet the standards.
The icons we display demonstrate our commitment to Web content coding standards. We are proud to incorporate these standards into all the work we do for our customers.
Find out about some of the standards we follow:
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Validation & Testing |
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Valid Cascading Style Sheets |
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Valid XHTML |
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Web Content Accessibility Compliance |
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Section 508 Accessibility Compliance |
If we code your Web content properly today, we won't have to retrofit your pages as technologies change tomorrow. We can also make Web pages accessible for a wider audience and take more of your users' needs into account.
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Fluid Page Design
We do not force pages to be a particular size. We allow pages to grow and shrink depending on the space available to them.
This fluid or liquid page design allows your users to shrink or enlarge their browser windows, change font size, or even print— without losing information.
Your users can open a side-by-side search window or access pages on a wide range of alternative devices— and you can still get your message across.
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Universal Design Techniques
Did you know that most websites today use tables, which should be reserved for tabular information, to lay out pages and keep items in the right places? This is because earlier browsers did not provide Web designers with the tools they needed to control their page layouts.
With the advent of cascading style sheets, everyone should be using tables for displaying data, as they were originally intended, and avoid using them for page layout.
This site uses no layout tables at all. For more complex designs, we use layout tables only when absolutely necessary. Most of the time, we can eliminate them completely.
This means that pages we design work well in a wide variety of browsers, as well as output mediums you may not have considered— such as hand-held devices or adaptive technologies for people with special needs.
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