The only standards you need to follow are the W3C Web Standards [w3c.org] They even have a validator for your convience if you need to make sure that your code is valid. I did that at my summer internship and over the course of a summer was able to make our 1000+ page website 99% w3c complient. It might take you a few days to get in the rythym of doing things, but once we had our site up to html 4.01 standards, we never had a problem with any browser compatability issues, and we tested all the way back to Netscape
To add to this, one can follow all the rules making pages comply yet still provide poo usability due to ill-thought layout and navigation on top of a good framework. For starters, if you're not familiar with him, here is Jacob Nielsen's site. [useit.com] He is usability guru formerly from Sun.
The only standards on web code is.... (Score:5, Informative)
web standards are really only half the battle. (Score:2, Interesting)
For starters, if you're not familiar with him, here is Jacob Nielsen's site. [useit.com] He is usability guru formerly from Sun.
Re:web standards are really only half the battle. (Score:2)
It's OK to say "shit" here, we can handle it.
Re:web standards are really only half the battle. (Score:1)
Re:web standards are really only half the battle. (Score:2)
The best part is, it really works either way