web standards for management2002.09.18

Like many others I've read about lately, I'm heading into a redesign for my company soon and want to upgrade the code to all standards, all the time. Valid XHTML and CSS, CSS-P where we can talk them into it, you get the gist. And of course I have to state my case, make the sell, explain to people who don't care why it's a good idea to go this way. I've been looking online, and found a few links that might help, but only if I cull from each and un-tech it even further. There's a surprising lack of good, non-tech explanations out there. What I've found so far:

Webstandards.org: What are web standards and why should I use them?

W3.org: Buy standards compliant web sites

Design rant from The Noodle Incident.

Zeldman's Are 99 Percent of All Web Sites Obsolete?

Anyways.

Finally, an “abandoned shopping cart” article that makes sense. So much better than the hype of the dot-com era when everyone (god help 'em) was actually shooting for offline rates of abandonment (via croc o' lyle).

Louis Rosenfeld weighs in on the 80/20 rule. Great read.

I've been revisiting a lot of my old UI, UX, IA (pick your two-letter acronym here) haunts that I've abandoned the last few months and it's been wonderful, will have to update the Daily Reads list soon.

This week I've also found several new-to-me and oops-I-found-it-again web business and marketing blogs I have Powermarked and intend to frequent: Net Marketing, The Shinola Awards Blog, Seth Godin, and POElog.

So I'm an information junkie. So sue me. :)

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