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Systems and Web Standards The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines a set of standards for publishing content on the Web. The standards relate to the code used for adding structure to web page, how those pages are presented to users, and scripting languages used to add dynamic element to those pages. This short article discusses why web standards are important in relation to Content Management Systems (CMS). When CMS vendors are constantly repositioning their products to align them with the latest buzz-words and industry fashions, it's easy to be deflected from concentrating on the most basic, but important issues - like ensuring that the resulting web pages will work on the web browsers of visitors to your site. No web designer or CMS vendor can predict with any certainly the type of browser being used by the potential visitor to a 'public facing' website. So - what strategy can a CMS vendor adopt to cope with the problem of the 'unknown web browser'? Web Standards are certainly a big part of the answer - as they are fundamental to all attempts to cope with issue of visitor diversity. Use of Web standards in the form of page marked up with valid code and using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for presentation, provides the best chance of consistently serving content to a audience likely to be using a host of different 'user agents'. Those user agents could be anything from a standard web browser to assistive technologies such as a screen reader. At its core, the Web is made up of three standards:
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