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Web Standards Talk

I'll be giving a brief talk tomorrow on the advantages of using web standards to a group of web developers from local school districts.

I thought I'd post the slides. There isn't anything here that will be new to anyone who has read Zeldman or followed the evolution of web standards for the past few years.

Also, I somehow feel compelled to apologize for the barren look of my slides. Two reasons:
a) The focus of the talk is on what I'm saying, not the pretty pictures on the slides.
b) We don't have a standard PPT template at work yet, so I'm sticking with the minimalist default for now.

Finally, here are links to some of the resources I mention in the talk:

• Jeffery Zeldman, Designing with Web Standards


• Eric Meyer, Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition


• Eric Meyer, Eric Meyer on CSS


• Eric Meyer, More Eric Meyer on CSS


• ALA article on Doctypes


• W3C's HTML Validator


• Section 508.gov


• W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative


• Tim Berners-Lee's "Cool URIs don't change"


• Web Standards Project

(Update) And here's a link I wish I had seen before I gave the talk:

• Web Standards ROI


• Update, again. Tables Vs. CSS - A Fight to the Death.