Website Coding And Testing

When you create a webpage or website using standard html, css and other programming languages you should check your pages with W3C the standards Consortium for HTML and CSS by going to http://validator.w3.org/. This was set up to try and ensure that websites all reached a certain standard to ensure the best possible browser compatibility across different browsers such as Netscape, Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE) and other browsers.

This however is not where testing should stop as browsers like IE have not been built to deal with code in the right way or as set out by the Standards Consortium and this is why you should also check your that your website displays properly in 2 or 3 of the most used browsers.

Another point to think about before you start coding your webpages or website is what other programming languages you are going to use and what browsers you would like to support and how old the browsers you are going to support are. I would suggest you should support IE as a must, firefox, Netscape and Opera (the Mac browser) as a minimum and by testing in these browsers most other browsers should be able to display your site correctly.