Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure that the web designer and manufacturer of the browser uses the same technology syntax. Web standards like XHTML and CSS technology is now fairly well known, and they may be familiar to you, web designers? indeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challenge? While browser support for web standards continue to rise, many web developers and designers have not found the real benefits of web standards and respect must submit to them. * Use XHTML elements correctly so that your markup is compact and easy to understand. * Use CSS to style different elements of web pages. * Lay out pages easily and effectively. * Compare several methods to achieve similar results to make better design choices. * Learn about advanced web design techniques and their important warning.