INETA Europe goes Web Standards

Well, this is a good way of begin bloging in my INETA Europe Community Blog! We have just launched our August Newsletter, and we have made it with a new design and layout for that, appliying best practices of Web Standards and new Microsoft design and authoring tools: Microsoft Expression Studio.

As Tim Berners Lee says, "making the web accessible regardless of the user's abilities is also a major challenge and again the separation of form and content helps. The increasingly multimedia world of information targeted at human perception and the well-defined world of data are two extremes that the web has to be able to handle"

In this times even Microsoft have bet on Web accessibility with technologies as Expression Design and Expression Web, INETA Europe wants to redefine the way of getting their associates, their communities, the big world of .NET developers and one of the first steps this year is changing our Newsletter design and structure, with a more accessible bulletin, with semantic code, without layout tables and with all the power Web standards provide to final Web users: a common way of seeing all the info independently of the Web browser used:

• Complete compatibility with Web standards: (XHTML and CSS).
• Semantic use of tables. Only for presenting data, not presentational issues.
• More possibilities to access our info. No matter which device you are using to read our Newsletter, Web standards work well with all, used in a correct way.
• Less (X)HTML code. That means faster loading to all our info and better use of your bandwidth usage!
• Better search engine ranking. Search engines give a better position to well-written content delivery through clean, well-structured and semantic markup.
• Easier to maintain. We separate clearly presentational and behavioral issues from content, which allows us to change the design without pain.

This is only the beginning. We are now thinking in a new design and structure for our main site (europe.ineta.org) and more improvements in the way we relate with our main taskforce: you developer. Stay connected and follows up in the next INETA Europe newsletter.

If you want to express your oppinion about new structure and design we will be very pleased to hear you, at the end, we are here to provide a better service for developer communityes in Europe and want to give faster feedback with the use of the last trends in Web develpment, in a way of permanent improvement between our UG's around INETA Europe.