Now we have Corporate Web Standards
· 8 August 07 by Matt Robin ...With 2 Comments so far!
There are good articles on the Web, and then, every now and again, there are brilliant articles…Corporate Web Standards (on the ‘Digital Web’ web site) is definitely the latter.
Scott Gledhill writes about how getting ‘Web Standards’ accepted within a large company’s web design agenda is just the start of a challenging journey: Corporate Web Standards then takes shape!
Filled with insight, numerous obstacles, and truths too – this is a ‘must read’ for anyone who does, did, or wants to work in the web design industry.
It’s a rare thing for me to go back to an article after I’ve read through it once, but that’s what I keep doing with this one! Bookmark it!
Well done Scott! :)
Personally, I’m not in the position right now to pioneer Web Standards within a large company (see my ‘About’ page for a clearer explanation!) – but that doesn’t mean I can’t relate to the points raised by Scott.
It is impressive when any large company can actually embrace the idea of Web Standards – but even better if they truly want it to succeed and have the vision and wisdom to let Web Standards take hold and improve web design practices throughout their core web projects.
I hope the article by Scott clearly highlights to all web designers that getting a large company to say ‘Yeah – we’ll have Web Standards’ is just the beginning….but all the hard work and persistence is worth it!
Comments made
Adaptiv Media
It’s nice to get your head round ways of designing web sites for large scale projects in a short amount of time without sacrificing design or layout. Whether i’ll ever be working with larger organisations is another thing but hey, I can dream can’t I?
Seriously, thanks for making me stumble upon a great (or correctly quoted “brilliant” article). Great read.
Steven Clark
ahh Matt the hard fight in the corporate trenches where grey is grey and sane men try to do themselves in on blunted bic biros when nobody is looking lol…
That is the road of compromise to be sure and you might just have to let some things slide to get others through. The worst part would be having to get non-technical managers to sign off on things! Hey that’s no different than having a country run by economists who aren’t environmental experts and they tell us there’s hardly any real problem!!!
I think (ambitiously) if I were to find myself in that position I would really like to be in there on DAY ONE and be in charge of the project management.