WebAssist partners with web standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman on new Adobe Dreamweaver extension which guides web designers to build faster, more flexible, and easier to maintain sites.

Built in collaboration with Jeffrey Zeldman, the leading authority on web standards, this Adobe Dreamweaver extension includes full HTML and CSS validation as well as checks a wide range of web standard issues.

With a complex series of rules and recommendations, implementing a web standards compliant website is a challenge for even the most seasoned web professional. Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Standards Advisor meets that challenge head-on with a two-pronged approach. First, the Web Validator sends web pages directly to the W3C HTML and CSS validators to make sure the basics of web design are covered. Designers can validate everything from a single page to a full web site in a single operation. An emerging technology, microformats, are also validated. Any errors found are reported both in an interactive fashion that allows direct access to the offending code and in a fully, print-friendly report.

After the validation has been completed, designers can check for web standards compliance in nine different areas, including:

• Structural integrity – Heading tags should be used hierarchically to be most effective particularly when crawled by search engines. The Web Standards Advisor verifies that a heading 2 tag does not appear before a heading 1 tag.
• Structural labeling – CSS selectors should be named by function and not their appearance or position. Class names like blue_box and bigRightSection are flagged to be renamed properly.
• Proper classes – The use of the same class repeatedly in a single section of a web page is known as “classitis”, which can really clutter up the code. The Web Standards Advisor identifies cases of classitis and shows how they can be cured.

For more information, please visit www.webassist.com.

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