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Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what the order or things is that people look at on your web site. Here is an interesting web usability study noting what people actually look at first, how they read the web site, and the behaviors they have depending on age, type of web site, and other variables. While they say you shouldn’t take the results too seriously, it still makes a very interesting read.

We at Intuitive Designs are constantly learning and growing every day. One of the things we do towards this goal and study web standards and make each new web site we do more standards compliant.

456 Berea Street has just published a great list of ten reasons why web standards are important to learn and use. Some of the reasons we think are the most outstanding are:

2. Make your clients look good (so that their web site can serve the most people possible)
4. Faster loading and reduced bandwidth usage (speaks for itself)
6. Improve search engine rankings (always a great thing!)
8. Future-proof content (if there is such a thing with electronic documents)

One reason that doesn’t stand out so much:
10. It’s the right way to do things (we’d rather leave that to designers to decide for themselves)

Molly Holzschlag, web usability and accessibility expert and author of more than 30 books, has posted an amusing, but true list of personality indicators for web designers and developers similar to the Meyers-Briggs personality indicators. In our experience here at the studio as designers and while working and communicating with other designers, we think this is pretty spot on. We believe we at Intuitive Designs fit generally into the SAVD (Standards Aware Visual Designer) and the SACE (Standards Aware Cutting Edge) personality groups.

If you are a web designer or developer, where do you fit in?