Monday, 28 January 2013

About W3C

Jacob Nielsen, Ph.D., has been referred to as "the world's leading expert on Web usability" by U.S. News & World ReportHe is a User Advocate and co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group. His work holds great importance to anyone using the web. As future web designers, his expertise can help us to understand how best to design and layout a web page so that it provides maximum usability.

W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium. Which is an international community that develops web standards. The consortium includes full-time staff, members of the public and member organizations. The list  looks like it includes every major corporation in the world.

Tim Berners Lee is the inventor of  the World Wide Web (1989) and, among many other accolades, he is the director of W3C and the World Wide Web Foundation. He has also created a data base for the technical community to refer to when they want to find out the what and why of a particular design choice.

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