The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (WWW or W3).

That being said, that standards are for anyone and for everyone to follow but most of the time people seem to have not a much of consideration in the context of standardization.

By using standards, your Web site’s foundation is built upon technologies that have been developed and tested by leading experts in the Web community. For example, the W3C Process ensures that a technology reaching its last state of development has been implemented into several compatible products.

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has been introduced in 1994. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardized best practices for building websites, web designing and development.

Standardization of web made much easier to assess to all web user. W3C is an international community that develops and introduces standards to ensure the long term growth of World Wide Web.

Most significantly, it describes standards for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, DOM & so on. W3C is the governing body of the World Wide Web designers, therefore designers or developers must be aware of these standards first.

How will you gain benefit from W3C? Please look down-

Easy maintenance: 

One of the great advantages is that a website provider would have maintaining a web standard is to save time and cost of re-cording it, because once the site is been developed according to W3C standards it would be compatible for any platform.

User accessibility.

Now a days, people starts accessing Internet using mobile devices and PDA’s, so basically a website must be compatible to those devices. Right? Here W3C comes. Once a web site is up to the standard of W3C it will automatically be compliance with so many platforms, be it mobiles or tabs or desktops or any other devices and screen sizes.

Cross browser compatibility:

Browsers are developed to understand certain standards; therefore any recommended site will be understood by most of the web browsers.

Reduces bandwidth:

Standards usually avoid the infamous features creep of other formats and clearly separate orthogonal applications: using CSS lets you cleanly separate the presentation from the structure of your data. This very same separation also saves in the operational costs: using CSS means less HTML code for each page, and therefore bandwidth saving.

Competitive advantage:

By having well design will bring all define advantages which ultimately have a significant advantage over your competitor.