HTML5 Web Design and Development
Making websites mobile friendly.
Massachusetts Web Designs offers custom web design services, and we pride ourselves on staying one step ahead of the curve by using the latest in web design technologies. When you contract with us for your website development needs, you will be getting a site that is:
- Goal driven – focusing on your unique business needs and goals.
- Focused on the user experience.
- Optimized for the Mobile Web
- Optimized for Search Engines
- Integrated with Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, etc)
- Designed to industry best practices, including standards compliant code and cross-browser support.
- Designed to meet Section 508 of the federal rehabilitation act best practices.
All of our sites that we design are designed utilizing the latest HTML5 and CSS3 web standards, giving our clients a leg up on the competition by allowing their sites to load faster, be better suited for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, and be better optimized for search engines.
Why HTML5?
HTML5 is the new standard in web development, replacing the old standards of XHTML and HTML4. HTML5 is supported across all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, and is backed by the World Wide Web consortium, making it a standard for many years to come.
The benefits of HTML5 are many, but one of the highlights of the new standard is its advanced multimedia support, which will allow videos and audio to be played at a higher quality, with faster load times without the need for additional browser plugins such as Flash, RealPlayer, Silverlight, etc. This advanced multimedia support will help to eliminate differences in application behavior and function introduced by browsers and other software, and will work on any platform, regardless of the manufacturer.
As you might heave heard – Apple made the decision to not support Adobe Flash on its iPhones and iPads, due to what Steve Jobs thought was a lack of quality in the Adobe Flash Player that is required to run Flash movies and applications. This decision causes a lot of websites and movies to stop working on these very popular devices – costing companies business and marketing reach. Apple instead backed the increased development of HTML5 websites and applications, which do not require any special players or third party plugins to work.
Simply put, the sites that leverage HTML5 simply work on any platform and device, while websites that don’t utilize HTML5 (and instead use Flash or Silverlight) won’t work properly on all devices, and thus cause businesses that don’t upgrade their sites business and visitors! This is becoming more and more of an important distinction as more and more people are using their smart phones and tablets to view the web.