Below mentioned are general guidelines to be followed in website development:

• Develop an website with new code & make sure it can be reused & easy to maintain.
• Separation of scripts(Templates, CSS, JS …) into different files for faster load. Content should be easily modified by any non-technical user with an visual editor.
• Complete support for the latest w3 standards.
• Dependency on plugins can be avoided. Instead develop new concept.
• Unwanted graphics needs to be avoided. No use of special graphics for text especially.
• Develop new code based on w3standards & make sure it supports all the browsers rather than improvising for particular browser. Good coding standards might support old browser version too.
• Developers are expected to work with text editor supports code highlighting. But working with dreamweaver/WYSIWYG editor/Front Page can be avoided to improve the coding standards of the developer.

Technically :

• All the website pages must be developed using XHTML DTD except for rare instances.
• All the website pages(HTML & CSS) must be validated using w3 validator.
• All the styling must be witten in separate Cascading style sheets. Using inline styles needs to be avoided.
• All client side scripting(Eg. Javascript) files needs to be saved as separate files.

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