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Web Standards
Over the past few years there has been an increasing push to get all web developers to develop standards-compliant websites. Why is this important? Well, there are numerous reasons. For one, you are separating the content from the presentation. This allows you to do a complete redesign of your site, without having to edit every page. You just change the style sheet. To see an excellent demonstration of this, check out the CSS Zen Garden. Because you are separating content and presentation your pages load faster, are more accessible, faster to develop, and easier to maintain. Standards-compliant sites are also more browser friendly, newer browsers pick up all the nice CSS you use, while the older browsers can still display your site's content. Search engines can also more easily parse your site's information and index it all correctly. All this adds up to more visitors, a better experience for visitors, increased flexibility for developers, and lower costs for your customers.
For a more detailed argument for why you should use web standards, see WaSP's FAQ: What are the advantages of using Standards?.
Below are a some links to help you get started. This is by no means a complete
list, but hopefully provides a good starting point of helpful resources.
Standards Groups
General Resources
(X)HTML Resources
CSS Resources
Book Resources
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