Recommendations for Good Website Designers

[Simon]

There is also some speculation that sites using xhtml strict get a slightly higher ranking off search engines but I'm still calling bunk on that one.

One of the reasons I want some sites coded to xhtml strict standards is to test some things out about that myself. I've heard the speculation, some from good sources, that even though it may not do much for rankings just yet, there may be a time not too far in the future when strict adherence to xhtml code standards will be taken into account.

You just have to look at how many adult sites are 'coded like it's 1999' (appropriate apologies to Prince (glad he changed his name back or I couldn't have written that) to see how a change in ranking based on something like that could really shake things up.

But really, who knows? All I know is that there are more than a few webmasters looking to spend money getting sites coded that way.