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Creating a Web site --one that complies with standards such as HTML, CSS, or the Web Accessibility Guidelines --, is the right thing to do, and is also a profitable choice.
Guidelines and tools are readily available to help you create a Web site that conforms to Web standards, ensuring a broad audience, cost-effective development, and easier maintenance.
But deciding how to convert an existing site to a standards-compliant format is a difficult decision. Your site may have legacy, un-maintained documents in multiple formats or may serve a large amount of documents, making it difficult to update. Your site may be backed by good design and flexible technologies, which will simplify the task, yet in any case updating the site will require a resource commitment.
However, the method you choose to update determines how many resources you'll need to dedicate, and the way you will dedicate them.
There are two typical ways to make an existing Web site standards compliant: start completely over (the wrong way), or manually validate each page (the hard way). For IT managers, neither is very attractive, hence making the decision to switch to a standards compliant site difficult: it simply does not seem worthy given the amount of work needed.
Good luck with your new website!
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