There's been a lot of talk about standards over the last couple of years, so I was wondering, do developers really care?
Do your clients ask you to produce compliant sites?

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absolutely never - not one of the people I have made websites for has ever asked me for a "compliants standard" website

ph3n0m - what kind of sites do you design / develop?

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well in my sordid past I would have done everything from "brochure-ware" sites to music/band based websites

Do you have any examples of previous work?

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aye I do - but if I post them here maybe spoiltchild might critique them....hehehehe (and I couldnt stand the shame, embaressment, nervous bowel)

Now now.. be nice

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ok ok, some of what I have done are

www.thewalls.ie
www.worldwords.com.es
www.thelaptopshop.ie

Ay ay ay... I'm sorry but I don't accept 'not being asked' as a valid reason not to design to web standards.

I try to design to web standards - admittedly not always to the letter of the law, but certainly in spirit. In other words every page may not validate, but usually it's for a simple and (in my opinion) good reason.

Here's a good piece on why to use Web Standards, here's another really good view on using web standards.

From my own perspective I have myself found using Web Standards to greatly increase findability.

I personally think it's important to be developing to web standards, and as such I don't wait to be asked.

Most clients won't know to ask for a site designed to web standards... that doesn't mean they wouldn't want it if they knew the benefits.

i highly recommend looking into web standards and considering passing on the benefit of them to your clients!

Best of luck!
Frank

I'd be a bit like Frank, perhaps a little less less... well, frank about it.

I'll try to embrace new standards as they become generally accepted by the community, but I won't break my balls to get a page to validate; in fact I very rarely check. And to be honest, when I post a page somewhere for review and a standards-nazi starts ranting at me, I tend to switch off. Standards are great, but they're guidelines, not laws.

If I was asked to produce a standards-compliant website now, that'd be a different story, I'd go out of my way to do it. But I'd probably farm it out to one of the aforementioned nazis; and I'm not really in that market anyway. Most of my clients wouldn't know web-standards if it came up and etc etc.

adam