Where do I start with standards???

Dave Shea (the creator of the famous CSS Zen Garden wrote an excellent quick little essay on where to start in learning to design Web sites according to Web standards.

A Roadmap to Standards

If you consider yourself a Web designer, or want to be one, and don’t currently design to W3C standards (or, for that matter, don’t know what they are), you should, for your own personal/professional development, read this and take it to heart.