The Watertight Approach


Watertight structural integrity is critical to a submarine hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean. The foundation of a website also needs a type of watertight integrity in order to perform under a variety of situations or adverse conditions.

In the real world, however, a watertight component does not always offer 100% protection. Various factors and situations can have adverse effects. The same is true with Web design. Perfection is always strived for, and usually attained.

The techniques used by Watertight Web Solutions allow for greater flexibility and readability in different situations, especially browser variations. Even when strictly adhering to Web standards such as XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), designs can be esthetically pleasing as well as adaptable. Through the use of CSS-based layouts, designs will use less code, offer increased accessibility and be easier to maintain.

Watertight Web Solutions is concerned with constructing clean and user-friendly website designs. There are far too many websites out there that contain too much animation, are cumbersome and confusing to navigate and take much too long to load. A more simple and code-compliant website can be attractive as well as functional. The real worth of a website is its readability and not all its fancy images and techno-glitz.

Watertight Web Solutions strives for proper and compliant markup in all its designs. It's hard to be 100% watertight 100% of the time, but we can come very close. It's important to be detail oriented when it comes to constructing websites.


Watertight Web Solutions focuses on the following in all website construction:

  • Simple and esthetically pleasing designs
  • Text size that can be adjusted by the user
  • Content that remains readable even with the absence of images and CSS
  • Layouts and components that contract and expand with any screen size or resolution
  • Minimal code that is compliant with XHTML W3C Standards
  • Code and content that can be easily edited