HTML5 and Medical Website Development

Posted: Dec 08 in Web Design tagged Medical Website Design by Peter

Medical website development can be an intimidating process to anyone that is not a professional programmer or designer. Because of everything that medical website development involves, it is often something that doctors and other healthcare professionals outsource to a website design company.
Medical website development has seen some interesting advancements over the years. With the introduction of Flash, web application mashups, and the mobile web the static, brochure type website designs for doctors are falling far behind the times.

Newer Advances in Healthcare Website Development

Website design for doctors that encompasses some of the technologies mentioned earlier are still finding themselves behind the times when it comes to modern web technologies. The latest advancement, HTML5, is proof of that.

HTML5 is the latest specification that defines Hypertext Markup Language, Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Document Object Model (DOM) addressing specific issues that these web technologies had in the past and looks to improve the way web applications are handled by web browsers.

HTML5 is most known to those outside of the web development community because of Apple’s decision to back this standard and abandon support for Flash. As a result, the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad cannot view Flash content so any content in this format needs to be adjusted to HTML5 specifications if they want to be available to Apple’s mobile users.

As the owner of a medical website, you may want to consider upgrading your medical website development to fit HTML5 standards. As more and more people turn to Apple’s mobile technologies it makes sense to provide them the same user experience, and as web standards and expectations change it may be wise to speak with your website design company now to start talking about a possible upgrade.