General Web Developer Interview Questions

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Web standards
What is the W3C and what does it do?
What is HTML validation? Do you ever validate your HTML? Why?
What is the current W3C recommendation for hypertext markup?
What are web standards?
Accessibility
What is the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative and what does it do?
What are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines produced by the W3C?
What is meant by A, AA, and AAA accessibility conformance?
List 3 ways that content can be made more accessible to visually impaired users
Design approaches
How would you decide which browsers your company's web design should support?
Faced with the choice between a fixed-width and fluid layout for a new website design, which would you choose? Why?
What is user-centred design?
At what stage/s of the development lifecycle should end users be involved?
Maintaining knowledge
How do you keep your web design/development knowledge up to date?
Do you read any web development related blogs? Which ones? What do you like about these?
Do you participate in any web development related mailing lists? Which ones? What do you like about these?
What web-related conferences have you been to recently?