Web design summary and colophon

Colophon and summary of Web design matters pertaining to the LONDON O3 Web site.

This Web site is designed, produced, maintained and hosted by ECOTEC Research & Consulting on behalf of the Learning and Skills Council.

Web standards

The LONDON O3 Web site follows the W3C recommendations for Extensible HyperText Markup Language 1.0 and Cascading Style Sheets 2. In both cases (XHTML and CSS), the markup of all pages is valid.

Scripting

Functionality is provided through JavaScript (client-side) and ASP (server-side).

One site fits all

There is only one version of the site: Web standards are followed to promote accessibility, compatibility and interoperability. There are no text-only, ‘printer-friendly’ or browser-specific versions. While a Web standards compliant visual browser will display the pages as they were intended, all the content of the site is accessible using any browser or Internet device.

Tools

The following software is used in the creation and maintenance of the LONDON O3 website:

XHTML and CSS writing and editing: Helios Software Solutions TextPad 4.7.3
Image editing: Adobe Photoshop 7
Web document creation: Adobe Acrobat 5

Browser testing

The LONDON O3 Web site design is tested on several browsers on Windows, MacOS and Linux (Fedora Core 3) platforms. It is also tested with the JAWS screen reader from Freedom Scientific.

Web browsers used in design testing
Platform	Web browser
Windows 2000/XP	Lynx 2.8.3 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 5.5 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 Opera 8.0
MacOS X (10.3.9 Panther)	Safari 1.3 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 OmniWeb 5.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3
Red Hat Fedora Core 3	Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 Konqueror 3.3.1-4.3.FC3