Here are some of the features incorporated in this site:
- All pages coded to conform to the latest XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2 based standards.
- Achieved AAA level conformance with regard to making the site available to users who are physically challenged.
- Extensive use of style sheets for formatting.
- Pages load quickly due to correct mark up and style sheets.
- Scalable objects used to achieve elastic design. Use of % and 'em' instead of fixed pixel based values. Viewable on all resolutions.
- Makes use of style sheets for layout instead of tables.
- Labelled all pages with content rating code from ICRA and Safe Surf.
- Use of correct mark-up such as DL, PRE, SAMP, SUP, DFN & KBD.
- Tagged all abbreviations and acronyms.
- Page structure in a semantic order.
- Provided tables with a summary, caption, column groups and row groups.
- All links use the "tabindex" and "accesskey" attributes.
- Compatible with Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla 1.6 and Opera 7.51. Viewed on all three browsers without any major difference. Compatible with older browsers as well.
- Provided page transitions in Internet Explorer.
- Made use of the LINK tag to full effect. (See page source code).
- Use of print and aural style sheets.
- External sites open in a new window.
- Use of Unicode to code email addresses.
- Use of a title attribute, custom cursor and coloured scrollbars.
- Heavy use of META tag data.
- Minimal use of Javascript. Javascript used in the status bar.
Plan to include:
- Digimarc ID's in images.
- P3P policy compliance.
- WML code.
- Improve colour combinations.
- Make site multilingual.
- When IE supports the OBJECT tag, will upgrade all tags from IMG to OBJECT.