939 Design Blog

Alan Johnson’s new website has been put together by 939 Design with the user in mind and is based around Wordpress as a Content Management System (CMS) that includes full news archives as well as, Alan’s biography, constituency, picture gallery and general information and links. Alan receives many letters and e-mails from constituents and wants to be able to help everyone as quickly and efficiently as possible, the new site allows users to comment on news items or get in-touch by email.

939 Design has been commissioned to design and develop the new website for Europa Caravans based in Hull.

Glenvile Swim School is a  family run business, led by British and English International Commonwealth Games Silver Medalist and ASA Club Coach Terry Glenville.

The school’s high quality teaching methods have produced Olympic swimmers as well as helping teach thousands of people to swim across Hull and East Yorkshire over the last four decades.

As a web designer who is constantly striving to produce, not just nicely designed websites, but websites that have completely valid html, valid css and conform to Priority Level A, AA or AAA, it can be a bit dissapointing to see such a high-profile site launched with so many of these problems.

At the time of this post the new British Monarchy website has 10 xhtml errors, 5 css2.1 errors and fails Priority WAI A on 117 errors and Priority AA on 23 errors - even though the website states is passes AA in their accessibility statement!

The website includes skip navigation which unfortunately I could not get to work with firefox tabbed browsing - perhaps it works on a PC?

It’s not all bad however, the site is a big visual improvement although nothing to jump up and down about.

Come on Queenie - have a word with the website elves at the palace and make a bigger accessibility effort with my tax-payers money. The best way to improve web standards in this country must be to lead from the top and you don’t get much higher than the Queen.

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