Web Standards
This website was designed to meet a broad range of usability and accessibility standards.
The architecture and functionality of the site has been improved: the content is now easier to navigate and is fully search-able. Text size is now also able to be easily adjusted by the user.
The weatherproject v4.0 disposes of tables used for layout purposes and, instead, uses the far more flexible combination of HTML and CSS to serve up it’s content. Pages have been tested with CSS and HTML validators.
In layman’s terms: it should display as intended across all modern web browsers such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 7, Opera 7 and Safari. Until Internet Explorer becomes fully standards compliant, viewers using this browser will see the site approximately as intended, but lacking some refinements (the live comment preview, for example). Users of Internet Explorer may wish to consider upgrading to a modern, standards compliant browser such as Mozilla Firefox. The free download is available from here.
Older browsers (such as Internet Explorer 5.x), with patchy supoprt for CSS mostly get by, although the main navigation menu gets a little screwy in IE5.5. Things may not look that pretty, but they work!
Legacy browsers such as Netscape Navigator 4 will get spoonfed unstyled content.
If you would like to find out more about web standards, more information is available from the Web Standards Project (WaSP).
In addition to being accessible to various types of web browsers, the content of this website is also available to other technologies such as screen readers, text browsers and mobile devices.
The website was designed and built by me the UK-based web-developer designphile.