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Cascading Style Sheets on the GBdirect Site

This page will, when time allows, contain a full description of how we use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to enhance the visual experience of using the site. We will also be launching an in-depth CCS component to our web site design training courses in Leeds (Yorkshire) and London (South East).

Unfortunately, only the users of CSS-compliant browsers (e.g. Galeon, Mozilla, Netscape 6, IE, and Opera) get to see the prettier version of this site at present.

If you care about such aesthetic niceties, you can get most CSS-compliant browsers free of charge. We ourselves use Galeon and Mozilla Firebird.

Because of the way we have written the CSS, however, we can still deliver identical content and more or less the same usability to visitors with older and/or text-based browsers.

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CSS/XSLT/XHTML Design at The Register

GBdirect staff recently completed an overhaul of the content management system (CMS) and website design for The Register.

Every user should notice the aesthetic improvements, but we hope that most will also experience significant improvements in usability and performance as a result of the shift to open standards compliant HTML, CSS and XSLT. A brief description of the technologies involved is available and you may be interested in this rather approving account from The Web Standards Project.

Journalists and editors are already noticing a dramatic improvement in the usability of the content management system.

If you are interested in a similarly high usability, standards compliant, website design please contact our development team at development@gbdirect.co.uk.

If you would like to learn how to do something similar yourself, take a look at our website design training course and our Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) training course.

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West Yorkshire Office

GBdirect Ltd
Bradford Design Exchange
34 Peckover Street
BRADFORD
BD1 5BD
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom

info@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday

South East Regional Office

GBdirect Ltd
18 Lynn Rd
ELY
CB6 1DA
Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom

info@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday

Please note:
Non-training enquiries should be directed, initially, to our UK national office in Bradford (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.