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The GBdirect website

The GBdirect website has undergone a serious overhaul both in design and content. We hope that the new look is both better and faster than previous versions. We also hope that you can find more valuable information about us, our work and our interests.

Our website is, like many of the commercial sites we design and host, generated using a set of build tools. These are a set of scripts that build the HTML files from ‘source’ and ‘template’ files. The scripts ensure all images have the correct information and are copied to the right place. It also allows us to change the layout or look of our whole site simply by changing one file.

We hope to give a full write up of this in our Case studies section sometime soon ...

We're also pleased to announce that our entire site is valid XHTML 1.0. Interoperability can only realistically be achieved through the use of open standards, such as those published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

We hope you enjoy our site and hope you can find what you’re looking for. If you have any comments please feel free to contact us and let us know.

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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.