Web Design Blog

The SciSEP website goes live

SciSEP utilises expertise in software informatics and method development to advance the success of analytical and reaction based laboratory procedures. By leveraging unique predictive fragment based method development algorithms, structural databases and specialist analytical expertise SciSEP are able to quickly develop best fit analytical and sample preparative methods, maximizing laboratory efficiency and sample throughput capability. SciSEP’s specialist team of analysts and computational scientists train, troubleshoot and develop their clients analytical procedures.

Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH)

Web design must be pretty high up the leader board in terms of the industry with the most acronyms and abbreviations. So it’s great to know we have a new one; POSH or Plain Old Semantic HTML has been coined with the intention to make semantic HTML cool and interesting again. The gripe is that the web design community is getting really excited about AJAX and Microformats but Plain Old Semantic HTML hasn’t been invited to the party.

The ClearView Communications website goes live

Since 1996, ClearView Communications has built a reputation for excellence in the design, installation and service of tailor-made security solutions for some of the world’s most demanding applications. Their experience and best practice, built on supply to all UK police forces, has been acknowledged with an impressive list of awards. These include “Best Manufacturer” in the Essex Business Awards, winner of the Innovation category at the Essex in Boom Awards and winner of the Business Link for Essex award.

Improving Web Accessibility with WAI-ARIA

With the advent of Web 2.0 and AJAX the way in which users interact with web pages has changed. Techniques such as AJAX mean that pages can update without having to be refreshed. Whilst this has been a great asset to web design and has really catapulted the industry forward in terms of user experience one area has definitely suffered and that is Web Accessibility.

Override browser default styles

Eric Meyer has kindly published some reset CSS styles, with the aim of overriding the browsers in-built default style sheet.

All internet browsers include a default style sheet which means that a web page without its own style sheet is not completely free from CSS styling as it inherits styles from the browsers default style sheet.