The website
This website has been developed using web standards: all content has been semantically coded for platform-independent delivery. In other words, whatever device you use to view the website you should be able to access the information easily. Please note that only browsers versions 5 and above will display the site fully. Older browsers will receive a text-based version but should still be perfectly useable.
The page coding was done using XHTML and visual mark-up using CSS.
Every effort has been made to make the site as accessible as possible. We have checked the pages using the following validators:
The default main text typeface is Georgia, designed by Matthew Carter for legibility on computer screens. Unusually the numerals are ‘old style’ (non-lining) – 0123456789 – a style associated with calligraphy and hand setting. Increasingly considered old-fashioned in the nineteenth century, non-lining figures offer much visual interest and consistency of colour with lowercase letters. Technical innovations such as OpenType are shortly to make these kinds of typeforms more familiar.