Net Effects

Despite us launching our rebooted site a couple of weeks early, we still support the spirit of the CSS Reboot, where nearly a thousand websites decided to re-launch with new, standards-compliant, CSS-based designs.

Yesterday (1st November) was the reboot date and so far around 360 of the sites have updated the reboot site with screenshots of their new creations.

This kind of event is excellent for promoting standards-based design, which in turn aids things like future-proofing and accessibility. Obviously it's not enough to simply use CSS rather than tables or (please no!) frames for layout, thought is required when actually structuring the code and content semantically, as well as adding things like 'skip to content' links at the top of a page to skip the menus.

With the new site up and running, we've got ourselves listed on w3csites; a website providing a gallery of websites that meet the latest w3c (World Wide Web Consortium) standards.

If you're reading this, then you're looking at the new Net Effects website.

The new design is intended to provide a cleaner, more accessible experience for visitors. The whole site has passed as XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant and we've applied various techniques to try and help users with screen readers.