This site has been designed following the current standards for Web coding, as published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Adhering to standards has enormous benefites to both the website visitor and owner.
Use of XSLT and CSS enables the separation of content from presentation, allowing far greater flexibility in generating display code for various devices.
XHTML with CSS means smaller downloads and faster rendering. Pages load very quickly.
XHTML with CSS results in far less code, and more clear code. Less code means less to maintain, which in and of itself reduces maintenance costs. Clear code is faster and therefore less expensive to revise and update.
Our website stores all its content in XML. This means we can reuse the content for other purposes very easily.
Coding with standards (particularly CSS for positioning, and strict HTML or XHTML) makes accessibility easier , since standards have been created with accessibility in mind.
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