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Accessibility

Many websites in the past have relied heavily on tables for their layout because it was the easiest way to achieve layouts that worked reliably in all the major browsers. These websites cause problems for visitors who use screen-readers, because of a visual impairment for example, and render poorly on small screens such as mobile phones and PDAs. Thankfully technology has moved on and we now have Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) which are a much better option because they allow designers to separate the way a site looks from its content. With a page written in this way the user can make use of alternative stylesheets, for mobile browsing for example, or for printing, and even make sense of the page when there's no styling at all.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

CSS allow designers to create flexible sites that render correctly on a range of screen sizes and which can grow to handle changing content. This makes keeping your web-site up-to-date much easier and faster; it's possible to change the text size, colour and layout of this site with just a few changes to the style sheet. If you're considering a new site or a makeover for your existing site make sure your new design is CSS based. Naturally all f&e sites are CSS based so why not contact us today?

Using a little bit of javascript you can even change the style sheet on the fly. Normal | Dark | None