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Customisation features of this site

On this site you will find colour and font customisation features. We built this mainly to show that with some thought during the design and coding stage, a site can be extremely flexible, and allow for people to set their own preferences of how they would like to view the site, colour schemes and fonts. Our testers with Dyslexia found that dark grey text on a yellow background was easier for them to read, whilst others found that a serif font was easier for them.

The customisation features require Javascript to remember preferences. Without Javascript, the preferences would not be remembered, however the preference changers still work.

Any changes made with the customisation features of this site can easily be reverted by using the RESET button on the drop down tab.

Degradation in older browsers

Some of the features on this site will not work with older browsers such as Internet Explorer 6. We have coded the site to show reduced features in this browser, however the site will still work and the layout is as consistent with newer browsers as possible.

Link Icons

Don't you just hate surprises when clicking links? We do!

All non-standard links on this site have the following icons to help you:

  external link

javascript based link

mailto link

secure external link

FTP Link

PDF file

Word doc

zip link