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Foam Engineers

www.foamengineers.co.uk

Foam Engineers is a business website for the UK's leading business-to-business technical foam converter. Featuring:

XHTML, CSS & PHP: Using the latest Open Source technologies means no licensing fees and easy portability of the site.
Validated to web standards: Important and necessary. This one aspect alone gives a huge amount of backward compatibility and future proofing. It also increases cross browser and cross platform support.
Accessibility support WAI and Section 508: It is sensible to ensure your site does not discriminate against disabled users. By meeting the standards and passing automated tests we can show reasonable efforts taken to avoid discrimination.
Cross browser compatible: The site has been tested successfully on IE6.0+, Firefox 1.5+. It is expected to work on Safari, Konqueror, Opera and Mozilla browsers. Any standards compliant browser should render it acceptably.
Cross platform compatible: Tested on Windows XP Home and Pro. It is expected to work on all windows family PC's above Windows 95. It is also expected to work on Linux and Apple MAC's but remains untested and might be dependent on a particular browser install.
Wide coverage: The sites platform and browser support means that it has wide coverage (98%+) of the typical expected user for the site.
Internet Explorer bugs workaround: Internet Explorer contains rendering bugs that can disrupt how web pages are displayed. By staying abreast of the latest technical coding developments, we work around these rendering bugs in ways that will not break the site when Internet Explorer 7.0+ is used and some of the earlier bugs are fixed.
Cross browser spinners, flash and vertical text: Spinners: Demanded by client design, cross browser headings 'spin' open to reveal their content when clicked and close when clicked a second time. The site has graceful degradation so that when the scripts these use are not allowed they show as open. Also features detection of users script settings and changes content accordingly.; Flash: Demanded by client design Flash content has been authored in a cross browser way that validates to web standards.; Vertical Text: Demanded by client design, vertical text that is replaced with image for browsers that don't support this CSS feature.
Core design template: The core design has been put into templates for fast site wide updates.
Efficient, fast code: The core code base (as in the code that basic to every page) is only: 5.05kb. The supporting core CSS and Javascript files are 22.98kb. This gives a total code hit (before supporting images) of only 28.03kb first visit and around 6kb subsequent page loads.
Protected dynamic galleries: The galleries show copyright and employ anti-theft protection for the original image. Pictures are dynamically rendered to the correct display properties from varying source sizes.
Easy update: Gallery: The sites gallery pages are automatically generated from the contents of a specific folder. This makes updating as easy as drag and drop.; Recent Ratings: Are imported via a CSV sheet (maintained in Excel) allowing for quick and easy addition or removal of the featured customer testimonials.
Custom error pages: Custom error pages add a great deal to present a professional feel to the site. Several custom error pages allow Foam Engineers to retain their branding even when the user follows an old link or makes a spelling mistake in the url.
Active monitoring: Rather than wait for the webmaster to review the logs, the site gets proactive. It automatically notifies the webmaster about errors and any suspected malicious activity. This allows for a much more rapid response to problems and attacks.
Email web form templates: An adjustable text template file is used to produce a more readable web form submission. This allows easy expansion and changes to automatic emails sent via the site. The web forms are also attractively styled with CSS.
Search engine friendly: The sites technologies and style of coding mean that it is search engine friendly. The robots and spiders that search engines use can view the textual content of the page easily. Filenames, titles and meta tags have also been used with a mind to promoting the importance of the company name “Foam Engineers”. Headings have been used to promote the content and sections within the site.

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