Our services
xert specialises in the design and development of usable, accessible, standards compliant websites, comprising:
- Content preparation &/or writing
- IA & design templates
- XHTML/CSS templates
- PHP/MySQL programming.
Explanation of terms
Usability
Web usability is a general approach, it is as much about the effectiveness of transferring information via the Internet, as it is about the smooth interaction of an end-user with online (and offline) software.
Source: Jakob Nielsen
Accessibility
Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality.
Source: Wikipedia
Web standards
Web standards is a general term for the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web.
It is frequently associated with the trend of endorsing a set of standardised best practices for building web sites, and a philosophy of web design and development that includes those methods.
Source: Wikipedia
Information architecture
IA is defined as the structural design of shared environments, methods of organising and labelling websites, intranets, and online communities, and ways of bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.
Source: Wikipedia
XHTML
XHTML is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML 4 [HTML4]. XHTML family document types are XML based, and ultimately are designed to work in conjunction with XML-based user agents.
Source: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language.
The benefits of CSS enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation (written in CSS). This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentational characteristics, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content.
Source: Wikipedia
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Source: PHP Group
MySQL
MySQL the world's most popular open source database. It's used in more than 11 million installations ranging from large corporations to specialised embedded applications across the world.
Source: MySQL AB