Website powered by
Site System™ by
Sinclair Design
fast and stable on all popular browsers
Download speed and browser stability are two major problems with many of today's websites. How often have you seen a site with a 'broken' layout in Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari; or that takes ages to load before eventually crashing your browser? Technology is a wonderful thing but in the wrong hands it can ruin a site and lose customers. Site System™ is very fast and expertly hand coded in validated, standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and PHP, requiring no plug-ins or special browsers, and Javascript is not used for navigation or essential actions. Great care has been taken to ensure that every line of code is 'lean and clean', and special attention has been paid to the issue of accessibility for people with disabilities. 
what is CSS?
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is a simple system for applying presentational styling to web pages and websites in a manner that is separate to the document's (X)HTML structure. The concept of CSS was first introduced by the World Wide Web's creator, Tim Berners-Lee, as far back as 1990, but it took another six years of discussion and development by different people around the world for it to finally become an officially recognised standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
CSS is far more powerful than HTML styling, not only because entire layouts can be positioned with pixel-point accuracy, but because an entire website's styling instructions can be defined in one external stylesheet document. Thus by changing one line of code in the master stylesheet (e.g. a font colour), every instance of text affected by that style will be instantly modified thereafter, wherever it appears within the website.
Another advantage of CSS is that multiple stylesheets can be created, and then switched between by the site visitor if the mechanism to do so is provided by the site developer (click on the 'low graphics' link above for an example). Furthermore, sight-impaired users of particular browsers can create their own stylesheets to overrule a website's stylesheet such that text is displayed larger, or in a different colour, or set against a particular colour etc.
what is XHTML?
Since the HTML mark-up language was first created in 1991, the World Wide Web has expanded and evolved far more than was ever envisaged by its creator, Tim Berners-Lee. Website designers have pushed HTML to its limits and beyond, and even though the language was extended three times, it soon became apparent that a more flexible and robust mark-up language was called for. The new standard needed to allow for semantic instead of just presentational mark-up; to enforce stricter discipline in its deployment; and to enable developers to work more efficiently with the vast amounts of data that modern websites and web applications are required to handle.
Thus in 1998, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) came up with XML: an efficient new language with far greater power and flexibility than HTML. The following year the W3C set about recreating HTML as an XML application and thus in 2000 they released XHTML (eXtensible Hypertext Mark-up Language) into the wild.
Five years later and Microsoft have still not enabled Internet Explorer to parse XHTML files in the correct manner, so Explorer handles the code as if it were HTML, but the web developer community is hopeful that Microsoft will get their act together soon! In the meantime, by preparing websites in XHTML now, they work on older browsers yet we are ensuring that they will still be functioning correctly in many years to come.