Launching into cyber space

“I know someone who is into this internet stuff - Why not let them build my site? Why pay a professional?”

Because non-professionals cannot have spent the vast number of hours that we have studying technologies, visitor psychology, little tricks to push you up the search ratings, cross browser issues, web standards, accessibility issues.... the list is endless.
They will be cheaper than us of course, but only in the short-term!

We have published this guide to demonstrate the stages to producing a useful, user friendly and attractive web site.
You do not need to be familiar with any of this - Instant Image Access is here to help you all the way, but some clients like to know the outline of the process.

Click on a heading for more information

We would look silly if our site did not conform to web standards. This icon says that it does! Valid CSS

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This site is optimised to browsers that support World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, HTML4.01 and CSS1.
It is accessible to any browser or Internet device, but as you are not using a HTML4.01 or CSS1 compatible browser it will look, at best, flat and uninteresting. Formatting and positioning of the elements on the pages could be lost completely.
Why we now design to these standards is explained here
You can download free compatible browsers from a list provided here

Special note to users of Netscape 4:

Netscape 4 has very "buggy" support for CSS1 and amongst other things loses formatting when the screen is resized and has to be reloaded. We can script around these problems, but now do not ask our clients to pay for the extra hours of work entailed when only a small proportion of users (3% in June 2002 - and falling) still have level 4 Netscape, and in any case can upgrade for free.
Rather than present you with a confusing, partially formatted site we have removed all styling on this site for Netscape 4.

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