This is what they said:

‘Just wanted to send a quick email to say: I started setting up my website yesterday, ready for my business launch the week after next…I didn’t expect it would take so little time and now it’s all ready to launch 2 weeks early!!’

There was more gushing sentiment that touched our hearts but we won’t go on…

And it’s all true!

Website Lite really is easy as pie to set up and there are step-by-step instructions too, the only tricky bit is choosing which of the scrumptious templates you like the most!

Dalise Removals is a small removals company, they wanted a clean and simple site to display and promote the quality of their services. Their Website Extra Lite provides a professional web presence and allows potential customers to find their business, get full contact details and to have faith in the company’s professionalism.

Particular Website Wants

A professional web presence and email address | Clear contact details | Testimonials | Information on services provided

Follow this link to go to daliseremovals.co.uk

Sentience Hypnotherapy wanted a calm website to reflect their services whilst displaying a large amount of information for potential customers to access. Testimonials are an important part of their business growth so displaying these somewhere on every page of the website is crucial.

Particular Website Wants

Logo integration | 6 pages of information | Testimonials appearing on every page | Ability for visitors to search the site | Calm colours

Follow this link to go to sentiencehypnotherapy.co.uk

Hambrook Carpentry wanted a website to showcase their portfolio and only needed enough text space for an introduction to the company. They their images to be the main focus, so the template they chose was simple and clear and the colours complimented their logo.

Particular Website Wants

A professional, simple web presence | Contact details | Space for the logo | Space for a clear list of services

Follow this link to go to hambrookcarpentry.co.uk

Medhursts Chartered Surveyors wanted a corporate-looking brochure website primarily to list their services and to display their location on a Google Map. Medhursts originally wanted a bespoke, custom built site, but found exactly what they were looking for with Website Lite – and paid a lot less for it too.

Particular Website Wants

Google Map integration | Clear contact details | Comprehensive list of services | Corporate and clear website

Follow this link to go to medhursts.com

We Did It!! The new website for WebsiteLite is here! What do you think? Our web designer Paul has made it clear and simple to navigate around, with colours that will perk you right up on a rainy day!

Why all the effort?

As we’re a website design company we have a penchant for designing and rebranding – and where better to start than with one of our own websites?! Now we’ve shown you how simply a site can work and how goooorgeous a website can look, we’re hoping you’ll follow our lead! We’ve not made this fabulous site for nothing – oh no no, we’ve made it so you’ll get website envy and sign up to get your business on the web and looking just as good.

A Logo Too

Yes indeed, we have a new logo too! Our fabulous Graphic Designer Polly came up with a few ravishing logos for us to choose from – and after much debate (as they were all pretty joyful), we picked the logo that was light as a feather and fresh as a daisy! If you go ahead with one of our WebsiteLite packages we can design you a logo too (and yes – you’ll also get a choice you lucky thing). We use our WebsiteLite logo on our website, our Twitter page, our business cards… See our Graphic Design page for more logo info.

Website Lite is the first invention from our Access by Design Laboratory, and we’ve been busy developing and perfecting a whole host of other projects too – yes, we’ve donned the white coats and everything!

Inventing A Local Business Directory

May we present Chichester1 – A local business directory just for Chichester – cheaper to join than generic business directories and perfect for finding local businesses – the number 1 place to be found in Chichester. We were getting a little tired of those generic directories that dictate high costs, so we came up with a special directory fit for a special place. We love to eat local, buy local, live local – people trust local - so let’s network local and we’ll only charge you local! We’ve also developed Bognor1 just for business in Bognor and we’re working on reaching even further – watch this space.

Inventing Blind Interfacing

We’ve been perfecting our sites for blind-interfacing– Your website formatted to provide simple, clean text for screen-readers without compromising the design of anything! We developed this not long ago, when we were approached to create a bespoke website for a company selling pianos online. The challenge was that James, the owner who was to manage the site, is blind. We got to work and created a site that can be easily altered by James. Obviously, like all our sites, it is optimised for the blind viewer too. Challenge us to create the perfect website, whatever your need.

Inventing Accessible Responsive Website Design

Find out about our accessible responsive website design – Your website optimised for everybody, regardless of disability, age or screen size. An accessible website is one that can be read in a number of different formats to accommodate as many different disabilities as possible. Accessibility also covers the readability of your site on different devices and screen sizes. Websites should perform exceptionally, regardless of how they are being viewed. Our solution is known as ‘accessible responsive website design’ – this optimises your site’s content to any screen size on any device. Take a look at our website responsivewebsitedesign.co.uk for all the info you could wish for.

For anything else, contact our team and get us inventing for you.

This page is to give you information on what aids this website offers for people with a disability. It also explains how the WC3 Accessibility Guidelines I.O and 2.O have been implemented on this site.

Using this website

• For those screen reader and non-mouse users, please use the ‘jump’ menus provided n to skip straight to the content, navigation and/or site map
• Please use the text variations provided;
  • ‘Standard text’ will provide a 12px equivalent version on most browsers and hide accessibility elements
  • ‘Large text’ will provide a 24px equivalent version on most browsers and hide accessibility elements
  • ‘Easy Read’ will provide a low simple contrast version, using standard text size on a pale yellow background to aid legibility which is often helpful for users with dyslexia
  • ‘No Style’ will strip off all our styles and provide a plain text, linear version
  • ‘Non-Standard Mobile’ will provide a slim line version with ‘jump’ links for mobile phones who are not using Internet Explorer or Safari mobile browsers
  • To resize the text without our help:
    • In Internet Explorer: View > Text size > Largest
    • In Firefox: View > Text size > Increase
    • In Opera: File > Preferences > Fonts > Minimum font size (pixels)
    • Alternatively, scroll with the wheel of your mouse whilst holding down the control key.
    • To use the keyboard instead of the mouse;
      • Use the Tab key to move and browse amongst the menus and links.
      • Pressing ‘Enter’ is the same as clicking a mouse
      • Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move up or down the page or from left to right.
• All images contain an ALT tag unless decorative, where they are marked as empty.
• Links make sense out of context. Wherever possible, title tags have also been used to expand on their meaning.
• Drop down menu bar are sometimes used. Please select a category and click (or press ‘Enter’) on the option you wish to view. If your system does not support drop-down menus, please use the site map link for quick and easy browsing
• Most of our site have ‘breadcrumbs’ on the top of each page which allow you to retrace your steps and go back to where you started. However, older sites may not have this facility so you may need to use the ‘Back’ button on your browser. Back button are usually on the top left hand corner of your browser. By simply clicking on this button you can retrace your steps through the pages you have already viewed on our website. Some keyboards also have a Back Button as part of their options.

General Accessibility.

• This website conforms to the WCAG 2.0 four principles of accessibility and so is: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust
• The original designers, access-bydesign.com have considered the full range of techniques, including the advisory techniques, as well as to seeking relevant advice about current best practice to ensure that this web content is accessible, as far as possible, to all communities.
• This website has been thoroughly tested on multiple browsers, platforms and devices
• This website has been tested using multiple automated accessibility testing software
• This website has been tested by a REAL person with a disability who tested the website and submitted a report to the original designers who then used it to improve accessibility further.

Web Standards

• All CSS and XHTML created by Access – by Design validate to the document type.
• Validation does not equal accessibility.
• If a page on this website does not validate it is almost always because a third-party ‘plug-in’ has needed to be employed. Although try to use only accessible third-parties and we alert designers to accessibility issues, rectifying them is beyond our control
• We reserve the right to use the web standards CSS and XHML buttons on this website as all elements within our control validate correctly.

Please Note: Access – by Design websites are run by their owners. Although we train our clients on web accessibility, they are not designers and sometimes mistakes can happen. If you find a accessibility error, please alert Access – by Design - info@access-bydesign – as soon as possible, telling us the name of the website and the nature of the problem so that we can fix it.

Further Help

You may wish to download “Browsealoud”. This is FREE speech reader that enables you to listen rather than read our website. Browsealoud may be helpful to people with dyslexia, those who find reading difficult, those who have a mild visual imapairment of those who just like to do more than one thing at a time!

• Please follow this link to download Browsealoud onto your computer or select the image above.

WC3 WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and W.A.G 2.0

To be considered to be Priority 1 (A) standard a website should meet all of the following points.

• This website provides a text equivalent for every non-text element (e.g., via “alt”, “longdesc”, or in element content). This includes: images, graphical representations of text (including symbols), image map regions, animations (e.g., animated GIFs), applets and programmatic objects, ascii art, frames, scripts, images used as list bullets, spacers, graphical buttons, sounds (played with or without user interaction), stand-alone audio files, audio tracks of video, and video. (1.0)
• This website provides text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.
• This website ensures that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup. (1.0)
• This website clearly identifies changes in the natural language of a document’s text and any text equivalents (e.g., captions). (1.0)
• This website may be read without style sheets; when an HTML document is rendered without associated style sheets, it is still be possible to read the document. (1.0)
• This website ensures that equivalents for dynamic content are updated when the dynamic content changes. (1.0)
• This website avoids causing the screen to flicker. (1.0)
• This website uses the clearest and simplest language appropriate for it’s content.
• This website does not use image maps(1.0)
• This website does not use tables(1.0)
• This website does not use frames(1.0)
• This websitedoes not use multimedia(1.0)

This website passes Priority 1 (A) Accessibility.

Priority 2 checkpoints

To be considered to be Priority 2 (AA) standard, a website should meet all of the following points;

• This website ensures that the foreground and background colour combinations in images provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having colour deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen. (1.0)
• When an appropriate markup language exists, this website uses uses markup rather than images to convey information. (1.0)
• This website documents validate to published formal grammars. (1.0)
• This website uses style sheets to control layout and presentation. (1.0)
• This website uses relative rather than absolute units in markup language attribute values and style sheet property values. (1.0)
• This website uses header elements to convey document structure and uses them according to specification. (1.0)
• This website marks up lists and list items properly. (1.0)
• This website mark up quotations and does not use quotation markup for formatting effects such as indentation. (1.0)
• This website ensures that dynamic content is accessible (or provide an alternative presentation or page only when no other option is possible). (1.0)
• Until user agents allow users to control blinking, this website avoids causing content to blink (i.e., change presentation at a regular rate, such as turning on and off). (1.0)
• Until user agents provide the ability to stop the refresh, this website does not use periodically auto-refreshing pages. (1.0)
• Until user agents provide the ability to stop auto-redirect, this website does not use markup to redirect pages automatically. (If redirects are needed they are configures via the server) (1.0)
• Until user agents allow users to turn off spawned windows, this website does not cause pop-ups or other windows to appear and doe not change the current window without informing the user. (1.0)

• The website uses W3C technologies when they are available and appropriate for a task and uses the latest versions when supported. (1.0)
• This website avoids deprecated features of W3C technologies. (1.0)
• This website divides large blocks of information into more manageable groups where natural and appropriate. (1.0)
• This website does not identify the target of each link because it is written in XHTML 1.0 Strict
• This website provides metadata to add semantic information to pages and sites. (1.0)
• This website provides information about the general layout of a site (e.g., a site map). (1.0)
• This website uses navigation mechanisms in a consistent manner. (1.0)
• Tables are not used for layout. (1.0)
• Until user agents support explicit associations between labels and form controls, all form controls are combined with implicitly associated labels and the label is properly positioned. (1.0)
• Form labels are explicitly associated with their controls. (1.0)
• Event handlers used in scripts are input device-independent. (1.0)
• Until user agents allow users to freeze moving content, this website avoid movement in pages. If movement is present it can be instantly and easily stopped or blocked. (1.0)
• Programmatic elements such as scripts are directly accessible and compatible with assistive technologies (1.0)
• Any element that has its own interface can be operated in a device-independent manner. (1.0
• When using scripts, this website specifies logical event handlers rather than device-dependent event handlers. (1.0)

This website passes Priority 2 (AA) Accessibility.

Priority 3 checkpoints

• This website ensures that the foreground and background colour combinations in text provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having colour deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen. (1.0)
• This website specifies the expansion of each abbreviation or acronym in a document where it first occurs. (1.0)
• This website identifies the primary natural language of a document. (1.0)
• This website provide keyboard shortcuts (such as jump menus) to important links (including those in client-side image maps), form controls, and groups of form controls. (1.0)
• This website provides information so that users may receive documents according to their preferences (e.g., language, content type, etc.) (1.0)
• This website provides navigation bars to highlight and give access to the navigation mechanism
• This website groups related links, identifies the group (for user agents), and, until user agents do so, provides a way to bypass the group. (1.0)
• This website places distinguishing information at the beginning of headings, paragraphs, lists, etc. (1.0)
• This website does not use ASCII ART
• This website supplements text with graphic or auditory presentations where they will facilitate comprehension of the page. (1.0)
• This website uses a style of presentation that is consistent across pages. (1.0)
• This website now refers to the new WC WCAG 2.0 guidelines and does NOT include default, place-holding characters in edit boxes and text areas in forms as user agents ARE now able to handle empty controls correctly. (1.0)

This website passes Priority 3 (AAA) Accessibility.

Accessibility Problems?

This website may have the following minor access problems/issues. These are explained here and alternatives given.

• This site does not use meta access keys (sometimes called ‘hot keys’). Our research suggest that these are actually detrimental to most keyboard-users as they already have their own keys set up which are then overwritten or confused by websites (who do not use a consistent approach). We will review this decision periodically and if research proves otherwise (or technology improves) we will resume these techniques.
• This site may fail validation on third-party technologies. This is because we have little or no ability to recode these to meet our high accessibly standards. However, we always aim to use plug-ins that are either accessible, increase the accessibility or have simple accessible alternatives. If forced to choose between accessibility features and validation, we have taken the difficult decision to always choose accessibility.

The Company will provide each user with access to a package of templates, services and website design and management tools. By registering as a user you agree to use the Site in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.

Throughout these Terms and Conditions where we refer to “user”, “you” or “your” we mean each registered subscriber to the service. Where we refer to the “Company”, “we” or “us” we mean Access – By Design Ltd.

1. The Website Lite service

1.1. The Company will provide each user with access to a package of templates, services and website design and management tools. We also provide basic support by email or telephone.

1.2. More in-depth support and advice services such as on-site training are not included. If we agree to provide extra services they may be subject to additional terms and payment.

2. Terms of Subscription

2.1. The Company will provide each user with access to the service described in Section 1. We may, at our discretion, add to, amend or withdraw this service and all or any of the Sites.

2.2. We reserve the right to impose additional Terms and Conditions in respect of any user’s order. Any additional Terms and Conditions will be posted on the Site.

2.3. Subscription to the service is available to anyone who registers all the information we require, provides an accurate, legitimate electronic mail address, and obtains a unique Website Lite username and password. Each user can build one website per registered account, but may hold as many accounts (and therefore websites) as they require with the privileges associated with it. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, or ethnicity.

2.4. Subscription is for use only by the registered user and is non-transferable.

2.5. The Company provides space for user web pages but makes no implied or express warranties about the reliability of these pages. We are not responsible for any damage caused by loss of access to, or deletion or alteration of those pages.

3. Payments

3.1. You must make regular yearly payments to maintain your subscription. We do not refund, either partially or fully, any yearly payments.

4. Cancelling your subscription

4.1. The Company can cancel your subscription without notice for any (but not limited to) of the following online conduct that we believe:

• violates these Terms and Conditions or other policies or guidelines set out by the Company elsewhere on the Site,
• is harmful to other users, Website Lite staff, the business of the Company, or other third-party content providers.
• If this happens we can delete any and all information, communications, postings, or web pages at any time.

4.2. If we cancel your subscription we will not refund any payments. However if we believe the grounds for cancelling your subscription are not your fault we may at our sole discretion refund an amount we consider a reasonable part of the price paid for the subscription.

4.3. You can cancel your subscription by giving us 30 days notice.

4.4. To cancel your account you must inform the Company by email through your account or by telephoning us. Only authorised individuals are able to initiate account closure.

4.5. When a subscription has been cancelled, we will not renew the domain name with the registrar at the next renewal date. If you wish to keep your domain name after your subscription has been cancelled it is your responsibility to contact us with instructions to transfer control of your domain name to your new registrar.

4.6. If we receive instructions from you to transfer control of the domain name to you, we will do so when all subscription fees and any other fees owed to the Company are paid in full. If we do not hear from you with instructions or any fees are outstanding we will not transfer control of the domain name.

5. Web Page guidelines and rules for online conduct

5.1. The Company is not responsible for the content of any user web pages. The views expressed on any users’ web pages are the sole responsibility of the user who used the Company’s system to create them.

5.2. The Company reserves the right to;

• inspect all user web pages for material which, at the sole discretion of the Company is considered to be objectionable, offensive or in any way undesirable
• edit, delete or move any page or electronic mail postings from the Site at any time without notice; and
• increase the fee due at the next renewal date if the content has become too big. This is because the sites we offer have unlimited content size potential. We will apply any change to the price we charge for the service at the next normal payment date and notify you.

5.3. The user agrees not to include any material or electronic mail postings on the Site that:

• is copyrighted and does not have the express permission of the author or owner. (Software piracy and copyrighted material are covered in more detail in section 8);
• exploits the images of children less than 18 years of age;
• is grossly offensive to the community, including clear expressions of bigotry, racism, or hatred;
• promotes illegal activity;
• defames, abuses or threatens others;
• is obscene; or
• is in direct competition or advertises a business or person which is in a similar industry to Access-By Design.
• is an advertisement or any form of commercial solicitation other than in accordance with any applicable advertising standards and codes of conduct in connection with your own Website Lite hosted site or on a basis consistent with the Company’s user web page templates.

5.4. The user agrees not to:

• use a web page as storage for remote loading;
• make available copyrighted software which has been “cracked” – i.e., the copyright protection has been removed from the software;
• make available serial numbers for software which can be used illegally to validate or register software;
• create Spam;
• make available tools, which can be used primarily for “cracking” software (this does not include tools that have legitimate uses for software developers, system administrators, etc.);
• distribute any other material that may involve a breach of copyright. (for example, music);
• include any material on the Site before they have reviewed the content;
• remove any page(s) from the Site or the membership area; or
• copy any page(s) to any other Site on the internet.

6. Privacy

6.1. We will keep confidential any personal information we hold about a user which is not supplied for inclusion on your Site.

6.2. Information that we exchange with you such as email and passwords relies on the security of the Internet. For this reason we recommend that you change your passwords frequently.

6.3. We reserve the right to distribute aggregated demographic information provided by users. However, we will not release your name or other personal information unless:

• you give us your permission;
• we are required to do so by law or any other competent authority; or
• we are required to do so in the course of our administration of the Site.

7. Copyrighted Material

7.1. Any material you use on your Site, including, without limitation, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sound, is protected by British and international copyright laws, both as individual works and as a collection. You must not place any material protected by copyright on your Site without the express permission of the author or owner of the copyright of that material.

7.2. Unless otherwise stated, you can download or use copyrighted material provided by the Company for use with your Website Lite. You may not use any of the copyrighted material in any other way; this includes but is not limited to:

• Templates generated by our system
• Background images
• CSS, JavaScript or any other file type used in the templates
• Buttons and graphics
• Any templates image provided by Website Lite to the user to build your website can only be hosted on the Website Lite servers and cannot be taken and used on any other server.

7.3. If we are notified by a third party or are made aware by a copyright holder that any material on our server may infringe copyright we will contact you using the email address you have provided.

7.4. We will forward the complaint we have received from the third party to you and it is your responsibility to contact the third party and resolve the complaint. You must respond in a timely manner and let us know that you have done so.

7.5. We will also email a declaration to you which you must complete and return to us within 5 working days. This document will ask you to declare that you are either the copyright holder or that you have been given permission by the copyright holder to use the copyrighted material on your website. If you do not return the completed declaration to us within the time frame allowed we will remove the copyright material in question either by deletion or by suspending the website and account.

7.6. We will not refund any subscription fees paid if the website is suspended for this reason.

8. Limitations of Liability and Warranty

8.1. You agree that the use of the Site is entirely at your own risk.

8.2. The Site is provided on an “as is” basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.

8.3 Neither the Company nor any third-party content providers makes any guarantee of the accuracy, correctness, or completeness of any information on the Site and are not responsible for any:

• errors or omissions arising from the use of such information;
• failures, delays, or interruptions in the delivery of any content or services contained within the Site; or
• losses or damages arising from the use of the content or services provided by the Site.

8.4. Neither the Company nor any third-party content provider makes any warranty with respect to any content, information, services, or products provided through or in conjunction with the Site.

8.5. The Company will on no account have any liability to the user for consequential, special, economic or indirect loss, for loss of savings or goodwill or for loss of revenue. Our aggregate liability to you in any calendar year is limited to the amount of money you have paid us in that year in respect of the Site.

8.6. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limit or exclude the liability of the Company for death or personal injury due to its negligence.

8.7. You specifically agree that neither the Company or any third-party content provider are liable for your conduct associated with the Site, including, but not limited to, web pages, or posts.

9. Indemnity

9.1. The user agrees to indemnify the Company and any third-party content provider against any and all claims and expenses, including legal fees, arising from your use of the Site. This expressly includes:

• User’s responsibility for any and all liability arising from the violation or infringement of proprietary rights or copyrights; and
• Any libellous or unlawful material contained within user web pages, profiles, or postings.

10. Force Majeure

10.1. If and to the extent that we are hindered or prevented by circumstances not reasonably foreseeable or beyond our reasonable control from performing any of our obligations under this Agreement then we will be relieved of our liability to you to perform such obligations.

11. Law

12.1. The Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

12. Entire Agreement

12.1. These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to their subject matter and supersede any other agreement, proposals and communications, written or oral, between the Company representatives and the user.

12.2. The Company may amend or supplement these Terms and Conditions at any time on notice to the user as published on the Site.