CSS Analysis Of JISC 5/99 Project Entry Points Update (May 2003)

A follow up survey of compliance with CSS standards of the home pages of JISC 5/99 projects has been carried out (May 2003). The previous survey carried out in October 2002 is also available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/surveys/web-10-2002/css/ for comparison.

The survey makes use of the W3C CSS compliance checking tool.

You can use the service yourself either by going to CSS Validator or by entering a URL in the following box:

Findings

A summary of the findings is given in the following table.

Table 1: Access to Teaching and Learning Resources

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	ANGEL	N	Y	3 errors		Check
2	FAILTE	Y	Y			Check
3	ICONEX	N	Y	3 errors		Check
4	RESULTs Network	N	Y	2 errors		Check

 

Table 2: Enhancing JISC data services for Teaching and Learning

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
5	Biz/ed Virtual Learning Arcade	Y	Y			Check
6	CHCC	Y	Y			Check
7	Enhancing Beilstein CrossFire	Y	Y			Check
8	e-MapScholar	Y	Y			Check
10	Geo-Crosswalk Gazetteer				No Web site
8	Go-Geo!: The Geo- data Portal Project	N	Y		URI error	Check
11	Timeweb	Y	Y			Check
12	Using Numerical Data	-	N			Check

 

Table 3: Images

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
14	ARTWORLD	Y	Y			Check
14	BIOMED	N	Y	2 errors		Check
15	BuilDNER				No Web site
17	Crafts Study Centre	-	N			Check
17	Designing Britain 1945-1975	-	N			Check
18	Filter	Y	Y			Check
19	PICTIVA	-	N			Check
20	Textile Images				No Web site

 

Table 4: Moving Image and Sound

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
21	Click and Go Video	Y	Y			Check
22	HOTBED	N	Y	8 errors		Check
23	LIFESIGN	-	N			Check
24	TRILT	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 5: Museum Content

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
25	Rhynie Chert	-	N			Check
26	Digital Egypt for Universities	-	N			Check
27	LEMUR	-	N			Check
28	MIRACLE					No Web site
29	PATOIS	Y	Y			Check
30	Virtual Norfolk Project	N	Y		Invalid XML resource	Check

 

Table 6: Miscellaneous

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
31	EBONI	-	N			Check
32	INHALE	Y	Y			Check
33	PELICAN	N	Y		Invalid XML resource - created from MS Word	Check
34	VDML	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 7: Infrastructure projects - JOIN-UP

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
35	Docusend	N	Y	Multiple errors		Check
36	Xgrain	Y	Y			Check
37	ZBLSA	N	Y		URI error	Check
38	ZETOC	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 8: RDN projects

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
39	British Education Portal	N	Y	1 error		Check
40	Computing Gateway	Y	Y			Check
41	Euro Subject Portal for the RDN				No Web site
42	History online for learning and teaching	N	Y	10 errors		Check
43	Maths Portal				No Web site
44	NMAP	N	Y	6 errors		Check
45	Physical Sciences Subject Portal for the RDN				No Web site
46	RDN Virtual Training Suite	N	Y		Invalid XML resource	Check
47	SAD-I	-	N			Check
47	SPP	N	Y		Invalid XML resource	Check

 

Table 9: Z projects

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
49	Gate-Z	N	Y	8 errors		Check
50	JAFER	Y	Y			Check
51	MIMAS Metadata for the DNER	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 10: Evaluation projects

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
52	EDNER	N	Y		Invalid XML resource	Check

 

Table 11: Studies

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
53	INSPIRAL	-	N			Check

The information in the table was collected on 24^th October 2002.

Notes

Please note the following:

• Only the projects with a Web site have been analysed.
• Only the entry points have been analysed.
• Only an automated analysis has been carried out.
• The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 1A: Stylesheet Available Yes 35 76% No 11 24%

Table 1B: Compliance Compliant 18 51% Not Compliant 17 49%

Seven projects had no Web site.

The number of users of style sheets has increased since the last survey. The number of compliant use of style sheets has also increased.

A summary in graphical format is given below.