CSS Analysis Of Selected Museum Web Sites

A survey of the CSS compliance of the home pages of Selected Museum Web sites has been carried out. 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: Findings**
	Museum	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	mda	N	Y	1 error		Check
2	24hourmuseum	N	Y	2 errors		Check
3	Natural History Museum (NHM)	Y	Y	0 errors		Check
4	National Museum of Science and Industry	-	N	No style sheet used		Check
5	Bath Postal Museum	Y	Y	0 errors		Check
6	American Museum	-	N	No style sheet used		Check

The information in the table was collected on 11^th August 2003.

Additional Survey

The following table gives details of the Web sites for participants at the workshop.

**Table 2: Findings**
	Museum	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	Association of Suffolk Museums	N	Y	1 error		Check
2	ABL	N	Y	4 errors	Missing CSS file	Check
3	BECTa	N	Y	1 error		Check

The information in the table was collected on 8^th September 2003.

Notes

Please note the following:

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 for the initial survey is given below.

**Table 3: Stylesheet Available**
Yes	4	67%
No	2	33%

**Table 2B: Compliance**
Compliant	2	50%
Not Compliant	2	50%