HTML Analysis Of Selected Museum Web Sites

A survey of the HTML compliance of home pages of selected Museum Web Sites has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C HTML compliance checking tool.

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

Findings

**Table 1: Findings**
	Museum	Compliant?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	mda	N	Not defined	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding		Check
2	24hourmuseum	Y	HTML 4.01	0 errors		Check
3	Natural History Museum (NHM)	N	HTML 4.0	63 errors		Check
4	National Museum of Science and Industry	N	Not defined	No DOCTYPE		Check
5	Bath Postal Museum	N	HTML 4.0	155 errors		Check
6	American Museum	N	Not defined	No DOCTYPE		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?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	Association of Suffolk Museums	N	Not defined	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding		Check
2	ABL	N	Not defined	No DOCTYPE and no character encoding		Check
3	BECTa	N	HTML 4.0	14 errors		Check

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

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 for the initial survey is given below.

**Table 3: HTML Compliance**
Compliant	0	0%
Not Compliant	6	100%