Web Design and Development

Unless otherwise agreed, Pollenation ensure that all of the sites we build are:

Standards Compliant (XHTML 1.0 & CSS2)
CSS Layout
Semantic HTML - (using html tags that mean something, e.g. h1-h4 for headers, em for emphasising things)
Browser Tested on Microsoft Windows XP, Mac OSX and Ubuntu Linux for the following browsers:
Internet Explorer (5.0+), Firefox 1, Safari 1.3, Opera 7+,
Accessibility conformance to industry standards (WAI, WCAG Level 2/3 where appropriate http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html)

Why does this make a difference?

Search engines prefer well built html and css that they can understand
A site built using the above will use less bandwidth and appear faster and more responsive to users
People aren't excluded from the site because they use a different/old browser/computer or they are from a group that may have accessibility problems

Three levels of cross browser testing for usability and/or design compliance (see http://python.pollenation.net for exhaustive example)
light : Internet Explorer (5.5+), Firefox 1.5+
standard : Internet Explorer (5.0+), Firefox 1, Safari 1.3, Opera 7+,
exhaustive: Internet Explorer (5.0+), Firefox 1, Netscape (6+), Safari 2+, Konqueror 3+, Opera 6+, AOL 9, Lynx, (E)Links
Accessibility conformance to W3C specification (WAI, WCAG Priority 1,2 and some 3)
Consult with accessibility groups on extended accessibility features
Information architecture development
Web page performance profiling

Time and time again they have proved to be a knowledge resource that we can rely on.