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It will come as no great surprise to know that this site was designed and produced by www.positiveadvertising.co.uk We are a digital marketing agency based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK.

Typography

System fonts

Georgia – Matthew Carter designed Georgia in 1994-95 for Microsoft.

Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X, and many PostScript computer printers. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype Typography, with Type Solutions Inc. holding copyright (the Type Solutions Inc. copyright lasted until version 5.00).

Arial is also a typeface family comprising standard Arial (Arial Std) and variants, including Arial Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed, Italic, Light, Medium, Monospaced, Narrow, and Rounded.

Production tools

This site was designed in Adobe Photoshop CS 3 and Adobe Illustrator CS 3. The graphics for this site were produced with Adobe Photoshop CS 3 Mac OS 10.5.6 and Windows XP Professional. The code was written using Dreamweaver CS3 and Text Edit on Mac OS 10.5.6.

Server technology

This site is powered by WordPress.org running on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

Code

This site uses XHTML 1.0 Strict for page markup and CSS 2.1 for formatting and PHP 5 for code and scripting.

Template

This site is a customised template based on the developers edition of Thesis theme for wordpress.