About our website

This website was designed by Mr D. Hassen, E-Learning Manager at Ribblesdale.

Web Browsers

This site is best viewed on a modern Internet Browser such as Internet Explorer 7.0 or above, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or above, or Opera 9.0 or above. If you are using an older browser, you will not get the most out of the presentational and navigational parts of this website. All of these browsers can be downloaded and installed for free.

Standards

Web standards are guidelines that define best practices and technical specifications for the world wide web. Standards help to ensure that the Internet is more useable and is accessible to all. We are proud to have a standards compliant website.

Valid XHTML 1.0 TransitionalThis site has been created using valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and has been validated using the W3C validation service.

Valid CSS!This site uses valid CSS (cascading style sheets) 2.0 for the decoration, layout and styling of its content.

Accessibility

Accessibility is very important at Ribblesdale. Our aim is that all of our students can access their education and the curriculum and we also want our website to be accessible to all. For more information, read the accessibility page.

Link Icons

You may notice icons next to some of the links on our website. There is a reason for this! Links to external sites, and links to different types of document, are all marked with their own icon. This is intended to make the site easier to use, hopefully you will have some idea of what you will get once you have clicked the link. The icons are as follows:

  • External link (moving away from our site) icon:External link icon
  • Word document link:Word document link icon
  • Excel document link:Excel document link icon
  • PDF file link: PDF document link icon
  • Powerpoint document link:Powerpoint document link icon
  • Publisher document link: Publisher link icon

Disclaimer

We attempt to make sure the information on our website is current and accurate. However, there may be some instances where this is inadvertently not the case. Ribblesdale is not responsible for the content of external sites.