Nice example of how even blog sites like WP have issues with W3 validation.  Click here to read.

https://w3-markup.com/order

http://themeforest.net/

http://www.psd2html.com/examples.html

http://www.boxedart.com/

The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) recently announced the winners of its 2009 W3 Awards competition. Receiving nearly 3,000 entries, the W3 Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, marketing programs, and video work created for the web.

In the 2009 competition YourMembership.com won a silver 2009 W3 Award for the category Online Community.

“We were incredibly impressed by the quality and creativity of this year’s entries. W3 winners continue to set the bar in web development and design, push the limits of web advertising creativity and advance the use of web video. We are thrilled to have reviewed such a diverse and respected pool of work,” said Linda Day, the executive director of the IAVA. “On behalf of the entire Academy, we congratulate this year’s W3 Award winners as they continue to advance Internet creativity and greatly contribute to the robust and ever-changing online community.”

With clients across all seven continents, YourMembership.com is a leading global provider of online member communities and membership management software. The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, advertising and marketing firms.

Los siguientes esquemas XML definen los elementos y atributos que pueden aparecer en tu archivo de Sitemap.
Puedes descargar este esquema desde los siguientes enlaces:

Para Sitemaps: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd
Para archivos de indice Sitemap: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd

Hay una serie de herramientas disponibles para ayudar a validar la estructura de tu Sitemap según este esquema.

puedes encontrar una lista de herramientas útiles para XML en cada una de las siguientes ubicaciones:

http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema#Tools
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/12/13/schematools.html

A fin de validar tu Sitemap o el archivo de índice de Sitemap en este esquema, el archivo XML necesitará cabeceras adicionales, como se muestra a continuación.

Sitemap:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
         xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <url>
      ...
   </url>
</urlset>

Sitemap index file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<sitemapindex xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd"
         xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <sitemap>
      ...
   </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Selecting a WordPress theme is not all about the layout and other design elements. Consider also if the theme can pass the test of being XTHML valid.

For those who would like to know more about XHTML validation, you can refer to the W3 website or to this article “Are your webpages XTHML valid?” which I wrote some months ago.

To quickly check if each theme you like is XHTML valid, run it against this test by entering your WordPress.com URL onto W3’s validation at http://validator.w3.org.

When I ran my WordPress.com URL using this current theme, the test results came out with 3 validation errors. Yes, I wanted a perfect score, but to me anything less than 10 errors is quite acceptable.

Is your theme XTML valid? If it yields with more than 10 errors even without any post yet, drop it. It’s not worth tweaking.

According to reports written by members of the WAI-AGE Project, older people with dexterity issues suffer from steadiness of hand which makes it difficult to move in the desired direction causing issues with navigation and sliding off dynamic, drop-down or multilevel menus. Many of the guiding principles outlined in most reports follow those of the basic accessibility guidelines; however, when dealing with older people and web design, there are some further points to be considered.

“Parallels to WAI guidelines

• contrast – most of the guidelines reviewed recommended high contrast
• clear presentation
• clear writing
• clear navigation
• clarity of links
• augmentation with images”

Andrew Arch and Shadi Abou-Zhara 2004
“How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population”
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/
Accessed 31 August 2009

The ability to view web content, although not a dexterity issue is relevant as it is a major issue for many older people. It is also relevant as many web designers use text as links. This is an issue for people with dexterity problems as small text can be extremely difficult to click on.

“Presentation and writing

• font use – generally recommending sans serif fonts
• white space – increases readability
• Text size – 12pt was recommended as a minimum by several authors. However, WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 both require text that be resized to suit the user’s needs.
• text spacing – often recommending spacing greater than the browser default”

Andrew Arch and Shadi Abou-Zhara 2004
“How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population”
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/
Accessed 31 August 2009

There are many other age related issues which have some relevance to dexterity, such as minimising the need to click or double click on a page, removing flashing or moving clickable parts of a site and removing advertisements from sites. (These last two points relate also to the issue of information overload and visual confusion.)
The most interesting point of these reports is that all of the requirements are extremely simple to implement. It is sad and unfortunate that all designers do not see the validity of keeping these simple things in mind when designing sites. If I were looking for a designer, I would question prospective companies to find out if they followed these guidelines or instead, left out a huge portion of the population. Is it worth your while to put into practice these small changes?
To view our site designed for accessibility, go to www.pjayweb.com

Di dalam dunia web sekarang ini, pengembangan web yang ada hanya memfokuskan pengguna kepada pengguna manusia. Dengan menggunakan HTML, data yang ditampilkan dalam sebuah web hanya berisi informasi yang sifatnya presentasi bagi manusia. Jika sebuah mesin membaca dokumen tersebut maka mesin hanya dapat menerima data tersebut dan bagaimana data tersebut ditampilkan dalam browser. Mesin tidak dapat menerima pengetahuan (knowledge) apa yang terkandung di dalam data tersebut.

RDF (Resource Description Format) merupakan format XML yang memiliki fungsi sebagai metadata yakni untuk memberikan representasi knowledge dari data. Sebuah model data RDF memiliki 4 buah aturan

1. Sebuah fakta direpresentasikan dalam bentuk triple Subject – Predicate – Object atau lebih dikenal sebagai statement.
2. Baik Subject, Predicate, dan Object merupakan sebuah entitas atau sering disebut resource dan node. Entitas dapat melambangkan benda, orang, website, keadaan, dan relasi.
3. Nama yang digunakan merupakan URI yang selalu menunjuk pada entitas yang sama.
4. Obyek dapat berupa teks atau literal dan dapat direpresentasi baik menggunakan tipe data pada XML Schema ataupun tida

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"
    xmlns:edu="http://www.example.org/">
    <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.princeton.edu">
        <geo:lat>40.35</geo:lat>
        <geo:long>-74.66</geo:long>
        <edu:hasDept rdf:resource="http://www.cs.princeton.edu"
            dc:title="Department of Computer Science"/>
    </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Kode di atas merupakan kode RDF dari representasi tabel di bawah.

Di dalam kode tersebut terdapat 4 buah representasi triple: 3 buah representasi dari entitas “http://www.princeton.edu” dan 1 buah milik “http://www.cs.princeton.edu “.  Kedua triple berikutnya menjelaskan letak geografis dari Universitas Princeton. Triple ketiga menjelaskan bahwa Universitas Princeton memiliki departemen Computer Science. Dan triple terakhir menjelaskan nama dari departemen tersebut.

Selain dengan format XML, RDF juga dapat diekspresikan dengan menggunakan format Notation3.

@prefix rdf:  .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
@prefix geo: <http://www. w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .
@prefix edu: <http://www.example.org/> .

<http://www.princeton.edu> geo:lat "40.35" ; geo:long "-74.66" .
<http://www.cs.princeton.edu> dc:title "Department of Computer Science" .
<http://www.princeton.edu> edu:hasDept <http://www.cs.princeton.edu> .

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines according to W3. For more information or greater detail go to

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#Guidelines

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

1. Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.

Provide content that, when presented to the user, conveys essentially the same function or purpose as auditory or visual content.

2. Don’t rely on colour alone.

Ensure that text and graphics are understandable when viewed without colour.

3. Use markup and style sheets and do so properly.

Mark up documents with the proper structural elements. Control presentation with style sheets rather than with presentation elements and attributes.

4. Clarify natural language usage

Use markup that facilitates pronunciation or interpretation of abbreviated or foreign text.

5. Create tables that transform gracefully.

Ensure that tables have necessary markup to be transformed by accessible browsers and other user agents.

6. Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully.

Ensure that pages are accessible even when newer technologies are not supported or are turned off.

7. Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes.

Ensure that moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating objects or pages may be paused or stopped.

8. Ensure direct accessibility of embedded user interfaces.

Ensure that the user interface follows principles of accessible design: device-independent access to functionality, keyboard operability, self-voicing, etc.

9. Design for device-independence.

Use features that enable activation of page elements via a variety of input devices.

10. Use interim solutions.

Use interim accessibility solutions so that assistive technologies and older browsers will operate correctly.

11. Use W3C technologies and guidelines.

Use W3C technologies (according to specification) and follow accessibility guidelines. Where it is not possible to use a W3C technology, or doing so results in material that does not transform gracefully, provide an alternative version of the content that is accessible.

12. Provide context and orientation information.

Provide context and orientation information to help users understand complex pages or elements.

13. Provide clear navigation mechanisms.

Provide clear and consistent navigation mechanisms — orientation information, navigation bars, a site map, etc. — to increase the likelihood that a person will find what they are looking for at a site.

14. Ensure that documents are clear and simple.

Ensure that documents are clear and simple so they may be more easily understood.

Internet Explorer’s DOM has a few issues regarding whitespace. Whitespace symbols in HTML 4.01 are any of the following symbols:

• ASCII space ( )
• ASCII tab (	)
• ASCII form feed ()
• Zero-width space (​)

Refer to w3’s specifications here.

Querying InnerHTML and outerHTML

Now IE’s innerHTML and outerHTML adds all sorts of whitespaces when querying these properties. For example:

    var container = document.createElement("div");
    container.innerHTML = "<div><ul><li>I <em>like</em> sushi!</li></ul></div>"
    alert(container.innerHTML);

Prints:

<DIV>[][]<UL>[][]<LI>I <EM>like</EM> sushi!</LI></UL></DIV>

Where the “[]” symbols denote whitespace symbols. In this example the added whitespaces causes the alert to break them (probably a newline and carriage return) thus physically displaying:

<DIV>
<UL>
<LI>I <EM>like</EM> sushi!</LI></UL></DIV>

Maybe the implementor was trying to be helpful by adding these mysterious newline symbols before every block-level element for automatic readability. What a damn fool.

Is there a fix? Well, if you really need innerHTML to be precise you could walk the DOM tree yourself and spit out the markup as you traverse. You could bite the bullet can parse the string using regular expressions – and for every opening block-level element tag check for preceding whitespace symbols and eat them.

Creating DOM trees via innerHTML

When creating DOM trees via innerHTML, IE does not always create a DOM tree to reflect the exact HTML contents you pass it. This is because IE automatically collapses whitespace (normalization on the fly). For example:

    var container = document.createElement("div");
    container.innerHTML = "\n Apples \n"
    alert(container.firstChild.nodeValue.length);

All browsers except for IE print “10″, IE collapses the surrounding whitespace and prints “7″.

To over come this: don’t use innerHTML – if you need the DOM tree to be precise, manually create the DOM structures yourself. I tried using “pre” white-space styles but it still normalized. You could use a pre element but if you HTML contains block-level elements the markup will be invalid (pre only allows a select few of inline-level elements).

Note: you may find this useful: JS2HTML

See this bug report at quirksmode for more details.

Hope this article relieves some of your IE headaches… it probably just aggravated you.

a lot of players saying that they can not install Warcraft 1.23 patch due to the Registry error loading key ‘Warcraft III\InstallPath’ Error. This error occurs when you don’t have original copy of Warcraft or you don’t have registry entries created for Warcraft 3. You can make your registry entries manually by using Windows Registry Editor!.

How to make Warcraft 3 Registry Entries:

1. Open up regedit (start > run > regedit)
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\
3. Create new key, name it ‘Warcraft III’ (without quotes)
4. On right side of new key entry, right click and create new string value
5. Name it ‘InstallPath’ (without quotes)
6. Change the value of InstallPath to wherever you installed it (example: ‘c:\warcraft 3\’)
7. Reinstall Warcraft 1.23 Patch. (this time your war3 will be installed without any errors)
8. Enjoy! your Warcraft is patched to 1.23.

Warcraft Version Switcher Patch 1.23 – 1.24 Download & Guide | Warcraft 1.24 Patch Switcher. I see a lot of people having problems while installing Warcraft 1.24 patch. Don’t worry, there is a simplest solution for this problem is: Warcraft Version Switcher, by using this you can switch between versions just by clicking once, I have added Warcraft 1.24 Patch in it. Currently, you can switch between two patches Warcraft 1.23-1.24 patch (you can add more versions it). Check the download link and guide to use Warcraft Version Switcher…

How to switch between Warcraft 1.23 to Warcraft 1.24 Patch using Warcraft Version Switcher (Step by Step Guide):

• Download Warcraft version switcher from the link above.
• Extract Warcraft_Version_Switcher_by_Dota-Utilities.rar using WinRar.
• Open the folder where you’ve extracted it.
• Now open Wvs.exe
• Click the 4th button from the left side which is Options Button.
• Enter you Warcraft 3 Path like “c:\Program Files\Warcraft 3” at the bottom text box of the Options Window.
• Close Option Window and Now click Switch Version Button (1st Button).
• Double Click the version you want to switch. Warcraft 1.23 Or Warcraft 1.24
• Version will be switched.

Warcraft 1.24b Patch – The upcoming patch will be Warcraft 1.24b as IceFrog stated. According to him Warcraft 1.24 Patch is not stable patch and it has bugs in it, majority of custom maps can not be played in this patch. Therefore, Warcraft 1.24b or Warcraft 1.24c Patch will be released in future by Blizzard. IceFrog is now making Dota 6.62 for the compatibility of Warcraft 1.24 Patch. If the Dota 6.62 beta map gets success in testing than there might be no release of 1.24b/1.24c patch. Keep visiting DotA-Utilities for the further updates about Warcraft 1.24b Patch.

Actimedia Digital anunció el día de hoy que resultó ganadora del Communicator Awards of Excellence en su quinceava edición en la categoría Publicidad y Marketing interactivo a través de Microsite realizado para Sony América Latina y su producto Picture Station

El Communicator Awards fue un premio creado para honrar la excelencia creativa para medios interactivos incluidos websites, videos, publicidad digital y mercadeo online. Se basa en una competencia abierta para compañías, agencias y organizaciones a nivel mundial en la cual se catalogan los trabajos interactivos creados para audiencias internas o externas.

Eduardo Feo, CEO y Director de Proyectos Web y Multimedia, afirmó “nos sentimos sumamente honrados al recibir este galardón especialmente porque somos una agencia radicada en Venezuela y donde dejamos muy en claro el talento y creatividad de los venezolanos en cuanto a la web se refiere. Lógicamente la satisfacción y los resultados que podemos brindarle y garantizarle a nuestros clientes a través de nuestro servicio ya son el verdadero premio que siempre estamos buscando”.

El minisitio desarrollado por Actimedia es una experiencia interactiva donde los usuarios pueden conocer todas las bondades tecnológicas de este producto de Sony a través de recursos dinámicos y participativos, permitiendo un “adiestramiento” virtual de como trabaja y todo lo que puede hacer esta impresora compacta de fotografías.

”El Communicator Award es un galardón que nos impulsa a mantener nuestros estándares relacionados en el área interactiva sobre todo al considerar que con él se honra la excelencia creativa de los profesionales de la comunicación desde hace 15 años, además de ser una competencia abierta en la cual el grueso de los participantes son agencias provenientes de los Estados Unidos”, puntualizo Feo.

Actimedia Digital anunció el día de hoy que resultó ganadora del Communicator Awards of Excellence en su quinceava edición en la categoría Publicidad y Marketing interactivo a través de Microsite realizado para Sony América Latina y su producto Picture Station.

El Communicator Awards  fue un premio creado para honrar la excelencia creativa para medios interactivos incluidos websites, videos, publicidad digital y mercadeo online.  Se basa  en una competencia abierta para compañías, agencias y organizaciones a nivel mundial en la cual se catalogan los trabajos interactivos creados para audiencias internas o externas.

Eduardo Feo,  CEO y Director de Proyectos Web y Multimedia, afirmó “nos sentimos sumamente honrados al recibir este galardón especialmente porque somos una agencia radicada en Venezuela y donde dejamos muy en claro el talento y creatividad de los venezolanos en cuanto a la web se refiere. Lógicamente la satisfacción y los resultados que podemos brindarle y garantizarle a nuestros clientes a través de nuestro servicio ya son el verdadero premio que siempre estamos buscando”.

El minisitio desarrollado por Actimedia es una experiencia interactiva donde los usuarios pueden conocer todas las bondades tecnológicas de este producto de Sony a través de recursos dinámicos y participativos, permitiendo un “adiestramiento” virtual de como trabaja y todo lo que puede hacer esta impresora compacta de fotografías.

”El Communicator Award es un galardón que nos impulsa a mantener nuestros estándares relacionados en el área interactiva sobre todo al considerar que con él se honra la excelencia creativa de los profesionales de la comunicación desde hace 15 años, además de ser una competencia abierta en la cual el grueso de los participantes son agencias provenientes de los Estados Unidos”, puntualizo Feo.

Para conocer mas de Actimedia: www.actimediadigital.com

o W3 cancelou o desenvolvimento do xHTML 2, dando lugar ao HTML 5.
Vamos ver o que isso representa…

Dear Reader,

If you’re like me, then you grew up – courtesy of the TV – under the moral and ethical influence of Tezuka Osamu. Your heroes were a flying robot boy, a group of curious alien bodysnatchers, and a white lion king who more than anything wanted everyone in the jungle to just stop fighting.

Tezuka’s dubbed anime was the basis of the social values that guide me even now through life: honour; duty; self-sacrifice.

Somehow, anime lately – post-Tezuka anime, that is – has become less about finding a way that we can all live together in harmony, and more about selling video games and swap cards; the values espoused by our googly-eyed heroes and heroines have crept unsettlingly farther from honour, duty, and self-sacrifice, and inexorably closer to the capitalist, exploitative Amexican Dream (where anyone can be a great Pokémon trainer, if he just Collects ‘em all™).

Which is sad.

I’m not ignorant of the fact that some of Tezuka’s work, such as Human Metamorphosis, was written in direct response to Japan’s fixation with becoming the number one GNP in the world, his central character therein being, as he himself puts it, as quoted in Tezuka: the marvel of manga,

a woman who is tough and who would do anything to get what she wants in … an ambivalent and irrational world.

But, for me, and for others of my generation, i daresay, those gorgeously stylised, pointy-chinned, googly-eyed creatures still have their original subtexts; they still mean the things we understood them to mean when we were five or six.

So, yes. Those TV shows and comic books are so deeply embedded in my psyche that i realise, now: i love anime and manga.

And when i say, “love”, i don’t mean i want to marry it (like that guy in Japan did recently), but i wouldn’t mind having sex with it.

Or some of it, anyway.

You’ll see where i’m going with this in a minute.

Bunny Hentai?

The first sexual crush i ever had – before i even understood that it *was* a sexual crush – was on the rabbit character in anime series Wonder 3, Team Leader Major Boko, or (as we knew her here) Bonnie Bunny.

A quick backstory on Wonder 3: three alien visitors arrive on Earth to study us hyu-monz, and they assume the shape of indigenous animals to allow their research to go undetected. They vacuum up a horse, a duck, and a rabbit, which they each then perform a body swap with.

The rabbit was the girl researcher. This onetime, she did this seductive little dance to distract some guard dudes away from whatever research mischief her horse and duck colleagues were up to, and it was clear to me, as she wiggled her succulent behind and flashed her voluptuous thighs at them, that she was offering herself to be eaten by these men.

As a result of that ten second sequence in a cartoon show that i saw when i was, like, five, for a long time afterward my prepubescent mind fused sexual availability and offering yourself to be eaten together. I’d seen, in real life, rabbits caught and prepared for eating, their skin torn off and only their pink, naked underflesh left. My pre-sexual mind incorporated that image, along with the bunny’s wiggle seduction, into my understanding of what i still didn’t realise was sexual desire.

So i would lie in bed at night, my pyjamas parts pulled up and pushed down respectively, fantasising about sharp-toothed foxes and waiting to be eaten.

“But you’re the guy,” you might say at this point. “You should be the fox eating the rabbit, not the rabbit being eaten by the fox.”

Well, yes. That *is* quite clear now. But back then, things were a bit more confused…

Gender Magic

Tezuka was often changing the genders of his characters. In fact, it was such a common motif in his work that he actually stipulated in his own Laws of Robotics that a robot was not allowed to change its gender. He no doubt did this in a bid to try to stop himself turning Astro Boy into Astro Girl.

In fact, i was certain that when i grew up, i was going to change from a boy into a girl. It was clear to me that this was a natural part of the maturation process, and i remember discussing it in some depth with a same-age female cousin onetime, the two of us sitting on the floor of her bedroom, surrounded by half naked Barbies and disjointed fairy wings. I told her all the great things i was going to do when i grew up and became a woman, and she told me all the marvellous things she was going to do when she grew up and became a man.

For her, standing up and pissing was one great goal she had set herself, as i remember it. Now, when we see each other at xmas parties and weddings, we smile, air kiss, and then i ask her how life as a man is going for her, and she asks me how life as a woman is turning out.

So yes, doctor, Tezuka’s gender-fluidity notwithstanding, i do realise that there is something profoundly wrong with my foundation understandings of gender and sexuality.

And it’s all thanks to anime!

These sessions are really coming along. I can feel myself making definite progress!

Why We’re Here

Fridays are the days i post about YouTube or Flickr stuff, or just some treasure trove of images i’ve found. And this week it’s a trove that appears to be the ultimate (there’s a challenge!) concordance of manga: Danbooru.

Not the ultimate collection, but the ultimate concordance.

Every image on the site is meticulously tagged with all the metadata you could hope for, allowing you to click through from one image to another by related commonalities, or to search for images based on aspects that you are interested in seeing.

So, for example, if you wanted to see what they have in the way of black haired, green eyed characters, you can put that in as a search. Enter “black_hair green_eyes” (without the quotes) into the search hole, and out will pop all they have that meets those criteria.

Sadly, the basic free account only allows you to search for two terms at a time, so you can’t search for black haired, green eyed vampires with massive cleavage looking up while holding a penguin and sitting in the bath.

Which is a severe limitation, but one i can live with.

If you do set up a basic free account, it lets you save favourites, which you can then link to for other people to enjoy. Hurrah! Bragware!

So off you go; explore to your heart’s content.

Be warned, though. Since manga’s stylisation makes characters so v.easy to reproduce, there’s a good chance there’ll be lots of fan-art images of your favourite anime/manga gals copping jizz in the face, being done up the arse, or being tied up and whipped.

And yes, that *was* a warning, *not* an endorsement.

Yours,
Gullybogan

Now even the arXiv has Facebook. But, I appreciate that now there is a link for my and only my papers. This is good, since first my name with its umlaut can be spelled in two different ways: ‘Kruger’ and ‘Krueger’ and at least  I never know, which one to use. Second, at least, when searching at the front of the arXiv there are more hits then my own papers to clicking on my name. Unfortunately, I don’t think the front of the arXiv supports using these unique author identifiers yet.

Chiswick Woodworking in London specialises in making contemporary fitted bookcases – You can contact them on 020 3286 1302 for a free quotation or visit http://www.ChiswickWoodworking.co.uk/bookcases/

Fitted Bookcases are the perfect solution if you need more space to store your books and ornaments.

Built-in bookcases allow you to maximise the space available in your home. You can design your bookshelves to fit the features of your house, for example you can have them fit in the alcoves each side of a fireplace, or you can have a complete wall covered with bookshelves.

Not only do fitted bookcases give an air of quality to a room, but they also ensure the room is always tidy because they provide a huge amount of extra surface space. No more will you need to have odds and ends lying around on every table in your living room.

Whether you have a whole library room or simply space in your lounce, a custom built fitted bookcase will also ensure that you keep your books in top condition.

One good way to find a company which can make custom-fitted bookshelves is to do a search online in your city or location.

By getting a locally based woodworking company to come on site, take measurements, and discuss your requirements you will get a quality service by local tradesmen and it will also ensure get the style, design and finish that you want.

http://www.chiswickwoodworking.co.uk/bedrooms/
Chiswick Woodworking in London W4 specialise in making contemporary fitted bedrooms – contact for a free quotation on 020 8993 2866 or visit the site.

Fitted bedroom furniture is the ideal solution for modern day living.

Your bedrrom can be custom-fitted with wardrobes and drawers so allowing you to keep it tidy and clean more easily.

With well-designed wardrobes fitted to your bedroom, all your clothes, shoes and personal items can be neatly and efficiently stored, leaving the room feeling calm and welcoming.

In London, and other big cities space is at a premium, so you probably want to utilise all your space and fitted bedrooms are one way to do this. Stand-alone wardrobes and chests usually jut out from the skirting board wasting space and creating a dust trap for house dust and spider webs, but a fitted wardroboe keeps the dust out. If finished properly it will have an internal back and sides which provide an air gap between the wall and the clothes, thus reducing the risk of damp and mold.

The other advantage of fitted bedrooms is they can be designed bespoke to fit your requirements. You can have them finished in natural wood such as oak, walnut, cherry, maple, beech, etc… or have them painted in a variety of colours to suit the rest of the house.

One good way to find a fitted bedroom company is to do a search online in your city or location, because you will find local companies who can come on site to take measurements and discuss your requirements with you. This ensures you end up with the exact measurements, finish and look that you are lookingn for.