About our site

www.stcuthbertshouse.com is us

We hope our website conveys something of our heart...we've put it together ourselves, so it's really home-grown, and home-baked...

The stunning photographs around the site were taken by Brian Young from down the road, and we enjoyed working with him during that process.

The ordinary looking photographs we took ourselves.

On the techy side, we're committed to standards-based web design. So we started with some standards-compliant css-based code and worked up from there.

If you're browsing our site using a screen-reader or other accessibility aids, we'd be really pleased to hear your comments. Especially if they're gracious ones.

If you find something which is broken or missing or doesn't work as it should, then please let us know.

We've used a couple of fantastic plugins from Projectseven. We looked at loads of cool gizmos for our website, but avoided most of them because of their non-compliance with web standards. So we were delighted to find some clever programmers who could achieve such sophisticated effects so cleanly. Very cool.

The same is true of the Lightbox plugin, which creates a really elegant effect when you click on (almost) any picture on the site - but not the slideshows obviously - and yet qualifies as 'unobtrusive' code. We used this version, because it's accessible via mouse or keyboard.

So we hope you enjoy the site, we hope you enjoy Northumberland, and we hope you enjoy St Cuthberts House.