The Medinfo web site is hosted on a server running the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Web pages are served by the Apache web server. The site also uses PHP and MySQL.

All pages are written to conform to the HTML 4 specification as published by the W3C and are checked using their validator. In addition we have followed the W3C accessibility guidelines. For example to make pages accessible we are careful to ensure that pages degrade gracefully, ie that content of pages appears and makes sense on any browser, even if it does not support a feature such as tables, if image loading is turned off, or if it uses an alternative method of presenting the information eg speech.

Links to our pages are very welcome, provided pages are not loaded within frames or otherwise made to appear as part of another site. We try to ensure that URLs never change, but will in any case always provide a redirect to help prevent linkrot.

Pages are hand written on an Acorn Risc PC, and the very useful hsc application is used to finish them, adding headers, expanding macros, and doing basic link checking and HTML validation.

Images on the site are available in two formats, GIF and PNG, and the server will automatically send the format which your browser prefers. Occasionally people accessing the site though a cache running very old software may get the wrong format, if this happens (ie you get a bad image error) then force a reload.

Medinfo is accessible over IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol, as well as traditional IPv4.