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Websites for Members of Parliament (MPs) - Martin Horwood 2008-07-01 07:29:12 Part 1 of the Websites
for Members
of Parliament
(MPs) series see us visiting Martin
Horwood’s website, Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham.
Design
Overall the site is pleasant and well laid out with a bold colour scheme of yellow and black, which matches the party colours. The layout is familiar to most users with a navigation bar [...]
Websites for Members of Parliament (MPs) 2008-06-30 06:04:41 The British Computer Society (BCS) is running a competition for the Best MP website. So with this in mind I thought I’d do some browsing to check the quality of MP websites here in Gloucestershire. Over the coming weeks I’ll run a series of short articles summarising my findings. These aren’t personal slurs or criticisms, [...] Read more:Websites
, Members
, Parliament
Design contest…the debate rages on - UPDATE 3 2008-06-29 13:03:12 So I’ve had enough of the design contests for now and of the 4 contests I entered I averaged 2 stars, which is pants. I think this boils down to the lack of time and not being able to give enough polish and detail to each contest. Anyway, I won’t give up and will keep [...]
8.2 on the Blogged scale 2008-07-21 13:43:52 Slightly out of the blue, but welcome nonetheless, comes a review of my blog via Blogged. Yey for me!
Save the developers 2008-07-14 07:42:19 Help save hundreds of thousands of web developers from exhaustion or anger-related accidents by joining the camapign to upgrade form Internet Explorer 6.
Websites for Members of Parliament (MPs) - Mark Harper 2008-07-14 06:54:07 So onto part three of my Websites
for Members
of Parliament
(MPs) series which bring us to Mark Harper
, Conservative for the Forest of Dean.
Design
Mark offers us a well presented and clean MP website, with appropriate use of imagery throughout the site. Turning these images off also renders the site usable and useful, which [...]
Teach yourself web standards 2008-07-09 08:33:13 Brilliant idea from the guys at Opera called Opera Web Standards Curriculum, essentially:
a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.
The biggest failing with many current courses and qualifications from universities and other education organisations, is they’re out of date. The web move
A List Apart Survey 2008 2008-07-29 05:51:40 It’s that time of the year again when A List Apart do their survey. This is our opportunity as web professionals to get together an share information on how we go about things around the world. Many improvements are promised over last year’s survey including a better categorisation for international markets - hurrah!
I covered [...]
Tewkesbury floods - one year on 2008-07-28 03:19:10 So it’s one year on from the floods here in Tewkesbury and life is almost back to normal for most people.
The recent Over the Rainbow* event sought to remind everyone about the dramatic events last summer, but to also try and put it behind us and move on. Sadly this isn’t the case [...]
Bletchy Park in neglect 2008-07-25 03:30:49 Bletchy Park owes us all a debt of gratitude, not just here in the UK but around the world. For those not in the know, Bletchly Park is the:
Historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.
Basically without Bletchly our World War 2 would have been made a lot [...]
Ego and flattery 2008-08-20 14:21:54 Apparently word is out about the design my this site, meaning I’ve been listed on all the following sites:
ifoh designs
CSS Based
CSS Lounge
dezinspiration
Thanks to anyone who voted or sugested me!
Manga me! 2008-08-19 09:24:28 Hat tip to Rob and John for this ridiculous waste of time: Read more:Manga
Table layout vs. semantic markup 2008-08-18 09:04:17 This is not a new debate and there are so many people commenting on it I can’t be bothered to link to any of them, they’re so prolific. Ranting aside I wanted to take the opportunity to dispel myths about table based layout
s and say why semantic markup or web standards is the way to [...] Read more:Table
Silver Surfers get their own “week” 2008-08-09 07:09:03 It had to happen sooner or later, but all in all Silver
Surfer Week seems like a good idea. The premise is:
a week-long campaign to help older people get in touch with the world through computer technology.
I particularly like their “Why use the internet” guide. Clearly some time and effort has been put into this [...] Read more:Surfers
Top ten tips for financial adviser websites 2008-09-04 03:12:06 I’ve worked in financial services with or for financial advisers for over 10 years and have seen a lot of different websites - both good and bad. However the vast majority of websites fail to achieve what their owners want and so the service that provided the mechanism is blamed. However I’d like to help [...]
Use your fridge as a prototyping tool 2008-08-29 05:28:24 Yes a fridge! Sounds weird I know, but with GUI Magnets you can use any magnetic surface to build and iterate user interfaces. From experience I know that paper gets really messy and white board are great, but sometimes is also too restrictive. But with these babies you get full flexibility to stick them [...]
Learning web design links 2008-08-27 04:24:46 A bit of a back to basics post, but worthy of posting nonetheless. I spend a lot of time over at Web Designer Forum and we are regularly asked for support with getting started in web design
, particularly making the move from tables to semantic HTML and CSS. So with this in mind I’ve decided [...] Read more:Learning
, links
Death to Internet Explorer 6 2008-09-29 14:10:13 Technology moves on and gets better, that’s a fact. However, for some people InternetExplorer
6 (IE6) is the de facto standard for their web browsing, in spite of it being seven years old.
There’s many reasons for this, but it’s mainly to do with age of their machine and familiarity. In short, it [...] Read more:Internet Explorer
Fun with SimplePie 2008-09-19 14:09:05 In an attempt to extend my PHP skillset some more, I’ve been playing around with SimplePie. For those not in the know it you can take multiple RSS feeds from anywhere and re-purpose them somewhere else - Popurls is probably the most well know.
Why?
So I’ve created is News for Tewkesbury. As I said it’s primary [...]
Avast ye swarthy dogs 2008-09-19 03:29:26 Or more precisely it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day - arrrr! So shiver me timbers and call me Jack, it means I get the opportunity to adopt a rubbish Cornish accent, arrr, and intersperse all conversations with some timely pirate-speak - yo ho ho.
I’m sure my colleagues won’t thank me, avast, and [...]
World Wide Web Foundation 2008-09-17 06:51:35 14th of September saw the launch of the World
Wide Web Foundation
. Brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee, grandfather to the internet as we know it, the foundation aims to
transform community and to ensure that the Web remains an instrument of innovation
by
…funding research, technology development, and outreach, the Web Foundation strives to enable all people to [...]
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