Articles posted in July 2006

4 Jul 2006

An Explanation of RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

A non-technical explantion of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) for clients and anyone else who is interested. Read more

14 Jul 2006

Forgetting the Web For a While

Not that I'm complaining about how well work is going but it has been great over the last few days to get on my bike and forget about the web for a while. I discovered a great tow-path that goes from Putney Bridge all the way to Richmond. The tow-path is good enough for road bikes to go down and some of the views were just great. Read more

18 Jul 2006

First WSG London Event

I was very pleased to be able to attend the first Web Standards Group event in London that was very well organised by Stuart at Muffin Research. I discovered two excellent speeches and a community intent on not resting on their laurels. Read more

18 Jul 2006

Windows Vista User Interface Design

If you haven't seen the Windows Vista site I think you should have a look. I'm quite impressed with it. For a moment I was quite excited at seeing a strong design used with tableless layout. What was a shame was that the site failed to validate. It wouldn't take much effort to get the site through the validator either. Read more

19 Jul 2006

Moving On From The Disability Discrimination Act

An article entitled e-Government, public services and older people by David Sinclair, Senior Policy Manager at Help the Aged outlines how the web continues to fail older people. Not just confined to the Public Sector this raises questions about exisiting legislation in the UK to deal with inaccessible websites. Read more

19 Jul 2006

RNIB Accessibility Blog

For those who haven't found it yet the RNIB have launched a new Web Accessibility Blog. The RNIB have pioneered accreditation for websites that are accessible to partially sighted and blind users. Their Web Access centre it is well worth a visit. There are plenty of resources avaialble to help developers improve and test their sites and even achieve See It Right accreditation. The blog is another really positive step from the RNIB to help developers and clients to understand the merits and application of Accessibility. Read more

27 Jul 2006

Windows Vista and XP Dual Boot

Today I successfully completed a dual installation of Windows XP and Windows Vista Beta. I've now got a PC that will boot to either operating system. This is great for being able to test things on either platform with a variety of browsers. Read more