Dreamweaver CS3 crashes and won’t start up again
Hey kids, this is definitely one of the weirdest bugs I have ever clapped eyes on. Not for the first time, I was happily authoring CSS and Dreamweaver CS3 crashed. Turns out, it doesn’t have to be specifically CSS, but that was my situation anyway. The crash Something feels a little too familiar: this is DW after all, [...] More about Dreamweaver CS3 crashes and won’t start up again
Accessibility may affect feasibility of Sharepoint intranet
Microsoft’s Office Sharepoint Server 2007 clears up some problems with cosmetic improvements, but delivers enough new ones out-of-the-box to remain beyond the reach of assistive technology users. Significant development will be necessary to ensure a basic level of accessibility. More about Accessibility may affect feasibility of Sharepoint intranet
Good online editorial design
In this item, I will refer to “editorial design” as the refinement and optimisation content presentation for content-driven websites. Of course, editorial design for print predates the Internet and web designers may even take some cues from it, but this item is concerned only with the digital domain. More about Good online editorial design
Accessibility row over Better Connected 2007
A very public row broke out recently over a report concerning the results of a survey published by Socitm entitled Better Connected 2007, which surveyed the level of accessibility of 544 local authority websites. The brouhaha centred upon the methods employed by Socitm to generate metrics amounting to a thumbs up or down. The ink on the [...] More about Accessibility row over Better Connected 2007
Information Design library released!
I have arrived at a logical pause in my efforts to write an Information Design library, so in the current fashion I’m releasing it as a “beta”. Some time ago, I wrote in a post entitled “21st Century Job” that an Information Designer … “…makes sense of complex information and communicates it … so that information is [...] More about Information Design library released!
Out of touch
About eight years ago when I was still a student, I visited New York and Washington DC. Washington is home to many of the United States’ government agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose headquarters I toured like a good little tourist. As well as the historical and scientific elements and the obligatory firearms display, [...] More about Out of touch
The brown noses of the BBC
Just over a week ago, I indirectly criticised the BBC for running away to the the Jade Goody media circus. A bad case of overexposure if ever there was one! Now they’re at it again and this time the Beeb is cosying up to our old friends from Redmond: Spot the overexposed product! You see, ever since the [...] More about The brown noses of the BBC
Flash is 10
Flash is ten years old, as the BBC reports, and for any Internet technology still around after a decade that’s a considerable achievement. When I started out in web design, it was almost the only medium I worked in, reflecting the tastes of the time. That was before the Flash backlash, led by the arch-headline-grabber himself [...] More about Flash is 10
