Ian Applegate..

..woes, whims & whatnots – Digital Project Manager in London

Posts Tagged ‘best practice’

BBC new home page – beta

iBBC? BBC Homepage? MyBBC? MYBEEB?
Who knows but the new personalised, customisable BBC homepage looks interesting. Very chunky, very user-friendly, very AJAX packed and very clean.
However, as Rico asked, why fix it to 1024? Surely the Beeb out of any website should cater for all, including the 800 x 600 users?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/beta/

Rediscovering The Button Element

“…and the biggest loser of them all in the battle for a standardized look is the infamous Submit button.”
A fabulous article describing very simply how to make very stylish but accessible/standards-compliant submit buttons. I am not sure why this hasn’t been happening since the dawn of time, but hopefully this will allow designers to create [...]

Highslide – JavaScript thumbnail viewer – wonderful

Highslide JS is a piece of JavaScript that streamlines the use of thumbnail images on web pages. The library offers these features and advantages:

No plugins like Flash or Java required.
Popup blockers are no problem. The images expand within the active browser window.
Single click. After expanding the image, the user can scroll further down [...]

Where our web standards went wrong

I just came across this article on A List Apart. An ongoing argument I have and hear at work is about the extent to which web standards should be adhered to. Most of us agree that we would like every page on a site to be fully compliant and validate, for a number of best [...]

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