Links from 2007

Community site for users of Open Text's RedDot Content Management System.

It’s common for people to ask for improvement figures, and usability just doesn’t work quantitatively, so it’s good to have some defensive arguments up my sleeve.

FeedBlendr will grab all the feeds you enter and blend them up into a nice, thick, 'river of news' smoothie. You'll get a URL where you can subscribe to everything all at once.

Neither intranets nor extranets are offered to the general public and if software is a product then it's not a service – so you might think they're all irrelevant to the DDA. Not so.

The forces try new tactics to entice fresh blood

Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards.

Microsoft may have abandoned it, but the original Xbox still has some life left. Here are six ways you can maximize your investment.

find blogged photos, show flickr score, discover photos in explore and much more...

The closing date for tenders to run the “targeted help” scheme to help the elderly and disabled in the switchover to Digital TV from analogue has now passed.

Building a green PC means you can be part of the solution by using all lead-free parts that are also more energy-efficient.

A set of well proven professional collaboration tools made easy to be usable for everyone.

Write notes, sketch drawings, upload pictures, share files... Everyone sees the same screen

If you think your website is [AAA compliant], then I’m sorry to tell you - you’re almost certainly wrong.

RedDot tracking on CMS Watch

The Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV) is an 'encoding scheme' for populating the e-GMS Subject element of metadata.

Is page source order important to screen reader users?

Javascript is becoming increasingly popular on websites, from loading dynamic data via AJAX to adding special effects to your page. Unfortunately, these features come at a price.

Becoming a product manager is a logical move for many UX practitioners, as it requires many of the same skills, traits, and competencies involved in crafting a user experience. Additionally, product management is a common role within many organizations, m

This article introduces the basics of cognitive psychology around colour and patterns -- what you need to know, and how it affects Web design in a nutshell.

Some of the worst problems plaguing companies who attempt to enter the world of blogging.

The implications of having two camps for accessibility

My testing order, why I test in the browsers I do, and why I do it in that particular order.

"We can all agree that the realities of the web make it hard to build a standards-compliant site. Once the client’s CMS, outdated WYSIWYG editors, and third-party advertising code have finished with once-valid markup, things begin to look ever-so-ugly u

"One of the difficulties for a first-time project manager is that being a great project resource (i.e. team member) is what gets you the job as project manager, nine times out of ten. Unfortunately, the characteristics of a great project resource are not

OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built—applications that may not have been possible prior to the adoption of OpenID.

Provides an edit button for any edit box on any page

The aim of this course is to introduce you to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints.

While CCNet was built for Windows, trac wasn't. This guide should be helpful to those trying to get this combination working in Windows.

"We thought now was a good time to step back and talk about media consumption drivers, and how to accurately assess adoption of our increasingly feed-powered Webosphere (we did NOT just say "webosphere")."

A set of helper classes for JQuery JavaScript library.This library allows you to easily integrate AJAX , Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts.

What are the Pros and Cons of OpenID currently? Here's a crack at it (from the Radar Team)

So just what is a decorative image? It seems to me that one person’s eye candy is another person’s emotional link to a website.

Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design: "I'm calling these hypotheses instead of laws because they have yet to be proven out through rigrous scientific study and critique. I've developed them merely from anecdotes and examples."

Modern organisations are finally starting to define themselves by looking inwards, chasing authenticity instead of the latest fleeting trends [...] These seven principles are the creeds of a thoroughly modern approach to corporate communications.

Some of the web's most innovative developers might want to check the temperature when they arrive for the Future of Web Apps conference this week -- in tech circles, this city is getting hot again.

This is David's account of the second and final day of the Future Of Web Apps 2007 conference in London.

55 piece tool kit for mobile search

This is the README file for the OpenID extension for MediaWiki software.

Make claims and share cred

idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to sign in to sites that support the OpenID standard

A MyOpenID account lets you use any OpenID enabled website. That means no more boring registration, with only one password to remember.

This report tests the mobile-readiness of your site using industry best practices & standards

A research and development space run by Vodafone Group R&D. We aim to encourage collaboration in the area of mobile and internet communications.

"Released soon." Underwhelmed.