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Barbara Hadrill [...] is the bridesmaid so perturbed by our wrecking of the planet that instead of flying to Brisbane for her friend's wedding, she quit her job and set off by land and sea instead.

"Digital UK: Re-engineering the content architecture to communicate the UK’s move to digital television." Fredy's presentation for the 2nd European IA Summit, Berlin 2006.

"A single user IdP, or "Identity Provider" for the OpenID framework. It's a single PHP script with minimal dependancies."

A web-based WYSIWYM editor.

There is another kind of editor that is better suited than WYSIWYG for content-driven, client-edited sites - the WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor.

This technique, CSS production notes, places your page production notes in one convenient place within an XHTML document and uses nothing more than meaningful markup and CSS.

Festive Flash games from Nintendo.

"The study found that users preferred speedy page loads to a greater number of results per page and to ‘highly interactive ajax features’. Although users reported that they preferred more results per page, their expressed desires diverged from their a

CSS dropdowns.

...brings simplicity back to time tracking. Quick to set up and easy to use, it provides you with insights on how your organization is spending its time.

Project management doesn’t have to be complicated or time consuming, in fact I’m arguing that it’s better if it’s not.

Makes it easy to better understand how you spend your money and links you to a community of people dedicated to helping each other make better financial decisions.

A website created to help people share and discuss raw, vegan food recipes from around the world.

Uses a .htc. Not ideal.

While it would be great to have programmers who are also great at sales, graphic design, system administration, and cooking, it's unrealistic. Like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

A very clever way of using an object element to insert an external HTML document into a page. [instead of using iframe]

A test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.

A PHP script which takes care of merging files on the fly whilst also versioning the merged file automatically as the various component files change.

Dan describes problems with how "Microsofts' new alternative for hotmail, Live Mail" affects HTML emails.

Use this form to evaluate the functional accessibility of a single Web page.

"Makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. A toolbar provides easy access to navigation, styling, and keyboard enhancement functionality. Developers can use the extension to check their structural markup from the brows

Good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principles where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity

"On the Web, vertical rhythm – the spacing and arrangement of text as the reader descends the page – is contributed to by three factors: font size, line height and margin or padding. All of these factors must calculated with care in order that the rhy

Info on Google's new Website Optimizer tool.

"An open-ended Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG)." There goes Christmas.

Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them.

"I suspect Second Life is largely a "Try Me" virus, where reports of a strange and wonderful new thing draw the masses to log in and try it, but whose ability to retain anything but a fraction of those users is limited."

The most comprehensive API collection on the web.

UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.

The idea is that the mobile web will become the dominant access method in many countries of the world, with devices that become more hybrid and networks that become more powerful - everywhere in the next decade to come.

"If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about T

A project to create a green wiki website that encourages discussion and the generation of tips that benefit you and the planet

[this is good]

A flexible, semantically correct, and dare I say, accessible template to which such features could be readily applied.

We recently needed to add an email field to something we’re working on. And to make sure we didn’t forget about it we made it ridiculous. Now it works, but we can also tell it’s not finished. And we can have a laugh about it.

"There should be an alternative to one-size-fits-all RSS feeds for busy sites. Too many high-volume sites assume everyone wants to read every post. That’s wishful thinking. Some readers may want 5+ posts a day from your site, but what about moderate fan

"This article is meant to offer a solution to my earlier complaints by offering a brief explanation of the process steps—already familiar to information architects and the teams that employ them—which lead to effective scoping and wireframes, along wi

From April 2007, draft legislation will strip away the “unfair competitive [tax] advantage” for hundreds of thousands of contractors who today use managed service or composite companies. Unlike limited company owners, these workers are “not in busin

Greetings messages made from buildings in Google Maps.

Make your own microformat icons and add them to the wiki with Wolfgang's excellent Icon DevKit. Contains both Photoshop and Illustrator vector content.

"A free Firefox plug-in, Sxipper saves you time by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and personal data." OpenID ready.

Read the comments for this article - button is best avoided.

The mouse will scurry to the treat (they like tunnels) and fall into the trap.

A scheme that rewards smaller and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that set up Payroll Giving with grants of up to £500.