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The new Disability Equality Duty (DED) places a legal obligation on public bodies to consider the needs of the disabled when planning services.

Generate large volumes of random, custom data for use in testing software

"A JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate the Firebug console in browsers that are not named "Firefox"."

Our aim is to re-vitalise local communities by offering an affinity scheme to customers using local shops and services.

Now you can install IE7 on your main machine for development, and get all the advantages of IE7, like the RSS platform, native XMLHTTP stack, and improved security, while still running IE6 simultaneously in the VPC on the same computer.

A Flickr forum thread states that the Red Passion user (the one referenced in our post, representing a marketing campaign for a beverages company) has now been terminated.

eboy's FooBar Poster. Spot the logos.

How to add a ‘Crush’ option to the context (right-click) menu in Windows Explorer for quicker [PNG] crushing.

"Buttons to help your visitors collect and promote your content" Useful tool or annoying fluff?

We've all got blogs and vlogs and shared photos and bookmarks and all that jive, so if you fancy stalking any of us this should be an amazing resource.

There was a large amount of interest in last month’s Web Application Form Design article, so I decided to provide some additional details.

Evaluating label placement in forms with eyetracking.

Collaborate online with colleagues, customers, and partners in real time, between either individuals or large groups

A lightweight PHP application that allows you to thumbnail images and view them in a web browser.

1. How is FeedBurner impacting on the way we understand media? 2. What kind of information about their readers do media and advertisers want? 3. RSS and television 4. How can RSS be developed?

Broken Windows Theory and Your Web Site says visiting a site with broken links, misleading navigation, or missing images is like visiting a neighborhood where “you get the feeling that no one cares.”

It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development.

Designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page's relative importance and visibility.

The problem occurs when you use Microsoft’s proprietary CSS expressions. Any declarations that contain an expression will be applied when printing.

"One of those things that you have to keep educating clients about: writing good and informative link phrases." About 5 or 6 times a day, normally.

Not a full fledged comparison of both products, but I thought it might be of interest for other people as I came out with some interesting differences that might help someone else make their mind about them.

A collaborative tool for developers using Subversion.

The ultimate tool for Windows Explorer or: what Microsoft forgot to implement in the explorer.

"Some people call it a 'TiVo for the internet' or a 'Firefox for videos'." Both of which are kind of dumb things to say. Looks good, though.

A jQuery plugin for embedding Flash movies.

A block quote [...] with speech marks at the front and termination of the text but without the nastiness of inline images.

A simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks

It's no longer enough for a restaurant to flag up its organic credentials. Now chefs are trying to make sure that every part of their operation is eco-friendly - even if that means employing worms to help with the rubbish.

How do creative designers learn to be artistic yet functional?

Using list-item to display images in print stylesheets.

Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link.

We claim to be a nation of foodies, yet vegetables still mystify many cooks - especially those weird specimens that turn up in the weekly organic box. What exactly do you do with chard or salsify? Do turnips have to be a turnoff?

...without dirtying the environment

Microfibre cleaning cloths.

mySociety provide petition tool for PM.

Big list of microformats resources

"K2 [...] is the frontend of WordPress. It's main concern is displaying the data fetches through WordPress in the right way at the right time. Furthermore [...] K2 cares about you and is always trying to make sure you are presented with exactly the tools

The following will build a successful site in one years time via Google alone.

A few weeks ago, npemap.org.uk launched. It's an interface for browsing scans of out-of-copyright maps from the 1950s. The site asks people to enter post codes based on that old mapping data, which can then be placed in the public domain.

Rude.

Work daftness

Summary of accessibility legislation by country.

Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed.

Just about every time somebody publishes something on the Web, it gets time stamped. Wouldn’t it be nice to pull in all these disparate bits of time stamped information and build up a timeline of online activity?

Apt name for a service

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL.

"Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org, the system instructs web masters on how to install an XML file on their servers that all thr

Asi interviews Jonathan Harris, "the artist behind such great recent projects as Yahoo! Time Capsule, We Feel Fine, Loveliness and Phylotaxis".