News and articles - Websites
28-01-08
The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) have provided guidance on how to make flash banners (the typical animated adverts that you see all over the web) accessible to those using screen readers.
03-09-07
One of the most common requests from clients early on in the design process is to avoid scrolling on pages. This is a pretty outdated requirement, yet the myth perpetuates.
12-06-07
A survey by hosting company 1&1 Internet has found that 52% of respondents experience 'web rage' as a result of slow websites.
14-05-07
The Open University have put a number of short modular courses online, with free access for everyone.
30-01-07
Microsoft have announced the somewhat surprising news that they're taking out the Internet Explorer based rendering that Outlook 2003 used for displaying html in e-mails, and replacing it with the Word2007 html rendering engine. We were all hoping that they'd actually be updating it with the IE version 7 rendering, which is much improved. What they've done instead has been described as "breaking HTML rendering in Outlook 2007".
26-01-07
I've just switched PCs, and was wondering what was funny with all the fonts. For some reason, websites just weren't looking as good as usual. Our own website font looked fine at large sizes, but the smaller body text looked sort of scratchy, and the contrast between the text and the links was poor. Not good. What was wrong?
10-10-06
Welcome to our webs... Oops, too late! If you haven't made a good impression in 50 milliseconds, your bird has already flown somewhere else. So researchers in Carleton University of Ottowa have concluded.