Sponge Project Blog

Really neat idea by Chris Coyier and Richard Felix, that crashes together a weather API (Yahoo’s I think) with Flickr, to give you a weather check for your location and a nice photo!

Try your location. Link via That Standards Guy.

Do you think Counc. Eileen Kinnear is wearing glasses?

I’m slightly late coming to the party, given that it started in April last year, but better late than never! Basically the county of Gloucestershire is 1,000 years old and local government agencies, charities and other groups are organising a range of events to mark the anniversary.

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…my blog and website that is! For those not in the know it’s the annual CSS Naked Day. Basically it’s all about the web standards and semantic HTML.

Websites will still retain a good structure and hierarchy without any visual elements. It goes to prove that is you build the website right, the ability to remove or change the style is an easy job and without visual guidance the content still makes sense.

Two help me I firstly deleted the main stylesheet to remove the look and feel on the main website; and secondly downloaded Aja’s CSS Naked Day plugin for Wordpress to do the same for my blog.

Contact Rob Mason for details on website design and build services in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

This is a frankly genius idea. So simple, yet so effective.

Basically the Street Team over at Web Standards Project, ask you to print out a load of bookmarks. You then visit your local library and place the bookmarks inside any books deemed as breaking common crimes against the web, such as using table layout (shock!) or building inaccessible sites (horror!).

This way people ignorant of the wrongs outlined in the books will soon find out the right way of doing things. There’s even a Flickr group to record the noble cause for posterity.

Think I’ll swing by Tewkesbury Library and pay their IT section a visit!