http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:20:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Haven't a clue what it means, although it's something to do with the film "The day the earth stood still". Anyway, the real reason for stating that rather obscure statement is Firefox 3. When you enter about:robots into the address bar you receive the following screen: Just goes to show that ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/aside/gort-klaatu-barada-nikto/ Part 2 of the Websites for Members of Parliament (MPs) series takes us to Geoffrey Clifton-Brown's website. Design The overall design of this site is clean, simple and quite pleasant using a of palette light and dark green set against white background with grey text for headings. Use of images is minimal ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/mp/websites-for-members-of-parliament-mps-geoffrey-clifton-brown/ As a favour to the headmaster at my boy's primary school, I took on some work to design and build a new website for them. The result is Tirlebrook Primary School: The key need for them was a simple and easy to use back end, so I chose the 'ol faithful ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/work/latest-project-tirlebrook-primary-school/ ...and I'm proud to have been part of it all. http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/aside/firefox-sets-new-world-record/ Part 1 of the Websites for Members of Parliament (MPs) series see us visiting Martin Horwood's website, Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham. Design Overall the site is pleasant and well laid out with a bold colour scheme of yellow and black, which matches the party colours. The layout is familiar to most ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/mp/websites-for-members-of-parliament-mps-martin-horwood/ The British Computer Society (BCS) is running a competition for the Best MP website. So with this in mind I thought I'd do some browsing to check the quality of MP websites here in Gloucestershire. Over the coming weeks I'll run a series of short articles summarising my findings. These ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/mp/websites-for-members-of-parliment-mps/ So I've had enough of the design contests for now and of the 4 contests I entered I averaged 2 stars, which is pants. I think this boils down to the lack of time and not being able to give enough polish and detail to each contest. Anyway, I won't ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/work/design-contest-debateupdate-3/ So after listening to Seth Godin go on about Squidoo for so long I finally caved in and setup my own lens. There's two at the moment: Website design for schools talking about the things to consider when setting up a school website; and Tewkesbury - a medieval market town in Gloucestershire, ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/aside/fun-with-squidoo/ More information on my "Design contest debate" following on from last week's post. So here goes: Entered one extra contest above and beyond the ones already entered into. Lesson learnt - too many contests = bad! Essentially I took too much on and ran out of time and focus which affected ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/strategy/design-contest%e2%80%a6the-debate-rages-on-update-2/ Checklists are all well and good, but by ticking the items off it doesn't always mean your site will meet the grade. However Aaron's written a very useful accessibility checklist that will come in very handy to anyone looking to create an accessible site. It's beauty is it hits all ... http://www.spongeproject.co.uk/blog/accessibility/the-accessibility-checklist/