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New design time!

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Last time I was re-aligning but I think this time it has to count as a re-design. After feeling the urge to re-design the site a few times in recent months but never actually being able to come up with any decent ideas (why is it so much harder to design for yourself?), I've eventually plumped ...

Politics made CSSexy?

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On my daily browsing of the CSS galleries today, I clicked on a thumbnail for a site that looked like it had a nice, clean layout, not looking at the name of the site. As the page loaded, it turned out to be the new website of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and rather nice it looks ...

The W3C validator and PHPSESSID

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At work we're just about to launch a new disability products shop, Disability Warehouse, and so I did a quick run through Silktide Sitescore as it gives a good overview of any major problems with a website. Obviously it got an abysmal 3.2/10 for marketing as we haven't actually told anyone it exists yet, but I ...

Microsoft Expression Web Designer

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I missed this while I was away on holiday, but going through recent posts on the Web Standards Project, I found mention of the successor to FrontPage (*spit*), Expression Web Designer - a completely CSS-based WYSIWYG editor. The standardistas seem quite positive on it so far and there's now a free beta version available for download. ...

A simple-to-use government website? Never!

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Still getting everything organised for my road trip, it was pointed out by my mother that I needed a European Health Insurance Card - the replacement of the E111 form. Expecting all kinds of beauracracy and fearing I'd probably left it too late, it was nice to see you can apply online and receive it within ...