Supersonic Feet

This morning I had a look back at the BBC's accessibility website and there was this link under 'Accessibility News': "Disabled people favour accessible websites". Talk about stating the blindingly (no pun intended) obvious. Clicking the link led to a piece about some research carried out by AbilityNet (the people who work with the BBC on ...

Probably nothing new to many developers and indeed I'm pretty sure I've seen sites with the little icon on before, but today I got pointed at Silktide's Sitescore properly. It's pretty cool. The site allows you to enter the URL of your website and it'll then give you back a report and score to let you ...

This is scary, some people are starting to use Flash sensibly after all these years! Browsing the newest additions on w3csites, I came across 9thwave New Media's new website. The site has valid XHTML, semantic markup, a 'skip to content' link and a small Flash header that has a nice picture, cool little animation, but doesn't ...

I'm not a fan of Flash-based websites in general, partly because Flash tends to be used unnecessarily (just to be flashy), partly because of niggles like problems with bookmarking and partly because of the accessibility issues. Despite this, I occasionally find a Flash-based site that manages to make me forget all that and just think 'cool, ...

I noticed the MODx content management system a while ago, but only recently had the time to test it out properly when setting up a client website at work. The install is simple enough (not quite WordPress-simple, but still simple): upload the files, change a couple of file permissions and load the installer in the browser. ...