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Follow-up to EHIC

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After posting about how easy to use the EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) application form was, I'm pleased to report that the good experience didn't end there. I received my card a couple of days later and both Ken and my Dad have both had the same experience - my Dad even got his the next ...

You've already been there

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After I wrote back in February about a nice touch on the happygiraffe.net site, today I noticed another site with a similarly handy differentiation between links you've already visited and those you haven't: Design Melt Down. The gallery thumbnail links get a nice clear border and bar with text telling you you've already visited the site ...

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 ...

Sitescore

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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 ...

More cool Flash done well

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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 ...