An online notebook
From The Guardian‘s Online supplement:
Top eCouncils
Oldham Borough Council’s website is the best-performing local government site, according to automated testing by SiteMorse. The result is an average of tests based on the Web Accessibility Initiative, including responsiveness, error-free operation, HTML standards compliance and accessibility. Oldham attributes its success to Steria’s fine tuning of its website, following an analysis by the company’s Content Solutions Practice. Previously, Steria raised Spelthorne Council 297 places up the list in a similar exercise. The fastest downloading site is Scilly, while Chiltern has the fastest response time.
See here for more.
Will update with links to those Council websites later. No doubt our current one wouldn’t even deserve the wooden spoon…
You may or may not have noticed a new look for the site. The standard one that comes with WordPress is hardly inspiring, so a quick search of the WP Forums came up with Alex King‘s site.
On this page he ran a competition to see who could design the best template style for WordPress. This one, titled ‘Human Condition’ (for some reason!) came third, but it was the most suitable. It was designed by Ian Main.
Installation was very easy. Just upload the stylesheet file into the blog directory, along with the directory of images to go with it. Head into a browser, do a hard refresh and there it is. Perfect!
Now all I need to do is come up with a decent name for this thing. ‘Dave’s Blog’ is not good. When I have a name I can design a slightly snazzier graphic to go in the acre of blue space at the top of the page.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
A Prayer for Owen Meany 58% [ 7 ]
The Great Gatsby 41% [ 5 ]
Alma Cogan 0% [ 0 ]
Status Anxiety 0% [ 0 ]
The Unfortunates 0% [ 0 ]Total Votes : 12
It’s looking very much like a two-horse race at the moment. Good news because I fancied having a crack at APfOM anyway…honest!
Behold the waves of nausea which wash over you when you visit the wonderful website that is Thank You Tony.
Thanks to Iain Dale for the link.