Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Friday, 31 March, 2006
Thursday, 30 March, 2006
Eponym
Eponym is a new hosted blog service, and a direct competitor with Blogger. It’s nice and easy to use, and it’s really quick to set up a new blog – like I did (check out that nice Slashdot-esque theme).
My one criticism would be that the Control Panel page is a little cluttered – I think they should have ditched the top header, really.
But it seems quicker than Blogger, and is bound to be with fewer users, so for absolute beginners it’s worth a shot.
[tags]eponym[/tags]
Even Microsoft Hates IE
As spotted by Google Blogoscoped, this is from a CSS comment on Microsoft’s website:
/* fix for the IE 1px-off margin error */
* html .StupidIEMarginHack
{
margin-right: 1px;
}
Government sites fail web tests
More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows.
Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.
A similar proportion do not comply with guidelines created to improve web access, it found.
In response, a government spokesman said the UK had been actively promoting better accessibility of sites.
[tags]web design, standards, government it[/tags]
Wednesday, 29 March, 2006
links for 2006-03-29
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List of search tools for Firefox
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Remove searches you don’t want from Firefox
Firefoxbot
Daveybot provides a great round up of his Firefox set-up. Have pinched a few of those extensions for myself.
[tags]firefox, extensions[/tags]
Tuesday, 28 March, 2006
Miliband blog costs £6k
Apparently the blog run by David Miliband, the UK government’s “Minister of Communities and Local Government”, costs the taxpayer £6,000 – whether that was a one off payment or an ongoing annual fee it doesn’t say.
Clearly the government’s ability to wildly overspend on IT even stretches to the world of blogging – which is surely the easiest techy thing to do for free?
[tags]blogging, politics, miliband[/tags]