'Web ideas'

E-government is a nightmare

Posted on September 27, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

I’ve just had the dubious pleasure of trying to use the Inland Revenue’s website to file my tax return. Last year I thought I’d take the plunge and try using their site, and it was a pretty nasty, anxiety-inducing, experience. This year they didn’t even send me a form, but instead I got a letter [...]

Sneakemail

Posted on September 8, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Got a problem with spam? Try Sneakemail, which provides disposable email addresses. Pretty nifty for signing up for newsletters and, I guess, adding comments to Bojates :-)

Move your IE toolbars

Posted on September 7, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

I’ve been playing, very vaguely, with the layout of Internet Explorer’s toolbars. I use IE as my main browser (for speed and ease of access to all those poorly coded sites) and figured it was worth spending some time getting it to a state I like. I prefer to have the top toolbars take up [...]

Elegant Hack

Posted on September 4, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

I have found the most wonderful site. Elegant Hack’s title tag is Information architecture, usability and interaction design issues, plus the odd thought and it seems to be true. Go to the homepage and then resize your browser for the first joy. Then start reading the blog. This is one for web usability geeks, sure, [...]

Nonsense Latin

Posted on September 1, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

I just found a lovely little program on the web. When you design something, a web page or a newsletter say, you always end up typing something like this, over and over, to fill in for proper text:
frdihgnkdz fdsjfpdf
dfdsfsakfds
Well you don’t have to any more, thanks to the Lorem Ipsum Generator. Just tell it how [...]

Blog abuse - "what a nice blog"

Posted on August 23, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Well, someone’s noticed the value of blog links and has found a way to abuse them. Check out this old blog entry of mine and see the two lovely comments about ‘what a nice blog’ I have. And then the links through to a couple of sites that might want to go up the google [...]

Online shopping

Posted on July 6, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

Hmm. Playing with Cafepress and have set up a few items with a bojates logo in my shop. Just need some top ideas for pictures now. This site is such a good idea - the only downside is that you have to pay to make their site look like your own site, and because it’s [...]

A concept that should have worked

Posted on June 22, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

www.sportsfix.co.uk is an idea that really should be working. A site designed for women in London Boroughs to find out about women’s sports. So simple, so obvious, and seemingly not quite making the impact it should be. Since I’ve been excited by skateboarding I’ve been amazed at how many sports sites are out there with [...]

Firebird

Posted on May 31, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

I’m playing with a new browser. It’s called Mozilla Firebird. It’s got some bugs, but it’s fast and has some nifty features. Worth checking out.

This site

Posted on April 26, 2003 ~ Filed Under Web ideas

So, avid followers (ahem) will have noticed a small change in the way I’m adding content to this site. Initially, I set up the site as a standard blog, and found I couldn’t cope with it and didn’t know what to write. So, I changed it to a weekly thing, where I’d write more considered [...]

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