Louise Ventris http://www.louiseventris.co.uk/writings User experience and design thinking Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:02:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 links for 2010-09-01 http://www.louiseventris.co.uk/writings/?p=322 http://www.louiseventris.co.uk/writings/?p=322#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:02:04 +0000 louise http://www.louiseventris.co.uk/writings/?p=322
  • MYCCI – The Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce
    Connecting and Supporting Business in Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield
    (tags: business_startup networking)
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  • Camden Council – Phone: 020-7974 4444
    Camdenn Borough Council site – like the fat footer and the 'dropdown' menus. Some nice ideas.
    (tags: Calderdale)
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  • 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future
    (tags: apple mac Braun design Product_Design)
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  • Using Points, Pixels, Ems, or Percentages for CSS Fonts
    Overview of why web designers need to be using ems rather than points.
    (tags: we accessibility webdesign standards fonts text)
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  • Local Government 3.0: How councils can respond to the new web agenda – LGiU
    Local Government 3.0: How councils can respond to the new web agenda
    How the internet is transforming public services, the internet and local sustainability, how can social networking site help engage young people in democratic activity.
    (tags: Local-government Calderdale)
  • Home – Audit Commission
    The Audit Commission is an independent watchdog, driving economy, efficiency and effectiveness in local public services to deliver better outcomes for everyone.
    (tags: Calderdale Local-government)
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  • UK online retail 'to sustain double-digit growth over the next 5 years' — Today's Top Stories
    UK online retail will hit €40 billion by 2014 and the number of online shoppers in Britain will increase from 31 million to 40 million in that time.

    • 48 percent of UK consumers use the Net to make a monthly online purchase – that’s the highest number in Europe, with the European average being 32 percent.

    • Leading UK retailers like Argos and Next Retail have integrated their channels in search of a seamless cross-channel customer experience to help drive substantial sales growth.

    (tags: online growth)
  • iahi0809.pdf (application/pdf Object)
    Internet usage

    ‘There has been growth in Internet access by all age groups. Althought the youngest age group (those aged 16-24) had the highest levels of access, at 96% the largest increase in the proportion of those accessing the Internet was the oldest age group (65 plus). Access by those aged 65 plus increased proportionally by 15 per cent, compared with an increase of 3 per cent for the 16-24 age group.’

    Internet Access Households and Individuals 2009 – http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/iahi0809.pdf

    (tags: Uk access internet growth)
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  • HomeAway Holiday-Rentals. UK's No. 1 for self catering villas, apartments & cottage holidays in Spain, Portugal, France, Florida, Italy & worldwide.
    (tags: holiday europe accomodation travel)
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  • Free Handwriting fonts
    free fonts as it says on the tn
    (tags: fonts)
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  • RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, flash cards, SSD at Crucial.com
    Useful site for checking memory requirements.
    (tags: memory ram)
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  • e-GMS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The e-GMS is the UK e-Government Metadata Standard. It is an application profile of the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set.

    The e-GMS defines how UK public sector bodies should label content such as web pages and documents in order to make such information more easily managed, found and shared.

    The metadata standard consists of mandatory, recommended and optional metadata elements such as title, date created and description.

    1. Creator
    2. Date
    3. Subject Category
    4. Title
    5. Accessibility (if applicable)
    6. Identifier (if applicable)
    7. Publisher (if applicable)
    8. Coverage (recommended only)
    9. Language (recommended only)

    (tags: eGMS metadata Local-government Calderdale Standards)
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