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London based user experience consultant

Calderdale and the Social Care and Wellbeing Hub

Calderdale Council have just launch the Social Care and Wellbeing Hub. The site was developed in conjunction with the Web team, ICT and Social Care. The finished product is all about helping local people find information on health and social care services and products.

Social Care and Wellbeing Hub

The Hub offers two main functions – a directory of services and an events register.

Service providers are able to add information about their own services and products. It gives information about private businesses and voluntary and community groups as well as the Council and the NHS.

The events registers stores information about relevant events in and around Calderdale. The themes the the Hub covers are:
Advice and advocacy, Education, training and work, Health and wellbeing, Help at home, Money matters, Neighbourhood and community, Sports and leisure, Staying safe, Travel and transport, Your home.

Client site and server side validation

Validating first on the client side gives immediate feedback to the user. Showing errors as the user works their way through a form.

Server side validation to protect against malicious users. Also not all users have javascript enabled so good from an accessibility perspective.

links for 2010-12-30

links for 2010-12-22

  • Link Titles Help Users Predict Where They Are Going (Alertbox Jan. 1998)
    Guidelines For Link Titles

    * The goal of the link title is to help users predict what will happen if they follow a link.
    * Appropriate information to include in a link title can be:
    o name of the site the link will lead to (if different from the current site)
    o name of the subsite the link will lead to (if staying within the current site but moving to a different part of the site)
    o added details about the kind of information to be found on the destination page and how it relates to the anchor text and to the context of the current page
    o warnings about possible problems at the other end of the link (for example, "user registration required" when linking to The New York Times)
    * Link titles should be less than 80 characters, and should only rarely go above 60 characters. Shorter link titles are better.

    (tags: css usability Nielsen)
  • 12.2 Quick Guide
    Calderdale Safeguarding Children Board – Procedure Manuals
    (tags: Children Safeguarding Calderdale Guidance)