http://www.nashie.net Web Standards, SEO, Usability & miscellaneous nonsense Mon, 05 May 2008 13:53:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week, I visited Pendeford Community Learning Centre at the suggestion from Val Smith. Val works with the Beacon Centre for the Blind in Sedgley and I spoke to him so that I could translate the theoretical and practical side of constructing accessible web sites into something more tangible; ... http://www.nashie.net/2008/05/05/11/ After reading the comments of Dudley Councillor Liz Walker in the Dudley News, I felt disappointed and surprised that she could not see the obvious potential benefits that a University campus could bring to the town. So I wrote the following letter which has now been published. I was disappointed to ... http://www.nashie.net/2008/03/30/university-campus-for-dudley/ Christmas is over, I'm a bit bored and I still have the remaining sniffles of a cold that flared up on Christmas Day (it didn't put me in a very good mood!). I've got a few books to start reading - His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (haven't ... http://www.nashie.net/2007/12/30/christmas-is-over/ I've just been working out what I need to do for the year ahead and most of my free time will be devoted to my Usability research at Staffordshire University, I'm currently planning which papers to write and setting deadlines. This should be a good way of obtaining a wider view ... http://www.nashie.net/2007/12/30/your-e-commerce-website-is-it-any-good/ I was reading through Jakob Nielsen's 'Prioritizing Web Usability' recently and there is a brief discussion of a website called watches.co.uk.  Jakob is usually worth reading as a lot of web developers will tell you, but on this ocassion he made a very strange comment about use of the term ... http://www.nashie.net/2007/09/13/when-is-a-shopping-basket-not-a-shopping-basket/ A couple of months back a friend of mine, Pete Oliver mentioned a Linux event called LugRadio Live that he was helping to co-ordinate at the Light House in Wolverhampton. It sounded like it might be interesting for a few hours so I went up on the Sunday. I'd been ... http://www.nashie.net/2007/09/09/neuros-osd/ Word up etc... this is my latest version of Nashie.net. This time round its built using PHP instead of ASP and the focus is a little more oriented towards my general day-to-day work in XHTML, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and anything interesting I have to say about my Masters that ... http://www.nashie.net/2007/08/13/hello-world/