Comments on: Version 1.1

By: Pamela

Pamela — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:42:01 +0000

I think their are some major improvements especially the top one it is much easier on the eyes than before

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By: joel bailey

joel bailey — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:32:50 +0000

Design aside. It’s nice to see seven years work at businesslink.gov.uk paying off!

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By: Tim Lloyd

Tim Lloyd — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:14:11 +0000

Great work Steph and thanks for sharing. Look forward to reading more as you progress towards 2.0.

By: Mark Pack

Mark Pack — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:11:36 +0000

Great to see you making the plugin/widget code available for others to use too. That’s how I like my taxes spent

By: Sebastian Crump

Sebastian Crump — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:50:47 +0000

Great work

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:53:22 +0000

Sssssh, don’t tell everyone.

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By: Steph Gray

Steph Gray — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:48:24 +0000

I know what you mean Simon, but the user experience of some bits of the 1.0 site was pretty ropey, even if it was innovative. The fact that it’s Wordpress still is quite important – I’d argue the innovation is in a site still built and managed in-house for no external budget bar hosting, which still feels a bit like it’s powered by an enterprise CMS (and I’ve written up the furtively innovative RSS stuff).

Incidentally, working on things like implementing a left hand navigation was a real pleasure in Wordpress – you just feel like there’s always a way to do what you want, probably in the form a well-documented template tag or blog post somewhere, and normally implementable within 15 minutes.

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By: Public Strategist

Public Strategist — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:25:00 +0000

I like the site design a lot – real achievement to get so much in without it feeling crowded or oppressive.

I am getting a couple of glitches looking at the home page with FF 3.5.3 on 1280×1024 display. Just in case my setup is odd enough for this not to have been spotted (but these are not problems I generally see):
– the contact tab in the row at the top breaks into a second row
– the text in the two third-width boxes towards the top of the page and the three third-width boxes towards the top of the page bleeds through the bottom edge

Both those problems disappear if I set site zoom to 100% and text zoom to 80% using NoSquint.

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By: Defra and BIS websites: before and after

Defra and BIS websites: before and after — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:19:31 +0000

[...] We also added some behind-the-scenes trickery, courtesy of Steph, to offer news and speeches in ways that make sure they are as readable as poss by humans and machines alike; and to capture any dodgy URLs constructed from old BERR and DIUS ones and redirect them to the right place. I’d best leave it to him to tell you about how that all works. [...]