beatnic - just wondering

• 10 More Future Web Trends
  Another list
  (tags: future web trends lists readwriteweb viastephendownes)

• Grid Layout
  The Grid Layout Javascript enables web-developers to stick to a Grid Layout quickly and simply by including the Grid Layouts Javascript file and simple XHTML code.
  (tags: webdesign webdev gridlayout css xhtml javascript)
• ISO 14000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “The ISO 14000 environmental management standards exist to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment (cause adverse changes to air, water, or land), comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmental
  (tags: iso iso14000 wikipedia viagavinbell environment organisations monitoring)
• User-centered design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  “The chief difference from other interface design philosophies is that user-centered design tries to optimize the user interface around how people can, want, or need to work, rather than forcing the users to change how they work to accommodate the system
  (tags: ucd usercentreddesign design webdesign wikipedia)
• Why we love sounds of the city jungle | UK News | The Observer
  “Among the urban sounds researchers have found to be surprisingly agreeable are car tyres on wet, bumpy asphalt, the distant roar of a motorway flyover, the rumble of an overground train and the thud of heavy bass heard on the street outside a nightclub.”
  (tags: city viadanhill cities design architecture sound)

Do you have a lift at work? Does it have a male or female voice? Who decided that?

Does a lift in Belfast have a different accent to a lift in Manchester, Falmouth or Glasgow?

Should the automated announcements on trains change accent depending on which part of the country you’re in?

When you move house and send your change of address cards out, you probably only put your new address on the cards and not your old one. And if people want to send you a “Happy New Home” card they’ll need to copy down your new address on to an envelope.

But when people change email address, more often than not, they send out the “Change of email address” email from their old email address. This is true for the last six such emails I have received.

So if you’re changing email address, transfer your contacts list and send your Change of address email from your new account. You never know how many virtual “Happy new home” cards you might be missing.

And please send them individually or use the BCC field. Just in case anyone accidentally hits the “Reply all” button.

Predictive text for Unilever is Toileter.

• East Dulwich - SE22 / Southwark / London / England / Bars, Pubs & Clubs / Search
  Lastrounds.co.uk is a London pub review site with a difference. The aim of the Last Rounds Project is to promote safe and sensible drinking by encouraging forward planning of your time out.
  (tags: SE22 eastdulwich eatinganddrinking pubs bars)

Today I attended a very informative workshop run by Tira Shubart and Jasmine Birtles.

Below are a few links to some of the websites that were discussed:

Business cards:

• gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”
• MOO (you can use your Flickr photographs on your cards)

Financial advice: Jasmine’s website Moneymagpie.com

Quickly set up a free hosted blog:

• Wordpress - very easy to set up and use - what I use
• Blogger - popular and easy to use - owned by Google
• Plenty of others also available…

Good luck to everyone on the workshop :-)

• SharePoint - Accessibility - MSDN Forums
  Worth keeping an eye on as Sharepoint moves *gradually* closer to meeting basic accessibility good practice and requirements.
  (tags: accessibility usability microsoft sharepoint moss moss2007)

An image search for “People Thinking” on Google comes up with some quite strange stuff…

edublogs: Six points for organisations entering the Live Web.

Interesting post by Ewan McIntosh. Via Nick Reynolds at work.

Watch out for…

Sunset yellow (E110) - Colouring found in squashes
Carmoisine (E122) - Red colouring in jellies
Tartrazine (E102) - New colouring in lollies, fizzy drinks
Ponceau 4R (E124) - Red colouring
Sodium benzoate (E211) - Preservative
Quinoline yellow (E104) - Food colouring
Allura red AC (E129) - Orange / red food dye

BBC NEWS | Health | Parents warned of additives link

• The Landlord
  Will Ferrell meets his landlord.
  (tags: funny will ferrell)
• Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers
  Search uk newspapers - courtesy of Martin Belam. HT to Richard Sambrook.
  (tags: search belam martin chipwrapper newspapers uk unitedkingdom)