September 2009
56 posts
RT @KatieSpragg) Wordpress help please! Want to make home page none bloggy <- Surely there is a ‘none bloggy’ wordpress plug-in for this?
15 new videos on www.backthebirminghambid.com thanks! You can still upload yours & back the bid (via @Birminghambid)
“Mr Dutton said Birmingham was “its own worst enemy” by trying to be too...”
– Birmingham Post - News - West Midlands News - Birmingham failing to market itself well, says former regeneration chief
“Cheap hosting means zero tolerance. You aren’t paying them enough to...”
– Puffbox.com » Archive » The reality of cheap web hosting
Exactly.
I ♥ wireframes →
The 2 week countdown to Birmingham’s biggest dance event of 2009 has begun..http://bit.ly/17u9jk (via @bollywoodsteps)
“For a marketer, an asset is a tool or a platform, something you can use over and...”
– Seth’s Blog: Do marketers have assets?
WooFunction: 178 Amazing Web Design... →
Awesome free icons. Big ‘uns too!
RT @stef Yeah we need a couple of rubyists on hand tbh… <- why we still use LAMP
“It’s funny that we assume that all sorts of complex but ultimately...”
– Seth’s Blog: Cultural Wisdom
“CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company,...”
– PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT - (37signals)
Snarky and awesome.
Cocked up that RT… @bollywoodsteps are the ones to follow, although @ellenpope is a fun follow too!
RT @ellenpope MEGA FOLLOW FRIDAY #followfriday
Credit card terminals for iPhone →
The Stage / News / Exclusive: Hackney Empire to... →
Just wasted one painful hour dealing with HMRC site. Very engineer driven, wonder how much usability review time was spent.
Sad: Hackney Empire to close in January http://bit.ly/112J9r #news (via @thestage)
High praise :-) Brum publishers Tindal Street Press have a new website http://bit.ly/4Dus9y and it’s rather nice. (via @peteashton)
RT Another site to launch today, another one on Mon, and a possible 2 more by Wed. Crazy 7 days!
Website Buy the Book →
Blimey, it’s another new Made website this week! We’ve just launched the new site for Tindal Street Press, the award-winning publisher that puts out the best contemporary fiction from…
“Mercedes-Benz is now allocating 50% of its UK marketing budget to digital media,...”
– Mercedes allocates half its UK marketing budget to digital | News | New Media Age
“Indeed, sorting articles by date may be the worst possible setup for all content...”
– Rise of the Tablog → Put Things Off
Exactly. This is why WordPress is not the answer for all websites people.
No. Seriously. http://www.backthebirminghambid.com/
Website Kicks Off →
It’s another fantastic new site launch here at Made: we’ve been working with Marketing Birmingham to help promote Birmingham’s bid as a host city for the World Cup 2018, through…
Centre Screen →
We’re continuing to work on some great digital projects for Warwick Arts Centre, having just launched a number of new screens around the popular arts venue in response to a brief that’s…
Hey! http://www.backthebirminghambid.com
Excited by the lovely work going on downstairs. Can’t wait to launch some of it…
“Scratch the surface, dig a little. Feel the smug glow when you claim that nugget...”
– Which UK city is the most creative? Birmingham? Andrew Bowyer, Clusta
#bccwebsite Check out this desparate job ad from May. Hilarious: http://www.technojobs.co.uk/job.phtml/225627 Very Urgent!
Maybe all the ‘experienced fatwire testers’ were busy. Explains a lot #bccwebsite .
“Has the city grasped what a winner it has in the Nelsons/CBSO partnership?...”
– Birmingham Post - Blogs & Comment - Post Comment - Shouting about Nelson/CBSO
This is how easy it is to do the dance..
bollywoodsteps:
During the launch on Tuesday we had a small area set up for people to come to learn and perform the dance moves. Thanks to everyone who participated you were brilliant. To see the results click here. Don’t forget to upload your video to YouTube, tag it with bollysteps so we can find it and add it to the group.
“This episode should be used a an object lesson in how-not-to-do-it and it should...”
– Paul Canning: Lessons from the great 2009 Birmingham City Council website disaster
How much time is wasted every day playing telephone tennis? That’s why I prefer email, not because I have a phobia of phones.
RT @grunt121 esp #5 @bollywoodsteps: User submission of people performing the dances moves, you’re all brilliant http://bit.ly/DibzW
http://jakegrimley.com/post/184376820/abominable A more considered expression of outrage and my last word on the #bccwebsite debacle.
“Google has unveiled plans to introduce micropayments for news content published...”
– Google unveils plans to charge for news content
Game changer.
Abominable...
Yesterday, I was quoted in a front-page Birmingham Post article, expressing my outrage at the shocking quality of the new Birmingham City Council website. I didn’t go out of my way to court media coverage for those views, but an early reaction of mine on Twitter seemed to attract some attention.
Usually I exercise a lot of self control when it comes to expressing opinion on underwhelming...
http://bit.ly/capita (£2.8M) great but http://bit.ly/crapita (priceless) (via @tomgibara)
mmkit: Fonts →
“I wouldn’t claim that what we have now is a world class website”
– Glyn Evans, Director of Business Transformation, Birmingham City Council
Birmingham Post - News - West Midlands News - Critics attack new Birmingham City Council website
We’re looking for a festival co-ordinator- more details on the blog http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/blog/ (via @flatpack)
Basically - it’s a total fucking mess. Not good enough Birmingham.
£2.8m and it still looks like they got a guy in a broom-cupboard to knock it up with an outdated copy of Dreamweaver. Sadly no surprises.
Nice URLs too. Like this one for Leisure & Tourism:
http://bit.ly/UtWDI
Surprise: http://www.manchester.gov.uk is a good example of a council website with simple effective information architecture and styling.
“A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like...”
– Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea | Environment | The Guardian
“Readers keep asking me why I’m “against” WordPress. I’m not against WordPress....”
– Daring Fireball: Regarding WordPress and Security
The Art of Unix Programming →
“There’s a thin line separating the two and about once a week, I wake up at...”
– Yoosk: Two and half years on: what I have learnt as an entrepreneur