Link dump #138

Free loading gifs

Lazy loading with jQuery

Load content on the fly like DNSPinger. The only problem though is making it work when JavaScript is not available. [...]

Free music websites

22 free music websites. [...]

Firefox 2.0

New, faster version of Firefox - the best web browser you can use.The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to [...]

The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites

Interesting idea that suggests that ugly websites are quite commonly successful. [...]

Do websites need to look the same in every browser?

100 most useful websites

Guardian provide a useful list of "100 most useful websites". [...]

Link dump #88

How we'll lay out websites in 2016

Interesting example using the display-model declaration from Peter Gasston. [...]

Government websites fail to meet standards

Article at The Register highlights that the vast majority of public service websites in Europe are failing to meet international e-accessibility sta [...]

Disabled users to test websites

An organisation called Usability Exchange is leading a scheme to promote the testing of websites by disabled people. Story on the BBC site. [...]

45 Music Websites That Deliver the Greatest Free Music

Free music sites. [...]

Photo fade with Javascript

Couloir demonstrate a nifty Javascript, image loading feature with a preloader too! Nice. [...]

75 percent WAI failures

A report carried out by Nomensa shows that nearly 75 percent of FTSE 100 company websites fail to meet minimum accessibility requirements. [...]

Browster

Pretty cool add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you ever search for things with Google or Yahoo or Amazon, then Browster adds in an icon n [...]

Design Charts

Link dump #150

Companies to update websites and email footers before 2007

Every company should list its company registration number, place of registration and registered office address on its website as a result of an update [...]

IBM Contributes DHTML Accessibility Code to Mozilla

"In Mozilla Firefox 1.5, the behaviour of the tabindex HTML attribute will be altered, allowing authors to create Web applications that are faster t [...]

preloader message

found this wee Javascript which loads in a message to say the page (or image in the example) is loading.... Could be useful to implement with Eric [...]

Web Accessibility Checker

The ATRC Web Accessibility Checker is rather nice and importantly it's much faster than WebXact. [...]

Link dump #60

Council websites reviewed for accessibility

This article highlights a recent review of UK council websites,Herefordshire Council has come top of November's Local Government league table for we [...]