A simple global navigation bar. Too cold? Too hot? Or just right?

Easy upload business cards
Great way to quickly make your own business cards.
(tags: business cards)

DropSend - A decent flash animation
A non-flash UI site with a nice Flash animation on the homepage. Skype also does flash well.
(tags: webdesign flash)

Not that this website represents the fact particularly well, i am actually blogging away like crazy right now. But in a work-context. I have a new blog where I’m talking about some of the exciting projects im currently working on. The blog is locked away behind the Open University firewall right now but im hoping [...]

Two more new OU brand sites you may not have seen.
Employee development

The Open University (OU) and the OU Business School work with thousands of organisations to promote professional and management skills that deliver business results. With its range of business, management and vocational courses and renowned flexible learning methods, the OU is ideally placed to [...]

I’ve been charged with creating two prototype programme-level websites - one for Psychology and one for Molecular Science. It’s important to draw the distinction between the student-support level and the enquirer websites. I’m soley concerned with the student-support level. The enquirer (marketing) level will be left to those far more capable at selling. However, it’s [...]

Getting global navigation right
since ALA is down right now, i can only assume that this could be an interesting read.
(tags: webdesign navigation)

Swift: a web browser for Windows
like Safari but in very early stage development.
(tags: browsers swift)

Developing Traffic
Developing traffic is a fine art on the web. Sometimes we get lost in the fact that just because [...]

Aside from the ePortfolio project, my other main area of current activity is in thinking about supporting students on a programme of study. Working with the Personalised Integrated Learning Support (PILS) Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), I am managing a project which explores what online things should be made available to students [...]

Thanh rightly pointed out that there is some important stuff at my other ePortfolio URL. One such item of stuff is the piece on the ePortfolio terminology. The reson it’s over their an not a blog post is because it’s not complete and lives outside of blog chonology. In fact it’s pretty much there to [...]

Backpack, Flickr, Google Notebook, del.icious, Google Spreadsheets, Writely, Google Mail (Gmail), Google Page Creator, Basecamp, Blogger, Ta-da list and YouTube all contribute to my thinking around the user interface for the OU ePortfolio project.
Anything you think I should take a look at? Let me know.

Web Development and Information Technology
if you’re in a position of management over IT and/or marketing, please don’t align the responsibility of web development of any kind with Information Technology. The two will work hand in hand, but they are certainly not the same.
(tags: webdesign)

Mobile internet is still a turn-off
People want maps not blogs!
(tags: mobileweb webdesign)

Apple [...]