How to be a successful Evil Overlord

Seth’s Blog: Tips that may come in handy one dayThe list Seth points to is great advice, but might I suggest that readers start at the end – tip number 100 is horribly true. That said, I do quite like number 12 – from a management perspective I think this has great potential: One of…

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Web 2.0 colours from Miles Burke

Miles’ Blog » The Web 2.0 Secret Weapon – Thoughts and errata from Miles Burke. Ahhh! The secret to web2.0 is finally revealed. This’ll be useful when I get around to designing my forthcoming, ultimate, web-based solution to everything. Or would it be churlish to suggest that these are just bright, optimistic colours that work…

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a workshop idea – make a better page

How about running a workshop for web authors to help them make a better page. Don’t try to teach them lots of rules, but instead get them to bring along a page they’ve already done, and then work on improving it. Start the workshop by providing a pile of Lorem Ipsum text and some stock…

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Create a content drop box

For a large institutional website, the demands to get content onto the site come in thick and fast. A ‘content drop box’ would allow colleagues to post content to be added to the site. The fields are fairly obvious… it should: Record who the colleague is Ask who the owner of the content is –…

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Header design with options

I like The Man in Blue’s header. A ‘Page Options’ tab elegantly opens to reveal some style sheet options. These look like accessibility-driven options but it got me thinking that this type of design could be used for other options:

RSS in your email

To quote them…. What is Squeet? Squeet.com allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds which are delivered by the Squeet service via email to your existing email account. Does Squeet Cost Anything? No! Squeet is absolutely FREE for everyone. Whether you are a content provider or a Squeet user, Squeet is free. Will there be…

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