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Accessibility and AAA W3C compliance

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Ben

Accessibility is now the single most important consideration when developing your online presence, by making your site user friendly you automatically increase its popularity amongst search engines, the amount of visitors who find what they’re looking for (which will lead to repeat visits) and the overall user experience. By working to strict guidelines set out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) It is possible to create a beautiful design, with a truly encapsulating and functional user experience. Further to this, accessible web site design extends to how your site will be seen accross a variety of different platforms and [...]

Accessibility is a journey, not a destination.

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Ben

As part of my ongoing work with Inclusive New Media Design – a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Helen Kennedy from the University of Leeds, I’ve been working within a team on a new version of their website, evolving from the previous version i designed and built. (see previous posts for the last iteration). The new version, designed and built by a team including myself, Prisca Schmarsow of Eyedea, Helen Kennedy from the University of Leeds and Simon Evans of Cognable is live at http://www.inclusivenewmedia.org. Below are some animations created by Prisca [...]

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- Wordpress Tips - Building your Website with Wordpress Posted on: January 25, 2011
  Whatever your niche, the key is to be individual, and to stand out from the crowd. With all the thousands of new WordPress themes out there, it seems as though sites are becoming a little standardized, with new sites being created in hours instead of weeks – it’s important that your website looks like some serious time and effort has been put into it and it doesn’t look like every other cut and paste job out there. When building your website with WordPress, your main objective should be to build a site that is seamless, wordpress should simply be the [...]
- The Pros and Cons of Using WordPress. Is it the best CMS Solution? Posted on: December 6, 2012
  From Blogging tool, to multi-faceted CMS Platform WordPress has come a long way since it’s humble beginnings as a blogging tool, transforming itself into a full blown content management system. I’ve been using WordPress for years, though it’s certainly not where I began my journey. I had attempted to use Joomla, Drupal and a huge variety of alternatives long before I settled on WordPress. It would be wrong of me to say simply that WordPress is the best, as all of the popular Content Management Systems out there have some great features to bring to the table, that being said, [...]
- Style Me India Posted on: February 19, 2012
  Style Me India is a Bollywood gossip, fashion and style online magazine. The brief was simple, to create a vibrant and bright website that echoed the style of the content whilst offering simple functionality that allowed users to easily stumble across and consume content. The project began in August 2011, and was launched in beta in late September. The combination of a fantastic client brief and many late nights meant that the site launched on time. Hurried along by the fact that I was due to begin a lifelong dream of traveling the world in October 2011. Since launching, Style [...]
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Internet Marketing & Social Media Posted on: February 13, 2010
  Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a key consideration with any new online venture. The majority of all internet traffic is funneled through search engine gateways (think of an hourglass). Its paramount to the success of your online venture that you can be found via the top industry search giants – Google, AOL, MSN, ASK and Yahoo. Key Words By analysing your business content and objectives, and cross referencing these with popular search trends and keywords it is possible to blast your website into the top search rankings for key generic phrases relating to your product or service. The average consumer [...]
- RealityOMG Posted on: September 17, 2010
  RealityOMG is another website in the OMG series, a network of TV gossip and rumour sites conceptualised by Tom Thurlow. The RealityOMG site focuses on all reality TV shows, from britains got talent to big brother. The site is the only UK website to recieve exclusive content from MTV.
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