Tag Archives: keith doyle
IWMW 2010 Report
Last week, I attended the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW). I was just going for the day when I was giving a workshop on ‘Developing Your Personal Contingency Plan‘, but thanks to Statistics Into Decisions, I was able to go for the full three days. While at the conference, I also did a barcamp session [...]
IWMW 2010 Workshop on Developing Your Personal Contingency Plan
The theme of this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) was The Web in Turbulent Times. IWMW ”provides an opportunity for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services to hear about institutional case studies, national initiatives and emerging technologies and to actively participate in a number of parallel sessions”. The event is organised by UKOLN. [...]
Review of the BBC News website redesign
There’s been a lot of discussion and comment about the BBC News redesign, but I’m mostly interested in the information architecture. First thing I noticed was the change of URL from some weird news.bbc.co.uk address to the simple www.bbc.co.uk/news. I’m sure there’s good reasons for this, and it makes SEO sense. But let’s look at [...]
Farewell Left-Hand Navigation
BBC News is soon, amongst other things, to abandon left-hand navigation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/07/bbc_news_website_redesign.html I’m really interested in the demise of left-hand navigation. When it was originally introduced, it was pretty difficult for people to get around websites. We didn’t have JavaScript and page includes and content management systems. This meant that to do anything sophisticated, each [...]
Northern User Experience July 2010
Last night, Northern User Experience met in Manchester. About 20 people showed up, so it was great to see so much interest. There were two talks: Does Technology Make any Difference in our Social Life This talk by Alistair Sutcliffe was about research being carried out at Manchester University about Dunbar’s number and it’s relation [...]
