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Posts Tagged ‘Web’
Local Election Websites: Review
May 9th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the final part of a series of entries looking at websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Over the last few entries, I’ve looked at some of the websites used by county councils to provide details of the 2008 local elections. Some of these websites (mainly Monmouthshire County Council) were [...]
Local Election Websites: Cardiff Council
May 7th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
This is the third part of a series of entries covering websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Previous I evaluated websites operated by Monmouthshire County Council and the City and County of Swansea. In this entry, I will look at the site run by Cardiff Council. Cardiff Council’s local election website [...]
Local Election Websites: Swansea City Council
May 5th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the second part in a series of entries looking at local election websites run by various county councils across Wales. Previously I examined the county of Monmouthshire. In this entry, I take a look at the website run by Swansea City Council. Swansea City Council has taken a very different approach to that [...]
Local Election Websites: Monmouthshire County Council
May 3rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is part of a series of blog entries looking at local election websites run by various county council’s across Wales. In this entry I look at the live election site run by Monmouthshire County Council. MCC made use of a piece of software by Associated Knowledge Systems Ltd to show the results from each [...]
Local Election Websites
May 3rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
The latest round of local elections were held last Thursday (May 1st 2008) which resulted in huge losses for Labour, and great wins for the Conservatives. This latest set of elections was of particular importance to me, for reasons I’ll discuss at a later date. This meant I spent a large amount of time on [...]
Bleh
March 24th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Well, unfortunately the Student General Meeting that I talked about in my last blog entry was cancelled at the last minute which means my website accessibility motion didn’t get heard. However, it will be making an appearance at the next SGM which will be happening in the first week of term – giving me more [...]
Website Accessibility Motion
March 21st, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Website Accessibility is a big topic in Web Design at the moment, but what exactly does it mean? Well, it’s about making sure a website can be seen and used by as many people as possible. The main emphasis is on making sure that people with sight problems or problems using a mouse can still [...]
Off the shelf
October 7th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
If there was ever any proof that using off the shelf website content management packages were a bad idea, this has to be it. The Swansea University Student’s Union website runs off a package called Joomla! which describes itself on its website as: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems [...]