As web manager on the business transformation team, David Farrell-Shaw, led the marketing and customer services sections of SE. The task was to reduce the number of websites owned by the agency and transfer all valid content, products and services onto a one stop shop – or portal as it became known.

The established a process for migration of websites by creating a top level information architecture sympathetic to the Government Category List. The duplication of services on old sites was simply enormous. When the dust had settled  it was estimated that around £9 million had been saved from the public purse.

This would be funny if it wasn’t true. A great little story from The Oatmeal.

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by Drew McLellan

We’re all familiar with specifying colours in CSS using by defining the mix of red, green and blue light required to achieve our tone. This is fine and dandy, but whatever values we specify have one thing in common — the colours are all solid, flat, and well, a bit boring.

Flat RGB colours

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This article should be on your must read list. It’s by Meagan Fisher. She discusses web design without Photoshop.

“I used to think the best place to design a website was in an image editor. I’d create a pixel-perfect PSD filled with generic content, send it off to the client, go through several rounds of revisions, and eventually create the markup.

Does this process sound familiar? You’re not alone. In a very scientific and official survey I conducted, close to 90% of respondents said they design in Photoshop before the browser.”

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