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Gloucestershire Police Authority
Posted: 12th Feb 2010
I've just finished working on a new website for the Gloucestershire Police Authority. The brief was to take their old site that was built in the 90s and had very bad information architecture (layout and usability), in to the 2010s.
I redesign the IA, and created a look and feel that was appropriate for the organisation. The idea is to make sure that users who visit get the information they need quickly, but also to provide a reasonably pleasant user experience. Accessibility tools are also provided for screen reading, text and contrast changes.
Visit their site here.
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Nice Transparent Loading GIF
Posted: 24th Feb 2010
We've all seen those loading images when you click on links in AJAX enabled websites, such as Twitter. They are essential, particularly when coding websites with AJAX functionality because the user needs to know if something is actually happening.
So having one of these loading images is useful, and they can often be 'borrowed' from the web. However the problem with a lot of these images is that they don't work very well with different backgrounds because of transparency issues.
Well I spent a while making one the other day in Photoshop that works nicely on many backgrounds and thought I'd share it with the world.
Feel free to use this image, let me know where you've used it if you do. I've used it in Project Bubble and other sites.
Right click on the image above and Save As...
jQuery Field Replacer
Posted: 28th Feb 2010
This is a working version of the plug-in that is covered in my article on Woorkup.
You can download the source code here.
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