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North Square completes its evaluation of the new Allerdale Council website. North Square has worked for 26 councils in the UK.
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(January 2008)
This page contains articles written by North Square Interactive based on our continual research into website best practice.
Our website best practice newsletter provides updates on the latest research articles and recommended tools. We encourage you to look at the sample newsletter.
09 August 2007
The window title bar is the coloured strip (blue by default) that runs across the very top of the browser window. In this article we answer 2 questions: How does the window title bar impact on users? How should web developers use the window title bar to describe pages?
07 August 2007
At North Square, we continue to evaluate websites that are re-designed with partial use of Cascading Style Sheets. This article discusses the benefits of Cascading Style Sheets and gives 5 powerful examples of how they can help development. Those who find this of interest should also read an article we published in April 2007, XHTML and HTML Doctypes: Which should I use?.
02 August 2007
We constantly evaluate websites where developers have either placed links to printable pages on every page, or have ignored the print medium altogether. In this article we explain how to create printable pages using Cascading Style Sheets which make life easier for web developers and enable users to print pages using the Print function in their browser (instead of having to find links on the web page). We also explain best practice.
18 July 2007
Site Indexes are an under used help tool - especially for larger and more complex websites. Read about which types of websites can benefit from site indexes and how to implement them.
11 July 2007
This 3 part article looks at why validation is important, how to indicate validation and ideas for implementation. The article includes awareness of accessibility issues.
27 June 2007
This article explains the benefits of developing a consistent and well differentiated set of headings using styling techniques such as size and boldness.
06 June 2007
This short article explains the relationship between optimising websites for search engines and disabled users.
24 May 2007
7 fundamental accessibility tests are explained in this article. For example, we explain why it is beneficial to use relative font sizes instead of fixed font sizes.
13 May 2007
In this article we address why it is beneficial to receive Website Evaluation prior to launching a new website or an upgrade to an existing website.
19 April 2007
Deciding which Doctype to use is one of the first programming decisions to make when coding a new website. In this article, we investigate the options.
08 April 2007
Organisations are still failing to provide users with an effective range of help systems on their websites.
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