May 2009 posts

Google Street View: Privacy concerns vs. the benefits

By Mru Kodali on 26 May 2009

Google’s been refused permission to even roam the streets to collect images for its Street View service in Greece due to privacy concerns. In Japan, it’s been forced to re-collect data as the original pictures pried into people’s backyards. And in Germany, Hamburg officials are seeking guarantees that raw image data will be deleted once … Read more about ‘Google Street View: Privacy concerns vs. the benefits’


Business blogs - A base for your followers

By Jon White on 20 May 2009

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When designing and launching the Webcredible blog, it was really important for us to consider not just what we as an organisation would get out of it, but also what our users would get out of it. Given the growth of social media as a platform, blogs are becoming an increasingly important vehicle for getting … Read more about ‘Business blogs - A base for your followers’


Filters and sorts on a web search?

By Alistair Gray on 15 May 2009

Google has been showcasing some of their future developments that it will be looking to trial in the next few months and 1 tool that caught my eye is a series of filters/sorts down the left of the search results.

In all my time in this field there’s been very few sites that haven’t been … Read more about ‘Filters and sorts on a web search?’


Great online tool to create a mood board

By Philip Webb on 13 May 2009

Creating a mood board is a great way to visualise, develop and communicate design concepts. It can be a useful frame of reference for interface/website design, storyboarding, brand design, fashion design - in short any kind of creative endeavour, including those that aren’t explicitly visual. The idea is to collect images and objects that encapsulate … Read more about ‘Great online tool to create a mood board’


CSS pseudo class tip

By Paul McCarthy on 12 May 2009

Having contributed to a feature in last month’s Web Designer Magazine on great CSS secrets, we thought that the blog would be a great place to share the tip we came up with for clearing a float container without extra HTML mark up:

If a floated element is nested within a box that has a border … Read more about ‘CSS pseudo class tip’