Tribbles - fact or fiction? ("Cute" is a prime "hook")

Working a session from home 14th February

This was good because I had another commitment that night and it meant I could work when I chose (meant I put it off to the last minute though!)
A mixture of sessions at Worcester and working from home - maybe alternately, depending on what's going on - would seem to be the ideal.
Do feel rather tied up in semantics, setting the criteria. Do we need to go into this level of detail? Wouldn't we learn better by doing? Just a thought.

Website critique #2

Found this by accident and couldn't resist it!

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/000953.html

The whole site is so witty I could forgive it almost anything (humour and politics are as subjective as colour, of course) – even the dreaded scrolling. But it is actually very well-designed, with the information centre-stage and links and additional info neatly at the sides, not crowded, just enough photographs to tempt and entertain, not too much wasted space. I think the colour scheme is easy on the eye too.
It loads fast and passes the test of easy linking back to the home page, though the link is not perhaps quite obvious enough. Very distinctive heading though it takes up a little too much space at expense of the rest of the page.
Rating – excellent (5)

For more scientific fun there’s also http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm

Critique of website The Three Essentials of Web Design

http://www.curiousmindsmedia.com/articles/essentials.htm
The Three Essentials of Web Design
Site loaded in seconds but not surprising as almost all text, minimum graphics. It is boring to look at - difficult to make text exciting but a slightly different layout and fonts would help. And something more attractive than the dribbly graphic down the right hand margin. And I hate having to scroll down a page to read it!
The content is interesting and sound - not terribly well-spelled but no-one except oldies like me will care about that. What's more interesting is that they didn't follow their own advice about catering for different browsers! (Images used for vertical lines under links at the top of the page, which was fine in Firefox didn't look good in Internet Explorer.)
Links to other site pages did not work so not possible to comment on whole site.
Rating: adequate

Don't Make Me Think

"Don't make me think" is title of a v good book by Steve Krug (though version I have was written way back in 2000) and one possible summary of whole approach to web design?

Here we go...