Stars in a Story

The desire to document and archive projects of all sorts is becoming more and more common. Villiers High School, courtesy of a grant from New Direction (a branch of Creative Partnerships, which is a government funded body who support projects between the arts, artists and education), undertook a storytelling project at their school that brought together artists (of various sorts) and students to study the craft of forming and telling stories, and of course to develop stories of their own. Our role was to document the process for them. The Blog (ok it wasn’t just a ‘Blog’, we...

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FTSE 100 web site survey, 2006

This survey assesses the technical quality, usability and accessibility of the homepage on the main web site of each member of the FTSE 100 group of companies. Kilroy James first surveyed this group, and a much larger group of smaller companies, in 2004 in order to get a picture of the general web design standards promoted and achieved by British companies. Now in its third year the survey has developed greatly, applying up to twenty tests during each homepage examination. The FTSE 100 survey looks at WCAG Accessibility ratings, W3C technical testing, and the use (and omittance) of numerous...

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