Posts tagged: Sutton Council website

Worst practice: 10 ways that Sutton Council’s website (still) drives me nuts


7 August 2009

UPDATE 1 March 2010: Let’s see how the site’s doing seven months after I originally published this article. Someone famous once said that the true definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the results to be different. Well I keep going back to the Sutton Council website and nine [...]

Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds


14 April 2009

You’re free to republish this article under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK licence with credit and a link to Adrian Short / Mash the State Today I connected 66 councils to their citizens by making it easy to subscribe to their news by email. It took me around ten minutes. I’d say this was [...]

Fixing Sutton Council’s usability with Greasemonkey


29 September 2008

How to fix the link colours, clock/calendar and text size on Sutton Council’s website with a Greasemonkey user script.

Permalinks — a guide for the perplexed at Sutton Council


27 September 2008

How Sutton Council have broken all the links to their new website and how they can prevent this linkrot in future by using permalinks.