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Tag Archives: Sutton Council
Worst practice: 10 ways that Sutton Council’s website (still) drives me nuts
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 … Continue reading
Is Sutton Council too white?
The Sutton Minority Ethnic Forum is running a project called the Shadow Councillor Scheme, which lets people who may be interested in becoming councillors find out more by closely following a councillor for a month. While everyone is welcome to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sutton
Tagged councillors, discrimination, local government, racism, Sutton Council
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Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Web design
Tagged campaigns, councils, e-government, government, Mash the State, rss, Sutton Council, Sutton Council website
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Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS
(Click on the image to download the PDF, 19KB, opens in new window/tab.) Like this? Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/adrianshort I’m a self-confessed and unashamed news junkie and this is how I’m starting to mash up news in my local … Continue reading
Posted in Software design, Sutton
Tagged apis, atom, Delicious, Hpricot, mashups, mysql, news, Paul Burstow, rss, Ruby, Stonecot Hill News, Sutton Council, Sutton Guardian, Twitter, TwitterFeed, Yahoo! Pipes
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Fixing Sutton Council’s usability with Greasemonkey
How to fix the link colours, clock/calendar and text size on Sutton Council’s website with a Greasemonkey user script. Continue reading
Posted in Sutton, Usability, Web design
Tagged Better Sutton Council, Greasemonkey, Sutton Council, Sutton Council website
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Permalinks — a guide for the perplexed at Sutton Council
How Sutton Council have broken all the links to their new website and how they can prevent this linkrot in future by using permalinks. Continue reading
Posted in Sutton, Usability, Web design
Tagged Sutton Council, Sutton Council website, websites
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Twittering Sutton
Introducing my new Twitter feed for the Sutton news that matters. Continue reading