BBC.co.uk recently held a contest asking developers to redesign bbc.co.uk, bbc’s personal homepage. The winner was announced to be FF Ecosystem with his design “BBC Malkovich.”

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What they liked about it
- The way that Andy (and his colleagues ?) have cracked how to reflect content, conversations and data taking place away from bbc.co.uk
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If you design websites, you should be using Firefox. Here are the three essential Firefox extensions all web designers must have!
1. Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to your Firefox packed with various web developer tools. It allows you to disable specific page elements, view styles, outline blocks, tables, and […]

Serious web developers have been keeping an eye on open source web design communities. For small start-ups, open source design is a dream come true. Or is it?
The first thing that “open source” brings to mind is free software. Mozilla Firefox, Linux, OpenOffice. The truth is that open source web design works nothing like OS […]

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Tuesday, August 8, 2006
All of the old articles have been restored to our new home. They are out of order and the dates are messed up, but at least we have them again. WP.com has worked out fairly well so we’ll probably stick with […]

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Ontora is a weblog that tracks change in how the web looks and interacts. We offer frequent guides for website styling and review web and technology design.
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Ontora is written by Brandon Spencer, a student interested in graphic arts and design. I am an artist, an obsever, a friend, […]

A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space on prostitutes’ thighs and cleavage. Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches to get vacationers’ attention.
“I was getting sick and tired of advertising everywhere,” Balai told reporters. […]

Digg 3.0 was released Monday last week. The new version offers a variety of new features and a little shine to the design. My first impression of the new Digg was positive. It’s about time they expanded the categories.

After playing with things for several days, I have mixed feelings about it. 3.0 definetly improved things, […]

Ontora has been down over the past several weeks. The site was not neglected, but our host has crapped out on us. Long story short, they were banned from their ISP and have no way to bring things back online. Unfortunantly this means we have lost everything — posts and all.

If anything, this has been […]