The S8080 team have been busy designing and building an exciting new campaign website for the National Assembly for Wales,   Democracy in Action in Wales. Built in Wordpress, an open source platform, the new site gives Welsh citizens the opportunity to win some pretty special prizes by taking

We're still waiting for the elusive summer to arrive but while we've been waiting we've put our time to good use by launching a shiny new website for one of our long standing clients, Lee Valley Regional Park. The new site, using our own Microsoft .NET Content Management System, has been

Apple have added a really nice new ' compare products' section to their online store. In typical Apple style, it's well designed and easy to use. You can select up to three products to compare, chosen from a Javascript overlay, which are then displayed in columns so you can quickly compare their

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web About a month ago, the W3C launched a redesigned version of their site which is easier on the eyes and easier to

This week, Google announced an early version of a plugin for Internet Explorer, which allows it to use modern web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG, Canvas, and more. More and more web applications (including many from Google, such as Google Docs, Gmail, and MobileMe from Apple), either require

AdMob (a mobile advertising platform) have released their latest metrics report ÔÇô and as far as their advertising impressions go,┬á Google Android has now pulled in front of┬á Windows Mobile (in terms of requests to the AdMob network, not handset marketshare). The difference is actually even more

On the S8080 Blog, weÔÇÖve recently begun using a really cool service called Apture. Apture allows you to easily incorporate multimedia elements straight into a single web page - or, in this case, a blog post. Traditionally, a blog entry may contain a link to (for example) a Wikipedia entry, or a

At S8080, we ensure that all of the websites we create are built to meet accessibility standards, as itÔÇÖs very important to us that theyÔÇÖre accessible to everybody. Whilst following guidelines is all well and good, itÔÇÖs always extremely useful to see how real people with disabilities

Google recently announced Google Wave - ÔÇ£a personal communication and collaboration toolÔÇØ. ItÔÇÖs quite hard to describe but is, in a way, a combination between e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. A ÔÇÿwaveÔÇÖ is a real-time collaborative conversation ÔÇô it looks a bit like

It's available as a Firefox extension and as a bookmarklet that works in any browser. Through a simple set of keyboard shortcuts (press h to see them), you can manipulate any item on a web page - the most useful functionality being to remove elements, or to isolate them. How is this useful? It can