Blog / The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles
I was going to link to these, but thought they’d be good to reproduce in their entirety. They’re taken from Tomski.com - Tom Loosemore’s Blog, an employee at the BBC. They form part of the BBC2.0 Project.
1. Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google)
2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly. (again, nicked from Google, with a tip of the hat to Jason Fried)
3. Do not attempt to do everything yourselves: link to other high-quality sites instead. Your users will thank you. Use other people’s content and tools to enhance your site, and vice versa.
4. Fall forward, fast: make many small bets, iterate wildly, back successes, kill failures, fast.
5. Treat the entire web as a creative canvas: don’t restrict your creativity to your own site.
6. The web is a conversation. Join in: Adopt a relaxed, conversational tone. Admit your mistakes.
7. Any website is only as good as its worst page: Ensure best practice editorial processes are adopted and adhered to.
8. Make sure all your content can be linked to, forever.
9. Remember your granny won’t ever use “Second Life”: She may come online soon, with very different needs from early-adopters.
10. Maximise routes to content: Develop as many aggregations of content about people, places, topics, channels, networks & time as possible. Optimise your site to rank high in Google.
11. Consistent design and navigation needn’t mean one-size-fits-all: Users should always know they’re on one of your websites, even if they all look very different. Most importantly of all, they know they won’t ever get lost.
12. Accessibility is not an optional extra: Sites designed that way from the ground up work better for all users
13. Let people paste your content on the walls of their virtual homes: Encourage users to take nuggets of content away with them, with links back to your site
14. Link to discussions on the web, don’t host them: Only host web-based discussions where there is a clear rationale
15. Personalisation should be unobtrusive, elegant and transparent: After all, it’s your users’ data. Best respect it.
Opinion / Posting icons
The proliferation of blogs and UGC sites has seen the explosion of icons at the footer of pages/articles/comments. Seems to me that this will hit a critical mass at some stage soon with only the fittest surviving.
Blog / Colour-lovers
http://www.colourlovers.com/ - “fight for love in the colour revolution.”
Nice blog site where people upload their own colour palettes, comment on others and share all-things-colour.
Blog / Now thats what I call organised.
Certainly the most beautiful, and possibly the best planned, organised and executed factory in the world.
Personally I think the cars are quite average, though I haven’t driven one. If only they had picked a nicer looking car to build there…
And yes I’m sure they do time sheets!
This isn’t about cars. Its about changing peoples perceptions. Not just about this particular product but about the business behind it and what the future holds for us all. If we dont all embrace technology, think differently then we cant expect to evolve and improve.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1837641
Website / Creative Blog
A website where people can see modern trends in the creative industry. www.theinspirationroom.com
Blogs / Sites to watch…
http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/
http://www.campaignbrief.blogspot.com/
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/
http://www.marketingvox.com/index.php