Comments on: New Wales Office websites by Puffbox

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:31:49 +0000

@mw True... but I've yet to do this, and achieve acceptable results across *all* browsers. Safari particularly has a tendency to render relatively-sized fonts at curiously small sizes.

By: mw

mw — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:39:56 +0000

Neat site. Should be easy to change the body font-size from 13px to something relative to meet WCAG checkpoint 3.4 [Priority 2] so people can resize the text - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-relative-units

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:21:17 +0000

If anyone is having problems accessing the Wales Office RSS feeds, can you let me know the circumstances? I'm told there's an issue, but I haven't been able to replicate yet.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:20:39 +0000

Actually Paul, one of the initial mockups included the notion of consuming other Wales-related RSS feeds, including the one from the Assembly site. But I dropped the idea when it became obvious that the Assembly's feed was (ahem) a bit unpredictable...

By: Paul Henderson

Paul Henderson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:10:55 +0000

Great site, even better that it's in WordPress - now can you do something about the Welsh Assembly site! I regularly have to visit it while doing http://www.xpressdigest.org.uk, which is a pain and I only have to do that because I can't rely on the RSS feed which publishes stories in a bizarre order. When I do get to the site it is often painfully slow too..

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:46:54 +0000

I'm quoted (extensively!) in the bilingual press release which has gone out this morning: 'Mae eu gwefan newydd yn cynnwys nodweddion y bydd nifer o'u cymdogion yn Whitehall yn eiddigeddus ohonynt, a cheir posibilrwydd go iawn o newid diwylliant o ran sut y mae llywodraeth yn cyfathrebu.' But that almost goes without saying.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:31:19 +0000

Congrats on getting it done in such a short space of time, looks great as well as functional. Being Welsh feels mighty fine this morning. heh.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:46:16 +0000

By the way... speaking of 'bloggers' rules', I can't tell you how close I was to logging into the Wales Office back-end, and issuing a blogger-style 'press release' at about 6.20pm on Saturday evening. And I'm not even Welsh.

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Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:21:55 +0000

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By: David P

David P — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:08:42 +0000

As you'd imagine, congratulations on another nice, tidy demonstration of how to use WordPress in this way! I feel some ideas coming on...