Slimejam
A personal weblog written by Christopher Miles, an author and website developer living in Melbourne, Australia.
Regular topics include books and publishing, technology and the internet, parenting, and Doctor Who.
Bronwyn van der Merwe from the BBC online and technology team runs through some of the choices involved in creating a new ‘global visual language’ for the corporation’s digital services. (Also worth a look is the BBC internet team’s post on regenerating the Doctor Who section of the site for the launch of the new series. If only the video content was available outside of the UK.)
Nicely customised comments form at the Panic Inc. corporate blog. Different enough from the usual WordPress comments form you see everywhere on the web, but with all the normal elements in place. Cute and idiosyncratic while maintaining usability.
Stunning recreation of a nineteenth century newspaper, and authentic use of fonts. From a web design and standards perspective, the implementation of rollovers is a bit iffy, and large chunks of text are represented as images. But it’s sure pretty.