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In case you’ve had your head buried in a good few feet of sand, then you’ll know all about the issues surrounding the new Birmingham City Council website. I won’t get into it too much here, but, suffice to say, the project was over budget, late and didn’t deliver half of what is expected from [...]

After much, uhming, ahing and “what are the roads like”ing I finally dragged myself out of the house and down the snowy roads of east Birmingham, the roads were fine until I got out of Solihull, but that’s another story. I arrived at the venue (The Blues ground, which would horrify my Villa-supporting in-laws) expecting [...]

Well, it’s was a busy old day for me yesterday, sitting in the warm at home and establishing myself in the blogosphere, and I’ve been blown away by how much traffic my last post attracted. It was one of the commenters on my last post (Martin Stone) who inspired me to post today. He said: [...]

I will, as promised go into some more advanced coding stuff later on this week, but first, here’s a few tips for people who might not be javascript savvy, or for whatever reason might not have code access to their sites (thanks to Andrew Beeken (@abeeken) from Lincoln City Council) Simply follow these steps and [...]

Ask a council webmaster what service gets used on their site the most, and I’ll bet you £10 they’ll say ‘Planning’. Planning is one of the most controversial subjects that councils (particularly shire districts) have to deal with and almost all councils publish planning application data on their websites. The trouble is, a lot of [...]