Steven Tew

The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grade ages. They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers. Read the rest of this entry »

I just stumbled across this iPhone simulator a few minutes ago, and I think it is pretty funny. I wonder if the smudge factor will influence peoples decision to purchase the iPhone. (Hint: move your cursor over the large iPhone image.)

I’m in Prague this week meeting colleagues, doing some training, eating, drinking and generally taking in the atmosphere. It’s a fantastic city to visit, with great architecture and nice people. I’m enjoying it very much.

But just when I thought things couldn’t get better, this morning I received a text from Paul saying that the NGS site that we’d recently contributed to with our summer exhibitions microsites had won the ASVA award they were short listed for. Hoorah! My first web award, and hopefully not my last because it’s a great feeling!

Congrats to everyone involved!

Wow! I recently worked on a project for the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and today I’ve been told that the site has been short listed from over 400 of Scotland’s premier visitor attractions for the 2006 Best Website Award - Large Category by the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA).

Our NGS Summer Exhibitions site was designed to reflect the National Galleries commitment to making world-class art available to all. Designed by Paul Evans of ts.com. and coded by myself, the site meets the highest standards for user accessibility and has full compliancy with W3C guidelines.

Glasgow Museums, winner of the award in 2004 and 2005, and The Lighthouse are also on the shortlist. The award will be presented at a Gala Dinner being held on Tuesday 7th November at the Famous Grouse.

Fingers crossed, eh? Wish us luck.

Both Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 are due to be released later this month.

IE posted on Oct 6:

“The final release of IE7 is fast approaching … and I mean really fast … and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it’s available for download. …we can’t ensure 100% compatibility without your help. We need you to test and ensure your sites, extensions, and applications are ready for IE7.”

IE then go on to list some important things that we need you to do to check our sites for readiness.