A spy camera, estimated to cost 10,000 and designed to catch fly-tippers, was cleared by council workers after it was concealed in a rubbish bag.

A spokesman for Privacy International, the human rights group formed as a watchdog on surveillance and invasions of privacy, said: “It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. It just goes to show why local authorities require greater…

The true power of a GPS device is finding where youre going next. And if Steve Jobs demo today was any indication, stand-alone nav unit makers like Magellan and TomTom really do have every reason to be scared [expletive-]less.?

• LAB & ROAD TEST: 5 New GPS Units Go Head-to-Head

Dosh Dosh's Maki synthesizes a report commissioned by the Associated Press on a better news model for modern consumers, and shows how to implement the findings, even on smaller websites and blogs, in order to improve audience participation and retention.

I disagree with the the studies cause and effect conclusions. Yes, 18-34 year olds people clearly have difficulty connecting with longer articles, however I would put the blame on a schools that no longer teach critical thinking and parents…

This sliding hover effect script is an easy method to add some flavor to your navigation.

The first variable is the id of the unordered list and the second is the id of the slider div. This script has been tested in IE6, IE7, FireFox, Opera and Safari. Please send any bug reports to michael@leigeber.com. This code is free to use for…

This tutorial illustrates how to design a nice pastel color menu with a dynamic submenu which appears when you select a link in the main menu, using CSS and some lines of javascript code.

Very Simple with minimal javascripting just what i was looking for. Thanks!

A great technology that has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with video content! A must see!

The idea of using direct manipulation for controlling video playback has been first exploited in NTT-AT's Dragri multimedia authoring system (Web Page in Japanese). The system dates back from 2002 but remained unnoticed by the HCI…

Few months ago we have already presented some sites with quite BIG typography. In this article we present further 55 examples of big, loud? and yet elegant typography in web design; some listed designs are Flash-based, and in some cases designs are based not only upon typography, but also upon some visual elements.

Babasonicos.comBabasonicos uses bold and pretty colorful typography in the navigation. This may not be the perfect solution from the usability-perspective, but the site perfectly achieves its primary goal, namely to appear lively and colorful…

A tutorial on MooTools menu-like effect created in jQuery.

Collis, I don’t know if you have realized it, but in feed readers (I’m using FeedDemon), every link with an href=”folder/filename.extension” format, the feed item URl is prefixed. Of course, this…

This lightweight drop down menu script allows you to easily add smooth transitioning dropdowns to your website. This can be used for navigation, dropdown lists, info panels, etc.

@Diego - Excellent suggestion. I definately do recommend using existing HTML tags in lieu of classed divs. I will take a look at incorporating those tags and update the post if I like how it works out. I have never actually used definition…

One of the biggest challenge to web designers is finding ways to place a lot of information on a page without losing usability. Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue. Today we're going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript.

<div id=”tabbed_box_1″ class=”tabbed_box”> <h4>Browse Site <small>Select a Tab</small></h4> <div class=”tabbed_area”> <ul class=”tabs”>…

This post presents creative examples of footers and ideas for footer design. Weve tried to identify some trends and some interesting approaches you may want to use or developer further in your projects.

Since the main function of the footer is to complete the layout, often it is given a color which has a high contrast to colors dominating in the overall site design. Vivid colors can be observed as often as dark ones.

If youre in search of books on the topic of web design to expand or start up your book collection, heres 20 web design books worth considering.

Designing websites involves more than just the design itself, it’s also about managing and presenting information to the client. Communicating Design offers tips on presenting designs and developing usability tests, amongst other things.

This is a tutorial with two CSS vertical menu examples with show/hide menu effect. First example uses a simple JavaScript code. Second example uses mootools to show/hide the menu with a nice vertical slide-in/slide-out effect.

I like the effect and the code is quite light. Nice!