Redesigned website for Sustainable Wales

Frank O'Connor, Kris Evans and myself refreshed the design and content of the Sustainable Wales website. A creative experience using moving from an earlier v5 to the latest iteration of Squarespace, almost all of the site is simplified and re-written.

Safari 6, tabs and Fitt's Law

Since the introduction of version 6 of Safari the tabs behave somewhat differently. A single tab will now extend across the entire width of the browser window apart from a small portion to the right which contains the " + " symbol to open a new tab. As successive tabs are added they occupy the largest space and keep the " + " target small. This breaks Fitt's law which is a shame. Particularly annoying, as the previous approach left the largest space to the right of the active tab and therefore the largest possible target to click and generate a new tab.

New Wales Based Photographic Site

Head over to petermorganphoto for a collection of my favourite photographs ranging from people to landscapes, the images can be ordered as high quality prints directly from the site, using the services of good UK based labs.

Here's an example gallery of landscape pictures taken along the dramatic coastline of Wales:

SoundCloud suffers DDOS attack

Message from Soundcloud

We would like to apologize for yesterday's service outage.

Audio message from Alex:
http://soundcloud.com/alex/thanks-and-were-sorry-at/s-4SBID

On Tuesday October 4 at approximately 8:40pm CET, our Operations team were
alerted to an unusually high amount of unidentified traffic leading to a complete
network outage. Within minutes, our CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Operations and
all available Operations engineering resources were deployed to investigate
the issue and we worked around the clock to locate and resolve it.

We identified the problem as being a major distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attack and initially resolved it around 6.30am CET.

After seeing the service stabilize for a few hours yesterday morning, unfortunately
a second denial of service attack occurred around noon CET as the attackers adjusted
to our preventive measures. This attack delayed full mitigation until we were able
to implement more robust measures which are now in place. Around 7pm CET last night,
our scalable defensive measures were in place and we were able to stabilize the service
gradually. As of this morning, all services are fully back and operational.

Our databases including your data were not affected by these attacks. Rest assured
that we'll do everything in our power to prevent such an outage from happening again.
Our engineering teams will continue to assess the situation moving forward.

Again, our sincere apologies for letting you down. We are humbled by the continued
support you've shown us in your Tweets, comments and emails, proof that the
SoundCloud Community is special.

Thank you,

Alex, Co-Founder and CEO | Eric, Co-Founder and CTO

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Trying out:

It's a shame the selling of prints via fotomoto is so US centric.