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“The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles.” was penned precisely on 14 August, 2007 12:07 PM, which happened to be a Tuesday. but you know what? dullneon.com's random notes has now moved to a new location.
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The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles.
A great manifesto from the BBC that could be useful as a guide to our own work on the web.
- Build web products that meet audience needs.
- The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly.
- Do not attempt to do everything yourselves: link to other high-quality sites instead.
- Fall forward, fast: make many small bets, iterate wildly, back successes, kill failures, fast.
- Treat the entire web as a creative canvas: don’t restrict your creativity to your own site.
- The web is a conversation. Join in: Adopt a relaxed, conversational tone. Admit your mistakes.
- Any website is only as good as its worst page.
- Make sure all your content can be linked to, forever.
- Remember your granny won’t ever use “Second Life”.
- Maximise routes to content: Develop as many aggregations of content about people, places, topics, channels, networks & time as possible.
- Consistent design and navigation needn’t mean one-size-fits-all.
- Accessibility is not an optional extra.
- Let people paste your content on the walls of their virtual homes.
- Link to discussions on the web, don’t host them.
- Personalisation should be unobtrusive, elegant and transparent.
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