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[10 Feb 2009 | Comments | ]
WordCamp Toronto 2009 Awards

Word Camp Toronto, this year being run by the folks at PHUG, have started the WCT2009 Awards.
Submissions to the awards are free, but you must submit any sites by April 1st.
The categories this year are:

Best Theme Design
Best Plug-in
Best Student Blog/WP Site
Best Professional/Corporate Blog/WP Site
Best Education/Instructional Blog/WP Site
Best Creative use WordPress (outside of a standard blog)
Best Blog from any Category

Wordcamp Toronto 2009 still has its contest open for finding a Logo Design.  The submission deadline for that contest is Feb 15th 2009 at 5pm EST.
Submit your entries at WordCamp Toronto 2009 …

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[9 Feb 2009 | Comments | ]
City Launches “Toronto Helps” Website

Today Mayor David Miller announced on Twitter:
“Announced Toronto Helps toronto.ca/torontohelps -programmes to help seniors, job seekers, youth, tenants: please RT” – @mayormiller
In these times not only is it especially important for government to have programs in place to help people, but like with anything else online, nobody will ever use it unless the information is easy to find, easy to navigate, and designed in a way to let users accomplish their goals.
Besides Toronto.ca still looking like a website from 1996, Toronto Helps uses a horrible double select box navigation.  The …