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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.134)
The ICO Amends the EU Cookie Law to Allow ‘Implied Consent’
20 Creative Personal Blog Web Designs

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.134)

Posted: 29 May 2012 12:51 AM PDT

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
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HTML for Icon Font Usage

Put Users in Control With Confirmation Feedback Buttons

Custom WordPress 404 Page

Gestures-Sensitive Slideshow: Responsive and Touch-Friendly

Yahoo! Unveils Axis – A ‘Search’ Browser Enhancement

Code Poet – New resource from the guys behind WordPress

Diving into CanJS

Create an Upload Form using jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 and PHP

Animating CSS3 Gradients

Animated 3D Bar Chart with CSS3

WordPress Meet Responsive Design (Free Ebook)

GoSocial: A Free Social Media Icon Pack

Free Icons for a Menu

Adobe CS6 Replacement Icons

Clear Login Window Template (PSD)

Instagram GUI (.psd)

Bariol Regular – Free Font

Infographic – How Tech Savvy Are Today's Dads?

How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body

This Week on CodeVisually

Here are our favorite webdev resources from the past week:

Koottam

Riloadr

Foundation Icon Font

Quake Slider

AngularJS

stroll.js

Style Tiles

Mixpanel Flow

Responsive Grid System

Retina.js

The ICO Amends the EU Cookie Law to Allow ‘Implied Consent’

Posted: 28 May 2012 02:00 PM PDT

At the last minute, the UK's Information Commisioner's Office (ICO) has decided to dilute an already watery law. Last Thursday, among the last minute amendments to the law, legislators added implied consent to the EU Cookie law, which appears to be an appeal to overall acceptance and at odds with the law's requirements of explicit informed consent.

After a year of leeway to allow organizations to work towards compliance with the Cookie Law, the ICO has rolled back to previous considerations of implied consent as being “more practical” solution to the explicit and, very visible, opt-in model. In a post on the ICO website, Dave Evans, Group Manager of Business and Industry, offered a summary of the clarifications:

In short, implied consent is considered a valid form of consent and is considered compliant with the revised cookie rules. To be able to rely on implied consent, it is required that you don't rely on a complex privacy policy and have users that understand that they are engaged in actions that result in setting cookies. However, the ICO suggests that explicit consent may be warranted in cases of sensitive personal data collection.

Head of marketing and privacy law at a prominent UK law firm, Stephen Groom, said that the decision to consider implied consent as a valid form of consent was a “striking shift” from previous ICO statements where the ICO said that consumer awareness was not high enough for websites to rely entirely on implied consent, whereas now they stated that “implied consent has always been a reasonable proposition in the context of data protection law.”

How is the development community responding to this sudden change? With some ire, to put it delicately. Silktide, who had previously created videos on the law's implementation, expressed some outrage, pointing out: “A year ago you graciously granted us an extra year to comply with the law, announcing your decision just 24 hours before the law came into effect. Last week, 24 hours before the really-we-mean-it-this-time law took hold, you changed it completely.”

These new guidelines challenge the UK web economy, equally challenging companies from Fortune 500 (Adobe) sizes to those on a smaller scale, such as Speckyboy. These new guidelines prevented this website from executing a planned implementation of the Cookie Law and forces it (and other independent sites) to come up with new lighter solutions.

20 Creative Personal Blog Web Designs

Posted: 28 May 2012 08:42 AM PDT

As clearly and concisely defined by Wikipedia, a blog is ‘a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries (“posts”)…’. But when you do read back that definition you soon realize how far we have drifted away from it, especially over the last couple of years and particularly within the design community. Once upon-a-time a blog was a place where you could express your opinions, your thoughts and your ideas. Nothing more, nothing less. Just your personal writing.

Nowadays though, a blog is viewed as many things (a marketing tool, a means for businesses to communicate with customers, a portfolio, an ecommerce solution, and on, and on…) and very rarely do you come across a new blog that fits into the definition I highlighted above. Yes, I know that the web is continually evolving, and that trends do come and go. But when I was researching this post, I found myself yearning for a bygone era when discovering a new personal blog, especially within the design community, could often be exciting and educational.

Anyway, back to this post, the good news is that I did manage find 20 blogs, mainly from the design community, that not only do they meet the criteria set out by the Wikipedia definition above, but that are also beautifully and originally designed as well. Just as ‘blogs’ should be.

Here they are:

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