1. Create the structure bottom-up, label it top-down.
2. Use one categorisation scheme per menu (level).
3. Do not structure a website by audience. Just don’t. You’ll regret it.
4. Never use a bucket as a menu item.
5. Every item you add to a homepage takes attention away from every other item. (Also applies to other pages).
6. Sometimes improving a website means people spend less time on it.
7. Your site-search logs can tell you what people can’t find.
8. FAQs can be useful when they are actually user-driven, and then used to update site content. Otherwise avoid.

Read the detail behind each tip on Nomensa’s blog.

“For the average audience, the credits tell them there’s only three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren’t interested in. I aim to set up the audience for what’s coming; make them expectant.” — SAUL BASS

Really enjoyed this overview of Saul Bass title sequences featuring 46 of Bass’ title designs, over a thousand stills and an occasional video.

Eat Your World spotlights regional foods and drinks around the world. Local grub, typical fare, indigenous eats—we tell you what they are and where to find ‘em when you’re traveling.

I love this idea, we’re always keen to try the local cuisine when on holiday.

It is estimated that by 2030, 92 per cent of Britons will live in cities. The CEO of charity Trees for Cities on why its so important but difficult to plant trees in our streets.

I would add “don’t just plant any old tree – plant a fruiting tree…”

How two guys turned recycled coffee grounds into a gourmet mushroom empire.

via grist.org

The Guerrilla Grafters are a group of San Franciscans who believe urban trees are a precious thing to waste on simple flowers. Their goal is to graft- albeit illegally- fruit bearing branches onto non-fruit bearing fruit trees, in hopes that over time the cities ornamental trees can provide food for residents free of charge.

In this video, we follow Guerrilla Grafters Tara Hui and Booka Alon as they check up on their surreptitious grafts, perform a bit of pruning and search for their trees’ first fruit.

Give your site a boost! Implement crucial optimization techniques that will improve not only your ySlow score, but your Google rank too. In this tutorial we will cover all aspects of W3 caching, ySlow, Google page speed, CSS sprites and htaccess rules.

Read more at WPTuts+

Exciting times!

My favourite Australian farm, Milkwood posted a great article on how to extract honey from Warré hives. What better way to get kids (of all ages) involved too than getting messy with hand-squeezing comb?