5 for Friday | The Week's Best Blogs (3/20/09 Edition)
March 20th, 2009 in Friday Blog Clips
by: Matthew Griffin
SXSWi 2009 is over now. As always, the conference was inspiring and overwhelming. In comparing 2009 to previous years at SWSWi there has been a noticeable shift in the overall emphasis of the panels from practical web design topics to discussions centered around social interaction, internet culture, and philosophy. We may be entering the time when the web design industry really starts to define itself from foundational philosophical and worldview standpoint. I will be posting two more articles dissecting SXSWi panels over the next two week. Here's this week's 5 for Friday.
10 Ways to Automatically and Manually Backup MySQL Database - Noupe
- Blog.SpoonGraphics
14 jQuery Plugins for Working with Images - Six Revisions
50 Free Fabric Textures - DesignM.ag
Sites Without Menus: Do You Really Need a Main Nav? - Devlounge
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Posted By: Edgar on 03/20/09
I like the whole idea of no menus. MOst people come to our site through searches. the rest, through friends. I doubt that many are clicking on the menus to find stuff. I can tell you that the only menu I've used on your site (and others) is the about and contact. Those two should stay or at least a way to get to that info.
Posted By: Matthew Grffin on 03/20/09
Yeah. I thought that concept was very interesting and it seems to work on the Devlounge website.