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  • October 18, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    A List Apart Web Designer Survey Results

    A few months ago I pointed everyone to the web designer survey hostedby A List Apart. The historic survey is complete and the results arenow in.

  • October 15, 2007 in Business & Process

    Remember, the IT Aspect of Web Design is Inconsequential

    This is kind of a follow up to a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago entitled "Don't Send Me Your IT Department". After writing that article, I started becoming more aware of my own attitude about the programming and IT aspect of web design.

  • October 10, 2007 in Programming & IT

    More Mashup Tools Thanks to Yahoo!

    I've featured some cool mashup tools on Bits O' NewMedia in the past. Dapper.net is one of my favorite and the driving force behind my experimental site midessamashup.com. The number of free mashup tools continues to grow, though, and now Yahoo! is entering the ring with Pipes. I haven't used Pipes on a project yet but I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with the features. In addition to the features Dapper.net offers, Pipes has an RSS feed combiner and a some geocoding stuff that looks really cool. Plus, you know that Yahoo! has the resources to maintain the Pipes service and continue to improve it. It will be interesting to see where it goes in the near future.

  • October 5, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Grow Collective - Web Design Co-operative

    Grow is a co-operative based in the UK. It seems like there are more and more of these types of loose collections of independent designers. New media producers tend to be very entrepreneurial and independent so the co-operative may be the solution to the cons of going it alone.

  • October 3, 2007 in Design Inspiration

    Breaking Down the Colors of the Top 20 Magazine Covers

    Vitamin News posted a link to an article on colourlovers.com that shows the top twenty magazine covers of all time along with their color palettes. It's an interesting study at least and a great point of inspiration at best.

  • September 28, 2007 in Business & Process

    Don't Send Me Your IT Department

    "Get to the Point" a daily email newsletter from marketingprofs.com recently had an article entitled "Information Technology is from Mars, Marketing is from Venus". The title immediately struck a chord with me. Many times I've gone to consult with a company about their web site and they sent their IT guys out while their marketing department was AWOL.

  • September 27, 2007 in Design Inspiration

    LogoLounge.Com - 2007 Logo Trends

    This is an interesting article about design trends for logos in 2007. The section that really struck me was the one entitled "rubber band". I blame the Lance Armstrong awareness bands for this particular trend. They've been so pervasive for so long that they've finally made their way through the designer psyche and materialized on paper.

  • September 26, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Writing Well is Never Bad

    In new media we frequently find ourselves in situations where we are forced to wear more than one hat. The fact that many clients use us as their complete ad agency solution is just the nature of the business. Because of this it is important that we are reasonably good writers. Common grammatical errors which are easy to avoid can be deal breakers when you are emailing a client, writing copy, or blogging...

  • September 20, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    What Does Your Design Really Say?

    As designers, whether we realize it or not, the products of our labor have a huge effect on culture at large. Specifically, web designers decide how linguistic data should be presented to the population which affect how they will interact with that data. Wow! Design matters. A perfect example of this is the recent project of design gurus Pilipp Steinweber and Andreas Koller called Similar Diversity. Essentially, Similar Diversity is a graphical representation of the common word usage in the writings considered holy by the major world religions. It portrays all religion as a huge nebulous blob of similar thoughts and ideas. This design is saying something and affecting the way people think in a very tangible way. It reminds me that every decision I make in my design process should be evaluated carefully so I can better understand the message I am conveying with my design. Can theology really be reduced to a mechanistic chart of similar words ripped from their original context? After all the meaning of a word changes dramatically when you change the words around it. No. Religions are opposed to each other in concept not in common use of language to express those concepts.

  • September 18, 2007 in Product Reviews

    Large File Tranfser Part 2: Paid Solutions

    After the previous post about transferring large files, a reader brought to my attention the fact that there are paid services like LeapFile out there that basically do exactly what I am describing. If you are a web designer that likes to leave the hosting up to the client, then these solutions will be great for you. On the other hand, if you resell hosting, which I assume a lot of you do, then you are already paying for storage and bandwith so it makes more sense to have your own solution.

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