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Making MySpace Beautiful.

I hate MySpace. It is programmed in .NET, is buggy, full of annoying ads, and is EXTREMELY ugly. However, it is an amazing social phenomenon. 50 million users. Wow. Insane. Amazing.

Mike Davidson has managed to take away the EXTREMELY ugly piece. Check out how. I would bow before this greatness, but that would be… bad. I think…

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Posted April 19th, 2006 in External Link by Matt

Web App Icons

Icons can really brush up a design or UI for a Web site or Web application (as you can tell by the complete lack of icons on this site…). I’ve found a few great icon sets.

Free Web Icons

Not Free, but totally worth it, Web Icons

I’m sure there are others out there that I’m just not aware of, any other great icon sets out there?

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Posted April 19th, 2006 in Web Design by Matt

Hivelogic’s Setup

Dan Benjamin (Hivelogic) has posted his hardware and software setup. Very helpful.

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Posted April 17th, 2006 in External Link by Matt

W3C: HTML Slidy

Powerpoint-like slide shows written using XHTML.

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Posted April 14th, 2006 in External Link by Matt

X3Church Redesign

X3Church.com redesigned. I don’t like it :(. It is now out of my “favorite Web designs” list.

The design is less appealing to me, and their code went from bad to worse. Now they are stuck in a frame set, thus making it impossible for me to link to any single page inside the site. Bad move, guys. The frames are also going to cause google to choke on numerous occasions. Once you get into the frames (view the source of an individual frame), things get a bit better, not much, but a little. XHTML Transitional, but still table based layout.

As far as general usability goes, I can’t comment on that. I haven’t played with the site long enough yet. I’ll report back on that later.

I love x3church and everything it is doing, and everything it stands for. Hopefully they will be speaking at our church this next fall. The design is good and definitely better than I could do. But all in all, the new site is a step backwards. Sorry guys. Have the developers head over to Godbit.com for some feedback and suggestions. They can help!

My previous comments about xxxchurch.com’s design.

Why you should never use frames for a Web site, ever.

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Posted April 12th, 2006 in Web Design by Matt

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