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Vitamin Features » Stand Up For Your Rights!
Eric Meyer with a few hypothetical conversations on what it takes to learn a trade… CSS? Semantics? Don’t bother me with those silly details! I just want to be a Web designer!
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Jason Fried On Why YouTube Was A Good Purchase
Jason Fried of 37 Signals just posted an article on why YouTube was a good purchase for Google. > It’s not the technology, it’s the experience. It’s simple sharing. It’s easy embedding. It’s reliable viewing. It’s “when I share a YouTube video with someone I know they’re going to be able to see it no […]
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Tech, Knowledge, and Community: Taking Passwords to the Grave
Taking Passwords to the Grave. What happens when the only person with important passwords dies?
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Am I The Only One That Likes iTunes 7?
It seems to be the fashionable thing to hate on iTunes 7. I’m really digging it. I don’t understand what the issue is. Coverflow rocks my face off. It did even before it was integrated into iTunes proper. I also love how they integrated the album art into the library listing. The podcasts screen is […]
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Vitamin Features » Turning visitors into users
“Thousands of people may be visiting your site every day, but if you don’t convince them that they should be using your product, subscribing to your service, or registering in some way, then your web app’s homepage is simply not doing its job.”
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The Web Browser You Are Using Is Incompatible
Recently I have been shopping for printable checks so I can print checks from Quickbooks. I shop at Staples for a lot of my office supplies, it is a quick drive from my house, and usually has good prices, and an easy to use Web site. I was sorely disappointed today when I encountered the […]
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Quality busters: Compare Web site appearance and functionality
Quality busters: Compare Web site appearance and functionality. Does it take a long time to make simple changes to your Web pages? Are bandwidth charges higher than you would like due to the size of your Web pages? Have you written hundreds of lines of code just to handle browser differences? If so, you might […]
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John Dvorak: The Great Microsoft Blunder
John Dvorak says: Microsoft’s entry into the browser business and its subsequent linking of the browser into the Windows operating system looks to be the worst decision—and perhaps the biggest, most costly gaffe—the company ever made.
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Google Page Creator
Well, I can throw in the towel and quit my job. Web site publishing is as easy as any desktop publishing now with Google’s Page Creator. Clean code, decent designs, what do we need Web designers for anymore?
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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. […]
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Microsoft Delays Launch of Vista… Again
“Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it plans to delay the consumer launch of its much-anticipated Windows Vista until after this year’s holiday shopping season, sending its shares down nearly 3 percent.” Surprised? Me neither. Man, Microsoft sure does know how to launch a product… What made me laugh hardest about this whole article though was […]
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Help Wanted Ad: Web Designer
Wanted: Web Designer to help with the new Web site for my extremely cutting edge, high profile, botique business. It was originally created by my 6-month old nephew who actually paid me to let him do it for me. I also need it to be ranked number one or two in a google search for […]