Explorations into theology, technology, leadership, and culture.
As a large part of the process for the impending redesign of The Rock’s Web site, I keep an eye out for great designs that fit into a similar genre of site. relevantmagazine.com, and xxxchurch.com fit very well into that category, but as I have said in the past, their implementation of their great designs […]
(I’m a little late on this one but I wanted to check the studies out for myself before commenting.) Sean Carton on the recent study by Carleton University about Web site aestheitcs. Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa recently discovered that users make judgments about Web site design in as few as 50 milliseconds (a […]
Mr. Zeldman has a beautiful editorial over at A List Apart regarding all the hype around “Web 2.0”. A particularly inspiring quote: …ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly and expensively labored to produce overly complex web applications whose usability was near nil on behalf of clients with […]
I love the graphic design of XXXchurch.com. I also love their mission and ministry. They provide services (especially x3watch) that are very helpful to Christian men and women. While they are a bit late-nineties in their code and other techniques, this site has a great, progressive feel to it. Maybe someday they’ll let me re-code […]
9:00 – Zeldman – Intro, overview, formalities. We are in the middle of a revolution in information transfer; the first since the advent of movable type (Gutenburg’s, not Six Apart’s); the first revolution in the way information is transmitted in 500 years. We are here today to rethink what we do and understand its importance. […]
Today I am in Philadelphia at An Event Apart with Zeldman and Eric Meyer (and Jason Santa Maria). Should definitely be a good time. I’ll try and live blog the highlights. an event apart, web design, css, conferences
After the atrocity that was the Disney Store UK redesign, a fresh wave of articles on professionalism have popped up. Each are very important reads for those of us in the Web development community. Accessibilty, The Gloves Come Off (Interview with Andy Clarke) There are now so many web sites, blogs or publications devoted to […]
How many of you are reading this in an RSS aggregator of some sort? Come on, raise your hands. Yah, me to. But that’s cause we’re all geeks, right? I’m willing to wager that you have a blog with an RSS feed as well, right? I thought so. I was pondering recently how well RSS […]
Apple.com is one of my favorite Web designs. I’m not saying this to be cheesy, or because I am an Apple zealot (even though I am), I just think they have an incredibly clean, simple, beautiful, site that contains a TON of information. The Apple Online Store is especially impressive. Highlighting many of their products […]
Attention, FEMA. You are in violation of Federal Law. This violation has the potential of hindering many people from being able to recover from the ill effects of hurricane Katrina. Your Web site fails to comply with Section 508. This non-compliance prevents those with certain disabilities from accessing the information on your Web site. Section […]
An interesting survey was done at a University in Wales recently: Web site’s appearance matters (from CNN news) In a recent study at Glamorgan University Business School in Wales, test subjects rated the personal Web pages of 60 people for usability and aesthetics. Not surprisingly, male subjects tended to assign higher ratings to pages designed […]
DontClick.It is exploring a new method of user interface, clickless mousing. Basically it looks like they are treating “hovering” over an area as an insinuated click on a link. The area you mouse-over automatically opens, selects, “clicks” through to the next level. I don’t have any research to back this, so what I am offering […]