The amazing popularity of the bookmarking site Del.icio.us is one of the hallmarks of the current social software renaissance happening on the Web. Along with Flickr, Del.icio.us is a poster child of tagging, a simple feature whereby people attach words or phrases to an item. In the case of Del.icio.us, those items are bookmarks. Sidenote- [...]
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It’s this simple: if you don’t understand the fundamentals of landscape painting, you don’t understand the fundamentals of web design. In fact, if you don’t grok landscapes you won’t possess the requisite understanding for working in photography, music composition, ballet, filmmaking, architecture or any other art or design endeavor.
Web designers are looking for information on [...]
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An oft-quoted nugget of wisdom in the consumer world is, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” While this is certainly true for situations such as getting the wrong cup of coffee, putting together a puzzle only to find the last piece missing, or demanding that your meal be free because you found a hair in [...]
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Something is skewed and backward. So far as I can tell, the Web design community is hopelessly distracted by technical fetish. So-called or self-proclaimed designers are refusing to touch on matters of visual design, while at [...]
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Work has sent me out for some offline experience- and I report to you all now from Quincy, Massachusetts. The ride wasn’t bad from NY- took only about 4 and something hours- coworker Lee took the ride with me, so we rocked the iPod and made fun of people in other cars to pass the [...]
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There has been too much nonsense spouted about the effectiveness of certain successful companies’ websites and it’s time to correct it. Those who say that poorly designed websites are partly responsible for some companies’ success are feeding you a load of crap. And too many of you are eating it up.
Stop it. Bad design harms [...]
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Lately there’s been some discussion about whether or not to use the term “Web 2.0″ in the future. Was it all just a fad? Are we cheating people and marketing fake concepts? Russel Shaw over at ZDNet boldly says it doesn’t exist. Richard McManus says it’s the nail in the coffin and calls quits on [...]
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I have upgrade the open soure for the mikull.com (aside from the message board) to wordpress 2.0
The WordPress community is very proud to present the next generation of WordPress to the world, our 2.0 “Duke” release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. We’ve been working long and hard to bring you [...]
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Finally, the beginning of my blogs on the HighEdWebDev2005 track sessions that I attended. The first, and perhaps most jolting I attended was Born to be Wired; presented by Mark Greenfield, Director of Web Services from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The following is the sessions abstract.
The ongoing communications revolution combined with [...]
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The oldies continue to be goodies — or rather, baddies — in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005. This is not to say these are the worst things developers are doing on the web- but that there’s value in reminding ourselves of past findings and raising their priority on [...]
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