Aug
13
Most Annoying Website Today
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I’d like to nominate Forbes.com as being the most annoying websites I’ve seen so far today. I have nothing good or bad to say against the printed magazine, or it’s content, but the website turned me way off.
For starters, the first thing I saw when I went to the site via an organic SE link […]
Aug
7
2 More sites Launched from HattersWorkshop
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www.spielmandesign.com and www.brennerarchgroup.com have both gone live. I invite you to check them out. I also appreciate any comments left by people who are reading this –be it technical, aesthetic, or creative.
Ill be launching another site later this week so as you can see It’s been pretty busy around these parts.
Jul
7
One of my least favorite things to do is edit DNS entries of my clients. I know the ops panel of my host, powweb, inside and out. However, I’ve never encountered an ops panel on another host that works as well or is as easy to understand at the one used at powweb.com.
This last week […]
Jun
19
Last week I was a personal web tutor for a very prestigious designer. I provided instruction on basic web design and how to use Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Finished the course with instruction on using dreamweaver CM templates system, and the whole time we had a healthy dialogs about design and web best practices going on.
The […]
May
29
Technical Trauma
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I walked into my office yesterday morning and was greeted by silence. A very unnerving sound when I had for months been greeted by the somewhat irksome spinning of my PC’s numerous fans. Something was wrong. Very wrong. Upon pushing the power button the machine started and beeped once. As soon as the text faded […]
Apr
23
Left or Right Navigation?
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Recently, a client of mine asked me why I have the navigation on the right side of the page on all of my sites, except one. The answers have everything to do with usability. Not to mention the designer in me thinks most sites look better if the navigation is on the right but personal […]
Apr
9
Book Review: Don’t make me think 2ed Edition – Steve Krug
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Last week I read Steven Krug’s book, Don’t Make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. I learned that most people ask totally the wrong questions when designing a site. Further, without being able to test our solutions in any sort of a real world atmosphere it’s impossible to know what we’re doing […]