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August, 2007

23 August

Two new ad technologies

The Lost Remote TV blog discussed two new online advertising technologies that I want to point out to you. First, YouTube is finally going to start putting ads in the video using video overlay ads. The new semi-transparent ads will cover the lower fifth of the screen and disappear after [...]

23 August
Posted in Online Media

Code like a web star

If you aren’t a web star or can’t code like a web star, you can at least buy code from a web star. Eric Meyer now has his very own CSS Sculptor. This new Dreamweaver compatible tool creates standards-compliant two and three column layouts from a menus driven product and [...]

22 August

Finally, embedded Google maps

Google is finally offering easy tools to embed a Google map in your website. There have been third party tools to do this for a while or you get a Google developer API key, but this is so much simpler.

21 August
Posted in Online Media

Tips for the home

Vitamin has four good tips to remember when redesigning your home page. 60 percent of users enter the average site from somewhere besides the home page, so focus on consistent site wide navigation. Start out by designing a standard text page to establish the style and usability of the design [...]

19 August
Posted in Journalism

When local newspapers aren’t local

“Newspapers like the Dallas Morning News, the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Minneapolis Star Tribune are hurting not because they’re local, but because they’re not local enough. And as they try to figure out how to be local, they’re discovering they lack the proper tools. [...]

14 August
Posted in Online Media

Good reads from ALA

A List Apart has some great articles in it’s most recent issues covering dealing with clients and staying fresh. Kevin Cornell gives us a list of tips to stay motivated to create and Jack Zeal helps us figure out the right design metaphors to use when talking with clients so [...]

14 August

Facebook’s growth

Facebook is the current ideal prototype of social media. Since it opened up its network outside of college its growth has been astounding with many media stories with outrageous stats. Shel Israel decided to see if the stats were true and called up Facebook’s corporate communications folks. Here’s a smattering [...]

13 August
Posted in Convergence, Me

Good enough isn’t enough

Seth Godin has a great post on his blog asking is good enough enough?. Instead of good enough he says we should redefine the objective to be “makes some people uncomfortable, changes the entire competitive landscape and is truly remarkable in that many of the key people we reach feel [...]

12 August
Posted in Online Media

Three great photo web sites

Photo portfolio sites are moving beyond the simple Photoshop/Fireworks exported images thrown onto a page to where the site should showcase the photographers vision and personality while being cutting edge in order to attract new clients. Layers Magazine looks at three distinct approaches to photographers web portfolios. My favorite photo [...]

12 August

Add more Gmail space?

Google announced this week that you can buy more space for your gmail if you are running out. It’s only $20 a year for 6 GB of additional online space. You can also apply the additional space to your Picasa web albums, too. Of course it’s hard for me to [...]

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