I took the 2007 Alistapart web design survey. Have you?

As students in my Online Design class embarked on their final project, I lectured on the overall site planning process and working with a client. Monday by noon posted their site planning process focusing on what questions to ask your client. The more web sites I freelance, the more I [...]

There are a lot of websites with Web 2.0 design tips, hints and tricks. Today, I found this stripe generator which easily builds stripes that you can use for your Web 2.0 background. Yeah! Ok, how long is this web 2.0 design trend going to last and can’t we just [...]

South by Southwest Interactive 2007 kicked off today. I went last year, but couldn’t make it this year. By far, it’s the best interactive media conference around. All of the web rock stars are in attendance and presenting. Where else can you strike up a conversation with Eric Meyer about [...]

The US Patent office has just issued Yahoo a patent for customizable web page. In 1997 Yahoo filed a patent for a “dynamic page generator” that allowed a user to save a page and then have that page generate customized information. Just stop for a second and think about all [...]

The Mike Huckabee exploratory committee launched a new web site. It is a big improvement over the previous iteration that I blogged about when announced he was running for president. Some of the improvements in the sight include a title (I Like Mike), campaign blog, video, links to social networking [...]

Google went missing a consonant on Valentine’s Day… According to the Google blog, the typo was on purpose. They call it a “subtle” design.

In his Web Tips column on Poynter.org Sree Sreenivasan looks at some web based Photoshop Alternatives. The four web based photo editors he recommends are Picnik.com Snipshot.com Pixer.us Fauxto.com (pronounced “photo”) I’ve never used any of these, but I plan on checking them out. Especially Picnik.com which he says integrates [...]

This past weekend we found a Nintendo Wii. I’ve been looking for one since Christmas. Looking is probably overstating it, but whenever I was at the local Wal-Mart or electronic stores, I’ve check out their videogame section to see if they have a Wii in stock. On Sunday afternoon, I [...]

Just as I was explaining to a class about web 2.0, I ran across this wonderful video mashup from Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University of text, screenshots and music explaining the Web 2.0 concept.