The Archives
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01.03.06My Site on the Small ScreenScoble has been talking about websites rendering on a cellphone screen lately (here and here), but has been looking at it a bit one sided. It isn't always the website designers fault that a site looks terrible on the small screen (though admittedly, most of the time it is). I would suggest to Scoble, and indeed everyone using a small screen to surf, either the Opera Mobile browser for smartphones/PDAs, or the Opera Mini browser for standard handsets. My site looks great on Opera Mobile/Mini. P.S. Yes, I am back blogging again, I promise!
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10.18.05Design Mistakes on WeblogsJakob Nielsen has written a great list of the Top Ten Design Mistakes people make on weblogs. If you have your own blog, definitely give it a read. I think my biggest rule breaker is the fact that I don't have an about me page. I have never really though about this, but now that I am I have no idea why I don't. I will get on up by next week, for sure. Other than that, I think I did pretty good with those rules. The only other thing I could improve on is my posting frequency, though new content should ...
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08.13.05Is Site Design Still Relevent?Kent Newsome has posted another article, based on Steve Rubel's post, that got me thinking. Give it a read here, my comments below. Kent, I totally understand your sentiment. I used to work as a web designer, I understand the personalization that the different site designs give. Unfortunately though, I can't share all of your opinion. I aggregate a lot of feeds. Being a journalist with MobileBurn, I need to stay connected to a lot of different sites. I really do appreciate the generic design across all the feeds I read in an aggregator. Although I do miss the individuality of a ...
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07.16.05SitePoint’s Been Updated!One of my favorite web design resources has been given a facelift, so here is a link to the all new, wonderful, SitePoint!