My friend Dmitry from Sydney posted a shot of me during my WebDU presentation. He took the picture during one of my favorite slides. Read More
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One of my favorite news websites is was ABCNews.com. They recently redesigned their website and destroyed most of what I liked about it. Their old design was similar to the New York Times. They had an easy to read home page that made all of … Read More
There are a lot of websites for sale at any given time. Often times, webmasters will create new websites, stuff them with content (often stolen from other well performing websites) and then ramp up the traffic with unscrupulous traffic generating schemes. They do all of … Read More
Although some designs are probably too late to save — cough, Orkut — Google did a very nice job redesigning their AdSense entrance page. The old design (taken from Google’s cache) sports the same super-low-quality thumbnail that’s always been there, along with their oh-so-boring layout. … Read More
Breadcrumbs are a form of secondary navigation for websites. They’re useful, because they: show the user where they are provide one-click access for section hierarchy are small and take up very little space are potential SEO keyword targets I try to use breadcrumbs whenever I … Read More
Here’s a tip I just now found out about. In TextMate, the HTML bundle has a ton of available snippets. Unfortunately, they don’t automatically add the closing trailing slash for certain elements. For example, instead of inserting <br/> or <input type="text"/> TextMate inserts <br> or … Read More
Shelly Rhee Dennison has joined Sitening’s Web design team. Trained as a graphic designer, Dennison’s extensive knowledge of cutting edge CSS, XHTML, design for usability and information architecture complement Sitening’s approach to website development. Dennison will be responsible for client website design, focused on creating … Read More
Sitening’s favorite editor for developing websites — TextMate — has a new book for learning the ins and outs of this amazing program. It’s called, “Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac.” The book description says it all, although I’m not sure about the ninja part. … Read More
When I was first asked to write a sponsored review for a new free font website, I expected to see another quickly slapped together site that had static font samples and a difficult download process. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Urban Fonts was … Read More