News : February 2004 Metadata: Seven Tips for Writing Better Keywords It’s not often that I link to articles Gerry McGovern publishes. It is not because he doesn’t write great articles, it is because once he has published an article, it is linked

News : February 2004 Metadata: Seven Tips for Writing Better Keywords It’s not often that I link to articles Gerry McGovern publishes. It is not because he doesn’t write great articles, it is because once he has published an article, it is linked everywhere already… kind of like Nielsen or Zeldman. Well, here is a … Read more

People we met at SXSW 2004

People we met at SXSW 2004 Nick Finck March 18, 2004 at 2:49 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, rather than just posting a standard list of names and links to people I have met, I have decided to give everyone a title of sorts. The titles were developed and given … Read more

News : March 2004

News : March 2004 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine In this issue of Digital Web Magazine we are happy to bring you a great article by Matt Mullenweg that examines the art of PHP for Designers. It used to be that there were coders and then there were creative types, and never the two … Read more

New Issue of Digital Web Magazine

New Issue of Digital Web Magazine Nick Finck April 28, 2004 at 4:34 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! In this week’s issue of Digital Web Magazine Richard MacManus explores how corporate web sites have evolved over the past ten years, putting some of the current and future trends in web design … Read more

News : April 2004

News : April 2004 New issue of A List Apart Issue 176 of A List Apart is out. In this issue you will find two great articles, the first is What Is Web Accessibility? by Trenton Moss. As you can guess by the title, the article April 30, 2004 at 5:15 PM Nick Finck A … Read more

Blogging for business

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Blogging for business Nick Finck May 19, 2004 at 2:30 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! PhotoMatt points out yet another presentation on the subject of business blogging: Blogging For Fun & Profit. It’s kind of interesting to see how other presenters cover same basic topics. For example, here is my original … Read more

Comments Now Open

Comments Now Open Krista Stevens May 14, 2004 at 8:22 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! The look is not the only thing that’s new—comment functionality has been added so that readers can post thoughts on articles we publish and items posted in our What’s New blog. The web has been built … Read more

Design Eye: It’s not quite that simple Nick Finck May 19, 2004 at 11:27 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Here is a rather comical post from Design by Fire entitled Design Eye for the Usability Guy. The post makes light of the whole design vs

Design Eye: It’s not quite that simple Nick Finck May 19, 2004 at 11:27 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Here is a rather comical post from Design by Fire entitled Design Eye for the Usability Guy. The post makes light of the whole design vs. usability issue. I wish it was … Read more

New Issue of Digital Web Magazine (redesign)

New Issue of Digital Web Magazine (redesign) Nick Finck May 13, 2004 at 1:30 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, things this week are going to be a little bit different for everyone including you, our readers. First, yes we have a new issue out entitled The Transformation of an Industry, … Read more

Dr. Web Weblog Redesign Comments

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Dr. Web Weblog redesign comments Nick Finck May 24, 2004 at 11:/files/includes/10.css AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There is a great thread that has been going for a while on the Dr. Web Weblog about the Digital Web Magazine redesign. It’s in German so I have provided a English translation courtesy … Read more

Patterns in Design

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Patterns in Design Nick Finck May 21, 2004 at /files/includes/10.css:41 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! So there has been talk about quiet trends within the design community such as the use of shadows or the choice of commonly used colors, yours truly even wrote about the need for white padding around … Read more

Effective Web Style Guides

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Effective Web Style Guides Nick Finck May 17, 2004 at 8:51 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Rarely do I link to some of the great articles Gerry McGovern has authored. It’s not because I have a personal bias against his work, it’s often because the articles are so short that they … Read more

News : May 2004 Kold Kut redesign My good friend JAZ of Kold Kut Productions tells me that they have launched the redesign of koldkut.com. The new design is XHTML 1.0 Transitional with CSS for layout. Pretty well done for a music site. Also, be

News : May 2004 Kold Kut redesign My good friend JAZ of Kold Kut Productions tells me that they have launched the redesign of koldkut.com. The new design is XHTML 1.0 Transitional with CSS for layout. Pretty well done for a music site. Also, be sure to sample some of their phat tracks. May 31, … Read more

Burnt Out on Web Standards

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Burnt Out on Web Standards Nick Finck June /files/includes/10.css, 2004 at 2:22 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Keith writes a well articulated post about why he is Sick of Web Standards. And you know, after reading the post all the way through, I have to agree and I don’t think I … Read more

Got Gmail?

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Got Gmail? Nick Finck June 15, 2004 at 12:/files/includes/10.css PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! I am sure you have seen the Gmail invites going around (If not, check out whitespace, dezwozhere, jluster, minjungkim, widgetopia, wholelottanothing, and about /files/includes/10.css0 other sites). Well, just because it’s the trendy thing to do these days: … Read more

Speak up about Web Standards

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Speak up about Web Standards Nick Finck June 11, 2004 at 2:52 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! For those of you confused my Burnt Out on Web Standards post the other day. Let me clarify some of the confusion in the most simplest terms I can: we need to stop advocating … Read more

The Lost Portfolio

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The lost portfolio Nick Finck June 18, 2004 at 12:55 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Here is a list of portfolios I know. These are people I either know personally or know through the web community. We cut the list down to individual portfolios that focused on web design. Please use … Read more

News : June 2004

News : June 2004 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine This issue of Digital Web Magazine is a special double issue which includes a great product review and an excellent interview. For the product review Will Chatham joins us to give some insight into the extensibility of Mozilla’s Firefox 0.9 browser. For the interview Craig … Read more

Comments on the Technorati redesign

Comments on the Technorati redesign Nick Finck July 26, 2004 at 6:32 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! So the latest buzz about redesigns is the Technorati redesign. Adaptive Path worked with Tim Gasparak to develop the initial CSS/XHTML standardized look and feel, then Tantek Çelik took templates and code and reworked … Read more

The ROI of Web Standards

The ROI of Web Standards Nick Finck July 31, 2004 at 11:03 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Following Doug Bowman’s post on Throwing Tables Out the Window Richard Rutter has taken to task Real life savings through Web standards. This is very reminiscent of Keith Robinson’s post on Web Standards ROI … Read more

What is Interaction Design?

What is Interaction Design? Nick Finck July 22, 2004 at 6:51 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Dan Saffer has posted a pretty good Definition of Interaction Design. For the first time he calls out the critical issues that surround the Interaction Design practice. Namely, interaction design is “not about the interaction … Read more

News : July 2004

News : July 2004 The ROI of Web Standards Following Doug Bowman’s post on Throwing Tables Out the Window Richard Rutter has taken to task Real life savings through Web standards. This is very reminiscent of Keith Robinson’s post on Web Standards ROI this last June. Shirley Kaiser also voiced in with her comments recently. … Read more

Giving Credit

Giving Credit Nick Finck August 25, 2004 at 11:08 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There is something to be said about the lack of credit blogs and community news sites give to their sources. Make no mistake, Digital Web Magazine is a firm believer in the code of Weblog Ethics and … Read more

Switch

Switch Nick Finck August 20, 2004 at /files/includes/10.css:51 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, no, we are not talking Apple here… We are talking browsers. Browse Happy is the latest project to launch from the Web Standards Project. My hats off to the team at WaSP for making this happen. [from … Read more

News : August 2004

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News : August 2004 Mozilla.org redesigns So the new design for mozilla.org has launched. Much to my chagrin most of my suggestions were not implemented… but then again, they were only posted a few hours before the design was set to launch. Anyway, good job on the redesign, it’s a huge improvement over the last … Read more