digiwebs Reader Survey Results Nick Finck March 3, 2005 at /files/includes/10.css:19 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! The results from the 2004 Digital Web Magazine readership survey are now online. I think one of the most interesting pieces of information here is the number of readers who are now using Firefox. In addition … Read more
The 2005 SXSW People Awards Nick Finck March 21, 2005 at 12:44 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, as we do every year now, rather than just posting a standard list of names and links to people I meet, I ve everyone a title of sorts. The titles were developed and … Read more
Typeface Selection Nick Finck March 23, 2005 at 12:13 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Cameron Moll has published a great post entitled The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection. This is a great place to start when selecting a typface for a new design. There are some very handy tips here … Read more
News : March 2005 Sunbird For several years now I have been searching for a decent calendar app being that I have long since abandoned any use of Outlook (due to its nature to seemingly attract security attacks and viruses [virii?]). At any rate I checked all of the usual shareware and freeware sources and … Read more
Ideal web team size? Nick Finck April 26, 2005 at 2:03 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Andy Budd has an interesting post about The Ideal Web Team and several people have posted some good comments and offered alternative lists of who should be on an ideal web team. Including myself, so … Read more
If you can’t beat them… Nick Finck April 18, 2005 at 6:17 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! If you can’t beat them, buy them… or so the story goes for Adobe which announced today that it will be purchasing Macromedia for approximately $3.4 billion. While this may not seem like that … Read more
Pushing the limits Nick Finck April 23, 2005 at 9:51 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! I was having a conversation with Garrett Dimon the other day via IM. We were discussing the whole design and inspiration subject. While it’s one thing to allow another design to inspire your design, it’s quite … Read more
News : April 2005 Currents 9 Speaking of events, my friend Paul Ingram reminds me that Currents 9 is just around the corner. This year it is going to be held at the Seattle Art Museum on May 20th right here in Seattle. Speakers include John Maeda (MIT), Marty O’Donnell (Bungie; Myth, Halo 2), Tim … Read more
Content is king, but where’s the proof? Nick Finck May 25, 2005 at 8:46 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! It seems like everyone is on the content kick again. First D. Keith Robinson’s post on the Content Brief and then Amy Gahran’s post on the Content Strategy. It’s interesting how so … Read more
Nine Years of Digital Web Magazine Nick Finck May 13, 2005 at 5:34 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Today marks a very special day for Digital Web Magazine. I have already sent a big thank you to our contributors via email. But for you, our readers, I want to thank you … Read more
Steve Jobs Turns Down WebVisions Keynote Address Nick Finck May 1, 2005 at /files/includes/10.css:45 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! As some of you may have already heard, it is true, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has declined to provide the keynote address for this year’s WebVisions conference. You can read all … Read more
Switching Nick Finck May 28, 2005 at 12:53 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There seems to be a lot of talk about switching lately; someone switching to a Mac, someone switching to Linux and even a whole company switching platforms. For those who have been paying attention to my Flickr photostream, … Read more
News : May 2005 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine Most of us have done it. We’ve cast aside our film cameras for the conveniences of digital photography. Don’t like a snap? Delete it. But what about all those photos of friends, flowers and relations that did make the cut? First time contributing author Matt … Read more
Google’s site ranking algorithms revealed Nick Finck June 17, 2005 at 8:46 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! It seems that Google has publicly posted their site ranking algorithms via a public patent filing. Now my first thought was “oh great, now every manipulative marketer on the block is going to abuse … Read more
The lesser known Nick Finck June 8, 2005 at 7:17 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! There has been a lot of sites circling around lately about web celebrities; A lists, top 50 lists, what famous web guru are you, who’s in the musical baton circle, the uberrati etc. The funny thing … Read more
Thoughts on the Technorati beta Nick Finck June 13, 2005 at 12:23 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Jay Fienberg tells me that there is a new Technorati Beta out for everyone to kick the tires on. A lot of great people are working on Technorati and have contributed to this beta … Read more
News : June 2005 Early bird registration ends tomorrow There are just 24 hours left for you to get the special Early Bird rate for WebVisions 2005. Registration rates will go up starting after July 1st so hurry up and grab your tickets. The show is filling up pretty quickly now that we have announced … Read more
Blogs and Usability Nick Finck July 22, 2005 at 2:23 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! The Catalyst Group Design has published A Study of Blogs and Usability. The results are rather interesting but expected. If anyone has been to a BJ Fogg presentation you’ll know that we need to start moving … Read more
The Video iPod Nick Finck July 28, 2005 at 7:21 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! So I am sitting in the car on our way back from lunch yesterday. I look over at Lee and say, “You know, it’s only a matter of time before there is a Video Pod.” …I … Read more
News : July 2005 Hierarchy, Facets, and Tags do Battle The OSA Foundation has a pretty interesting read on Hierarchy vs. Facets vs. Tags which I recommend you check out if you are doing any kind of IA work. Some pretty good points are brought up here. This all, of course, points back to Chandler. … Read more
IA with content or IA with code? Nick Finck September 20, 2005 at 3:00 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Garrett Dimon has posted a great article about Information Architecture as part of his series on redesigning his site step by step (also see Getting Our Act Together). One thing about the … Read more
OmniGraffle 4.0 Nick Finck September 14, 2005 at 9:20 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! My friends at OmniGroup tell me that OmniGraffle 4.0 has been released. Clearly some of my friends are not excited about this as I am, but that’s ok… they’d only understand if they were an information architect … Read more
The ROI of a good copy writer Nick Finck September 8, 2005 at 6:22 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Ok, today WebTrends launched Web Position. Now, I am sure this is a great piece of software that helps you quantify your listings with search engines. However, the problem I am seeing … Read more
News : September 2005 Blue Flavor Ok, for those of you who are regular readers you will know I have been hinting at a new business venture for a while now. Well, the waiting is over. After much nurturing I am happy to announce the launch of Blue Flavor. Blue Flavor is a experience design … Read more