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News : September 2004 New Issue of Digital Web Magazine In this week’s issue of Digital Web Magazine we have a fascinating article by Michael I. Almond about how to apply the principles of social change to become a better Web professional. His article is aptly entitled The Web is a Human Creation. He provides … Read more

5,150th Subscriber Giveaway Nick Finck October 13, 2004 at 8:22 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Update: A winner has been selected As I mentioned the other day we are just had our 5,000th subscriber and since that number flew on by we will be celebrating by giving our 5,150th subscriber a … Read more

Browser Stats Nick Finck October 25, 2004 at 4:33 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Since people seem to be boasting their browser stats and showing off how they favor certain browsers, I am going to do the same for Digital Web Magazine: Browser Session % Internet Explorer 40.37% Mozilla 24.99% Firefox … Read more

Flash Player 8? Nick Finck October 25, 2004 at 8:35 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Some news on the Macromedia front today. It appears that Kevin Lynch demoed the next version of the flash player at a conference in Tokyo, Japan a few days ago. Some of the features include a … Read more

Informed Web Design Nick Finck October /files/includes/10.css, 2004 at /files/includes/10.css:21 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Often times we see self-proclaimed web experts dispensing unsolicited blanket statements about how we should design, build, and use the Web. Sometimes they are nothing more than good guesses and common knowledge, other times worse. While … Read more

News : October 2004 Quantifying the User Experience Robert Rubinoff has published an article over at Site Point which dives into How To Quantify The User Experience, or what I would refer to as measuring intangible elements such as branding, usability, functionality, and content. It’s a pretty good read and offers some good quick techniques … Read more

Breaking the 80/20 Rule Nick Finck November 8, 2004 at 1:/files/includes/10.css PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Over the past few weeks I have been conducting an experiment of sorts. It’s a test of the 80/20 rule; 80 percent of the most vital web industry information can be accounted for not by … Read more

EDS in CSS Nick Finck November 15, 2004 at 7:47 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! It looks like EDS has redesigned in XHTML 1.0 transitional with CSS for layout. With that said, I think I am going to stop posting when giant web sites such as this one redesign using CSS. … Read more

Firefox takes first place Nick Finck November 14, 2004 at 6:52 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Since the browser stats that we posted in October seemed to raise a lot of eyebrows. Well, while checking my browser stats out this month I was pretty shocked at the results. I think you … Read more

Live Bookmarks in Firefox Nick Finck November 17, 2004 at 9:50 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! I was having a conversation with DL Byron today and we were talking about how we go about reading our favorite web sites. I started explaining how I use FeedDemon at home for all of … Read more

News : November 2004 Facets of Navigation Peter Van Dijck posts about A-Z Indexes and contrasts it to search and controlled vocabularies. Digital Web Magazine has a A-Z Index as well. The qualitative data we are seeing from the current Annual Readership Survey thus far show that the A-Z Index is the third most used … Read more

News : December 2004 Visio Stencils for Information Architects Well, after some more tweaking and minor adjustments I have released a more finalized set of Visio Stencils for Information Architects. Feel free to download use and tweak to your heart’s content. I’ll be making updates to the files over time so check back every so … Read more

Common discussions on Folksonomies Nick Finck January 17, 2005 at 9:02 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Thomas Vander Wal has authored a great post entitled Folksonomy Explanations which covers the commonly discussed questions and issues surrounding folksonomies. I would like to see some even more in-depth discussion about the topic of … Read more

Going beyond standard navigation Nick Finck January 5, 2005 at /files/includes/10.css:13 AM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Henrik Olsen has a good article on Navigation blindness on GUUUI. This is something I have been waiting to hear more on. In fact just the other day I was trying to explain why I … Read more

News : January 2005 Measuring Conversion Here is an interesting summary on How To Measure Conversion Rates. I would add that these key path analysis are very critical to the success or failure of a site and that there may be more than one key path for a single goal or action. Lastly, while analytics … Read more

Broad and Narrow Folksonomies Nick Finck February 21, 2005 at 4:08 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! Digital Web Magazine contributor and colleague Thomas Vander Wal has a new post up on Personal Info Cloud which covers the topic of Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies. There are some good examples … Read more

Misinformation about the IE7 announcement Nick Finck February 15, 2005 at 2:06 PM Add to Delicious or Add to My Yahoo! As many of you may already know during his keynote address at the RSA conference, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will be releasing a new beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0 for XP SP2 … Read more

News : February 2005 SXSW Events Just wanted to let those who will be attending SXSW this year that I have added all of the official events as well as the other after-hour events going on to Upcoming.org. If you are not a user of the site, you should be… and if you already are, … Read more

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