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in Code, Design, Findings, Inspiration, Uncategorized on January 28th, 2010
Every so often I come across a company or community of developers (and designers) who put out great, inspiring, innovative work…for free.
I believe a big part of being an active member of any community, such as the “people who build websites community”, is to give back and provide people with the opportunity to learn and grow. On top of giving information and showing how things can be done and built, every now and then you come across work that is a notch above the rest.
Recently, I was browsing a popular design/dev website and came across this playground, built and maintained…
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in Business, Findings, Inspiration on January 22nd, 2010
So what is content? It’s simple. It’s the stuff that goes on your website. The reason people come visit in the first place. The informative text, images, video, audio, etc… that keep people engaged and provide value to your users. You know, that stuff.
Content has to be one of the most important aspects to your site, right? After all, even if you have superb interaction, intuitive navigation, and stunning graphics, who is going to come to your site (and stay) without any worthwhile content?
Unfortunately, there are some who are disinclined to recognize the value of investing proper time and effort required…
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in Reviews on October 28th, 2009
I recently attended ‘An Event Apart‘ here in Chicago. A conference for web professionals with some of the industry’s leaders delivering messages about cutting edge design and the best practices we should all be following.
The speaker in my opinion who stole the show was Kristina Halvorson, author of the book ‘Content Strategy for the Web.’ She made the observation that content on a website is critical to its success, but is often left neglected until the end of a project. She (accurately) pointed out that many of us spend most of the time designing a website around its content and…
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