May
31
2009
The relationship between social network presence and destination enterprise domains is all about control versus connection - I can’t wait to see how it evolves. This theme is gathering momentum and Adam Ostrow has an interesting new post titled ‘Is Social Media Making Corporate Websites Irrelevant?’ and starts with …
There was a time when having a dotcom was absolutely key to your brand, and once you had one, it was the URL you pointed everyone to in all of your marketing. But with the emergence of the social web, and opportunities to engage with fans elsewhere, is that really the right strategy.
In his example Adam is writing more about marketing and campaigns than long term web HQ for business but I’m sure that there will be more. Businesses will want a mix of traditional and social networking in their web presence.
Read the original post here
May
23
2009
Techcrunch fans would have seen this great article that describes the migration, not from web pages to locations as is commonly thought, but from pages to streams.
Excerpt: The stream does not replace Web pages or search, for that matter, but it has the potential to completely transform them. Already, we are seeing Web pages adopt the stream as a new user-interface. Web pages are increasingly being designed as places to present the most relevant streams of information. And with streams of data spreading everywhere, search actually becomes more important than ever as a navigation tool.
Read the complete ‘Jump into the Stream’ post
Jan
14
2009
This is a comprehensive look at trends, challenges and considerations for mobile web design from Smashing Magazine.
Excerpt: Web designers know that the industry involves plenty of change, and continuous adaption and development of skills is required in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices. As a result, Web designers have a growing need to be educated in this area and ready to design websites that accommodate this audience.
Read this excellent post in full here with useful examples and links to other mobile web design standards and issues.
Dec
04
2008
John Gruber in his guidepost to sweet iPhone like UI design gives us a great quote for simplicity and focus:
Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
Keywords: least and polish.
Read the complete post here
Dec
02
2008
Via Russ at Maxdesign a short and sweet window into the minimalist doctype identifier from Dustin Diaz, a Google user interface engineer.
His words: At Google, we have this obsession with byte size. And by byte size, any “lack-therof” the better. Therefore the doctype you will find on most Google webpages while still triggering the browser into “standards mode” is as simple as you see below:
<!doctype html>
It’s only a short post so read it here.
Jun
25
2008
From Jens Meiert
Excerpt: Website maintenance and quality assurance mean the backbone of high quality offers of information, and they represent the difference between an amateurish or professional approach to web design and development. Consequently, guidelines for quality web design define maintenance and quality assurance as important process ingredients which have to be applied continuously. But let’s see what this really means for our work.
Read full post here
Apr
24
2008
Great story in INC Mag’s March issue about Blogger.com and Twitter founder Evan Williams
Excerpt: Eventually, Williams sends me an apologetic text message–we resolve to push back the meeting slightly–and then he does something else: He uses Twitter to send a text message to, oh, a few thousand people: “Late for my first meeting of the year and in need of a shave.”
Read the entire story here
Apr
01
2008
This is welcome news from Milissa Tarquini at Boxes and Arrows.
Excerpt: Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice.
Read the full article here
