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Is the long tail right?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:01:26 GMT

This author thinks “no.” I disagree.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121493784638920147.html

The Employable Web Designer

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:17:30 GMT

Andy Rutledge’s tips on being a web designer with a job.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/the-employable-web-designer.php

Sketching in Code

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:39:28 GMT

Wireframes have less use in a world that’s no longer based on the “page.”

Link: http://alistapart.com/articles/sketchingincode

How they scaled Facebook Chat

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:17:06 GMT

Link: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919&id=9445547199&index=0

To Launch or Not to Launch

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:50:21 GMT

How to decide when to pull the trigger.

Link: http://nextupdate.com/blog/archives/2008/04/to-launch-or-not-to-launch/

The vanishing personal site

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:47:24 GMT

Link: http://www.zeldman.com/2008/04/27/content-outsourcing-and-the-disappearing-personal-site/

Advice from Coudal on how to transition from client work to products

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:52:09 GMT

Link: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/975-advice-from-coudal-on-how-to-transition-from-client-work-to-products

Poynter's Eye-tracking Follies

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:30:31 GMT

A second-opinion to the Poynter Institute’s numerous eye-tracking suggestions.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/poynters-eye-track-follies.php

Oldify your photos

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:30:20 GMT

Link: http://labs.wanokoto.jp/olds

One Page Love

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:28:43 GMT

The best in single-page sites.

Link: http://onepagelove.com/

The 960 Grid System

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:31:48 GMT

Templating for grid-based web layouts.

Link: http://960.gs/

Internet Power

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:54:19 GMT

The VHS-era web.

Link: http://www.waxy.org/archive/2008/03/17/internet.shtml

The Story So Far

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:15:43 GMT

Why are standardistas not telling stories like the Flash guys?

Link: http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2008/0114_the_story_so.php

Netscape is dead

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:17:14 GMT

Turns out “IE vs Netscape” was only a battle, and not the whole war.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7163547.stm

Get stats on your Flickr photos

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:31:13 GMT

I’ve been waiting for this feature.

Link: http://blog.flickr.com/en/2007/12/13/stats-stats-baby/

Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:14:06 GMT

From Andy Rutledge.

Link: http://www.andyrutledge.com/bad-layout-conventions.php

The iWeb Conversator

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:32:55 GMT

A t-shirt from the guys at Penny Arcade. Excellent (unstated) Mass Effect reference as well.

Link: http://www.pennyarcademerch.com/pat070431.html

Blue Beanie Day 2007

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:33:25 GMT

Unfortunately, all I had was a black beanie to show my support for web standards. I’ll be better prepared next year.

Seven Lies about Information Architecture

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:08:45 GMT

Good rules for breaking the rules.

Link: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?574

IA for beginners: long pages work

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:07:22 GMT

They certainly do. I’d go one further and say that “pages” are a dead-weight carry-over from print anyway.

Link: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2007/08/30/3804/ia-for-beginners-long-pages-work

Analytics According to Captain Kirk

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:17:47 GMT

How can we learn about web analytics from Star Trek?

Link: http://www.clicktracks.com/insidetrack/articles/kirk_analytics.php?source=nws072007

Top 5 tower defense games

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:25:51 GMT

One of my favorite strategy-styles has to be castle building.

Link: http://www.just-whatever.com/2007/06/04/top-5-tower-defense-games/

30 Orange Websites

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:54:59 GMT

How to use orange in your designs for the web.

Link: http://tutorialblog.org/30-orange-websites/

What will the final version of the Wii internet channel look like?

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:44:21 GMT

The developers explain.

Link: http://us.wii.com/story_internet.jsp

CBS's list of great online shopping

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:42:09 GMT

Jellyfish is on it—but the part I like best is that there are two Madison companies in there (ShopBop being the other).

Link: http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/09/holiday/main2243808.shtml

An open letter to John Warnock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:36 GMT

Asking Adobe to move a few fonts into the public domain for the sake of good web typography

Link: http://www.designbyfire.com/?p=30

Web 2.0 Patterns

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:33 GMT

What does it mean to be web 2.0 values-wise?

Link: http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/45_web20.html

The definitive heatmap

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:24 GMT

Javascript and Ruby, mmm.

Link: http://blog.corunet.com/english/the-definitive-heatmap

An introduction to using patterns in web design

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:11 GMT

I need to figure out if this is really a good idea

Link: http://www.37signals.com/papers/introtopatterns/

DHTML Timelines

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:43 GMT

More ajaxish applications

Link: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

Google Trends

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:10 GMT

Graph the volume of your favorite search terms

Link: http://www.google.com/trends

The web design trend obituary and death clock

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:38 GMT

Guessing when popular trends in web design will finally die much as the “page curl” did before them.

Link: http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/05/01/the-web-design-trend-obituary-death-clock/

Rails for Designers

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:27 GMT

A write up of the “V” in Rails’s MVC

Link: http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/03/21/rails-for-designers

moo.fx

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:16 GMT

Looks to be a nice lightweight Javascript effects library

Link: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/#documentation

Microsoft's first web page

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:13 GMT

Where do you want to go today? 1994.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk_hp1.htm

Nintendo DS will soon get a web browser

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:16 GMT

I’ve been waiting (rather impatiently) for this — I’m very excited

Link: http://ds.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=3337

Staying on Target

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:14 GMT

Hey — they updated! Derek asks why now and not 10 months ago? I’m curious too…

Link: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca/archives/2006/02/10/staying-on-target

Taking Aim at Target(.com)

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:14 GMT

Derek Featherstone on Target.com’s accessibility woes

Link: http://www.boxofchocolates.ca/archives/2006/02/09/taking-aim-at-target-dot-com

Simplify PHP Development with WASP

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:19 GMT

Is PHP growing up?

Link: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2006/01/19/wasp_intro.html?page=1

Sane css typography

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:16 GMT

How did I miss this?

Link: http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/index.html

Yet another article describing the death of "Web 2.0"

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:24 GMT

“It’s web 2.Over!”

Link: http://icite.net/blog/200510/web2_over.html

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:08 GMT

Geeky typophiles rejoice!

Link: http://webtypography.net/toc/

Random image rotation in Rails

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:06 GMT

Another example demonstrating why I think programming in Ruby is so easy

Link: http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/11/30/random_image_rotation_in_rails

Learning from The Web

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:27 GMT

A short, interesting article about things to learn from the system of the web — I agree with everything except point 5

Link: http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=337&page=1

Give up control

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:06 GMT

Jeffrey Veen points out the only hard and fast rule about the web

Link: http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000791.html

Web 2.0 is economic

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:33 GMT

Proof of two things: the existance of Web 2.0 and that I needed to have paid better attention in math

Link: http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2005/09/web-2.cfm

10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:30 GMT

It’s always fun to read someone else saying exactly what you’ve been saying

Link: http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2005/08/10_steps_to_a_h.html

When Web 2.0 is down

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:14 GMT

The new web is young enough to still be brittle

Link: http://www.airbagindustries.com/archives/007918.php

Ontology is Overrated

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:39 GMT

Clay Shirky puts a nail in the coffin of the “categorization” people

Link: http://shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html