Things to Remember When Designing For The Web

Or, some of what I learned at An Event Apart Boston (some of this I already knew, unfortunately) General Words are important, content is the meat of most web sites Text should be concise and to the point, scannable, not bulky Should reflect the brand or flavor of your site, speak to YOUR audience Consice,…

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Funny Alexa Tees

We just launched some funny t-shirts on the Alexa web site using the Zazzle API. They’re customizable with your Alexa site rank or daily reach percentage. I’m definitely going to get one of the “My site rocks!” t-shirts. Check out the tees here.

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Very Delicious

I was surprised and happy to see that my site has been saved on Delicious by 5 people – that’s not a lot, but I am still very proud of it 🙂

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Look familiar?

How funny, Happy Cog’s new redesign looks reminiscent of my own site. Nice watercolor header guys. Now to toot my own horn… maybe I’ve started a trend? I’m sure someone else has done this before me, but I’d like to think that for once I’m the first 🙂

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Starfish!

Just made a new shirt on Zazzle, been quite a while! Here it is: Aquarium by nhanusek Get this custom t-shirt at Zazzle

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Alexa Widgets

Recently I redesigned the site widgets at Alexa, and here’s a nice little compliment about it. For your viewing pleasure, here is an old widget next to a new one: You can get a widget for your site here.

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Threadless is Bullshit

I have submitted a bunch of designs to Threadless, granted not all of them were great but I think that at least two of them were print-worthy. The users on that site are mean and have no clue what good design is. They’re a bunch of young punks with nothing else to do with their…

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Strange Bug

Another Threadless submission has been approved. This one used to have the text, “I’m a strange bug” on it – but they asked me to remove it and resubmit. I think it was much funnier with the text. UPDATE: You can get this shirt here.

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Leave Designing to Designers

I don’t know how many times I’ve faced this problem in the past, where people who think they are designers try to offer opinions about design. Or there are just too many people offering opinions and there’s no clear direction. These go hand in hand with this article, How to Ruin a Web Design –…

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