Category Archives: Web Sites

Enough With the Hyphens

As I spellcheck a project proposal this morning, I’m struck by the number of hyphens in our web words that need to go away. Most of us have gone along with “email” and “online” now, instead of “e-mail” and (the worst) “on-line.” But some others exist, and I think it’s time for a revolution. 
Ok, it’s […]

New Minneapolis Web Design Website Launch

Hi everybody.  We just launched a new site www.creedinteractive.com along with a supporting blog www.web-design-minneapolis.com to see if a blog helps SEO efforts.  Please take a look and let us know what you think.  We’d be interested to hear your comments.  Thanks.

PNG Product Images?

A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of creating web photo assets. Note that I’m referring to a large number of product images (in the […]

People Don’t Care

“‘People who like cheddar cheese are inherently better than people who like gouda.’ Now that’s obviously silly.” - Dave Winer
The only thing I take issue with is the word “users”.

An Engadget post discussing the future of Adobe Flash

I found this to be a very interesting read:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/switched-on-apples-brash-flash-clash-rehash/
I find my mac loyalty waning as they become a bigger player in the world of consumer electronics. Has anyone noticed that Best Buy is now an Apple Authorized Reseller? I’m sure that has something to do with CompUSA closing half it’s stores, but I digress.
I […]

Sacred URLs

“…on the phone that we were told that the website is the work of ‘a subcontractor’ and ‘we get this all the time’”. - Doc Searls
Unfortunately, Doc’s experience is far too common and it’s far too rare when a web development team has a migration strategy that doesn’t break URLs. Customer bookmarks or the site’s […]

Digg Nichés: Sun Developers Network Share and MarketWatch Sync

Got word today that two new organizations are launching Digg-like services, where members contribute then rank each other’s contributions.
I’m excited for more of these services because the real value to these recommendations services is with very small communities. Where everyone could conceivably know everyone else. With too many members and too many contributions, another […]

Need a Page View Replacement Stat

“If your web advertising strategy is built around page views, you’re going to have to find another way to sell.” - Terry Heaton
There’s lots of goofy web design artifacts that exist because ads are sold by page views: article pagination, skinny skinny column widths, partial text feeds, MySpace.
Hopefully, all a remedy for this insanity will […]

Best Website Garrick’s Seen This Year

No One Belong Here More than You.com
This has all the qualities that make podcasts and video blogs engaging (personality, reality, honesty, attitude) and is neither. Such a simple idea, executed brilliantly.
I can’t vouch for how much search engines like it.
thanks Seth Godin.

Nobody Posted about CS3 yet?

Adobe officially Announced CS3 today, but I assume some of us have already had our peek at the new features they were rolling out in new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (Sorry Freehand and ImageReady Fans.)
If you managed to miss this somehow:
http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/
Go ahead and Preorder today, but I don’t think they’ve […]