Category Archives: Web Sites

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 [...]

HP’s Help is Bilingual on the Same Page at the Same Time

I was poking around HP’s trying to figure out why my All-in-One isn’t as multiple-computer friendly as I’d like, and after an entire experience all in English, I noticed something was odd. Like the navigation was no longer in English, even though the articles I was reading were. Some how, I clicked into HP’s Italian [...]

All a Twitter

Twitter is three things: Really fast platform-agnostic publishing (browser, SMS, IM, etc) Yet another ‘friend’ collecting site Yet another centralized, free, publishing service Slow, almost to the point of unusable As you can see from my list, I’m only excited about the first one (inspiring the qspress script). I’d love for you to receive the [...]

I need some web hosting advice…

So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma. Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put [...]

Interface Design Tells You What To Build

Ben Moore, from Curbly, talks about the need for a project to start with the interface design. All his points are dead on. In my decade of experience, a website isn’t real to clients until they see some pictures, sketches, something, anything. With this in mind, my goal is to provide initial wireframes (black and [...]

Norm Coleman: Democrat. Republican. Senator. Fan of pear chocolate-covered nougat. And l33t!

Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., received a “Silver Mouse” award for having one of the 10 best websites in the Senate. Read the full list of our elected finest’s web creations.

Crisis: Another Reason Not to Use Flash for Your Website

“A rapid-response web effort has never been more important to crisis communications. That won’t work when home pages of web sites are designed as Flash-driven promotional tools, not information centers.” – Ben McConnell

Pretty Empty Pipes

I played around with Pipes and aside from loosely matching iTunes songs with YouTube videos or loosely matching Flickr photos with NY Times articles, I’ve yet to ‘get it’. The interface itself is pretty – and seemingly powerful and simple. Reminiscent of Microsoft’s Visual Basic or Apple’s Automator. But in the end, Pipes is chartjunk [...]

Three-Click Rule Isn’t and There Is No Fold

or, why MySpace is so popular. “Our analysis left us without any correlation between the number of times users clicked and their success in finding the content they sought.” – Joshua Porter Bonus: Long scrolling pages (like this one) are OK. “76% of the page-views with a scroll-bar, were scrolled to some extent.” – ClickTale [...]