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I really like this site

May 7th, 2008 by debbie campbell

http://twistori.com

You can’t post on it though - it’s compiled from Twitter posts and they use Summize to pull out the relevant words.

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Hand-drawn clock

May 7th, 2008 by debbie campbell

The hand-drawn clock from Yugo Nakamura - I read an article about him last night and am looking more deeply into his web/visual work. I found it interesting that his background is in landscape design!

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Ask a web designer…

December 14th, 2007 by debbie campbell

I found a great little script from Cloud Nine Interactive that allows you to create a true question-and-answer FAQ with real questions from visitors. Very neat, took about 15 minutes to install and configure and I’ve already got a new question posted (I just put this online this afternoon).

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Good experience at Catalog Choice

November 20th, 2007 by debbie campbell

I received my email newsletter from Good Experience this morning and wanted to share.

Catalog Choice is, in short, a really good website experience. It has a simple design, comfortable colors and an elegance of purpose - the point of the site is to remove you from catalog mailing lists. That’s it. Sign up, find the catalogs you regular receive, and mark the ones you’d rather not see anymore.

A clear focus, an interface that doesn’t get in one’s way, and an easy to understand series of actions to get to the results. That’s a really well-designed website in my book.
I signed up, we’ll see in 8-10 weeks whether it’s working. ;)

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Giveaway of the Day

February 27th, 2007 by debbie campbell

I just learned about the site www.giveawayoftheday.com - every day they give away free copies of licensed software. Today it’s Icon Constructor 3 for Windows, which I’ve just downloaded. It looks pretty useful, creates .ico files and other small graphics from images you provide.

I see from the comments that a lot of people are complaining about IC3’s install process, but it took about a minute. As one of the commenters said, it’s not rocket science.

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Great site for website badges

January 16th, 2007 by debbie campbell

I just found G.T. McKnight’s site with an excellent collection of badges for websites - those little rectangular ones for RSS, XHTML, etc. Search feature here and everything…

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Cool Site of the Week

January 15th, 2007 by debbie campbell

This site belongs to a fellow member of the Women Designers Group, a good group to belong to if you are female and are (or want to be) a professional web designer or programmer.

Aneko Studios’ blog is full of useful tidbits and scripts for using CSS in your website. For example, I came across this the other day following a discussion on the group mailing list - clear easy instructions for disjointed image replacement using only CSS, no JavaScript.

This is typical of what I’ve found on this site - step by step instructions, web standards well-regarded. Be sure to check out the tips and tricks section for tutorials and more goodies.

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