When I started thinking about printing some new business cards last September, it also seemed a good time to refresh the design and structure of my blog. Coming up with business cards proved quite easy. Getting original designs created for me by freelance Wellington graphic designer Luke Kelly, and taking a file to the printers [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve spent some time under the hood of WordPress. I’m making some final adjustments to the updated theme on my blog. As I dig deeper, the more convinced I become about how suitable WordPress web publishing software is for running not just blogs but websites too. The WordPress platform is [...]
The hint that the delicious social bookmarking service might be closed created a frenzy of speculation among web denizens and commentators just before Christmas. A leaked presentation from Yahoo — the behemoth that has been benignly neglecting delicious since it acquired the service 5 years ago — listed delicious in a group of it’s products [...]
One of the main things the New Zealand Drug Foundation is trying to do with the DrugHelp and MethHelp websites is tailor content for the main audience we’re trying to reach. This audience isn’t people merely interested in drugs in an academic sense, for school projects or with moral agendas. The websites are primarily for [...]
Now it’s time to head-offline to actually read something, rather than just scanning, sorting, saving links, removing unread articles from my desktop, more scanning, etc. Yes, I’m downing tools and going on holiday. Packed in my bag are a couple of books and unread newspapers. And, yes, amongst everything else is my laptop. I’m taking [...]
Ignore website visitors at your peril. That was the message Natasha Lampard gave participants at the Engage your community conference last week. Nathasha, former head of user experience at TradeMe and web usability advocate, says if your website isn’t designed with your users in mind it’s simple: they’ll leave. Ostentatious descriptions of usability are common, [...]
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