Transparency at the new Whitehouse.gov
Kottke made an interesting post about the differences between the old and new Whitehouse.gov websites robots.txt files yesterday. Robots.txt files tell search engines what to include or not to include...
View ArticleActive denial of taste & 44 shades of blue
Here’s a great article about the absence of design and taste at google: “The extreme Google brain by Joe Clark“. As an earlier reference here’s Doug Bowman’s post on why he quit and the 44 shades of...
View ArticlexHTML, HTML5 or back to HTML4.01
There’s an interesting discussion going on about the merits of one over the other, here’s Dave Shea’s view, and here’s Cameron Moll’s take on it… I’ve been using xHTML for a long time, but these two...
View ArticleMint.com, 3 yrs & $170 million!
Aaron Patzer on how he built his company in three years to exit with $170 million from who else but Intuit. What a great exit, reminds me of iStockPhoto and the $50 million they exited with by creating...
View Article“As a graphic designer, fully 92% of your time will be spent on unpaid favors”
“As a graphic designer, fully 92% of your time will be spent on unpaid favors”
View ArticleOn Making Money vs Quality Work
Nice to hear it reiterated by the greats! Saul Bass on making money vs quality work.
View ArticleChange the Apple Developer ID in Xcode
You can change the Apple Developer ID that Xcode has associated using Mac OS X’s Keychain Access app: Quit Xcode Open Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access Locate the Keychain entry named...
View ArticleWeb Design Survey 2012
via: Heart Internet web design survey, conducted by Design Shack, 2012.
View Article‘I’m fucking sick of it,’ he told me, ‘all they talk about is colours.’
Are coders worth it? In today’s world, web developers have it all: money, perks, freedom, respect. But is there value in what we do?
View ArticleMega-SERP – State of Google SEO in 2013
Great visual representation of the evolution of Google’s search result pages in 2013. Hopefully this ends the endless bleating about “I want to be the first organic result on Google for Fingernails!”...
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