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Update Your IT Operations

If your IT support consists of your secretary’s teenage son and a system tech who visits the office once a month, then it may be time to update your IT operations. If your business has IT staffers who do manual software updates and think a service level agreement means a paycheck every Friday, then it’s definitely [...]

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What’s your Internet like? (Hint for dealing with clients)

Ben Terrett of Noisy Decent Graphics has written a list of things that describe what “his Internet” is like. From an encounter with a technologically-challenged executive comes an inspiring exercise to get everyone on the same page first. …I thought it might be a nice idea to get everyone to describe ‘their internet’ at the [...]

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Starting A Web Design Business

Starting a web design business might be simple for those already familiar with internet or educated in the field. If you are aware of the requirements involved in web designing, this might turn out to be a profitable business for you. Nowadays almost all sizable businesses require web presence and more people than ever before [...]

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3 Nifty Browsing Features that Should Be on Every Site

Here are three little tweaks that go a long way in improving one’s browsing experience and should become default features on every website. Kottke’s unread posts notification in the title bar It’s not just web applications like Gmail or Twitter that can enforce the “push” instead of “pull” format that is associated with the real-time [...]

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Holding a Conference? Spice It Up With These Geeky Ideas

The mark of anything well-made is found in the details, and when it comes to geeky conferences for designers and developers, organizers are coming up with geeky new ways to spice up the offline event experience. Badges Gravatar-enabled WordCamp Badges Let me first say that Gravatars, or globally recognized avatars, should be a staple in [...]

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Rhetoric & Design – Introduction

Note: This post comes from the Whitespace archive and was originally posted by Scrivs on January 28th, 2004. Links referred to herein may have been moved or modified. Rhetoric is a framework that allows us to quantify valuable information as having a beginning, middle, and end. This philosophy can be carried over to your websites [...]

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Twitter tweet embedding finally arrives, but is it any better?

Blackbird Pie is Twitter’s very own tool for embedding tweets on webpages without the cumbersome, semantics-killing screenshot method. It still lacks the dead-simple interface Twitter is notorious for, since you have to enter the URL of the tweet to grab the embed code and it’s not even built into the system yet, but that’s because [...]

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Google Suggest and the Chrome omnibox need to merge

A year or so after Google Chrome was first released, it’s now my default browser. While I still use other browsers on a regular basis, Chrome’s speed and minimalism has taken over. Take the omnibox, which merges the address bar and search bar into one. It searches your bookmarks, your recently visited pages, and even [...]

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If this doesn’t convince you to ditch IE6, I don’t know what will

Web standardistas lament the outdated HTML and CSS support by IE6, but the biggest reason you should drop the browser stat is security, security, security. And if the following evidence from Google, the governments of Germany and France, and Microsoft itself do not convince you, I’m not sure there’s much else that will: The Chinese [...]

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People don’t know what a web browser is (but first: IE, Firefox, & Opera updates)

All the new browser updates seem to be coming out at the same time, which definitely keeps the competition interesting. But while you continue to scoff at IE, gush over Firefox, and smile nervously at Opera, Chrome, and Safari, have you heard that ordinary computer users don’t actually know what a web browser is? Let’s [...]

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