Loud Dog Links

March 19, 2010

• Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts
  Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ's Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary
  by: Josh Orum | tags: design, fonts

March 18, 2010

• The Death of the Pageview (ReadWriteStart)
  For startups that sell something, metrics like average revenue per user (ARPU) and customer lifetime value (CLV) are vastly more valuable than detailed pageview tracking. It doesn't make any sense to focus on pageviews (an approximation for value) when you can measure the real thing directly.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: analytics

March 16, 2010

• Loud Dog - Job Board - Interactive Art Director/Flash developer
  Maybe this is you.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: jobs

March 15, 2010

• Don’t be original, just be good (Scott Berkun)
  Great video featuring Paul Rand
  by: Josh Orum

March 10, 2010

• Harmony - Procedural drawing tool
  Bravo.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: canvas, html5, javascript

March 8, 2010

• PodCamp Nashville 2010 Presentation (Cameron Daigle Dot Com)
  Every day, your cursor protects you from unclear UI. It helpfully turns into a text cursor as you hover over textboxes, or a hand as you hover over a link or action item.
  
  iPad has no such thing. Bad UI will stick out like a sore thumb, both in apps and on websites. Your tappable areas had better look tappable. Your controls had better look controllable.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: design, usability

March 4, 2010

• Problem Solving & Kobayashi Maru (Scott Berkun)
  Rad post on requirements elicitation by Scott. I call it perception: the ability to see the true needs that underlie any request. Most of the time, when someone asks for something, they are actually proposing a solution to an unstated problem.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: design, projectManagement

March 2, 2010

• Web Design Criticism: A How-To (Smashing Magazine)
  by: Josh Orum | tags: design, webdesign
• Make the Most of Your Transactional E-mails (Direct Mag)
  Confirmation e-mails are the most likely emails to be opened and read. So, include a little marketing in them without going over the top.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: emailMarketing, webapps

March 1, 2010

• Tips and Tricks for developing Mobile Widgets (Carsonified)
  Interesting post on things to look out for when developing web apps for mobile devices (especially iPhone). Of specific interest: HTML5.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: mobile, webdevelopment

February 27, 2010

• iPhone web app performance (Niall Kennedy)
  I was interested in why Safari on my iPhone wasn't caching pages, so I looked it up. Apparently it just doesn't cache pages after you close it, and it doesn't cache anything over 25KB, pretty small these days. Article has a bunch more information on typical download speeds, etc.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: development, iphone, mobile, webdevelopment

February 24, 2010

• Coding your First jQuery UI Plugin | Nettuts+
  Big fan. Fan boy? Probably. jFanboy? That's just silly.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: javascript, jquery, tutorial

February 17, 2010

• Words that Zing (A List Apart)
  Insight into using powerful language on websites (or within any copy).
  by: Josh Orum | tags: copywriting

February 13, 2010

• If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good. (Paul Buchheit)
  Love this philosophy.
  by: Josh Orum

February 10, 2010

• Why Web Developers Should Switch to Google Chrome
  As soon as this article is as applicable to OS X, then I'm in.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: chrome, webdev

February 4, 2010

• How CEOs think (Persistent Sys CEO Blog)
  Focus on top-line growth, partnering to solve complete business problems, and maintaining high levels of involvement in a few priority areas.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business
• Selecting a CMS: How to Build a Short List (CMS Wire)
  Some interesting and straightforward guidelines to select a CMS. Not a list of CMSs, but just an outline of a good selection process.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, cms

February 3, 2010

• Why HTML5 Isn't Going to Save the Internet (Gizmodo)
  Every once in a while, Gawker comes out with an awesomely detailed article. This is one on HTML5, video, and why Flash isn't going away. While some platforms stop supporting Flash (iPhone), and some don't support HTML5 (Internet Explorer), we'll have to start browser testing all over again to serve up the right content.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: development, webdevelopment

February 1, 2010

• Great CSS3 Example
  I can't wait.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: css3

January 29, 2010

• Making dough or spam? The perplexing case of designing lead generation pages (Carsonified)
  Interesting review of lead gen & landing page design. Some nice examples as well.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: design, landingpages, leadgen