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10 links
in Jan 2010
January 29, 2010
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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
January 19, 2010
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Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces (Flyosity)
Realism has always been an important part of my UI design philosophy - it's easier to use something if it feels real. Here's a great tutorial on how to make things feel real without being cheesy.
by: Josh Orum | tags: usability, webdesign -
The Botnet Ecosystem (Viruslist)
Interesting backgrounder on highly sophisticated and specialised market in "botnets" which steal confidential data, distribute spam, run denial-of-service attacks. Fascinating, scary. (via Best of the Moment)
by: Josh Orum | tags: interesting, security
January 15, 2010
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Red Cross Raises $1,000,000+ for Haiti Through Text Message Campaign
by: Jodi Wing | tags: haiti, marketing, redcross, socialmedia, text
January 13, 2010
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A Negative View of White Space (Finch Creative)
A good collection of design theories surrounding whitespace.
by: Josh Orum | tags: design, webdesign
January 11, 2010
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The Case Against Vertical Navigation - Smashing Magazine
In fact, designers and architects are increasingly creating user experiences focused so strongly on content that navigation starts to become indistinguishable from content. This type of seamless experience is more effectively created when a horizontal navigation bar is used because horizontal navigation does not intrude on the content area and it’s still easily accessible visually and otherwise.
by: Josh Orum | tags: bestPractices, design, usability, webdesign -
A Makeover for the BART Map (Design Observer)
Typically, map users crave geography while map designers prefer geometry.
by: Josh Orum | tags: design
January 4, 2010
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Nine Tools for Your Link-Building Toolkit (ClickZ)
Some easy-to-follow advice for generating in-bound links. Basically: be organized.
by: Josh Orum | tags: onlineMarketing, seo -
ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends of 2009 (ReadWriteWeb)
by: Josh Orum | tags: business, technology
January 3, 2010
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From A Geek’s Geek: Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009 (TechCrunch)
Interesting list of cool things to look for in 2010.
by: Josh Orum | tags: interesting
