web design
The Value of Really Big Pictures
Still at Webby Connect: Michael Zimbalist from the NYT has just said that the Big Picture Blog has doubled traffic to Boston.com year on year. Big pictures are in. ‘The fold’ is out.
Love’s Powerpoint Website
I’m gutted. But impressed. And glad. Love have made their new website in Powerpoint: http://www.lovecreative.com/ I’m gutted because I’ve been whanging on about doing a website in PowerPoint for the last couple of years. But impressed…
O2 Bad Web Page
The new O2, we’re out of stock of the 3G iPhone, page is bad. For a number of reasons. The whole upgrade/ordering thing was a farce, but more on that elsewhere… But worst of all is the padlock in the top right hand corner. In my book a…
How Many 5 Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight
22 I liked this promotion for a free online dating site. Not because I endorse fighting gangs of 5 year olds (although I’ve probably had more experience of that particular activity than most, but that’s another story…). I liked it because…
Outsourcing In-Housing And All That Jazz
I’ve been having lots of bollocksy conversations with ‘industry types’ about whether doing production in-house or outsourcing it is the right thing to do. I’ve always been of the opinion that you need at least a good core of production…
Autechre On MySpace
If you were glitchy techoid producers of freaked out soundz. What would you do with your MySpace page? I guess make it completely fucked up and glitched out. Right? That’s what Autechre have done anyway. Totally unusable. But I can’t help…
The Webbys – A Trip Back In Time
Nik’s written a piece on why he likes the Webbys over here. I like the Webbys too. For me they’re the awards that get closest to recognising the important things online (in the English speaking parts of the interwebs anyway). It tends to…
Web Dogma
It’s been a while since I’ve read Boxes and Arrows, it’s a very good collaborative blog about information architechture and related jiggery pokery. One thing caught my eye today: Dogmas Are Meant to be Broken: An Interview with Eric Reiss…