Robert Denton

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Bloug: Updated Enterprise IA Roadmap

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Bloug: Updated Enterprise IA Roadmap This is fantastic. Much like we are doing at Bowdoin on the web site… at least that’s the goal set in last summer’s redesign. The top tier is particularly useful and our home page is the “politicized page”; perhaps after we launch the new “academics” section that will be the […]

Product Tour

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Product Tour Oy, look at that horrible html title. ThinkMap may be good but their web site could use a big tip — use semantic page titles! Anyway, thinkmap is a lot like graphviz or treemap but it costs money and probably has a nice wrapper and better usability aimed at actually using the product […]

Pixelworthy: How do Philly Web Design Firms Stack Up?

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Pixelworthy: How do Philly Web Design Firms Stack Up? This is a great roundup of competing web/marketing companies’ web sites. They checked for clean html & css. Plus, gives you a look at many different designs.

Meta Tags and Link Deficiency Confusion

Monday, May 16th, 2005

Meta Tags and Link Deficiency Confusion Another type of bad link is one that uses inaccurate anchor text to connect with your site. The most renowned bad link is encapsulated by a link that reads “click here.” Adobe is the number one and two Google result for a “click here” search query. It’s joined by […]

Free, as in video (MSNBC vs. CNN)

Monday, May 16th, 2005

My Way News CNN.com will make its existing online video offerings available for free beginning June 20 as it prepares a new video package that will cost money to watch. CNN is redesigning its home page to prominently feature the free video, which currently can be found by clicking on small links marked “video.” Yeah […]

O'Reilly Network: The State of Computer-Human Interaction

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

O’Reilly Network: The State of Computer-Human Interaction You might say it’s the toughest problem to solve in the modern world of computing; it’s certainly the hardest to define. This month more than 1,800 designers, programmers, academics, professional researchers, industrial engineers, artists, and musicians gathered in Portland, Oregon, for another bash at the question, How do […]

Gel Conference – Speakers

Friday, April 29th, 2005

Gel Conference – Speakers Great group of people! I’d like to go next year. I hope this page doesn’t go dead as my time has been humping projects post caribbean vacation and there is no time to read or look at all the various sites and references.

So you always have to ask yourself…

Monday, April 11th, 2005

stretch daily : creative exercise This web site, of Mark Miller’s makes me ask a few questions. Do some people simply have more energy or fewer family members (if any)? Inspiring site Mr. Miller, thanks.

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Mustache March | gallery OK these guys are doing something funny, but, haven’t we seen this flash gallery style before?

FYI

Monday, March 28th, 2005

[css-d] Re: IFRAMES and Accessibility _