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Robert Denton - Media and Design Consultant, Web Designer

Agonizingly slow redesign in process…

Archive for May, 2005

Nokia - Nokia 770

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Nokia – Nokia 770

How much do you want one of these!!
I’d rather have an OSX version of the same… it has Inkwell which descends from the Newton handwriting recognition software. Despite the Doonesbury jokes about the first Newton, by the end of the Newton’s life (messagepad 2000) handwriting recognition worked very well.

I don’t know [...]

Ipse dixit: The boolean NOT in Spotlight

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Ipse dixit: The boolean NOT in Spotlight

ACM Queue - Beyond Relational Databases - There is more to data access than SQL.

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

ACM Queue – Beyond Relational Databases – There is more to data access than SQL.

TagglyWiki - a taggable, reusable, non-linear personal web notebook

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

TagglyWiki – a taggable, reusable, non-linear personal web notebook

Don’t forget about TiddlyWiki

Very cool wiki implementations.

mambofrog

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

mambofrog

This guy thinks too much like me.

CSS Organization x2

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Content with Style: Modular CSS

http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/05/03/css-tip-flags.html

AllStar Web Marketing Blog: Search Engine Visibility - Do You Measure Up?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

AllStar Web Marketing Blog: Search Engine Visibility – Do You Measure Up?

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease � Enterprise search still a technology conversation

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease � Enterprise search still a technology conversation
In 2003, I started an article at Onlamp like this: %u201CA useful search engine is more than a search algorithm. This article explains how to create a search query analysis tool, a best bets feature, and a basic controlled vocabulary.%u201D

Unofficial Google Maps Embedding How To

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

Unofficial Google Maps Embedding How To

The Essential Connection: Resource Center: Links

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

The Essential Connection: Resource Center: Links

Very interesting. Could be some useful info, esp in that all things portfolio link.

GO

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

GO

Not only is Charlie Lazor a hot ticket in the pre-fab lecture circuit and has great houses, the web site is great too.

exhibit-E

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

exhibit-E

Check out some websites for various galleries.

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 so [...]

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 for specific goals. [...]

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.