Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
LA Times web revenue meets entire editorial payroll
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Very interesting for me, it’s been a long time coming. The first website I did was The Economic Times for The Times of India, in…..wait for it…..drumroll, 1995!
India’s not safe either it seems, I heard a rumor that the Hindustan Times is being run by the Times of India now, and that Murdoch is in talks with Sameer Jain, it’s shakeup time for the newspaper industry across the globe.
Newspapers are dead, long live the newspapers!
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Free Icons, 1300 of them.
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Great icons, I’m surprised I never came across these before, the largest set I’ve ever seen and nicely done to boot! Amazingly useful if you work in this field.
Go grab them at Everaldo’s site, he’s the maintainer of the project.
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I should have talked about how it would make people feel…
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Our clients demand results, not labour. Why aren’t we pricing our value as such?
An excellent point made by: Eric Karjaluoto on the value of design.
Tags: value design
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GoaPress.com
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
I was tired of getting my news about Goa from a bunch of disparate sources all over the place. Since I have a house there now, I like to keep up with what’s going on.
So I created my own page with feeds from a bunch of websites I read, and viola! GoaPress.com lives, I figured I’d get a domain and throw it up.
I’ll probably play with it further and rotate the feeds about as I find more sic*better sites or more relevant news. But as the page stands right now it gives me a great snapshot of all current events, news and happenings in Goa
I also threw in a bit of eye candy, Flickr snaps and YouTube video’s, they are a lot of fun for me, they take me back there. Videos are generally a little too trance-y for me, but a few gems slip in once in a while.
Take a look: GoaPress.com
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Landmark Web Design or how I learnt to stop worrying and just build the damn website.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
A bunch of interesting articles/essays recently, that led to interesting discussions on the topic of timeless web design. All worth a read if you have any involvement in the wonderful wacky world of ‘design‘ and the web.
First Armin Vit writes an essay asking Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? Essentially he asks why no individual web designs/sites have attained any historical significance worthy of being deemed landmarks that lead the way, such as Paul Rand’s IBM Logo.
Dan Saffer posts an interesting unrelated thought on Making Stuff vs Making Stuff Up a day later. He alludes to the problem of creation (thought) and production (implementation) for a designer.
Khoi Vin picks up on both and posts Something’s Missing in Web Design . The interesting points he adds are, “the very best designers are leaving behind the work of actually doing design…” and “that Web design is really boring…”
Joshua Porter picks up on Armin’s initial post and posts a response, Do Canonical Web Designs Exist? His point being, “It’s just that canonical design on the web isn’t as glamorous as some want it to be.”
They are all great reads and the ensuing discussions are absolute fun to read.
As to timeless or landmark web designs, there are many for me, most may not exist anymore, but they did leave a mark on me and is that not the point.
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