There are over 500 million Facebook users. Of these, 200 million regularly and actively access Facebook from a mobile device. If you are providing a mobile version of your website, you are screwing up a huge opportunity. Fortunately, if you use WordPress for your website, there is good news. There are several great ways to add basic […]
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Hacking an IKEA Pull-Out Keyboard Shelf for BESTA
Space. The final frontier. Those famous words from the beginning of Star Trek still echo in my head after years of watching Kirk battle cheesy-looking aliens. And for my little beach shack, space really is the final frontier–and that space is at a premium! I moved into the Big Blue Beach Bungalow nearly 1-1/2 years […]
Typekit: Real Fonts on Your Website
For years, designers have struggled with integrating interesting, expressive fonts into web pages. Until now, the general rule has been to stick to the commonly available font families — the default stuff installed on every Mac or Windows PC — and use images for anything out of the ordinary. This works ok, but (alt tags […]
The Extreme Google Brain
Joe Clark writes on the culture of antidesign predominate at Google: Companies committed to a culture of antidesign (also consultants like Jakob Nielsen) may occasionally succeed in the marketplace, but they do so in spite of their antidesign, not because of it. Of course we can’t prove that; we can’t run a controlled experiment, let […]