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Content-tious Strategy
Every website faces two key questions: 1. What content do we have at hand? 2. What content should we produce? Answering those questions is the domain of the content strategist. Alas, real content strategy gets as little respect today as information architecture did in 1995. MacIntyre defines the roles, tools, and value of this emerging user experience specialist.
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:07:36 GMT
The Discipline of Content Strategy
It's time to stop pretending content is somebody else’s problem. If content strategy is all that stands between us and the next fix-it-later copy draft or beautifully polished but meaningless site launch, it's time to take up the torch—time to make content matter. Halvorson tells how to understand, learn, practice, and plan for content strategy.
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:25:44 GMT

All Web Design Resources

Menu Generators, Creators, and Makers for Navigation Bars
Are you looking for a nice looking Navigation Bar or Menu for your website? There are tons of nav bar and web menu generators, creators, and makers online, and most of them are free. I have listed below both software and online tools that will help you make navigational bars and menus for your website.
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:16:57 +0000
A Collection of Regular Expressions Cheat Sheets & Quick Reference Guides
I know that I don't have all of the Regular Expressions memorized. If you are like me, take advantage of this collection of regular expressions cheat sheets and quick reference guide.
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:00:33 +0000
30+ CSS Cheat Sheets & Quick Reference Guides
I would be hard pressed to find a web designer or web developer who doesn't like a helpful CSS Quick Reference Card or Cheat Sheet. Cheat Sheets can help you save so much time and can really help you learn about CSS in an easy to understand format. I have gathered a list of CSS cheat sheets that I have found to be the most helpful.
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:03:34 +0000
Privacy Policy Generators, Creators, and Makers
On this page, you will find multiple helpful tools for Webmasters and web designer to use in order to generator privacy policies for their websites. You can answer questions about your own website and these online tools will generate a privacy policy statement to be posted on your own web page.
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:08:01 +0000
Free Icons Sites : Websites That Offer Free Icons
Free icons tempt me at every turn I make on the Internet. If you are anything like me, you will enjoy this list of sites that offer free icons.
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:56:35 +0000

Bokardo

What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design
I recently finished Outliers: The Story of Success, the latest book by Malcolm Gladwell. More than any other writer, Gladwell can take any topic, even the most dry and boring, and turn it into compelling reading. Each time I receive a New Yorker magazine and see Gladwell’s byline inside, I immediately read whatever he [...]
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:53:38 +0000
Why the larger text?
Several folks have noticed I’m using a larger font size on bokardo now…here’s why. In short, the text is easier to read now. Not just the body text, but the text in all columns. The inspiration for this change came from an image in the blog post relative readability by Wilson Miner, who explained his [...]
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:47:27 +0000
Upcoming Speaking Events
Just a quick update on the various speaking events I’ve got coming up. UIE Virtual Seminar: Designing for Sign Up This thursday, December 9, I’ll be giving a UIE Virtual Seminar on Designing for Sign Up. This presentation is for folks struggling with getting people signed up for their product/service. I’ll go over some of the [...]
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:45:40 +0000
The Tyranny of Context
Are we hypocrites when it comes to technology? Or are we merely suffering from the tyranny of context? My wife and I are currently staying at an amazing farmhouse built in 1745 along the Merrimac River. Our lovely hosts, Windy and Brent, are caretakers of the house and estate and are what you might call a [...]
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:37:17 +0000
Tripit’s innovative design evolves (but is it for the worse?)
One of my favorite examples of sign-up is from Tripit.com. They have a unique way of signing you up for the service. Instead of filling out a form to sign up, which is the norm, you simply forward them a confirmation email from a travel service. So you book your flight on Orbitz, they send [...]
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:12:49 +0000