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Individuals who are new to website development will often compartmentalize the web page and fill every available space with either text or graphics.

Nat Torkington has a great post on homophily and social software design.

Practical and functional websites rarely win prizes for design but they do win sales and make profits.

SEO Friendly Redesign

They are actually more like guidelines, really, but writer Jim Edwards did a nice job of assembling Ten Commandments of web design for new and experienced webmasters alike.

The auto blogs are revved up about GM’s involvement in the upcoming Transformers movie.

I have read with interest recent articles containing hints and tips for cutting corners when it comes to making your site accessible to all.

We already know why Google announces so many useless partnerships, or at least one fringe benefit for the company, which is to signify that everyone is on its side, not Yahoo’s or Microsoft’s.

As hard as it may be, letting go of your website designing ideas and listening to the customer may actually be of benefit in the long run.

A landing page is the page that visitors first see after becoming curious enough to click on a link to your site. The link may be found on search engine results pages, within a specifically-targeted email, on the site’s navigation toolbar or within another website.

Cascading Style Sheet standards compliance resided at the base of many complaints about Internet Explorer; its developers have made efforts to follow the standards better with IE 7, and for good reason as CSS can make a web developer’s life easier.

Given the many excellent reasons to make provisions for disabled users when creating a web site, why do so many professionals in the web design industry ignore this important facet of the online community?

The third annual Advertising Week kicks off September 25th in New York City.

Search engines don’t care about web design. People do. While search engines will not index a website for its great layout, but for the content, people will forget the website that has nothing distinctive about it.

The inaugural Y Design Awards 2006, launched as part of the London Design Festival, will take submissions until September 6th.

Here are two interesting mobile phone developments that point to marketing opportunity.

With upwords of 200 million currently active wireless subscribers in the United States alone, and with mobile internet’s popularity increasing and accessibility improving, it’s no surprise that your website should be optimized to be viewed on mobile devices.

Eked out two more posts for Fast Company’s Blog Jam 2006 before it came to a close.

Via PSFK, Time Warner is going to offer Flickrish capabilities to its digital cable and Road Runner high-speed internet subscribers.

Day one of Fast Company’s Blog Jam has started interesting conversations at FC Now. Instead of cross posting, I will point you to my two contributions.