Online Advertising And Its Impact On Web Design

Steven Snell

SmashingMagazine

Today, most visitors have come to expect ads on commercial websites, and advertisers have recognized the potential of various online ad opportunities. Ads have long been a part of print publications, such as magazines and newspapers, and now they essentially have the same role in online periodicals and publications.

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The Life Cycle of a Wireframe

Nick Finck is a user experience professional who has dabbled in the web for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research. Enjoy his presentation!

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A nice visual grid editor for Blueprint CSS's framework

A nice visual grid editor Blueprint CSS's framework

Boks: A nice visual grid editor for Blueprint CSS's framework

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Boks

Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS's framework. It's been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love.

It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm pimpin', CSS (with or without compression) and grid.png export, HTML layout and much more goodie-goodie!

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4 Apps To Make Your Own Motivational Posters

4 Apps To Make Your Own Motivational Posters

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Makeuseof

Motivational posters were those posters up on your old office or school walls which were supposed to be inspiring and basically tell you to reach for the stars or never to give up.

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60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

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SmashingMagazine

Christmas is a holiday of love and family. It is the time of year when people come together to celebrate, when they realize that some things are more important than others. So why don’t you impress the people who are important to you with some unique Christmas cards or beautiful personal desktop wallpaper?

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Intro to Drupal: Build a Simple CMS

Intro to Drupal: Build a Simple CMS

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Steve Jamesson

Drupal's popularity has lately been rising. It's a great platform for setting up content management systems and community driven sites. Here, I'll give a general overview of Drupal and build a simple site for a fake client.

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Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications

Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications

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Titaniumapp.com

Appcelerator Titanium is an open source platform for building rich desktop applications using web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript as well as Flash and Silverlight.
Titanium apps can be built using the Appcelerator SDK - an open web platform, or you can use any third-party Ajax library or framework.

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50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

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SmashingMagazine

We present 50 extremely useful CSS tools, generators, templates and resources. We did not include “traditional” CSS tools, such as Firebug or the Web Developer extension, but tried to focus on rather unknown tools that are definitely worth a look.

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IETester is a free browser that allows you to use the engines of IE8, IE7, IE 6 and IE 5.5

IETester is a free browser that allows you to use the engines of IE8, IE7, IE 6 and IE 5.5

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IETester

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

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Deploy allows you to quickly deploy a web project framework

Deploy allows you to quickly deploy a web project framework

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Deploy

Deploy* is a free, open source, web application which allows user to quickly deploy a web project framework with valid XHTML and CSS in only a matter of seconds.

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An Information Architecture case study: Redesign of Doodle

Information Architecture: Redesign of Doodle

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Information Architects Japan

Doodle is a simple Web app that allows people to “find a date and time for a group event.” It’s free and requires neither registration nor installation. With over 2 million users a month, it’s one of the most successful Web apps outside Silicon Valley.

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FeedVis: An RSS Tag Cloud on Steroids

FeedVis: An RSS Tag Cloud on Steroids

Ken Varnum

RSS4lib.com

FeedVis is a word cloud/feed visualization tool. Give it a bunch of RSS feeds (in OPML), it will digest them for you, and present a word frequency chart which you can interact with by selecting date ranges, specific blogs, or both.

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