October 4, 2007 Ten percent of page views at NYTimes.com are of … … slideshows. So says Vivian Schiller, general manager of NYTimes.com, in a piece on MarketWatch. (Thanks for the lead goes to Mindy McAdams, Flash Goddess.) Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Journalism/Multimedia
September 10, 2007 iDMAa Conference in Philly Dr. Scott Schamp writes about it better than I can … so go read his 10 reasons why you should go. I may. Categories Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory
July 20, 2007 WaPo goes LoCo Confused? Join most of the newspaper editors around the world. This week, Rob Curley (digital maven and massive bright spot to the news industry) launched LoudounExtra.com – the Washington Post’s (WaPo) new hyperlocal web site covering Loudoun County (LoCo) in northern Virginia. Curley’s the guy behind the Naples News site down in Florida where he went nuts building out massive... Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk
June 7, 2007 (Slightly) Off the Grid But only slightly. Over on Subtraction.com, Khoi Vinh talks about web design and the grid – and bumping off of it ever so slightly. For those coming out of the recent graphic design Maymester class, take a look at how he uses the grid to design his web site. Look familiar? Categories Graphic Design
May 27, 2007 Updates You’ll notice the template has changed … while the black backgrounds made photos look good (generally), white-on-black gets hard to read after a while. Hopefully this’ll be a little easier on the eyes. Of course, I suspect many of you aren’t actually here reading this as you’re using an RSS reader of some sort … right? Also note over there... Categories Graphic Design/Tech Talk
May 2, 2007 No Photojournalism Here, But It's Pretty Cool Monkeehub presents the Torchlight Gallery. It’s a weird interface … but, man, is it cool … Categories Graphic Design/Multimedia
April 3, 2007 Top 10 Web Design Tips This has been out there for a while, so it’s not really new, but Jakob Nielsen has updated his “Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design.” Good reading if you’re about to build (or rebuild) your web pages. He’s done this for a few years – see the 2005 version, the 2003 version, the 2002 version, the 1999 version and the... Categories Advice & Learning/Graphic Design