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Simplicity in Design
Today, on my way back from what turn out to be a big Ebay scam/flop, I saw a very simple yet extremely eefective billboard. This got me thinking about my previous designs, and I rea;ized that my most successful designs have been very simple in color, texture and style.
This billboard consisted of a blue semi circle with a white square breaking line, just enough to catch the orange/black text delivering the message, it was simply brilliant.
Remember, when out of design ideas, always go back to the basics... this technique works well and delivers a clear and concise message.
KISS - Keep it simple s...
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Friday, July 29, 2005
Alexa Ranking
Where I'm currently employed, alexa ranking is a big thing. Our whole business is based on this number. For those of you not familiar with alexa ranking, it is an independent company, owned and operated by amazon, who measures how popular Web sites are.
Our number has been steadly declining (the lower the number the better your site) and we hit our all time low today of 1994. That is, our site is number 1994 out of all the sites in the world. WOW!!!!!
Alexa works very much like the nielsen rating in that this number is based on a statistical sample with the difference that to participate in the sample you simply download the spyware/virus free toolbar.
I recommend you start paying attention to this number if you expect to expand your sites traffic. This will also measures how well you are search engine optimized. But that's a topic for another day.
Where I'm currently employed, alexa ranking is a big thing. Our whole business is based on this number. For those of you not familiar with alexa ranking, it is an independent company, owned and operated by amazon, who measures how popular Web sites are.
Our number has been steadly declining (the lower the number the better your site) and we hit our all time low today of 1994. That is, our site is number 1994 out of all the sites in the world. WOW!!!!!
Alexa works very much like the nielsen rating in that this number is based on a statistical sample with the difference that to participate in the sample you simply download the spyware/virus free toolbar.
I recommend you start paying attention to this number if you expect to expand your sites traffic. This will also measures how well you are search engine optimized. But that's a topic for another day.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
IE 7, Here it comes
In an effort to boost the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has announce an early list of new features that it will bundle with the popular Web browser, Internet Explorer. One oif the most prominent features is "phishing" protection, by which the browser will chek a list of suspected Web sites against a list of known sites in order to protect unsuspected Web browsing individuals.
As explained in the product documentation, Phishing Filter does this by first checking the address of the Web site you are visiting against a list of Web site addresses stored on your computer that have been reported to Microsoft as legitimate.
Hopefully MS won't forget to fix all the bugs and make the browser more compliant with the W3C as have others popular browsers such as Firefox and Opera. This will aid Web designers to obtain the same look and feel across the board. Only time will tell...
In an effort to boost the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has announce an early list of new features that it will bundle with the popular Web browser, Internet Explorer. One oif the most prominent features is "phishing" protection, by which the browser will chek a list of suspected Web sites against a list of known sites in order to protect unsuspected Web browsing individuals.
As explained in the product documentation, Phishing Filter does this by first checking the address of the Web site you are visiting against a list of Web site addresses stored on your computer that have been reported to Microsoft as legitimate.
Hopefully MS won't forget to fix all the bugs and make the browser more compliant with the W3C as have others popular browsers such as Firefox and Opera. This will aid Web designers to obtain the same look and feel across the board. Only time will tell...
