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Design Specification Roadmap

There is always something nice about creating milestones and to-do lists in Basecamp, when you're not quite sure what to do next with the incoming design specifications. In truth, of course, defining...

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Get Fed

Its sometimes the small additions to a web design framework that make a difference. Well, to me they do. As I went through the weekly process of trying out the latest feed readers the other day, just...

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MySQL on sun.com

Although he refers to his 'cage' rather often, this vodcast/podcast from the senior engineering director for sun.com, Will Snow, is a great insight into the way MySQL is working on sun.com today, and...

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PicLens for flickr

I was pointed to this by one of my excellent flickr contacts. If you've ever struggled through multiple pages of photo pools or even your own photostream looking for that particular image, or just to...

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Unified Web Feedback

If you really want to let us know what you think, there's any number of ways you can let us know, but these days, we should expect you to chose the web as your primary channel. In other words, we...

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Sun.com Works of Art

Not my words. Those good folks at siteIQ conducted a regular, in-depth, web site best practice review of sun.com towards the end of last year, and there were some great highlights. There were plenty of...

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Creative Suite: Au Revoir, Bonjour

As all good designers know these, you need lots and lots and lots and lots of hardware and software to do your job properly. I first started using Adobe Photoshop professionally at version 2.5, which I...

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Sun.com for SMBs

We've got a new place for Small and Medium Businesses on sun.com. Take a look. It's called "Sun's Place for Small and Medium Businesses". And guess what. It's full of stuff for Small and Medium...

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IETab for XHTML Traps

You'd think I would check. First rule of web design and all that. I mean, we extensively test our web design components against all the platform and browser combinations out there, and Andrew and Greg...

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The IA Has Landed

Its been a good long while since Martin left us to ramp up the customer experience over at Cisco, and then our über information architect, Jennifer, jumped ship for a measly directorship. Since then,...

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Project Overlap

I know you just love it when you find out your project overlaps with about 4 other projects doing kind of the same thing, but from a different place. That just happens in large-scale organizations,...

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Web Prototyping with NetBeans

For the best Ajax-ready environment to support rapid development, its got to be NetBeans 6.0. I think. I mean, I've not actually used it yet, but I do have a need to build some prototypes for dynamic...

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You Know, Like CNET

Before you even get to the point where you ask 'what is your content?', there's an apparent understanding that you need to work out how it surfaces all over your site. Since the very early days of...

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The Return of the Design Comic

They've never really been away, but there's a number of places I've been recently where they'd tell the story just perfectly, so I recently dug out all the old slides I had, and got any stuff I was...

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Ad Server Finger Drumming

It is quite possibly a consequence of my patience becoming inversely proportional to my age, but recently, waiting for ad servers to respond in order to complete loading a page is really ticking me...

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Content Channels

First of all, full marks for getting high page rankings and integrating all sorts of lovely flash advertising and web 2.0 features like the google user pop-in, user comments and article sharing, plus...

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Bring Me A Taxonomy

Praise be for the sight of our erstwhile über data architect, pontificating on the nature of content engineering strategies and all things modelled. It's been far too long since Kristen has regailed us...

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Second Life Emptiness

I had made a mental, not physical, note to myself to attend the online knees-up that was yesterday's Sun employee event in Second Life. Of course, I was extraordinarily busy doing web prototype updates...

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We Sell Servers

You know that, of course, but how do you buy our servers? For as long as I can remember, and in line with how we structure our organization, we've presented our product lines on the web by the product...

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Sharing Your Opinion

I just had a call with Ben, Mr Usability, regarding some work we need to collaborate on as part of our web feedback program. We've been looking into the user experience across our feedback systems on...

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