This blog entry will be dated Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 8:51 AM, MDT. What does that mean? Can it change? Should it change? What should be required before it is changed? Is it the "right" date? What other dates might be associated with this blog entry? Are there dates associated with it that no...
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If a politician speaks in the forest, and no one is there to hear him, is he still a liar?

You're website design is feeling a little stale. You need to find some fresh ideas. Where do you go? Here are some ideas:

Visit the sites of well known designers.

If you happen to know the names of some well known designers and web-techniques masters, you can find their homepages with a Google search. A...
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Yesterday, I had the RSS Weekly webcast running in the background as I worked. Since I was only listening with half an ear, I probably got the wrong impression, but one of the guests or callers sounded like they were trying to shoehorn data into RSS that just didn't belong there. How far should a...
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No design blog would be complete without a reference to Dave Shea's css Zen Garden. The CSS Zen Garden is an experiment in just how much the design of a website can be controlled with CSS. Shea created a webpage, and invited designers to submit stylesheets to alter its appearance. As of today, the site...
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In case that headline caused anyone's heart to seize up momentarily, let me say first that Atom will have some sort of linking capability. It just may not be found in an element named "link". Objections are raised from time to time that the link element, with it's seemingly constantly expanding list of @rel values...
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My favorite web design that I have been involved in is the homepage of LDS Singles Network. The site is owned by my brother and I, and the process that has lead to the current design has often gone something like this:

My brother gets dissatisfied with the existing design

He comes up with a...
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Having a great idea is a lot of fun. The initial rush of setting up a blog on a new topic that has inspired you will carry you through the first few days or weeks of entries. The problem isn't so much that the rush wears off and the blog dies as that nobody's around...
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A while back, I read somebody's blog entry proposing the idea of "AdFeeds" as an alternative to putting ads into existing newsfeeds. The idea is to generate feeds with nothing in them but ads on some focused topic, and use those to generate revenue to support free feeds. If people want to try that, more...
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This morning, I was humming a little music by Brazilian artist Djavan to my one year old son. I was reminded of his website, a great design example, and decided it was about time to make a blog where I could comment on website design and hilight such sites.

What do I love about his...
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