Archive for Web Design

Test Tube

YouTube has launched Test Tube, their new “Idea Incubator” site, similar to Google Labs. (Imagine that.) CU’s so often put up their website and call the project finished, only making changes when they add products or promotions. From Karl Long on his blog, Experience Curve: “For many years web design was an unnatural paring of [...]

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America First CU & CU Give

I ran across America First CU today and they seem to know what’s going on. It is one of the better looking CU websites I’ve seen lately (although html and css don’t validate) and the navigation is super easy. They use flash excellently and their ads look amazing. (Check out their press release ads here.) [...]

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Is your website ready for IE7

Windows Internet Explorer 7 is going to be released this month. A few weeks later it will be automatically distributed through Automatic Updates. We all need to make sure our web sites are compatible with this new browser, because its adoption rate should be fast. You can pick up Windows Internet Explorer 7 RC1 and [...]

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Is Your Site Accessible?

Target’s web site doesn’t look that much different from many others, yet it is the target of a lawsuit because it failed to make its site accessible to the blind. This lead to a ruling a few days ago clearly stating that web sites are subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act. This may just [...]

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website eggs?

So what would happen if you hid an egg, some type of hidden content, on your new website? Incentive people for find the egg, deposit money into their account, whatever, but advertise the fact that you’ve hidden this valuable thing on your new website to make your members explore it more? It seems to me [...]

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Unmatched Style and Trabian

The folks over at Trabian and OSCU got a second mention for their work on filene.org. Keep up the great design guys! And here’s their first.

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Web inspiration

looking for some web design inspiration??? Check out http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/ . They even have RSS!

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CU Websites…

So we’re going through a re-design of our website. And I’m seeing more and more of the so-called “generational gap”. I never thought that I’d see it first in personal differences in web design, but sure enough, here it is. I’m what a recent Fast Company article would call a “millennial”, while most of our [...]

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