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A List Apart 2007 Web Design Survey

April 25th, 2007 * Comments(0)

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Online video and newspapers

February 20th, 2007 * Comments(0)

In the past few months I’ve been seeing a growing number of newspaper websites posting short video clips to go with their stories. None in Slovenia though (yet). I like the idea but as usual there’s a big gap between a good idea and acceptable execution.
Where’s the point of having an anchorman go through the headlines of the current issue while showing the actual pages etc.? Why the need to push the preview, where’s the added value in that? Newspapers are not broadcast TV stations so why play by those rules?

The way I see it is: readers go to a newspaper website to read. They know how to scan the headlines just fine. There’s no need for a talkinghead introduction with crappy stock photos and tight shots of printed newspaper articles. What you want to do is some aditional, short (very short) footage shot by the reporters on the scene to give the readers an added dimension to the story. It doesn’t necessarily have to be top quality HD video although it should be better than mobile phone quality i.e. better than most things on YouTube.

New York Times has a good take on the state of things.

Useful CSS techniques

February 19th, 2007 * Comments(0)

Every time you start working on a new website you might have (want) to go through several global CSS settings just to make sure every browser behaves as it should.

Yahoo User Interface (YUI) libraries Fonts & Reset are one attempt at these things, Christian Montoya has another

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