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Category Archives: Web Design

The [Sorry] State of Web Design

Lies and Marketing

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 11:57 pm

Lee Brimelow made this wonderful post ridiculing the iPad’s lack of flash. Only one problem with it. It’s a lie. And that’s a problem. Apparently, he made those wonderful claims of his without ever once checking the reality of them. Most of those sites that supposedly don’t show anything, actually do. As this set of [...]

Some Capistrano Recipes for Radiant

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 8:45 am

I’ve been dipping my toes into the Radiant CMS lately (a side-effect of my love affair with Ruby on Rails) and have run into several interesting moments. On the assumption I’m not alone in that, I thought I’d share some of my favorite recipes for deploying a Radiant app to an Apache-Phusion Passenger combination. As [...]

Reactive Layout, Dealing With the Window

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 11:35 am

One of the first things our layout will have to deal with is window size. Designs too wide for the window frustrate users as they scroll left and right, but designs too narrow can also be frustrating, as they string boxes out vertically, when they would fit on screen. What to do, what to do? [...]

Why Is Online Advertising Different?

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 10:53 am

Media Week writes about a new trend in online ads. The first question that occurs to me is: why? The complaint is that people aren’t seeing the ads on web pages, so the proposed solution is “don’t let them see the web page until after they see the ad.” My first reaction: Your only synapse [...]

Why Would Anyone Agree To Pay-Per-Click?

Filed under: General,Technology,Web Design— arlen@ 10:58 am

(Arfandia claims I’m an affiliate. I’m not. They lie.) Events in the publishing industry (newspaper and book) have made me give more thought to web advertising models, and there’s one model I just don’t get. Why would any website operator with two functioning synapses agree to an ad rate based on clicks or click-throughs? It [...]

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