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Archive for October, 2005

A pause in posting

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

All -
Due to the editor's recent change of jobs and big change of cities, this blog won't have any updates for a little while. In the meanwhile, check out the RSS round-up page for industry-wide posts.
And if anyone's got a nice apartment in New York City which allows pets, lemme know…
- Stanton

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Jakob Nielsen: "The oldies continue to be goodies - or rather, baddies - in the list of design stupidities that irked users the most in 2005."
1. Legibility Problems
2. Non-Standard Links
3. Flash
4. Content That's Not Written for the Web
5. Bad Search
6. Browser Incompatibility
7. Cumbersome Forms
8. No Contact Information or Other Company Info
9. Frozen Layouts with Fixed […]

Typetester

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Here's a nifty widget for designers looking to compare how various typefaces will render on a Web page. (Thanks to Dennis Jenders for the link.)
Typetester - Compare fonts for the screen [Marko Dugonjic]