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Europe's New Internet Privacy Law: What You Need to Know

an Article published on March 15, 2012

...requirement through their site’s privacy policy. The new rule actually goes beyond this and requires user consent to place a cookie on their computer. However, many websites place cookies immediately upon the first page load, making prior consent problematic. Because...

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The Non-Written Disciplines of Writing: Editing

an Article written by Christopher Butler on October 18, 2010

...many people swear by printing out drafts, as reading from the page tends to make mistakes and issues of flow much easier to identify. The more complex kind of editing is far less mechanical and involves the shaping of your...

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Content Strategy

Follow these Three Rules to Write a Better Case Study

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 25, 2019

...case study only partial attention or scans the page, they should at the least come away with the right idea about the results of your work (see my recommendations for how to design a case study layout). Now remember, results...

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Prospect Experience Design

Clean Up on Aisle 7

an Article published on October 15, 2013

...or the icons, but those aren’t what really got my enthusiasm down.   It was that for every usability step forward (Control Center – finally, thank you!), there are big steps backward (scrolling down the page in Safari sometimes triggers...

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Prospect Experience Design

The Art of Letterpress

an Article published on February 18, 2010

...letterforms to create a printed page.  There are still a few letterpress-age terms that survive today such as kerning, leading, uppercase and lowercase. While I appreciate the convenience and speed of digital typesetting, I think it’s important to appreciate the...

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I know we cant. But I wish we could.

an Article published on September 2, 2008

Chris Coyier at CSS-tricks.com has built a j-query plugin to block Internet Explorer 6 with a nice little error message rather than doing nothing but dropping support and letting IE 6 screw up your page....

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Found Quotes

an Article written by Christopher Butler on August 11, 2011

...page slide show: tsunami, tornado, calving iceberg. We might try on the big picture for a moment, imagining the terms of physical existence as they were a hundred years ago for the average person, and comparing these with the present....

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Connecting Salesforce and QuickBooks with oAuth

an Article written by Dave Mello on March 16, 2015

...final token and finally redirect them to our test page: /*============================================================================= // // Function: OAuth_Step2_getFinalToken // /*=============================================================================*/ public pagereference OAuth_Step2_getFinalToken() { serviceObject = getServiceSettings(); String nonce = string.valueof(dateTime.now().getTime()/1000); String timestamp = string.valueof(dateTime.now().getTime()/1000); String tokenParm = apexpages.currentpage().getparameters().get('oauth_token'); String tokenVerifier = apexpages.currentpage().getparameters().get('oauth_verifier');...

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Your Profile is Not Private, and other Seemingly Obvious Things...

an Article written by Christopher Butler on April 13, 2009

It seems obvious, but it apparently took a California court to rule that you can’t cry “invasion of privacy” when people circulate what you’ve posted to your MySpace page. When I see things like this, I think, why on Earth...

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Prospect Experience Design

Future Daydream

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 10, 2012

...by John Napier in his book Hands. Perhaps so. But as long as screens are central to our interaction with the world, we’ll likely need to add a few to our repertoire. Undoubtedly, page turning was a tricky leap for...

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