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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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Usability: A Key Ingredient for Successful Websites

an Article published on February 7, 2012

...clients see how their website will look and work before design is applied or content is entered. The team reviews each prototype page and element at every step of the way and makes strategic adjustments as needed. This ensures that...

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Two Challenges to "Traditional" Interactive Designers

an Article written by Christopher Butler on February 2, 2012

...the best — are very well designed. They speak the designer’s language by paying attention to details that usually only those who have worked with typography would consciously recognize. The rest of us just see the page and know that it looks...

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Behind the Scenes: What it's Like to Write an Article

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 24, 2012

...started working on the imagery for the article. I decided to start with the sketch of the head-with-text-for-a-face, which I’ll probably use as the main image that is featured on the homepage and the newsletter landing page. I originally created...

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It's a Shoe, Not an Airplane

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 19, 2012

...as significant a responsibility to the web page as the cargo of human lives is to the dashboard. But seriously, it’s a shoe. The story behind buying a shoe is about as complex as, “it’s comfortable, stylish, and (maybe) conducive...

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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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Self-Editing for the Nonprofessional Writer

an Article published on December 4, 2009

...any reading path other than the natural start-to-finish one should help with this. General tips and tools Print it out. It’s worth repeating, because it’s surprising how much that simple change can make an error jump off the page. Look...

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Measuring "Busyness"

an Article written by Christopher Butler on November 18, 2009

...Gmail account and… count them one by one. Actually, I ended up counting them 50 by 50, since that’s the page limit in Gmail’s search results (see image at left). Needless to say, it took a while, but I did...

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Building Your Online Reputation

an Article published on January 17, 2008

...on the left column of the search results page, there is an RSS feed for your search. By subscribing to that feed, youll now get an alert every time your query is used in a blog somewhere. Even if blogging...

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Creative Questionnaire: Liz Dubois

an Article published on January 20, 2009

...in 2008. Current Project: Never just one! I am in the midst of illustrating three different features for Highlights Magazine, I just received a 32-page picture book from Scholastic to illustrate, and I am constantly working on the next line...

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