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Content Creation and the Problem of Burnout

an Article written by Tema Flanagan on December 21, 2012

...they always pass, but they still invoke feelings of dread and–dare I say–despair. The mind tends to rebel when faced with what feels like a truly blank page. Sometimes, I start to fear I’ve already “said” everything I have to...

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Planning for a Rebuild

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 7, 2013

...using your site, as well as properly transition the right visitors into customers, you are missing out. And just so we’re clear, “understanding” and “transitioning” aren’t just hand-wave-ese for standard session data analytics — like visits, page views, conversions, and...

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Creativity and Efficiency in Web Writing

an Article published on January 19, 2010

...not easily controlled. It triggers reactions that depend on the reader’s own feelings and experiences, rather than just the facts on the page; it asks to be unpacked in ways that can send the reader’s thinking off in other directions....

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Twitter: Changing How We Read & Write Online

an Article published on May 8, 2009

...attention spans. Having everything broken down into convenient little 140-character bites will surely change the way we consume information online. I, for one, admit that it’s much more difficult to digest a multi-page news story now that I’ve grown accustomed...

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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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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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Is it Time to Rebuild Your Website?

an Article written by Christopher Butler on November 30, 2010

...You’ve been writing multi-page monthly newsletters since you launched. If your site is a few years old, that kind of activity is likely expanding your database exponentially. That kind of growth is great, but if your site was built (at...

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My Love-Hate Relationship with Email

an Article published on December 10, 2009

...I can answer and get on with my day. The frustratingly best emails are the ones that feel like I opened up a James Joyce novel to a random page and started reading. I’m sure this email has some context...

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Creative Questionnaire: Luke Wroblewski

an Article published on April 7, 2009

...of projects. We recently released a brand new Yahoo! toolbar, some new enhancements to My Yahoo!, began testing a new Yahoo! front page, and the list goes on. First step in my design process: Understand the factors that will influence...

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Experimenting with Backbone/Marionette Template Organization vs. Performance

an Article written by Dave Mello on June 23, 2014

...and produces a single, static file containing all of my partials. 2. The first time a client browser loads the page, this rollup is retrieved in one http request. The contents of this file are then regex-ed into their respective...

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