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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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The Effect of Print on Demand Services on Web Content

an Article written by Christopher Butler on April 7, 2009

...book- this one 320 pages long, with more attention to text styling and size, as well as page and cover layout. I think the design changes I made will make the reading experience easier and nicer (I’ll post images when...

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Digital Conservation: Where Does My Facebook Data Go?

an Article written by Christopher Butler on March 31, 2009

...do a little digging. First, I Googled “what happens to my data if I delete my Facebook account?” I found this group page among the results, which claims that by using an obscure form on Facebook, your account will be...

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What is SSL?

an Article published on February 13, 2009

SSL (or secure sockets layer) is a way for a user to verify two things about a server they are trying to contact for requesting a web page. The first is that they are communicating with the exact server they...

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Prospect Experience Design

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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Google and Privacy

an Article published on January 31, 2008

Erics latest WebSmart newsletter on Gmail has begun a nice little conversation about Google and privacy issues, so I thought I would throw together a few links on the subject: Wikipedias Criticism of Google page This article covers the various...

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Web Design 101: Jagged Text

an Article published on December 16, 2008

Question: Why does the text on my site look rough or jagged? Answer: Any editable text on a web page (you can highlight it with your cursor) is HTML text. HTML text is generated by your web browser and displayed...

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Creative Questionnaire: Andy Rutledge

an Article published on September 25, 2008

...is rather large and requires some ongoing layout and user-experience design work. It’s released in public beta now (for journalists) but the public side is still sporting the temporary main page. Anyway, there’s not much for non-journalists to see now,...

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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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We Have Unrealistic Expectations of Privacy

an Article written by Christopher Butler on May 6, 2009

...about it: If you bought some cheap hosting somewhere and put up a simple html page with some text you wrote, wouldn’t you be surprised if one day you pulled it up and saw a Google ad on it? You...

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