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creativespaces.net.au

Creative Spaces is an Australian based project designed to link artists with vacant or underutilized spaces. Seriously. Here’s a statement that I wish was represented a more prevalent mindset in the US: The website was first conceived by the City of Melbourne in an effort to address the critical need for artist spaces in the [...]

| Published February 15th, 2009
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ubi.com

I am highly skeptical when it comes to the use of Flash on websites. Generally, I feel that there are little to no benefits in using flash over another technology. There are just a few exceptions: When Flash is serving as a technology to stream media. Most people have the Flash plugin installed in their [...]

| Published February 15th, 2009
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Nalgene-Outdoor.com

Thermo Fischer Scientific is the company behind the iconic Nalgene branded water bottles. Although Nalgene introduced some of the first durable plastic water bottles for the outdoor sporting goods industry, they have remained top of their game through maintaining an excellent product and a strong brand. Their website is no exception. On the font page [...]

| Published February 15th, 2009
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Color Scheme Designer

The color scheme designer is not only an incredibly useful web application, it’s also a very elegant one. The designer, although it appears to be flash-based, is actually a careful combination of the jQuery library, some custom JavaScript, graphics, and xHTML. When designing an application of this nature, it would have been easy to forgo [...]

| Published February 13th, 2009
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52 reasons your website sucks

52 carefully hand-written reasons describing why your website [might] suck.

| Published February 10th, 2009