Vandelay Website Design: 21 Factors to Consider Before a Redesign

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/redesign-process/
"Redesigning a website can be a very involved process, and it is important to properly plan and consider the necessary factors that will make or break the redesign. Here is a quick look at 21 factors that you should be contemplated.

1. What is the goal of the redesign?

What do you hope to accomplish? It’s always important to have a clear understanding of your reasons and motivations as they should impact the decisions that you make along the way. Without knowing these goals the project will lack direction and you will likely wind up with a website that still doesn’t meet your needs."

Marble of Doom

http://marbleofdoom.com/
"It goes by many names: The Spinning Beachball of Death. The Marble of Doom. The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.

Ok, maybe not that last one. But the OS X spinning wait cursor is well-known and well-dreaded by Mac users around the world.

But our time of dread is over. The days of living in fear have come to an end. No longer must we cower in uncertainty, wondering if our next mouse-click will bring our machine to a grinding, unproductive halt - powerless as that life-draining, technicolor cursor mocks us with its cheerful spinning. Today is the day we strike back.

Ok, maybe not "strike back" exactly. Today is the day we "vent our frustrations in a semi-humorous manner"."

Macenstein: Apple.com: A life remembered

http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1089
"Inspired by our last post about the history of Apple.com (and more importantly, the first comment on it) we decided to take a more thorough trip down memory lane. Behold Apple.com “A life in Pictures”."

Ars Technica: U2 manager calls Safe Harbor a "Thieves' Charter"

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080129-u2-manager-calls-safe-harbor-a-thieves-charter.html
"Paul McGuinness, U2 manager, took the stage at the Midem music industry conference in Cannes yesterday to back the IFPI party line: it's time to take the fight over file-swapping to the ISPs. McGuinness railed against those companies that have "built multibillion-dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it."

McGuinness wants to stop going after individual file-swappers and go right to the industry that makes file-swapping possible: ISPs. He hopes to shift the "moral pressure" to Internet providers and "shame them into wanting to help us." He also thinks that most technology gurus are countercultural hippies, Deadheads, and Abbie Hoffman disciples (Steal This Book is mentioned as particularly pernicious influence). How else to explain the fact the tech companies don't want to help the music business more?"

Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO: 11 Power Tips for Gmail

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/9-power-tips-for-gmail/
"Wow, I can’t believe how many people commented on my late-Friday night post about desired features for Gmail. If you want to suggest something for Gmail, that thread is the better place to do it. But looking through the comments, I saw a few requests that can already be done today. Considering that real Gmail users didn’t know about these options, I’m going to call them power tips."

Popular Mechanics: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4243994.html?page=3
"In the tech world this phenomenon is known as “software bloat” or “feature bloat.” It's a well-documented problem and a frequent complaint about Windows OSs—Vista in particular. In addition to being buggy, the extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat.

Most features can be set up as options. Why not start with a computer loaded with basic stuff that works 100 percent of the time? Then, give us the option of adding the bells and whistles. There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.

And high-tech companies—stop messing with us on your treadmill of upgrades while making the old stuff obsolete. It may be that any software company that didn't routinely upgrade its product would go out of business. But what if the rest of the world worked this way? Oh, I lost a sock. I need to get a whole new wardrobe because the replacement sock is version 2.0.1, and the stores now only sell version 2.0.3."

QBN: For A Better Tomorrow

http://www.qbn.com/
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Nintendo: Iwata Asks: Super Smash Brothers Brawl

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/ssbb/vol1_page1.jsp
"Hello, Everyone. My name is Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo Co., Ltd. Beginning today, I would like to deliver an interview that explains the vision and the development process behind the creation of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. But before we begin, I would like to offer an apology.
With the completion of the game falling behind schedule, we were unable to keep our promised release date, despite our greatest efforts in attempting to release this game on time. I would like to extend my most sincere apology to all of our customers that are anticipating the title’s release, and also to our retailers.
I have asked Mr. Nagata from "Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun" (a webpage hosted by famed copywriter Shigesato Itoi), who is a fan of Smash Bros. himself, to take on the role as the editor for this Iwata Asks interview. The last time he helped us was with the Iwata Asks series before the Wii launch, but I feel like I have asked the perfect candidate to convey the appeal of Smash Bros.
I hope you enjoy this interview."

Last.FM: Free the Musichttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music
"A few days ago we sent out some cryptic invitations to a press conference in New York that Felix and Martin are presiding over. We’ve had fun in the office reading the rumors and speculation, but it’s time to spill the beans:

As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website."

youthedesigner: 16 sensational poster designs

http://www.youthedesigner.com/2008/01/22/16-sensational-poster-designs/
"Below are 16 of my favorite posters designs for various bands. I tried to show a wide variety of poster design styles in this collection and I hope you find them as inspirational as I do. I am sure every band felt very lucky to have such great poster designs created for them."

Lifehacker's Exclusive Line of Productivity Software

http://lifehacker.com/347269/lifehackers-exclusive-line-of-productivity-software
"Not only do the editors here at Lifehacker feed your head with a feast of posts every day, every once in a while we put our programming chops to good use and build custom software for our readers. If you've missed any of the Lifehacker Code line of applications, scripts, and plug-ins, here's your chance to get caught up.

All of the Lifehacker Code projects listed below are free to download, and they're licensed under the GNU Public License with source available, so we invite you to use, modify, and enhance to your heart's content."

TechCrunch: Why the Digg Story Sells

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/21/9-reasons-why-the-digg-story-sells/
"This guest post was written by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites.

Most of us know the Digg story. All it took was a scrappy-looking kid with an idea, and lo and behold, online news discovery and aggregation were changed forever. Digg wasn’t the first social bookmarking (now social news) site, nor was it the first to popularize the concept. It was, however, the first site with a story that touched people, and helped the site outgrow all its competition and become an industry (and even mainstream media) darling."

Ars Technica: EA revamps Battlefield with free, ad-supported online title

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080121-ea-revamps-battlefield-with-free-ad-supported-online-title.html
"PC gaming is a business where it is becoming increasingly hard to make a dollar. The rise of consoles, the threat of piracy, and the ever-increasing cost of development all lead to an environment that doesn't welcome innovation or, for that matter, profit. EA is beginning a new approach with the upcoming Battlefield Heroes, a cartoonish and lighthearted take on its popular Battlefield series of war games. The catch? The game will be released for free and will support itself through in-game advertising and microtransactions.

"[Ads] wouldn't work inside the fictional world. Instead, adverts will appear on the website and the 'front-end' of the game," Ben Cousins, the senior producer at DICE, told BBC News."

Battlefield Heroes

http://battlefield-heroes.com/home.asp

• Battlefield Heroes™ is a brand new Play 4 Free™ game from the people that brought you the multi-million selling Battlefield 1942™ and Battlefield 2™
• It's a fun cartoon-style shooter which caters to players of all skill levels – easy to pick up and play, but with deep character development
• It will be released for the PC as a free download in Summer 2008

Ars Technica: "Mac mindset" claim is more marketing than science

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080120-mac-mindset-claim-is-more-marketing-than-science.html
"It's no secret that Apple products have a whiff of elitism about them. Their computers have been favored by a minority that emphasize unquantifiable features like design and workflow, and they cost more than many others on the market (this is, however, becoming less true over the years). Their users are often enthusiastic about the product, sometimes to the point of pathology. But do those users represent an extreme, or is there really a quantifiable Macintosh frame of mind shared by its users? A story that is making the rounds suggests that there is.

The "Mac mindset" reports seem compelling because they apparently match so well with expectations. Mac users think they're "exceptional" and "extraordinary." They have exacting standards, value precisions, and rarely forgive mistakes (as John Dvorak has undoubtedly learned). Imperfections bother them, and people expect them to avoid mistakes. Oddly, they're also not very modest. Think different indeed."

"I am a Host at The Olive Garden"

http://www.gregnog.com/hostatog.htm
"For about a year, I worked as a host in an Olive Garden restarurant. During that time, I made the following strips. Each strip is completely true, except for people's names, which have been changed so that they don't get mad at me. This comic is not endorsed in any way by The Olive Garden or its parent company, Darden Restaurants. In fact, they don't even know it exists.

Here's a fun fact about Darden Restaurants: Not only do they own The Olive Garden and the comparatively less successful restaurant chains "Smokey Bones" and "Bahama Breeze," but also the seafood behemoth known as "The Red Lobster." Benefits of working for Darden Restaurants include the Darden Dimes program, in which one contributes ten cents from each paycheck, which goes into an emergency fund that is used to assist one's fellow-employees in their times of need."

subtraction.com: The Story So Far

http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2008/0114_the_story_so.php
"Last year, I spent a good deal of time talking about how print designers often fail to realize that the shift from analog to digital media also represents a shift from narrative to behavior — a fundamental change in the language and purpose of graphic design. That’s still an important concept, I think.

But after looking at portfolio after portfolio over the past two years while recruiting talent for an employer that still places a high value on narrative, I should shade this argument further: the future of this profession is not predicated simply on a one-way shift from the sensibilities of analog to the sensibilities of digital."

.net Magazine

http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/magazine
".net delivers cutting edge practical advice on the full range of topics essential for today’s web builders: design, development, sales, marketing, usability and accessibility, information architecture, security, copywriting, advertising and more. It is read by people who are serious about the commercial application of the internet."

crestock.com: The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/the-50-most-popular-web-design-blog-posts-resources-cheat-sheets-of-2007-114.aspx
"The past year has been an amazing period for those wishing to learn the ropes of design, whether you're a noob just getting into the game or a seasoned designer or programmer. As we enter 2008, let's take a look back at some of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials that helped those who toiled away on the web everyday."

Ars Technica: First Look: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/mac-office-2008-review.ars
"The subject of Microsoft Office for Mac has the potential to be a touchy one with Apple fans. There is a contingent of Mac users for whom Microsoft is the enemy, and any alternative to their products is the right choice. For many others though, especially those of us who live and work in cross-platform environments, the reality is that Microsoft's Office suite is the de facto

standard, and life is a lot easier if everyone's files play nice.

Regardless of where you stand on the Office versus iWork question, there's no denying that Redmond has has churned out some pretty impressive and very Mac-like software. Office 98 was a fine package, and Internet Explorer 5 gave the Mac a better browser at the time than was available for Windows. Office 2001 introduced some new features, and then Office v.X brought the productivity suite to the shiny happy land of OS X. Bugs were ironed out for Office 2004, and that's where we've been ever since.

Office 2004 wasn't bad per se, but the switch to Intel has been painful for Office users. The applications were not universal binaries, which meant they had to run in under emulation in Rosetta. All that has changed, however, with the release of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008."

Smashing Magazine: Monday Inspiration: Innovative Designs and Devices

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/07/monday-inspiration-innovative-designs-and-devices/
"Steve Jobs stated once that the “design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” While this statement has proven to be crucial over thousands of years, one shouldn’t misinterpret it by emphasizing the functionality despite the design. When it comes to product design, the significance of aesthetics of a given device, the way its design looks and feels, determines the choice of the customer once the functionalities of multiple devices are more or less similar. If supported by sound user interface and a well-tested, clean implementation, innovative design solutions can drastically enhance the user experience.

This article presents innovative, futuristic gadgets, devices, designs and concepts. Unless explicitly specified, none of these cut-edge concepts is currently being manufactured. None of them is available for end-users which is why neither the price nor links to the stores are mentioned."

12 Lessons from Business Masters

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/290389/12-Lessons-from-Business-Masters
"The lessons in this document are ones that should be taken to heart. I tend to agree with Mr. Dell, it is and always will be the customer who keeps a company up and running."

Design Police: Bring Bad Design to Justice

http://www.design-police.org/
Genius.

Lifehacker Feature: Customize Your Mac with Leopard Power Tweaks

http://lifehacker.com/344376/customize-your-mac-with-leopard-power-tweaks
"Now that Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard's been out almost three months, several apps, tweaks, and plug-ins have emerged that can customize (and sometimes re-Tigerize) your Mac. Now that you're comfortable with Leopard's new features, like Stacks, Quick Look, Time Machine, and Spaces, it's time to roll up your sleeves and make your Mac look, feel, and behave just how you like. Personalize Leopard's great new features, revert the annoying ones, or just get a taste of the things you didn't know your Mac could do with our favorite Leopard tweaks."

Sawse: Some of the Best CSS Resources on the Web

http://www.sawse.com/2008/01/06/some-of-the-best-css-resources-on-the-web/
"Design professionals once ignored CSS, chalking it up to nothing more than a fad that would eventually fade into the background. Over time, its ease of use and wealth of design applications have made it the new favorite of media designers everywhere. If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, what are you waiting for? Here we take a look at six of the best beginner CSS resources available on the web.

CSS2 Specification

The reading is dry, but if you’re serious about learning CSS this is your first and best place to start. This is the official CSS manual. The easiest way to use this resource is to practice while you are reading so that you can transform that technical language into practical application."

Gizmodo: 1960s Braun Design Holds the Secret to Apple's Future

http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future
"The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don't know is that there's another man whose products are at the heart of Ive's design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the '50s and '60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:

When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York's MoMA—and compare them to Ive's work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial design, keeping the design "honest."

Genoco: Phil Lu: Portfolio

http://genoco.com/
"I am a multimedia designer with three years of experiences working in various dynamic and collaborative environments. Detail oriented and open minded to tackle various kind of design challenge. Eager to learn new skills, adopt new ideas and work to be an excellent team member. Experienced in graphic design, multimedia design and photography"

wallpaper*: Design Awards 2008: the winners

http://www.wallpaper.com/news/design-awards-2008-the-winners/2029
"Unless you’ve been holed up in bed for the last ten days, you won’t fail to have noticed our countdown to the annual Wallpaper* Design Awards. And you’re probably aware that last night the event itself took place to great effect – winners were revealed, runners-up clapped graciously and a very good time was had by all.
In true Wallpaper* style we’ve gone one step further than simply opening an envelope to reveal the winners. Instead, we’ve teamed-up with digital animators, Mainframe, to produce animations for each winner of the Judges’ Awards. To heighten the suspension a little more, refresh your memories and take a look at the shortlists for each award by clicking on each category on the right."

Apple Gazette: Where to find LIVE coverage of the Macworld 2008 Keynote

http://www.applegazette.com/macworld/where-to-find-live-coverage-of-the-macworld-2008-keynote/
"The 2008 Macworld Keynote is only a few days away, and below is a complete list of everywhere that you’ll be able to find live blogging of the event. If you are planning on covering the event and don’t see yourself listed below, please contact us and I’ll get you added as soon as possible."

Staff Tool

http://www.stafftool.com/
"stafftool is the easiest way for churches and non-profits to manage their people, events, and communications"

Time: 50 Best Websites, 2007

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1633488,00.html
"Our 2007 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Web right now. Here we honor sites with exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience. What do you think of our choices? Take our poll and let us know."

Techcrunch: 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Withttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhout

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/01/2008-web-20-companies-i-couldnt-live-without/
"This will be the third annual post on “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without.” The first post, for 2006, is here. The 2007 post, written a year ago, is here.

This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (Wordpress, Delicious, Google Docs, etc.), some are for fun (Amazon Music, Amie Street, etc), and some are useful for both (Digg, Skype, YouTube, etc.). But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.

The list changes a bit from year to year, and is also getting longer (see chart). Five products have been favorites all three years (Flickr, Netvibes, TechMeme, Skype, Wordpress). Five more were favorites last year and this year, but not in 2006 (1-800-Free-411, Amie Street, Digg, Gmail, YouTube). Two were off the list last year but are back now (Delicious, Technorati). And there are seven new products on the list (Amazon MP3 Store, Facebook, Firefox, Google Reader, TripIt, Twitter, Zoho). Some of my picks might be surprising, like Firefox just being added to the list this year (I used Flock previously and was unhappy with Firefox on the Mac, but the 3.0 beta is performing very well). Some of these are close calls (I love Pageflakes, but just not enough to fully switch from Netvibes, for example). And there are a bunch of startups that didn’t make the list to keep it short. I’ve put a few “almosts” at the end to round out the list, as well as a couple of favorite gadgets."

Seattle Pi: Simple, tiny computers forcing Microsoft to make change

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/346547_flashpc09.html
"LAS VEGAS -- Amid the gigantic televisions and booming speakers at the Consumer Electronics Show, a tiny laptop computer stands out for its minimalist approach.

The Asus Eee PC is about the size of a small hardback book, and weighs two pounds. Rather than storing data on a spinning hard drive, it uses the type of solid-state flash memory more common in portable music players. It comes with the Linux operating system preinstalled, and it sells for as little as $300."

Colour Lovers: Happy Blue Year: 2008 Color Trends

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/01/09/happy-blue-year-2008-color-trends/
"According to color supplier Pantone®, the color of 2008 is Blue Iris. The blue is a radiant, calming hue, dark, but not dark enough to be in the realm of navy, and is a sharp contrast to the 2007 choice, Chili Pepper Red.

“From a color forecasting perspective, we have chosen PANTONE 18-3943 Blue Iris as the color of the year, as it best represents color direction in 2008 for fashion, cosmetics and home products,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “As a reflection of the times, Blue Iris brings together the dependable aspect of blue, underscored by a strong, soul-searching purple cast.”

pingdom: Web hosting names that make you go “Huh?”

http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=233
"There are a lot of web hosting companies out there with unusual, strange, or just plain weird names (and URLs). We have collected some of the strangest ones in this post."

Smashing Magazine: 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/08/100-excellent-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes/
"High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.

In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog."

techdirt: Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't Compete Period

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070215/002923.shtml

reply from informationarchitects.jp:
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/how-to-compete-with-free

Engadget galleries: Windows mobile 7?

Galleries > Is this Windows Mobile 7?

http://www.engadget.com/photos/is-this-windows-mobile-7/

NY Times: Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30know.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
"IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

Andrew S. Grove, the co-founder of Intel, put it well in 2005 when he told an interviewer from Fortune, “When everybody knows that something is so, it means that nobody knows nothin’.” In other words, it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you’ve built around yourself."

Slate: Don't Fear Starbucks

http://www.slate.com/id/2180301/pagenum/all/

"The first time Herb Hyman spoke with the rep from Starbucks, in 1991, the life of his small business flashed before his eyes. For three decades, Hyman's handful of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stores had been filling the caffeine needs of Los Angeles locals and the Hollywood elite: Johnny Carson had his own blend there; Jacques Cousteau arranged to have Hyman's coffee care packages meet his ship at ports around the world; and Dirty Dozen leading man Lee Marvin often worked behind the counter with Hyman for fun. But when the word came down that the rising Seattle coffee juggernaut was plotting its raid on Los Angeles, Hyman feared his life's work would be trampled underfoot. Starbucks even promised as much. "They just flat-out said, 'If you don't sell out to us, we're going to surround your stores,' " Hyman recalled. "And lo and behold, that's what happened—and it was the best thing that ever happened to us."

Smashing Magazine: 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/19/53-css-techniques-you-couldnt-live-without/
"CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actualy, it is.

Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites.

Thanks to all developers who contributed to accessible and usable css-based design over the last few years. We really appreciate it. Thanks!"

Mayang's Free Texture Gallery

http://mayang.com/textures/
"Our texture library has over 3400 free to download, free to use, high-resolution textures.
Online at www.mayang.com/textures"

Bittbox: Random Free Vectors - Part 9

http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/random-free-vectors-part-9/
"I had fun making these. I’m constantly trying to push my Illustrator skills to the limit, so I was experimenting, and I came up with this set of freebies in the process. I don’t even know what to call these free vectors. Swirls, ornaments, swooshes, I don’t know. Call them what you want, but I hope you like them. Download AI, EPS, or SVG."

Brusheezy: 20 Photoshop Brushes

http://www.brusheezy.com/brush/530-Paint-Brush-Strokes
"Here I have 20 paint-brush stroke brushes for Photoshop CS 2! Made with an actual paint brush on paper, then scanned in at a large resolution. The zip-file includes a jpg image so that older Photoshop-users can define them as brushes separately."

Smashing Magazine: Best of October 2007

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/14/best-of-october-2007/
"Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in October 2007.

All images can be clicked and lead to the sites from which the screenshots have been taken."

Pop Upon Magazine: Geek Trends: 15 Footers with great usability

http://yample.com/popupon/?p=54
"Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.

On the search for effective integrated footers we collected a few that are amazing for creating engagement to produce internal traffic and brand awareness. We present you an alphabetical order list of 15 Footers with viable integration."