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Thoughts and discussion on web business, design and development

What's wrong with Web 2.0?

Posted Thu May 29 at 06:05 PM by Dave1 comment

Web 2.0 was a term coined a few years back to define how the web was changing, but somewhere it went wrong.


Easily show charts and graphs alongside statistics

Posted Thu May 29 at 04:56 PM by Kip

I don't see too many people taking advantage of the Google Chart API. In just a single image tag, you can add a slick looking chart or graph to your page, right next to an otherwise boring looking table of statistics.


Making your web photo galleries rock with Lightbox

Posted Wed May 28 at 07:38 PM by Kip6 comments

Don't just link each of those thumbnails to the full version of the photo in a new browser window. That's not very suave, and you know it! You've probably seen some awesome CSS-based large image popups when clicking thumbnails. It's probably Lightbox.


Useful design resources.

Posted Tue May 20 at 11:17 PM by Dave

The web can be a wonderful resource to learn and get inspired, but it's also an endless wasteland of garbage and bad information. Here's a short list of design-focused sites that I put in the former category.