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Lightbox image effect is super-easy

I usually try to avoid falling in love with shiny new web effects, but with Lightbox I couldn’t help it. I hope this effect doesn’t get overused too soon, because I really like it. I’ve spent a lot of time looking for a nice-looking, easy…


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Best practices for web forms

In the past week I’ve come across two useful reviews of best practices for designing web forms. The first is from LukeW’s Functioning Form–he writes about the pros and cons of different label placement options (top-aligned, right-aligned, left-aligned). He’s posted about the topic in detail…


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Create separate profiles in Firefox

Do you share a computer with someone else (at home, for example) and secretly wish that they’d keep their bookmarks out of your bookmarks? Or do you wish you could more easily keep your work-related and personal browsing separate? Keep the peace — create separate…


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Who is going to organize all that data [you are] …

Michael Wesch on digital anthropology. More than slightly scary take on Web 2.0. [youtube]6gmP4nk0EOE[/youtube]


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Why “Yahoo” is the top search term on Google…

The Daily Domainer reports on an interesting phenomenon–it seems that Internet users are using search engines to go to websites, rather than the browser’s address bar. It’s faster to type “yahoo” into the Google search bar and click the first result link, than to type…


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