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• 6 Things Video Games Can Teach Us About Web Usability by Atlantic BT
• First Do No Harm by UX Matters
• Untangling Brand & Customer Experience by Adaptive Path
• 3 Ways To Use Content To Engage Your Audience by ClickZ Experts
• Usability Testing On A Budget by UX Matters
• CSS Box Model by W3C Recommendations
• Super-Light HTML Prototyping by Konigi
• The Ideal CMS by Digital Media Buzz

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 16 – Nov 22, 2009 »

The truth is some hosting providers are great, and some are downright awful.

We primarily use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our hosting. Even though AWS works for us, it isn’t a suitable option for everyone. So we often have to deal with other hosting providers on behalf of our clients.

Whenever I have to deal with a hosting providers’ sales reps’ it dawns on me how hard it must be for people with limited technical experience to get their money’s worth.

I recently reviewed a client’s hosting set-up. Their requirements were straightforward and would have been fulfilled by a decent Virtual Private Server (VPS) costing around £50-60 per month.

Read more about Are you getting value for money from your hosting provider? »

Creative & Technical Development

• User Stories: A Strategic Design Tool by Johnny Holland Magazine
• Matt Webb: Design Is In Your Hands by UX Week 2009
• The Content Delusion by Ideas On Ideas
• The Internet Is Killing Storytelling by Times Online
• Content Strategy For The Web by ThinkVitamin
• Ultimate Guide To Grid-Based Web Design: Techniques & Tools by Noupe
• How To Cultivate Or Dissolve A Community by UX Booth
• Review Of UserTesting.com by UX Booth

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 7 – Nov 15, 2009 »

Creative & Technical Development

• Agile User Experience by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• How To Recover From Project Failures by Adaptive Path
• What The Hell Have We Done To Design? by DMI
• The Future Of Interface Design by UX Booth
• Optimising Internal Knowledge Sharing by UX Matters
• Smart.fm Developing A Great Experience by Adaptive Path
• Steve Smith On HTML 5 & CSS 3 by Think Vitamin
• Sketchy Axure Widget Library by Ascentium

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Nov 2 – Nov 6, 2009 »

Creative & Technical Development

• A Plea To All Creatives: Stop Going To Work by Fast Company
• Introducing User Centred Web Design by Computer World
• User Experience: What It Is And How To Get Some by Computer World
• User Experience In Action by Computer World
• On Authenticity by Interactions Magazine
• When Security Gets In The Way by Interactions Magazine
• The Authenticity Problem by Interactions Magazine
• Dan Rubin On Web Typography by Think Vitamin
• 10 UX Blogs You Should Be reading by UX Booth

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2009 »

Way back in 2008 we were battling away with a custom install of FFmpeg on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

We are really perdantic about video encoding so we had a long list of requirements.

Read more about Review: Ankoder’s video transcoding service »

Creative & Technical Development

• The State Of User Experience by Adaptive Path Blog
• Videos: Continuous Customer Experience Improvement by UX Week 2009
• The Fun Theory by The Fun Theory
• Usability, User Experience & Dramaturgy by 90 Percent Of Everything
• How To Understand Your Users With Personas by Think Vitamin
• The Scoop On Content Strategy by UX Matters
• A Problem-Solver’s Guide To Copycatting by Fast Company
• Outside In by Fast Thinking
• Eyetracking: Is It Worth It? by UX Matters

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2009 »

Creative & Technical Development

• Spammers, Evildoers & Opportunists by Derek Powazek
• Importance Doesn’t Always Equal Effort by Pathfinder Development Blog
• Idea 2009: Seductive Interactions by Stephen P. Anderson
• UCD: The Who, What, Why & How Of A Feature by Pathfinder Development Blog
• Distributing Content Through Social Networks & RSS by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• How To Understand Your Users With Personas by Think Vitamin
• Handling User Errors With Care by UX Booth
• Achieving Adoption Of A Disruptive Product by 90 Percent Of Everything

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 12 – Oct 18, 2009 »

Creative & Technical Development

• Times Scales In UX by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• Process, Not Portfolio by UX Matters
• Understanding Your Audience Online by ClickZ Experts
• At Your Service by Fast Thinking
• Inside User Research At YouTube by Putting People First
• Can UX Be Agile? by UX Matters
• Dates In Interaction Design by Syntagm Resources
• Notable: Closing The Feedback Loop For Web Designers by ReadWriteWeb

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2009 »

We are using Codepress for the administrator application within our custom CMS. Codepress is a web-based source code editor with syntax highlighting written in JavaScript that colors text in real time while it’s being typed in the browser.

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