What comes after “The Gradient Era”

I don’t have enough energy to do this, but it would be cool if someone could give names to each of the “Design Era’s” we have seen come to life. But here goes:
- The Bullet Era: When I first started on the web every link had a “3-d Bullet graphic” (http://web.archive.org/web/19970724115909/www.uri.edu/artsci/artsci_home.html) [note: click [...]

Battle for standardization continues

I read an interesting post over on Alex Faaborg’s site today about microformats and how Firefox 3.0 will be using microformats to change Firefox into a “… an Information Broker.”
Much in the same way that operating systems currently associate particular file types with specific applications, future Web browsers are likely going to associate semantically marked [...]

RSS Feed/vs. Live Bookmarks

The ability to bookmark pages has been around since Netscape 1.0 (it may have been available in Mosaic but I can not remember that far back and at the time the concept of the web was so new to me that I may not have understood what a bookmark was). Bookmarks collectively can be [...]

The Feed Icon

Ok, so I just did some quick research on the "Feed Icon" you know that little orange icon that appears throughout web sites today to indicate that some content is available as a "Feed". That research has turned up some pretty interesting stuff.
There is a Wikipedia entry for this feed and it is located [...]

RSS to the masses

So this image appeared on Microsoft's home page today. I don't usually frequent the Microsoft site so I am not sure how long it has been there but I found this interesting. I have been talking about the launch of RSS as a great technology and as a technology that has not been [...]

When is NBA.com going to get rid of that ridiculous front page

Ok, I admit it, I am a huge fan of the NBA. I know post Jordan ratings are down and only true basketball fans can like this game today and the March Madness is more exciting than the NBA playoffs. I know. I know.
We are not here to discuss this though! [...]

What will we see return from the first .com boom?

Everyone remembers the hey day, or have read about it. Daily massages, in office happy hour specials, boat cruises, pool tables, TV Rooms with every cable channel immagineable, Play Stations (the PS2 and XBox were still on the drawing board). Work was a forest of toys and playthings. It hardly resemebled a [...]

We don’t need no stinkin’ navigation

I have been implementing web sites for what seems like forever and I have to honestly say that this is the first time I have ever heard this "Do we even really need a navigation".  The crazy thing about this statement was that the client was honest.  The other crazy thing is that the client [...]

“Is ugly the new Black”

http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2006/03/27/is-ugly-the-new-black/
What would happen if someone came along and built a better craigslist by using new techniques like AJAX? I will have to admit that I could care less about the looks of things as long as they are functional. To me, the Google Mail is successful mostly because it is easy to use. [...]