To commemorate the closing of internet dinosaur and free web hosting service Geocities today, October 26, geeky web comic XKCD “redesigned” its site to match the horrible aesthetic (or lack thereof) rampant during the ’90s. Low-fi...
Topics: Being the Hype, geocities, IE6, nineties, SEO, ugly websites, web design, xkcd

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I don’t think that Simler will be a Facebook or Twitter killer, but there are several features that interest me enough to not stop thinking about it. (That’s gotta be a good sign right? Knowing how that went for Twitter?)Instead of reading...
Topics: chatrooms, communication, Facebook, IE6, message boards, simler, social media, Social Networking, tagging, Twitter, web 2.0

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Jacob Gube of Six Revisions has compiled 30 visually-stunning sites which are all formatted like virtual business cards. Tim Van Damme, whose dot-com of the same name sparked this trend, also maintains a list as well.There’s little else on each...
Topics: Being the Hype, Business, business cards, contact, Design, Facebook, identity, lifestream, openID, Social Networking, trends, Twitter, vCard, web 2.0, websites

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Contrary to popular belief, Microsoft is committed to building a better web with with a redesigned MIX Online and its horde of interesting resources, from articles to web development tools to delightful goodies. We’ve all been guilty of bashing...
Topics: CMS, CSS, Good Sites, Internet Explorer, microformats, Microsoft, platforms, redesign, visualization, web design

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Drawn.ca has posted 2 interesting sources of atypical imagery which, I realized, can be great design inspiration:First, Dogfoose uses close-up images of produce in his illustrations. The sample below uses broccoli as treetops for a kids magazine...
Topics: concept, Designer Resources, images, inspiration, photos, trends

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