Three good questions to ask clients when embarking on a web site redesign:

  1. If your site was a person, what would he or she be like?
  2. How would you expect visitors to react when they first view your site?
  3. What celebrity (or car, movie, etc.) is your site most like? Least like? Why?

Nice ice breaker and a way to get them thinking creatively.

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I recently read a great article on Boxes and Arrows about the myth of the fold.

Turning to the sidebar to learn more about the author, I was struck by some of the design decisions that had been made regarding this part of the page, most notably the choice to right-align all the sidebar content.

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After putting together a registration form design showcase, the logical next step was to do the same for login forms.

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Here's an interesting idea. Text Prefs is an online typographic survey where you can choose your preferred text formatting — font, text size, line height, column width — and then vote for it.

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'Screenshot of three different types of RSS icon

I just came across three versions of the RSS icon on the Stargate Worlds web site.

I've not seen green or blue icons being used to represent video and audio RSS feeds before.

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