Web General

A few things that have caught my eye lately:

Morphases.com

This flash-based online face creation and manipulation tool is amazing. Some of the UI is a little cryptic, but it’s not too difficult to work out what all the controls do. Read More

Back in January, just for fun I posted an unscientific traffic ranking table of web design sites (blogs, largely) to see how popular some of the sites were that I enjoyed on a regular basis. Well, I thought it was time to do an update.

Is it just me or does that navigation for Topix.net look remarkably similar to Doug Bowman’s Sliding Doors of CSS example?

Not that there’s any law against this, although I was disappointed to see that they hadn’t implemented Doug’s technique to make the text in the navigation actually resizable. On a related note, I would go so far as to suggest that text resizing as a whole needs to be looked into on the Topix site.

A recent entry over at Whitespace about site stats (which I can’t link directly to as I can find it and the site has no search) got me to thinking about which web design blogs are the most popular.

There’s a good article at CIO about knowledge management best practices using some real world examples of companies that have been successful at it.
I particularly liked the tips for making knowledge management work for other organizations:

→ Start with the enthusiasts
→ Convince the influencers
→ Make it a no-brainer
→ Hire a knowledge coordinator
→ Tell stories
→ Recognize contributors
→ Create in-person knowledge forums

Incidentally, I quite liked the “Reader ROI” sidebar that accompanies the article, which gives you a quick bulleted overview of what’s in the article and why it might be useful. A nice touch.