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		<title>Facebook Fan Page Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Configure your Page&#8217;s &#8220;Settings&#8221; to allow more participation. The new Facebook Pages that launched in March 2009 were designed to encourage more action and participation by your fans. The old design had very little wall posts or discussions. People became a &#8220;fan&#8221; and sporadically read &#8220;Updates&#8221; and that was it. The new Pages have demonstrated [...]


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		<title>Effective signup process</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article focuses on providing new members with an effective join/signup process. Although some of these principles may seem obvious, I’ve gone through plenty of membership signup forms that still suck. So hence the post. 4 elements of an effective online community signup process 1. Easy to use web form design As Luke Wroblewski put [...]


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		<title>Know Your Typefaces!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces Dawn Shaikh* &#8211; User Experience Researcher (Seattle/Kirkland UX Team) Summary. This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and handwriting classes) using semantic differential scales. Responses are shown by [...]


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		<title>AOL&#8217;s new branding trades iconic running man for goldfish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new brand logo comes with a changing background and replaces the letters AOL with Aol. – complete with a period AOL just released its new branding look—one consistent typography showing &#8220;Aol&#8221; with different literally hundreds of &#8220;reveals&#8221; from various artists. We&#8217;re only seeing a snapshot; the new identity fully debuts when AOL rings the [...]


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		<title>Google Image Swirl &#8211; Clustering Similar Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search. When you do a search for [eiffel tower] you&#8217;ll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in black and white, at sunset and more. With Similar Images, which recently graduated from Google Labs, you [...]


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		<title>15 Simple Warning Signs of a Bad Project (and how to think positively)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s the deal. Designers should not accept every project that crosses their eyes. For five years, I was stuck in the mentality that every potential project was a chariot of gold ready to bring me unimaginable riches. Wrong. I discovered through a series of poor projects that accepting everything is not a profitable strategy. I [...]


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		<title>What is Google Chrome OS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[via youtube.com Telling the story of Google Chrome and how it inspired an operating system. Produced by Epipheo Studios. Posted via web from Focus After Tweet This! Share this on Facebook Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Linkedin Related posts:What is Google Wave? Introducing Google [...]


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		<title>Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required Field</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usability Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required Field I was on a mailing list today, and this came across: “Use red asterisks — they’re the standard for showing required fields.” Standards are wonderful, but if I asked my mom with is the international symbol for a required field, she would look at me [...]


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		<title>20 Do’s and Don’ts Web Typography</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Typography In a previous article here on Web Design Ledger, I broke down 20 do’s and don’ts of effective web design and today I would like to keep up with that topic and go over 20 do’s and don’ts of effective web typography. It’s an important part of [...]


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		<title>9 Starter Themes to Create Your Custom Themes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9 Starter WordPress Themes Posted in ResourcesOct 08, 08 &#124; 10:12 pm Mubashar Iqbal These days everyone and their mother seems to have a blog. A popular choice to run a blog is WordPress, it powers this blog and a few others that I run. A good way to make your blog stand out from [...]


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