Web Design Links

Web Design References: A staggering collection of links about all aspects of Web design from University of Minnesota, of all places.

Published: January 9, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 1000

Open Source Web Design

Open Source Web Design - Home /\^/\: Not a bad bunch of designs floating around here. They're all certainly very tweakable. Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a ...

Published: June 16, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 995

The Return of Design

Adding style to substance: A good article on the resurgence of innovative design in product development. "'When everything else is commoditized, design is the one area where you can add value,'' says Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, the Palo Alto industrial design studio which has crafted everything from the Palm ...

Published: November 3, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 990

Spolsky on Design

Great Design: What is Design? (First Draft): Here's a great rant from Spolsky about what makes good design and how hard it is to get there. He has a great bit in the middle about the conflicts present when deciding whether or not to put a mute button on a ...

Published: February 4, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 975

Patterns in Web Design

As a programmer, I've come to use the concept of design patterns in my software development efforts. I was suprised, though, to hear that the pixel-pushers also have a concept of patterns in web design. Ryan Singer of 37Signals has written an excellent article on patterns in web design, and ...

Published: October 6, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 969

Masturbatory Web Design

I used a term with a colleague the other day -- "masturbatory Web design" -- and he thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard. I use the term a lot, so I don't think about it, but he thought it was hysterical and completely appropriate for the situation ...

Published: October 20, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 965

Porsche Design

Gizmodo : Porsche drives: I've written about the Porsche-computer connection before, but I didn't know Porsche Design is behind the VPR Matrix computers that Best Buy sells. Nor that they're coming out with a line of external hard drives. For the record, Porsche Design has the same genesis as the ...

Published: July 25, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 959

Open Web Design

Open Web Design: Here's a good collection of open source designs that you can use. Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place! There's some really nice ...

Published: November 23, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 957

The Mother of All Design Wizards

The Page Design Genie: This is what design-challenged people like me have been waiting for. "Rather than replacing the graphic artist, Xerox's software is designed to function like a page layout genie that looks over the shoulder of the person creating a document, whether the person is an artist or ...

Published: October 10, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 941

A Standard Intranet Design?

Canonical Intranet Homepage: Great article about how intranet homepages are becoming so similar. [...intranet] homepage layouts are becoming more and more similar over time. We've now reached the point where one specific intranet homepage layout is so common that it makes sense to anoint it as the canonical design. He ...

Published: May 26, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 938

Visual Studio Design View

Things I Hate: Visual Studio 2003 Design View: Brian gives us a nice, solid rant on the utter incompetence of Visual Studio's Design View when working on Web forms. I'm at the point where I absolutely DO NOT use design view. Ever. Which sucks, of course, since deciphering the available ...

Published: February 4, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 937

PHP Design Patterns

phpPatterns(): A site devoted to PHP desgin patterns.

Published: July 23, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 934

Web Design Competition

ShopFactory V6 Design competition: First place is five grand. "What's a good design? Anything that is professional and stands out from the crowd. We won't know until we've seen what you can do. All we know is that our templates are in desperate need of updating - and we are ...

Published: July 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 931

CSS and the Design Litmus Test

I've discovered yet another use for the Web Developer Toolbar; I can perform The Site Design Litmus Test, heretofore known as "Joe's Razor" (named for no one in particular): Open up a site you've done in Firefox, and take a look at it. Now, open up the 'Edit CSS' sidebar ...

Published: August 24, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 922

Web Design Practices Survey

Web Design Practices: "Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web" Lofty goals, but the site makes a good go of it. It's a survey of the practices found on major sites. For instance, they surveyed, screen-capped ...

Published: November 8, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 919

Logo Design Trends

15 Trends Taking Shape In Logo Design: For those of that don't know why logos look the way they look, here's an explanation of where logo design is going and why. Number one of fifteen: "Two or more droplets caught in the act of merging, usually symbolic of convergence or ...

Published: November 5, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 918

Site Design Piracy

Pirated Sites!! Aaarrgghh...: Ahoy mateys, site design hijacking ahead. Like this one and this one. Or this one and this one. "Pirated-Sites.com showcases side-by-side comparisons of web sites that are suspected of borrowing, copying or stealing copyright-protected content, design or code without permission." Then there's this one and this one, ...

Published: September 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 911

Bad Design Hall of Fame

Good Experience: This Is Broken: These aren't about Web design, but still pretty funny. I like the AutoCAD error window that just says "Blue." "Have you seen anything that's broken? Places, Things, Websites. Send us your submission: Take a picture of what's broken, or just write about it, and send ...

Published: November 6, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 895

Whatever Happened to Kioken Design?

A friend asked me today about a design firm that was very flamboyant at the peak of the bubble Kioken Design. They were based in New York, and they did sites for J. Lo, Puff Daddy (as he was named at the time), and others (I would link, but ...

Published: June 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 894

Web Design Site Comparison

These web sites are identical or are they?: Here's a wonderful page that takes 10 sites all very popular in the blogosphere then examines them for common elements like search boxes, righthand columns, footers, etc. Degrees if incidence and dissonance are calculated and lead to interesting conculsions. ...

Published: August 12, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 886

Interface Design Job With Apple

Here's a job posting for anyone who has gripes about the Mac OS user interface, the skills to do something about it, and the onions to actually land the job. Apple's Mac OS X User Interface Group is seeking a senior visual interface designer to conceive, design and develop future ...

Published: February 13, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 884

Web Design from Scratch

Web Design from Scratch: A good-looking site full of good-looking content about building Web sites. If you're a professional developer, I don't know how much you'll get out of it, but if not, it seems to be worth a look. This site is for everyone involved or interested in creating ...

Published: February 4, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 882

Defensive Design for the Web

Defensive Design for the Web: How to improve contingency design...: I read this book over the weekend. It's essentially 40 usability guidelines sorted in nine categories and supported by hundreds of screencaps of sites you've probably visited. I've done a bit of usability reading in the past, so it was ...

Published: May 17, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 882

The Current Style of Page Design

Current style in web design: Here's a good roundup of the current style of well-designed Web pages, and what makes them that way. For the last few years, I've seen a certain breed of page design that I loved but could never put my finger on why. This style actually ...

Published: February 10, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 878

USC Offers Game Design Degree

Academics Can Be Fun and Games: These guys are the perfect candidates to design those games ripped from the headlines. You gotta know the plotline first. Once dismissed as the pastime of geeks hunkered down in their dorm rooms, gaming has evolved into such a strong cultural and economic force ...

Published: November 13, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 875

Growing the CSS

MBoffin.com did something really cool while redesigning his blog. They made a 'design timeline' while working on his latest site design. Every time the designer saved the site, he took a screencap, and turned it into an animated GIF. He's imbibed the 'presentation separate from content' Kool-aid, so you can ...

Published: May 2, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 862

The Role of Color in Usability

Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design: I talked once about whether cool design and aesthetics could ease or hinder the adoption of a Web app. This article plays into that from the angle of color. "One easily remedied cause of such drab design is color. Perhaps no ...

Published: September 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 858

The Microsoft Expression Suite

Microsoft Expression: I knew this was coming, but I just stumbled on the site this morning. This is the replacement for FrontPage, and the supposed competitor to Dreamweaver. Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites which deliver superior quality on the Web. Expression Blend is ...

Published: January 23, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 858

The Kioken Mystery Solved

Whatever Happened to Kioken Design?: A while back we posted a question: whatever happened to Kioken Design? Kioken was an A-list Web design firm before the bubble burst, and the subject of much press at that time. Then they suddenly vanished. This morning, Joshua Davis posted a comment to that ...

Published: September 5, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 854

Fixed Width Designs

The benefits of a fixed width design: A good argument about fixed-width design. I always advocated fluid design, but there are too many problems with it. As screen resolutions get bigger, it gets harder and harder to read Web sites that go from wall-to-wall. Making your readers feel comfortable is ...

Published: December 11, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 850

Principle vs. Practical in the World of Web Design

Web design and development isn't a perfect science there are no absolutes. You can take a stand on how something should be done, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily going to work that way. I wrote this article about a year ago, and in it, I drew several lines ...

Published: May 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 843

Standard Design Elements Examined

Examining the Role of De Facto Standards on the Web: Here's an examination of design elements of Web sites that have become "standards," whether or not we planned them that way. Think of site layout, and what comes to mind a designer friend of mine once talked of "moving ...

Published: October 16, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 842

A Spam-Inspired Design Thrashing

Larry Taylor Spam Ministries: Word to the wise: don't spam Mean Dean, even if it's for ministry-related stuff. This is a great read. Considering the fact that I'm still receiving unsolicited commercial email after having already complained directly and upstream, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps the best ...

Published: June 18, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 841

Functional Design Patterns

Applications have patterns -- ways of doing things that have stood the test of time. These aren't object modeling patterns, about which books and books have been written, these are...best practices for how to solve a particular type of functional problem. Around my city, you see a certain style of ...

Published: July 6, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 831

Liquid Web Design

This article is a little light on content, but it speaks to a point very important to me the requirement that Web sites flow within the browser window, no matter what that window is sized to. "...nine times out of ten, the 'best' web layout is the one which ...

Published: August 28, 2002 Geek Popularity Factor: 826

Weather and Time-Based Site Design

Blog | 1976design.com: This is so cool that it makes my teeth hurt. This guy pulls an XML feed from Weather.com and swaps out his header graphic to reflect the actual weather and time of day at his location. The graphic is based on an actual panoramic image of his ...

Published: December 11, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 826

Web Design, Circa 1995

malfunction.org | fulifier: This site looks just peachy through this tool. "The Fulifier fulifies a site, which means turning it around three thousand times uglier than it was before, making it look something like all the sites around 1998 made by lame ten year old script kiddie who wanted to ...

Published: August 16, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 825

User Interface Design for Programmers

I read Joel Spolsky's book over the weekend: "User Interface Design for Programmers." This is an excellent guide to usability for client apps and for Web development. The strength of the book is that it doesn't start by presenting many hard-and-fast rules, but instead concetrates on general concepts that ...

Published: May 31, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 818

They know good design when they see it

Yes, Apple put forth all sorts of fancy new doodads today, but the real story for web geeks is a change to the store I noticed earlier: Go to the Apple.com Store and configure a new computer. The 'Update Price' button is gone. If you change a setting, the price ...

Published: October 12, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 810

Are CMSs Becoming Mandatory?

The Future Of Web Design Is Content Management: I agree with this, more or less. Though there are some clients who will gladly pay for updates to just not have to deal with it. This is somewhat of a call out to all web design companies. If you cannot offer ...

Published: September 21, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 809

Getting Real

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application: Nineteen dollars for the PDF. No print version. Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. ...

Published: March 1, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 806

Dyson on the Mini

A design classic: This is an interesting little essay by James Dyson you know, the guy with the oh-so-delicate British accent in the commercials for his neon yellow vacuum cleaner? (These commercials were recently parodied by Saturday Night Live imagine if Dyson invented a toilet...) CNN apparently asked ...

Published: November 9, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 796

The Effect of Color on Web Design

Color it effective: How color influences the user: An interesting article on the subliminal effect of color. From Microsoft, of all sources. Research has...led many employers to use a green color scheme in the workplace, as there is evidence to suggest that this results in less absenteeism through illness. At ...

Published: April 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 791

The Value of RSS

One of the upcoming goals I have for DeaneBarker.net is an RSS channel. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" (or "Rich Site Summary," depending on who you ask) and is a way for other programs and sites to display things from this site without actually coming here. (I know, I ...

Published: September 21, 2002 Geek Popularity Factor: 790

Usability and the Coolness Factor

Does a good looking Web site get used more than a plain one? If so, why? Consider two Web sites: Site A is written in plain HTML / CSS / JavaScript, etc. It s a traditional Web app, well-designed and aesthetically-pleasing, but no attempt has been made to engineer a slick ...

Published: September 8, 2002 Geek Popularity Factor: 785

Inventing The Wheel

MP3 Insider has taken a look at the evolution of the iPod's innovative scroll wheel, considered by many to be it's most innovative feature, and the key to it's success. The scrollwheel has been through three iterations. The first one actually rotated; then there was the touch-sensitive one; and finally ...

Published: September 20, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 781

Firdamatic

I was looking at How To: By You today, and was thinking that the design was nice. Later, I found Firdmatic, and I discovered where the design came from. "Firdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making ...

Published: September 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 777

Follow the Rhinos

Follow the Rhinos: I normally don't link to a site just because I like the design, but I think it's time to start. How about this one for the first? Beautiful design that fits its subject matter perfectly. All the details are just perfect. Sites like this make me want ...

Published: August 22, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 777

TABLE vs CSS

Tables Vs. CSS - A Fight to the Death: So which is better building page layouts using TABLE tags or using DIVs and CSS? This guy set out to find out. He built the same site both ways, and documented the experience and results. On Table-based design... I've seen ...

Published: May 27, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 776

Design by Grouchy Committee

Wikipedia is a bit like a duck. Calm on the surface, and paddling like crazy underneath. Authors often have long discussions over what should go into an article. As you might imagine, this can lead to some truly excellent nerd fights. Wikipedia has a page highlighting some of the lamest ...

Published: June 9, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 775

Slashdot's New Look

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters: After all these years, Slashdot is redesigning (the link is a preview). Sort of. This was the winning design to convert Slashdot from it's old-school HTML to a current CSS-driven design. Not much has changed, though it's cleaner and we finally say goodbye ...

Published: May 30, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 773

Harpers Magazine Re-design

A New Website for Harper's Magazine: I've never heard of Harpers, but apparently it's a magazine published continuously since 1850, which makes for a lot of content. This article is from the guy who re-did their Web site. He explains how he organized all that stuff. Harper's is divided into ...

Published: December 2, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 771

New CSS Zen Garden Designs

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design: We've covered CSS Zen Garden before, but if you haven't been there lately, you're missing some of the best work I've seen in a while. Take a look at new designs like Corporate Zenworks, Port of Call, and No Frontiers. That's the ...

Published: April 13, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 769

Faster Text Messaging?

Intel helps fingers type faster highlights a new product, Fastap, which has been developed by Digit Wireless that helps speed up text messaging on mobile phones. "Fastap was developed by former Apple ergonomic design boss David Levy as a way to make it easier to enter text using the tiny ...

Published: September 20, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 769

IE DesignMode

Enable DesignMode: I tried this, and it worked great. Someone please tell me there's something like this for Firefox. Enable DesignMode is an extension for Internet Explorer that adds a context menu option that enables Design Mode. Design mode lets you edit the web page in the active window. No ...

Published: February 23, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 766

If Jesus Had a Web Site

Free Church Web Site Design Advice - If Jesus Had A Website: I love the name of this Web site. It s kind of along the same lines as Mean Dean and healyourchurchwebsite.com. Welcome to If Jesus Had A Website, where we strive to help churches make their websites all they ...

Published: October 22, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 766

The Way the Web Was

Philadelphia, city officials ordered to pay $1.5 million in MOVE case: I stumbled on this eight-year-old CNN news article today. Look at the page design. It's very clean, very simple an improvement over their current design, frankly. A big part of me wishes they'd just return to this, but ...

Published: May 13, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 765

The BNA Web App Oscars

Barenakedapp.com points out some great design ideas by handing out fake Oscars: While scouting around the internet in my search for concise web copy I also found some nice layout features - devices to help your readers either get to your info or help them understand your app better. Skype's ...

Published: May 24, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 764

Top 10 Mac Failures

Top 10 Mac Failures: An interesting look at Apple miscues. Among them, the Flower Power/Blue Dalmation iMac and my personal choice of unforgiveable design, the round mouse. Users were not universally pleased with the new mouse. It was now totally symmetrical, preventing many users from easily telling which way is ...

Published: January 31, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 762

The Endless Mountain

The FitROCK: If you look past the hideous site design, this is pretty cool.

Published: April 9, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 754

And You Thought Macs Were Overpriced...

...how about a $4,200 Alienware 4.2GHz gaming machine? An article on C-Net has details about the overclocked and liquid-cooled Pentium 4 Area-51 ALX desktop, which looks like it belongs on Captain Proton's spaceship. It could also be mistaken for a 1950's-era toaster. Somebody ought to fill Alienware in on the ...

Published: September 6, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 754

CSS Zen Garden Revisited

We've written about CSS Zen Garden before, but development of style sheets for that site has really taken off. There are some truly breathtaking designs on display over there. Try these links any one of them will blow your mind. Zunflower fleur de l’avante-garde Backyard White Lily Creepy Crawly ...

Published: September 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 753

Amazon Interview

JSPWiki: AmazonInterview3: Here's a report from a guy who just interviewed with Amazon. Yikes tough questions, although whiteboards in the elevators still makes working there worth it. What would be your advice for rapid growth sites such as FriendsterDesign a web based email system. Describes pieces, components, design, large ...

Published: December 11, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 753

Photo Albums in TypePad

All Over NYC: Anil Dash has an example of a photo album in TypePad. After doing some beta testing last night, I can vouch that it's this easy. (My experience with TypePad leads me back to one important point that I made a few weeks ago. Great apps are not ...

Published: July 7, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 753

Upcoming CSSZenGarden Book

The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Enlightenment for the Web: csszengarden, the book.

Published: February 8, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 750

CSS Naked Day

CSS Naked Day: I wish I had mentioned this earlier, but it's a good idea nonetheless. Where did my Design go? The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a ...

Published: April 5, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 749

Adaptive Path Redeign

stopdesign | log archive | The New Path: Apaptive Path recently redesigned their Web site, and the design company stopdesign has a page detailing the transformation. It's a great piece of design work, and they managed to get CSS to do one thing in particular that has thus ...

Published: July 11, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 746

Web Patterns

Patterns in Interaction Design: Here's a good list of a lot of the UI patterns and site types you see around the Net. You know, things like flyout menus, site maps, advanced search, etc. For each, it shows an example and discusses when and where you'd want to use them. ...

Published: December 24, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 745

Anil Dash is Not Amused

Ken MacGray Design: This guy's site and the TypePad site look really similar.

Published: July 7, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 745

Craigslist

Tacos to trannies: Craigslist has it all: A quick overview of the legend that is Craigslist. "Craig Newmark founded Craigslist in 1995, at the urging of friends who enjoyed receiving his e-mail roundup of local events. The bare bones site was meant as an 'online community where folks help each ...

Published: August 6, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 745

He likes it! Hey, Mikey!

I've heard design critic Jakob Nielsen blast so many designs that in my mind he's become the Internet's cranky old curmudgeon of a neighbor ("You kids keep yer Flash intros off my lawn!"). That's why I was shocked to read this in a NY Times article on the design of ...

Published: February 19, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 741

Apple Mini Stores

This weekend Apple opened six new 'mini' stores around the country. They are much smaller than a normal Apple Store and they allow Apple to enter more markets without the high initial start up costs associated with larger stores. Once again the design is impeccable. The stores have clear white ...

Published: October 18, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 741

Your First Web Site?

Wayback challenge: When was your first site?: Great idea. I'm putting some thought into what my first one was...and drawing a blank. I'd like to challenge anyone who has designed a web page to find the oldest site in the archive that they authored and post the Wayback Machine link ...

Published: January 3, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 741

One Page Web Site

Puremedia Brisbane : Web Design, Development, New Marketing and Media: This is a very interesting Web site, and I maintain quite effective for the right kind of company. It s a Web site in one page. This probably isn t the type of website you were expecting to see for a Brisbane ...

Published: July 24, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 740

Web Applications and Web Sites Are Different

Web design and integrated marketing: This author hits the nail right on the head: Web applications are not the same things as Web sites. I learned quickly that the design choices one makes for a Web-based application are often quite different from those of a content-based Web site. Why? Because ...

Published: November 13, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 734

Lockergnome Redesign

Lockergnome - Your Technology Resource: Chris Pirillo's crew redesigned their site. Very nice. The old design was way tired.

Published: November 5, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 733

CakePHP Just Might Rule

How I Built a Web 2.0 Dating Site in 66.5 Hours: Someone built this site in 66.5 hours using CakePHP, about which I hear a lot of buzz these days. Let this be a testament to Web 2.0 and the effectiveness of rapid development frameworks: I built a full-featured dating ...

Published: March 30, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 728

The Death of the Web Site?

From the "Let's Jump To Conclusions" Department with my acquisition of Zempt, and my continued use of NewsGator, I can produce and consume content without ever using a browser. I get information in Outlook via NewsGator, and I can turn it around (or create it from scratch) in Zempt. ...

Published: July 2, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 728

Noverclocking?

Whenever a new CPU comes out, it's often marketed by it's clock speed. "2GHz Pentium" means that the timing source in the chip operates at two gigahertz, which means, basically, that the chip completes a single CPU cycle in a whatever teeny-tinyth* of a second it takes for a 2Ghz ...

Published: August 13, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 726

A Different Kind Of Bicycle

A while back we debated whether there have been any fundamental changes in basic bicycle design in the last 30 to 100 years. I came accross the StairCycle from StairCycle Innovations which is a departure from the basic bicycle design. Then again maybe it really would not be classified as ...

Published: October 28, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 722

CSS Resources

CSS Vault » The Web's CSS Site: Links to all that is CSS, and some great design ideas too. Via Reach Customers Online.

Published: January 20, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 718

WikiAlong

WikiAlong is a new extension for Firefox that s so cool, I may need to go lay down for a while. Basically, it puts a Wiki page in the browser sidebar, and displays a Wiki entry for every page you visit with the browser. Wikalong is a FirefoxExtension that embeds a ...

Published: September 8, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 717

Saunders Log

Saunderslog 3.0 launches: We just launched a new site for Alec Saunders, and he was nice enough to blog about it. So, earlier this year I decided that my old design was getting kind of long in the tooth. Nor did I have the time to devote to building a ...

Published: July 23, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 716

AMG = Ack! My God!

The All-Music Guide has long had a pretty irritating web site. The design rendered poorly in non-IE browsers, almost all of the links were javascript-driven for no apparent reason, etc. So, when they recently redesigned, you'd expect them to fix these problems, right? No such luck. The new design not ...

Published: July 15, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 716

Friendster, PHP, Java, and Coding Platforms

Friendster goes PHP: This is good news. I hate to dis Java, but, well, I hate it. Always have. ...on Friday we launched a platform rearchitecture based on loose-coupling, web standards, and a move from JSP (via Tomcat) to PHP. The website doesn't look much different, but hopefully we can ...

Published: July 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 713

eNetwizard Matrix Server

eNetwizard Network: Take a look at this site design, then consider the name of the product. Do you think they could set sued for this? Just wondering.

Published: July 7, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 711

Personal Submarines for Amateurs

psubs.org: Do you want to kill yourself build your own personal submarine? To promote and encourage the discussion, design, construction, certification, ownership and use of Personal Submersibles.

Published: July 18, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 711

Changing Layout Based On Resolution

Sorry, Stu Nichols, but you now have to share the title of Diabolical Mastermind with Cameron Adams over at Man In Blue for this crazy bit of CSS/JS magic. Cameron is dynamically changing the page layout based on the user's screen resolution and browser size, just by changing the stylesheet ...

Published: September 21, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 710

Balthaser Does Something Slimy

U.S. Grants Patent For Broad Range Of Internet Rich Applications: Okay, this is crappy enough: A patent has been granted to a relatively unknown California Web-design firm for an invention its creator says covers the design and creation of most rich-media applications used over the Internet. The patent holder, Balthaser ...

Published: February 23, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 709

Chandler 0.1

Open Source Applications Foundation - Our Product "Chandler" - Description: Chandler is the Big Thing that Mitch Kapor (the guy who brought us Lotus 1-2-3) has been working on for a year now. Version 0.1 is out. Here's his vision: "Recent open-source groupware products and projects (Evolution, Kroupware) use Outlook ...

Published: June 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 708

Dennis Palatov's dp1

I want to be just like Dennis Palatov when I grow up, because he gets to build and play with some awesome machinery. Right now he's 4.5 years into his DP Cars dp1 project; currently in the process of building a prototype of the dp1. The dp1 an all-wheel ...

Published: September 25, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 704

Should "Web" be capitalized?

"Once again, we find ourselves in the middle of a language evolution process. When referring to the 'Web,' do we capitalize or not? Intranet Design Magazine has decreed that the first letter of the word 'Web' is to be capitalized ONLY when reference is made to the World Wide Web. ...

Published: October 1, 2002 Geek Popularity Factor: 702

Invention of the Year

TIME Coolest Inventions 2004: Invention of the Year: SpaceShipOne is Time Magazine's "Invention of the Year." Ingenious design. Entrepreneurial moxie. A world-changing vision of the future. The amazing SpaceShipOne has it all.

Published: November 30, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 698

Interview with Josh Clark

Admit it: whenever some group like 37 Signals or Six Apart comes out with a new software product, you secretly think, "I could of done that." How many of us developers thing we could build something just as good if we only put in the time? I do. Yes, I ...

Published: March 2, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 697

Why Beautiful Things Work Better

Last year, I wrote a short essay wondering how the look of a site affected its usability. I said: To what extent will the 'look' of the site help or hinder it from achieving reaching its goal, whatever that may be? [...] Can simply re-skinning a site fundamentally change the ...

Published: October 10, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 697

Segway XT

Segway XT: Beefy-looking new Segway. Featuring all-terrain tires, a robust new fender design, new extended-range lithium-ion batteries and specially tuned software, this rugged Segway XT will go practically anywhere you want to go.

Published: March 4, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 694

Digital Web Magazine

Digital Web Magazine: This site just keeps getting better and better. They have a new design, which is top notch, and some of the best content of the Web for designers and architects. A true gem.

Published: August 23, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 693

ReUSEIT Winner

And the award goes to...: The winners of the ReUSEIT contest have been announced. This was a contest to re-design Jakob Neilsen's (really ugly) Web site. The winner did a gorgeous job of it.

Published: November 16, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 692

Shelfari Relents

Shelfari: Invitations and updates: From the official Shelfari blog, posted yesterday. We ve seen the recent emergence of complaints about Shelfari s invitations feature, and it s quite distressing. [ ] It s been about five months since we last touched our invitation design. In June we looked at a number of different designs with ...

Published: November 8, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 690

Bloggie Winners

> Features >> Fourth Annual Weblog Awards">Fourth Annual Weblog Awards: The Bloggie winners are out. No big surprises. Boing Boing picked up a handful, including Blog of the Year. Movable Type is the best tool, and Simple Bits won Best Design. Gadgetopia won, nothing.

Published: March 16, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 689

Horizontal Scroll

kottke.org :: Web Design Portfolio: Take a look at this page. What is the about the horizontal scroll that never happened? I remember Road & Track back in the day 1996 or so had a big horizontal scroll like this page.

Published: June 28, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 687

FrontPage Is Dead

Bye-bye, FrontPage in New Office, Says Microsoft: Could it be? I hope so. Long live Contribute. Microsoft will close the book on its FrontPage Web-design program with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year.

Published: February 17, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 685

The RIAA's Fight Will Never End

Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet: I ve always had two universal truths about music swapping: It s illegal. The music industry better figure out a way to live with it, because there s no way to stop it. You can t stick toothpaste back in the tube. Close one music ...

Published: September 15, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 681

Inform

Inform: This looks interesting. Inform is a design system for interactive fiction, created in 1993. Found via Waxy's link to this article on how to use the language. This relates to our posts on the fictional Fiction Markup Language and Choose Your Adventure style sites.

Published: January 18, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 680

Wiggles the Wonderworm

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design: This is probably the most useless alternate stylesheet yet over at CSS Zen Garden, but it's an example of how far out you can get with CSS. Bet you never expected someone to do this...

Published: June 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 679

"The Building of Basecamp" Review

I've been putting off posting about The Building of Basecamp because I was trying to get my hands on a picture. Neither Joe nor I thought to bring a camera, and the workshop was the first thing we did in Chicago, before Joe bought a disposable to shoot this ...

Published: June 29, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 678

The GM Report: A Tale of Two Buffets

I m more than a bit behind on my reports from the GM Blogger Junket, but I m going to try and catch up here. I ve already written about the Milford Proving Grounds in general, and about the Advanced Driving Techniques course we went through in the morning. Next up: lunch. ...

Published: October 24, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 677

Problems No Platform Will Fix

This whole Aestiva thing has got me thinking about development platforms. Every week, there's a new one that claims to be simpler and faster than the last one. ASP is simpler than JSP, PHP is more capable than ColdFusion, HTML/OS makes developing apps faster than the others, etc. You know ...

Published: May 27, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 677

Googie

I watched "The Incredibles" with the kids this weekend. Amazing film. Not only is it entertaining as all get out, but the CGI is jaw-dropping. Absolutely stunning stuff. I was perusing the trivia section of the IMDB record, and I found this: The unusual architecture in the film was based ...

Published: April 10, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 675

Notepad Popups

Notepad popups: Oh, nice. "Because of a design flaw in Internet Explorer, Notepad popup windows can be displayed from an HTML email message or Web page regardless of browser security settings. In addition, Notepad popups can access files on a hard disk, possibilly causing stability problems in a Windows system." ...

Published: August 8, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 672

Scrabble Blog

Scrabblog: Just a neat idea for a blog. Take a look at the site, because the design is quite well-done. "Every day, I'll be updating the site with a new set of 7 Scrabble tiles. Make the highest scoring words you can and post them in the comments." Via Anil ...

Published: September 10, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 670

Redundant Elevator Buttons

Broken Elevator Design: Jeremy makes a subtle observation about elevators in two-story buildings: No matter which of the two floors I'm on when entering the elevator, there's only logical button to push. Why must I choose a floor at all? He's right. There should just be a button labeled "Go."

Published: February 24, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 666

iMac G5

Apple - iMac G5: Well, as much as I dislike the all-in-one computer concept, I imagine that one of these new iMacs will become the household computer in a couple of months. Apple squarely plugged the hole in their product line that I mentioned a few months ago, and these ...

Published: August 31, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 666

Eolas Ruling Reversed

Patent central to Microsoft case invalidated: And in a complete reversal... The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated a claim to Web browser technology central to a case against Microsoft, a move that could spare the software giant from paying more than half a billion dollars in damages... This ...

Published: March 5, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

OO Data Modeling

How Many's Too Many?: A handy little look at object-oriented database design, specifically representing superclass - subclass relationships in a relational database. It's text-heavy, but very short, with a good graphic that shows how additional "subclass" tables with a 1:1 relationship to records in a "superclass" table can be used ...

Published: July 24, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Beyond "Products" and "About Us"

Essential Navigation Checklists for Web Design: While it isn't the main point of this article, there's a great checklist here of suggested content areas for a business Web site. This will help solve the age-old question, "I know my company needs a Web site, but what would we put on ...

Published: June 2, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Sutton Bay

The company behind Gadgetopia The Sling & Rock Design Group completed a Web site for the Sutton Bay resort earlier this year. They were featured in a front page story in the city newspaper on Sunday. (Note that due to how the Argus Leader handles URLs, this link ...

Published: July 7, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Coolest Library Ever

Seattle's new library: This is a site dedicated to the new Seattle public library that appears to be the most awesome structure ever. It's like something out of Star Trek...if Guinan was in charge of design. And if she was stoned. My dad lives in Seattle, and I have the ...

Published: May 20, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Custom Underlines

CSS Design: Custom Underlines: If regular underlines aren't enough for you, try some of these. Custom underlines allow for new creative opportunities that might be appropriate for some websites. They can also be used to provide additional visual cues to the differences between the types of links contained in a ...

Published: February 4, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Bink.nu

B i n k . n u: Everything Microsoft, by a guy named Steven Bink. Site design is a little scary, and it's rabidly pro-Microsoft, but this guy is plugged in to Microsoft patches, downloads, betas, etc. (And if you change one letter of his name, then he's slept with ...

Published: July 18, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Office 2007 Screencaps

An Office User Interface Blog : Picture This: A New Look For Office: Lots of good-looking screencaps from Office 2007, revealed at a German conference this morning. Gorgeous interface design. The big winner in my mind is Access -- that screencap is light years ahead of where the interface is ...

Published: March 9, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Gadgetopia Redesign

I mentioned in the last post of 2004 that one of my goals for 2005 was to get the site redesigned. Well, it's finally gonna happen. Here is the new design, and I invite comments from anyone who has an opinion. Also, in the next week or so, look for ...

Published: February 24, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

The Retriever

Retriever from Coming Through: A tow-truck tow-cycle. The superior manoeuvrability of the Retriever is due to a towing device folded on to the back of the motorcycle - making the vehicle only 95 cm wide. The towing device is not unfolded until you reach the disabled vehicle. This innovative design ...

Published: August 25, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 664

Watchin' Our P's & Q's

First came gadgets, then blogs, then blogs about gadgets, and now we have blogs about blogs about gadgets. The Gadget Blog Corrections Blog is now on Blogspot, purporting to be "An actually-researched look at gadget blog bullshit." No mention of Gadgetopia yet, but it's still pretty new. Strange though; the ...

Published: October 10, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 663

CSS Floats

Containing Floats: Slick method of clearing margins using invisible horizontal rules. "...in order to keep with Web design tradition and author expectation, CSS is written to allow floated elements to stick out of the bottom of their containing elements. While this is necessary for normal text flow, it's a major ...

Published: August 30, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 662

We're just going to "look into it"...

Congress cool to new nuclear warhead: Read this quote carefully: The Energy Department has asked for $89 million for next fiscal year to look into the design and to develop cost estimates for producing the warhead [...] It costs $89 million to "look into" something and "develop cost estimates"? From ...

Published: March 30, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 660

Viewable with Any Browser

Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign: Go get yourself a graphic. This page was written [...] to express the sentiment behind the "Viewable With Any Browser" campaign. If you were referred here from a web site bearing the "Viewable With Any Browser" themed graphic or text, it means that the site ...

Published: August 31, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 660

Spimes

When Blobjects Rule the Earth: This is a really interesting concept, buried under a long-winded, rambling speech. This speech was delivered by Bruce Sterling at a conference in late 2004. In it, he reveals the concepts of a "Spime," which is a thing that carries a history with it. You ...

Published: July 24, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 657

The Three Types of Intranets

I was having a conversation with a client the other day, and I articulated something I've felt for a long time, but have never really written down. There are three types of intranets. They're very different, and when someone thinks "intranet," they're no doubt thinking of one of the three ...

Published: October 11, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 657

The Third Era of the Web

The third era starts here: This article is a good overall introduction to where the Web is headed. It's worth reading if you think the Web is going to stay a "come-and-read-my-Web-page" affair: The programmable web is different for two main reasons. First, instead of going to look at a ...

Published: May 30, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 657

Why Beautiful Things Work Better Revisited

Why Beautiful Things Work Better: I posted this two years ago today. It's worth re-reading once a month. [...] the role of aesthetics in product design: attractive things make people feel good, which in turn makes them think more creatively. How does that make something easier to use? Simple, by ...

Published: October 10, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 656

Are Databases Still Relevant?

The end of database-centric design?: He asks an interesting question, but never answers it. Still, it makes you think. "Perhaps it is time we started asking the ultimate question about databases as classically deployed. Do we need them? Given the difficult of making them respond to change, can we afford ...

Published: July 3, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 656

Flash Done Well

International > Interactive Feature > Asia's Deadly Waves: The Impact on India" href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2004/12/28/international/worldspecial4/20041228_eq_INDIA_FEATURE.html">Asia's Deadly Waves: The Impact on India: Here's a really great example of Flash design to show pictures and graphics of the tsunami disaster. It's very non-linear, very exploratory. The pictures may seem simple enough, but click ...

Published: December 31, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 655

The Landshark

Nope. No candygrams here. The Landshark is a three-wheeled machine that will move along at 200mph on land and and 50mph on water, and uses a turbine pump in the rear wheel for propulsion. Check out the pictures of it. So far it's only a design concept, but it is ...

Published: August 22, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 654

Campaign Hackers

General Wesley Clark for President - Official Campaign Web Site: Here's another odd trend this campaign: candidates creating organizations of computer geeks to aid their campaigns. Howard Dean has Hack4Dean and DeanSpace, and Wesley Clark has countered with this. The Clark TechCorps provides a framework for involving open source software ...

Published: December 25, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 654

Where are the women?

Who/Where are the Women?: A good point I'd never considered before. Spawned by recent conversations with friends, I've been thinking about people who are known for designing and working with web standards. Specifically those who have a strong interest in CSS or are already using style sheets to compliment or ...

Published: December 6, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 654

Original C64 Going Up for Auction

Grandiose Price for a Modest PC: I had one of these. "Aficionados of the most popular computer of all time, the low-cost Commodore 64, soon can lay their hands on a piece of history, provided they are willing to pony up a few thousand dollars. Commodore's former head of engineering, ...

Published: September 9, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 653

Blogging the Microsoft Way

Blogging: Design Your Own Weblog Application from Scratch Using ASP.NET, JavaScript, and OLE DB: "It seems like everyone wants a blog these daysâ I know I did. But I couldn't find any pre-built ASP.NET blog code with the features I wanted, so I built my own." I found this ...

Published: October 1, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 653

Jetpack Breakthrough

The £50,000 jetpack that lets you become a real-life James Bond: This is somewhat huge breakthrough. [James ] Bond s belt was the most successful but it could only keep the superspy aloft for 30 seconds before it ran out of fuel. More fuel was impossible because the belt couldn t ...

Published: July 29, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 653

Nike Made-to-Order Shoes

Mass customization: Nike has a store in Manhattan that makes custom shoes. You have to be invited to get an appointment there. It's part store and part studio, where customers go to design their own sneakers. They choose between materials, colors and patterns to create unique footwear matching their own ...

Published: June 15, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 653

Standard Site URLs

A Standard for Site Organization: This is just a first-rate idea. This was actually written six years ago, and many sites still haven't pulled it off. A selection of well-chosen and well-named root-level directories, implemented across as many sites as possible, would go a long way toward easing the complexities ...

Published: February 7, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 652

"Blue Brain"

Let the Terminator jokes begin! An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level, was launched on Monday. The "Blue Brain" project, a collaboration between IBM and a Swiss university team, will involve building a custom-made supercomputer based on IBM's ...

Published: June 6, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 652

Smarty for Dreamweaver

SmartyDWT - A Smarty Dreamweaver Tags Extension: I love Smarty, and Dreamweaver is probably the most competent WYSIWYG editor around today. Put them both together, and: The extension adds a insert menu, a insert bar, code formating rules and icons for smarty tags that are visible in dreamweavers design view. ...

Published: May 5, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 650

Color Search Engine

EasyRGB - The first RGB and COLOR search engine on the Web!: I'm not physically colorblind, but I may as well be. I have no color sense, and the biggest soure of pain for me when coming up with a new design is picking colors. Well, if you're like me, ...

Published: August 14, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 650

Presentation Management Systems

Integrating CSS with Content Management Systems: Here's a great article from the heroin factory that is Digital Web Magazine on building PMS "Presentation Management Systems." Building CSS editing features into our content management systems allows us to make style changes as easily as we make content changes. In the ...

Published: September 20, 2004 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

Ten Best Application UIs of 2008

Year s 10 Best Application UIs: My hero and commander Jakob Nielsen has released the 10 best UIs for 2008. I m familiar with two of them: Campaign Monitor and Wufoo, but the others are all new. Nielsen, in his benevolent and eternal wisdom, noted some trends: Dashbloard-style displays Lightbox-style dialog boxes ...

Published: August 12, 2008 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

2003's Web Site Mistakes

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003: Love Nielsen or hate him, there's some good advice here. 8. Products Sorted Only by Brand. Sites that offer many items ought to provide winnowing and sorting, which is a highly useful way to deal with lists and is fortunately fairly common. Unfortunately, ...

Published: December 22, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

MT4 Just hit Beta

MT4 Beta Download Movable Type Beta: This is hot off the presses. I just got the Pronet email 30 seconds ago. True to my suspicions, MT is headed into the more traditional content management world. Create a dynamic website with powerful content management. MT4 s powerful templating system lets you output ...

Published: June 5, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

Content is King

Web Pages That Suck -- Examples of Bad Web Design "Speaking of covers, in Chapter 5 of my latest book, I state that 'Heroin Content Is the Best Content' because when a site has addicting content, then it doesn't really make any difference what the site looks like because people ...

Published: September 2, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

Blogs and Usability

Something to consider: Blogging has taken off, and blogs are some of the most popular sites on the Web. Why is this? Could it be because they're so friggin' usable? A blog has all the latest content on the front page. Users can instantly see what's new. The layout is ...

Published: February 21, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 648

Beethoven is Haunting my Computer

Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music: The most bizarre Microsoft help topic ever. During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play Fur Elise or It s a Small, Small World seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer s BIOS that the CPU ...

Published: November 28, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 647

MultipleMonitors.org

Multiple Monitors.Org : I'm dying to know the business model behind this site and organization. We are dedicated to providing resources, information and reviews for current and new users of multiple monitor multi-screen computing, including: multi-monitor product information, directories, news, applications, trends and technology. The site design is horrific, but ...

Published: February 22, 2006 Geek Popularity Factor: 646

Viewable Area Stats

I've compiled the reported stats from our screen resolution vs. viewable area post. Here are the details: People reporting 1024 x 768 resolution (8 people) had an average, actual viewing area of 964 x 566. 1280 x 1024 resolution (33 people) averaged 1120 x 796. 1600 x 1200 resolution (3 ...

Published: October 5, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 646

Trailer Park Flooding? No Problem

Like the Aquada, but you're looking for something that will hold a few more of your friends? Try the Terra Wind "We have combined the best features of world class yachts and Motor Coaches in a revolutionary design and YES IT DOES GO IN THE WATER!" The pictures of this ...

Published: September 5, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 646

Kottke Goes Full-Time

Doing kottke.org as a full-time job): Jason Kottke is going to blog full time. His "real" job infringed on his blogging, so he quit. After thinking about it for a few weeks, I had a bit of an epiphany. The real problem was the tension between my web design career ...

Published: February 22, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 644

SoLong and the Eternal Aircraft

A Plane That Never Needs to Land?: A solar-powered plane recently stayed aloft for 24 hours. The inventor is in a quest for the "eternal aircraft" one that goes up but never comes down. SoLong is a real piece of work, deftly integrating the latest in high-efficiency componentry: hot-rod ...

Published: May 17, 2005 Geek Popularity Factor: 644

Turns Out Looks Do Matter

People Found to be Overwhelmingly Superficial: Here's a summation of a new Web site credibility report. A little depressing. The data showed that the average consumer paid far more attention to the superficial aspects of a site, such as visual cues, than to its content. For example, nearly half of ...

Published: December 26, 2003 Geek Popularity Factor: 644

The .com.com Mystery

Why is CNET's News.com property at "news.com.com" URL/domain?: The first decent answer I've heard to the ".com.com" curiosity that is CNET. Cookies are by design limited to a domain or a subdomain, at the choice of the cookie's creator (the original web site on which it's created for you). Therefore, ...

Published: April 11, 2007 Geek Popularity Factor: 644

How to Make Your Site Look Good on the iPhone

Put Your Content in My Pocket: Doesn t everything just look naturally good on an iPhone? Macs just make everything prettier by default right? So what does this mean for you? Millions of visitors accessing your con