Today I took a look at some more ‘techy’ posts and came across this on Google Blogoscoped: If the user interface ain’t broken, don’t fix it… but fixing, Google did, and recently released a new YouTube player that is breaking some of the “learned” interface. Absolutely Goddamned right. I spent about six years owning the [...]
Tag Archives: web design
Good communication and good design do what they’re supposed to
Tech for PR posts a great piece today on how technology just gets in the way. This is something I keep coming back to, that good communication and good design don’t get in the way because they help, without hindering. If they’re done properly, you don’t notice them at all. I spent several years as [...]
Housekeeping: three PR blog moves
We recently had three movers in the FG Blogroll. Given that this might affect their positions in the Power150 and PowerPR index (yes, I’m still working on it), here are the changes: IndiaPRBlog has moved from http://indiapr.blogspot.com/ to http://www.indiaprblog.com/. This blog consistently comes up with good, useful information and comment, proving that PR lessons can be [...]
SEO keywords for PR
As a small side project I recently took a look at the keywords that appear on PR websites. The results might be of use – they’re further down this posting and I plan to do more work on this, so I’ve created a new page on this blog to store the table for future reference. [...]
Is this the worst website in the world?
Add to New PR • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! Sometimes the poor standard of so-called ‘professional body websites’ astonishes me. I have, in the past, referred back to the FEBCA and CiB websites as prime examples of communication gone bad, in these cases, the communication inherent in the design. They are truly awful, [...]
It’s not just a website
Add to New PR • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! Can you just ‘relaunch’ a website? FG thinks not. There has to be a reason for doing it. I’m in the middle (I hope) of a website relaunch. Where I once was a copywriter, I am now also a web producer and project manager. [...]
Click, double-click, ALT, TAB, ENTER. What makes a good interface?
Despite not working in the field anymore I do keep seeing interface design issues popping up recently. In my copywriting feed – feel free to subscribe to it on the right-hand side of this blog, it takes lots and lots and lots of copywriting feeds and syndicates them out – comes a piece on the [...]
You’d avoid using Lotus Notes if you were me – Part II
Add to New PR • Save to del.icio.us • Digg This! • Technorati Not so long ago, with my interface/application designer’s hat on (yes, I designed the interface and wrote the documentation for this), I posted a whinge about Lotus Notes. Thomas Adrian was kind enough to comment, and I can understand that he was displeased because from [...]
The tragedy of NewPR
It is with the deepest regret that I have to announce that NewPR is now moderated. A while ago I came across NewPR, a very cool digg-like site for the PR community. So, PR practitioners vote for the news items they think are the best. I liked it so much I even emailed the webmaster with [...]
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- Turn Instagram Photos Into a PosterEnjoy uploading pictures to the Internet via Instagram? Now you can turn your collection into a poster. Thanks to London-based online retailer Firebox, Instagram lovers can create their own poster by selecting their favorite photos to build their own. By clicking the Buy button on Firebox’s Instagram poster product page, Instagram members are prompted to add […]Samantha Murphy
- Liking WebHostingBuzz, and dealsJust over a month ago, I started a relationship with a new web hosting service, WebHostingBuzz. The words you’re reading now are served up to your screen from a database in the cloud (well, from a dedicated Dell server physically located in a data center somewhere in the US). As I noted in my first post about WebHostingBuzz, you now get content served to you […]neville@nevillehobson.com (Neville Hobson)
- Are You Smarterer Than Other Job Candidates? Prove ItThe Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Smarterer Quick Pitch: Smarterer authenticates practical skills with timed online quizzes. Genius Idea: Crowdsourced, living tests for ever-changing […]Sarah Kessler
- Are Artists Luring Grammy Votes Via Social Media?Music artists have invited fans deeper into their lives through social media for years, but is the content they share online starting to capture the attention of Grammy voters? The 54th Grammy Awards airs Sunday, and the Recording Academy has declared digital, mobile and social media a focal point of this year’s proceedings. With more focus on social media, […]Brian Anthony Hernandez
- Is Your Blog Doing Okay?Last week, I told the story of how I achieved my best month ever on DPS. While I used that post as a case study to present some ideas that I hoped you may be able to use on your own blogs, there’s a hidden hitch with that kind of post: it can give you the impression that you should be aiming to triple your revenue each time you hone a promotion on your site. […]Darren Rowse
- U.S. Consumers Buy 20% of Valentine’s Gifts Online [INFOGRAPHIC]Consumers are expected to spend $17 billion on Valentine’s Day gifts this year, roughly a fifth of which will be spent online. That’s according to projections from the National Retail Federation and eMarketer, whose data is visualized in the infographic from Monetate below. Interestingly, men spend more than twice the amount women spend on Valentine’s Day: $ […]Lauren Indvik
