Category: Best Practices

  • Tip for icon designers

    The globe thing is played out.

  • Taxonomy primer at Lexonomy

    Lexonomy has published A Taxonomy Primer. Taxonomies are the organizational schemes used to sort the data presented through the information architecture. (via xBlog)

  • Collaborative Internet marketing blog

    Elizabeth Spiers writes For Marketing Junkies: Rick, Robert, Olivier, John, and Steve just started a collaborative Internet marketing blog. I’m not sure what that is, but I’m keen to find out.

  • Hidden query tip for custom Google search

    Rod Kratochwill read my posts about setting up a Google search for your blog when you don’t command the entire domain name yourself. I had mentioned that my solution does put the site:blogs.salon.com and inurl:0001111 queries in the text box on the results page, which could confuse the user or even end up getting deleted,…

  • Finally getting around to learning Radio's outliner

    I’ve never been that happy with my blogrolling.com blogrolls. The service is easy enough. Too easy, in a sense, in that it’s undermined my motivation to learn more about the best ways to present links and directory information in this weblog context. Also, it relies on Javascript, which makes the links invisible to some crawlers…

  • Microsoft's killer weblog app?

    Thanks to a tip from Rebecca Blood, I read the article by Anil Dash in his cool new magazine. He writes about MS SharePoint Team Services and its “list” feature, which incorporates most or all of the functionality of weblogs for an intranet environment. I remember when the portal brand of SharePoint was supposed to…