Comment on eleven2 by Josh

Josh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:55:05 +0000

So, now that you’ve been on Eleven2 for a few months, what do you think? I’d love if you’d go leave a review for the world to see at ReviewEleven2.com

Comment on Crayola Paradise by Jozet at Halushki

Jozet at Halushki — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:00:55 +0000

omg…my daughters would so totally want me to paint their room like that.

I can’t say I’d blame them.

Great shots!

Comment on eleven2 by Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:36:28 +0000

All set up now and good to go! Thanks for your help Rodney. Now on to site #2, converting an ASP/Access site to PHP/MySQL! Fun fun. :)

Comment on eleven2 by Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:00:57 +0000

If you need any help moving anything over. Please let us know!

Thanks!

-Rodney @ Eleven2

Comment on Spotobe Launches by Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:38:16 +0000

Rich, events and locations were initially entered by our team, but now they’re being entered by partners. They also go through an edit and approval process. User generated, coming soon, and OpenSocial is also on the docket for next phase! We’ll also hopefully be integrating other local bloggers on the site at some point in the future.

Comment on Spotobe Launches by Rich Hauck

Rich Hauck — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:12:01 +0000

Where are the events aggregated from? Can they be user-generated? Also, just wondering, did you guys use OpenSocial for it?

Comment on Race and Ethnicity Code Snippet by Graciebw

Graciebw — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:39:52 +0000

omg.. good work, guy

Comment on Taking the Plunge by Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:50:10 +0000

Thanks Sibyl for your input. All good advice.

Comment on Taking the Plunge by Sibyl

Sibyl — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:32:59 +0000

Found your blog here from a comment on the Cameron Moll site, and I understand what you are talking about (even though I am not a designer). I don’t go posting about the web (two posts in one night is a big deal for me)…but since I’ve been on this big “web audience” focus project (work related) and also, working out my own little corner of the web (a personal effort), I’ve been able to see things from different sides of the fence. I am definitely NOT “cool, technical, or informed” (just to make that clear), but, still a person that is potentially part of “an overall audience” - like anyone else. From that standpoint, some things observed in viewing design oriented sites maybe be useful at least from a “user/visitor/ reader perspective”. (can’t help on the execution side lol).

1) If you choose a professional tone and subject of design, stick with it, be informed (informative) and no hyping/flaming. (Observation about sites intended to discuss design, but ended up way off topic w/ either headline hype or flame wars about best practice- useless to the reader.)
2) Tutorials, practical help. Anyone reading a design and web standards blog isn’t doing so because they know everything. They do it because they DON’T KNOW and want to learn - even pro designers are evolving. Practical working knowledge always helpful. (The worst blogs/sites were the ones lacking audience context; ie: if tutorial geared with assumption of expert photoshop knowledge, categorize or denote this so readers can quickly identify context and usability of information at whatever level.)

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
WEB CULTURE: IE: CRAZE — Twitter, facebook, VIRB etc. etc. Is this useful? If so, talk about to whom and WHY. Social networking is definitely a part of the future of the web - but is often overwhelming, and ultimately ineffective for a majority. How do you see it evolving? And what’s next (future trend)? Give examples, comparisons, observations on what may work, what may not, and why in context of the “everevolvingweb” :)

WEB STANDARDS — This is always a confusing subject to someone who is not a designer. Please clarify this. Perhaps your audience will be folks that already have a background. Ok. Disregard this point. But if it intends to include regular people simplify it. Can you translate what “standards” means into words a regular person can understand/implement and find useful? Can you do that without making them feel totally stupid so they are afraid/distrustful of you (the exact opposite response of what any site wants to evoke) When do standards change? Who makes the rules?

RETENTION: Anyone building anything on anything is seeking an audience or market of some kind to share/use/view etc. And they want to KEEP their audience too. How does your topic relate? Can you explain this in laymen’s terms? Good use/ineffective use of design etc. Even an academic doesn’t want “help tips” written by an academic. :) One practical purpose of design and standards is: to support audience objectives isn’t it? So maybe this relates to your subject too.

RESOURCES: USEFUL resources for design and standards etc..”hey, that’s a cool tip/tool/snippet- thanks for the head’s up frank :)”

SITE NAME IDEAS: something with the word FRANK (as in frank talk, candid, truthful, honest, useful, bottom line) could be appropriate. Unless you want your personal name to be propagated (some folks have regretted using their own names well after site recognition).

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