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15th February 2000

WORDLAB

“Inverting the English language: Are you looking for a great name or slogan for your business or project? Well you’ve just landed plunk in the Holy Grail of free slogans, naming and wordplay. WordLab, the Last Word for unique and inspiring words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang… from the ridiculous to the sublime.”

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15th February 2000

WORDLAB

Inverting the English language. “Are you looking for a great name or slogan for your business or project? Well you’ve just landed plunk in the Holy Grail of free slogans, naming and wordplay. WordLab, the Last Word for unique and inspiring words, names, titles, coinages, puns, phrases, slogans and slang… from the ridiculous to the sublime.”

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15th February 2000

Ultimate Symbol

“The gold standard in electronic art for design professionals.” Design elements, Official signs and icons, web page graphics, clip art, electronic art, pictographs, symbols, images, designs, etc…

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15th February 2000

Designing Web Navigation

“Navigation design is one of the trickiest areas of site development. It’s tricky partly because it’s so subjective — everyone seems to have a different opinion of what works. It’s also tricky because it’s hugely important from a usability perspective. If your site’s navigation isn’t doing what it should, you risk losing visitors.”

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15th February 2000

How Are Your Users Using Your Site?

“National Airlines had a mystery on its hands. Its Web site was surpassing forecasts for traffic in the fall of 1999, yet, for some reason, very few visitors to the Las Vegas-based airline’s Web site were enrolling in its frequent flyer program. The company and its Web site designers couldn’t find an obvious answer for the seeming lack of interest, and began to suspect there was a flaw with the online enrollment process.”

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15th February 2000

Poynter: Visual Journalism Resources

“Articles by Poynter Institute faculty and affiliates on topics of concern to visual journalists.”

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15th February 2000

Designing Web Navigation

“Navigation design is one of the trickiest areas of site development. It’s tricky partly because it’s so subjective — everyone seems to have a different opinion of what works. It’s also tricky because it’s hugely important from a usability perspective. If your site’s navigation isn’t doing what it should, you risk losing visitors.”

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15th February 2000

How To Avoid Foolish Consistency

“People don’t like to learn things. If they take the time to learn something, they expect to be able to apply that knowledge in many places. It follows that good designers conserve the number of things users need to learn to get stuff done. The streets in American cities are good examples of conservation of knowledge. Anywhere in America, yield and stop signs look exactly the same…”

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