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10th August 2000

The Evolution of Brand Strategy

“The Changing Roles of Identity and Navigation Design: As the Web continues to be integrated into the world of business, it is increasingly important for companies to differentiate themselves through brand strategies that exhibit clear messages and provide fulfilling user experiences. The most successful brand strategies take advantage of the Web medium, using well-designed identity and navigation systems that showcase a site’s purpose and provide the infrastructure for an intuitive user interface. This gives Web designers newfound inroads into the conception of a company’s brand.”

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10th August 2000

Computer Science Directory

Part of NEC’s ResearchIndex: “ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency and timeliness. Rather than creating just another digital library, ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web…”

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10th August 2000

Webtype.org

“The purpose of this site is to promote and exhibit examples of good web typography. We feel that it is something of a lost artform, especially since typography on the Web is generally realised in the form of large gifs. We can see why that is, but at the same time we feel that it is possible to accomplish great typography using simpler means and that these should be explored.”

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10th August 2000

Illustrations draw in investors

“Can you explain what exactly it is your business does? Can you make your company’s mission perfectly clear to anyone who asks? That may sound like a ridiculous question, but explaining a company can be more difficult than you think. It can be particularly difficult for those people running cutting-edge high-technology companies to explain what exactly it is their company does in a way that other people understand the instant they say it. One solution: stop talking and start drawing.”

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10th August 2000

The Evolution of Brand Strategy

“The Changing Roles of Identity and Navigation Design: As the Web continues to be integrated into the world of business, it is increasingly important for companies to differentiate themselves through brand strategies that exhibit clear messages and provide fulfilling user experiences. The most successful brand strategies take advantage of the Web medium, using well-designed identity and navigation systems that showcase a site’s purpose and provide the infrastructure for an intuitive user interface. This gives Web designers newfound inroads into the conception of a company’s brand.”

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10th August 2000

World Wide Web Design Issues

“Architectural and philosophical points: These statements of architectural principle explain the thinking behind the specifications. These are personal notes by Tim Berners-Lee: they are not endorsed by W3C. They are aimed at the technical community, to explain reasons, provide a framework to provide consistency for for future developments, and avoid repetition of discussions once resolved.”

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10th August 2000

World Wide Web Design Issues

“Architectural and philosophical points: These statements of architectural principle explain the thinking behind the specifications. These are personal notes by Tim Berners-Lee: they are not endorsed by W3C. They are aimed at the technical community, to explain reasons, provide a framework to provide consistency for for future developments, and avoid repetition of discussions once resolved.”

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