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5th October 2001

Dead brands tell no tales

“In this modern world, branding is everything. But this week alone saw the end of Cellnet, Compaq and Line One. What becomes of the brands that no-one wants any more? BBC News Online’s Chris Horrie investigates.”

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5th October 2001

MOVABLE TYPE

“There’s a new content management system for the masses in town, named Movabletype… With Blogger and Greymatter now firmly established as leaders in the weblog CMS stakes, what prompted these two young San Francisco programmers/developers to create yet another one? The short answer is that they wanted more features, the ability to import data from other weblog CMSes, auto-RSS feeds, multiple blogs, and much more. But the long answer is much more interesting and entertaining…” — WriteTheWeb

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5th October 2001

Dead brands tell no tales

“In this modern world, branding is everything. But this week alone saw the end of Cellnet, Compaq and Line One. What becomes of the brands that no-one wants any more? BBC News Online’s Chris Horrie investigates.”

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5th October 2001

Sitemaps, Storyboards, and Specifications: A Sketch of Web Site Design Practice

“Through a study of web site design practice, we observed that designers employ multiple representations of web sites as they progress through the design process, and that these representations allow them to focus on different aspects of the design. Designers also employ multiple tools during the course of a project, including graphic design, web development, presentation, and word processing software, as well as pen and paper.”

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5th October 2001

PhotoRescue

Recover deleted images from CompactFlash cards and more. “Runs on the Windows 98/ME, Windows NT/2000 platform. May run on some versions of Windows 95. Works with SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Sticks on USB, floppy disk adapters and PC Card adapters. Able to access image files, logical or physical devices (NT/W2K only)…”

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5th October 2001

PhotoRescue

Recover deleted images from CompactFlash cards and more. “Runs on the Windows 98/ME, Windows NT/2000 platform. May run on some versions of Windows 95. Works with SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Sticks on USB, floppy disk adapters and PC Card adapters. Able to access image files, logical or physical devices (NT/W2K only)…”

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5th October 2001

Sitemaps, Storyboards, and Specifications: A Sketch of Web Site Design Practice

“Through a study of web site design practice, we observed that designers employ multiple representations of web sites as they progress through the design process, and that these representations allow them to focus on different aspects of the design. Designers also employ multiple tools during the course of a project, including graphic design, web development, presentation, and word processing software, as well as pen and paper.”

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5th October 2001

Web Development in the Real World

“These people are not Kiokken. They are not the Nielsen-Norman Group. These are the web developers in the trenches every day, serving the small to mid-sized business sector. They don’t have multi-million dollar budgets and fancy usability testing labs, but still their work has to consistently be on par with those who do.”

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5th October 2001

MOVABLE TYPE

“There’s a new content management system for the masses in town, named Movabletype… With Blogger and Greymatter now firmly established as leaders in the weblog CMS stakes, what prompted these two young San Francisco programmers/developers to create yet another one? The short answer is that they wanted more features, the ability to import data from other weblog CMSes, auto-RSS feeds, multiple blogs, and much more. But the long answer is much more interesting and entertaining…” — WriteTheWeb

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