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1st April 2004

Design Eye for the StartUp Guy Contest

“Guy Kawasaki is many things: writer, speaker, venture capitalist, evangelist, and mediocre hockey player. One thing he is not is a designer, and he needs a cover for his next book, The Art of the Start. Can you help him? If you can, heíll give you a Canon Digital EOS and an autographed copy of the book. His buddies at iStockPhoto will throw in a bunch of credits to buy photos and the collectorís item iStockPhoto t-shirt. Whatís This Book About? We asked Guy this question, and his answer was, ‘About $25.00.’ So we dug deeper, read the book, and came up with this: The Art of the Start was written in the post-bubble and post-bauble world. It provides tactical, actionable, and down-to-earth advice for people who are trying to change the world…”

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1st April 2004

NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2004

“Designed by photojournalists for photojournalists, Best of Photojournalism annually attracts tens of thousands of entries from photojournalists, photo editors and web editors from leading media around the world. Best of Photojournalism 2004 is the technology leader among photo contests worldwide.”

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1st April 2004

Dimensionizer

“Dimensionizer is a contextual menu plugin for the MacOS X Finder that allows you to discover the dimensions of virtually any image in a single click. Best of all, you don’t even have to remember the dimensions to use them. Just select the menu item representing an image, and Dimensionizer will copy the image dimensions to the clipboard.”

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1st April 2004

PHP For Designers

“I first considered calling this ‘PHP for the aesthetically inclined,’ but that sounded pretentious and Iíve always been fond of using the term ‘designer’ in a more universal sense. I have a grand romantic notion of a ‘designer’ being not just the person who insists you canít use Comic Sans as the base font for the company Web page, but a consummate perfectionist who approaches every task with a careful eye for structure, form, and function.”

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1st April 2004

CSS from the Ground Up

“If you are frightened by the prospects of using Cascading Style Sheets, there’s no need to be. Using a computer can be daunting for someone coming to it afresh but after a while, you think nothing of it. It all comes down to taking small steps to begin with and that’s what I’m going to do in this series of tutorials. One step at a time!”

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1st April 2004

Kinja, the weblog guide

“Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.”

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1st April 2004

Adaptive Path, 37signals, and Coudal Partners in Chicago

“Please join Adaptive Path’s own Jeffrey Veen, along with Jason Fried of 37signals and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners, this May in Chicago. Over the last few years, Adaptive Path has spent a lot of time with clients figuring out why so many CMS projects fail. Jeffrey’s workshop will teach you the steps we recommend for any sort of CMS project, including assessing your needs, building a team, and, of course, lots of best practices. Let the lessons we’ve learned guide you in how to design and implement the solution that’s right for you. And as a special bonus ó the very next day you can join Jason Fried of Chicago design firm 37signals and Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners for their one-day workshop Blogging for Business.” There’s a deep discount to those who’d like to attend both workshops: Use the ‘Friends of Adaptive Path’ promo code FOAP to knock 15% off the registration fee!

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