xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
20th June 2005

How to pitch an idea

“Coming up with good ideas is hard enough, but convincing others to do something with them is even harder. In many fields the task of bringing an idea to someone with the power to do something with it is called a pitch: software feature ideas, implementation strategies, movie screenplays, organizational changes, and business plans, are all pitched from one person to another.”

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20th June 2005

Polaroid-o-nizer

Turns images that you have uploaded into “Polaroids” by putting white space around them, you know, like a Polaroid.

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20th June 2005

WEB COLOR SCHEMES

“Get inspired by these web-smart color schemes, taken from a variety of sources and updated regularly.”

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20th June 2005

MIT Weblog Survey

“This is a general social survey of weblog authors being conducted at the MIT Media Laboratory. For more information about the survey, please read the detailed description.”

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20th June 2005

Why a CSS website layout will make you money

“Although CSS layouts have been around for years, they haven’t become so commonplace until recently. This was basically due to limited browser support (especially from Netscape 4) - nowadays though, CSS 2.0 (which introduced positioning) is compatible with over 99% of browsers out there (check out the browser stats over at The Counter). So, why should you convert your website from its current table-based layout to a CSS layout? It’ll make you money. Simple really. And here’s four reasons to explain why…”

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