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31st January 2006

Home Page Goals

“When I set out to design a website, I do it backwards. I start with the design of the smallest, deepest element: the story page or search results. Then I work backwards to design their containers: section pages, indexes. Then, lastly, I work on the home page. I do this because each container needs to adequately set expectations for what it contains.”

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31st January 2006

Creating A Text Montage

“This is a technique that you have probably seen before. A face, or picture, is made up of a huge body of text, but the text is different colors or shades to make it look like the picture? Yea, it’s a really cool technique, and now you can easily re-create it. This effect looks like it would take a lot of time and effort, but in all reality it is pretty easy (just took me forever to figure out :P) and simple to do.”

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31st January 2006

Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship

“Update: Google reactivated their help entry with a new text. ‘It is Google’s policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so.’”

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