xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
23rd May 2006

Face-off: The blank faces at Flickr and 43Things

“I chose a completely random goal from the 43Things home page: ‘download episodes of ‘Lost’.’ Then I looked through the list of 539 people who are interested in that goal. Of those 539, just 9 of them (about 2%) had changed the default profile picture to a personalized picture. On the analogous Flickr group, ‘LOST - the series,’ I looked through the list of 128 group members, and found that 120 of them (about 94%) had replaced the default profile picture with a personalized picture.”

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23rd May 2006

Webdesign mockup using Photoshop

“In addition to my webdesigning workflow articles , I was encouraged by pnts to show an example of how I handle the photoshopping steps. Don’t read this article as a tutorial from idea to final product, but start by reading these two articles, and you will find out that the mockuping is only a phase in the designing process… The technique used can differ a lot, especially between fluid and fixed designs. To show an example I have taken some screenshots from a project I am currently working on. I won’t write a lot of text, but focus on showing the process through pictures.”

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23rd May 2006

AJAX Help: AJAX Freaks!

This website exists to provide you with information to use while learning or developing AJAX. If you need AJAX Help or you would like to provide AJAX Help to other developers, you are in the right place. This is a community website and we ask that you join to gain access to our interactive features and also assist others by sharing your knowledge about PHP and MySQL.

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23rd May 2006

Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry

“Of course we’re generalizing here, so not all of these types of sites are as bad as they may seem…oh wait, yes they are. Some of these sites produce little fluff ‘reviews’ of web hosts, and some don’t even bother to go that far, instead making lists to the ‘Top 10 Web Hosts’ and waiting for unsuspecting prey to come along and make their next yacht payment for them. We’re here to bust this thing wide open. We had always suspected these sites were crooked, so last month we decided to prove it when we were approached by hosting-review.com to appear on their ‘Editor’s Picks’ page.”

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