We often don’t think about what would happen to our online content (created, bookmarked, or otherwise) if the services we use went away. Smashing Magazine had an incident recently that got me thinking about the trust we put in our favorite service and content providers, and how we’ve yet to experience the Internet equivalent of a mass extinction.
Upon much contemplation, I have decided that my life’s love is gaming. Console, PC, web, phone… whatever. Musings over finding your niche in this big Web thing we live in and involving your passions in the process.
Part six in the our Design series of collaborative conversation exercises. Matthew Stublefield examines the content behind the presentation, and how design serves little purpose without something of quality to promote.
Skype today has been... "awful" cannot begin to describe its reliability. Or maybe it's Mediacom. Or some unholy abomination between the two 6 hrs ago
In this article we take a journey of discovery with 3 online book catalog services: LibraryThing, Shelfari, and Goodreads. Find out the good, the bad, and the poorly formatted and which service is is the most user-friendly. Read more »
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Ever wanted to add more widget-capable sections to your WordPress theme? This article shows you how very simple it is to create an unlimited number of widget-capable areas in your theme and get them to output the way you want them to. No development knowledge required: copy & paste examples included! Read more »
FeedBurner might not be the new kid on the block anymore, but it's definitely still awesome. In this article, we cover what's so great about FeedBurner (both the service and the site), share a few nifty screenshots, and even show how to integrate your hot new FeedBurner feed into WordPress. Win! Read more »
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Ryan Burrell is a web designer, gamer, and avid bookworm living and working in Springfield, MO. He spends his days making sure things are pretty, neat, valid, and semantic. He whiles away the evenings with personal projects, intellectual persuits, and LEGOs (which are sometimes involved in the other two).
He has left pieces of himself scattered around the Interwebs, which can be found here:
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