Archive for March, 2010

Email Template Guide

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Mail Chimp have released a funny but true guide called “Email Jitsu”, looking at the email design and coding tactics required to create a suitable email template.

From Combat Tip #1:

“Take off that beanie and put that Zeldman book down, you hippie. There are no standards in HTML email. Email programs are all over the place in terms of how they render HTML. You will need to think different. Fight different. Yes, you will need to resort to dirty “street” style tactics to make your email designs look consistent. Medieval stuff like:

  • Table layout. No CSS Positioning. Not only that, but…
  • Embedded Tables (gasp!) Shim-GIFs (double gasp!)
  • Videos, Flash, ActionScript, DHTML, Javascript, and all that other fancyschmancy stuff is not going to work. Most anti-virus software block them from
    working inside email apps.

Mail Chimp Email Template Guide

Gabrielle Walker Interior Design

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igoo launch the website for up coming interior design Gabrielle Walker.
Based in Liverpool’s Georgian quarter Gabrielle Walker Interior Design is a young and fresh consultancy offering a range of services and exclusive products to both residential and commercial projects.
After graduating from Liverpool John Moores University in 2009 (BA Hons Interior Design) Gabrielle decided to put her skills to good use and the website is designed to showcase her growing portfolio.

Interior Design Liverpool

Intecho Website and Brand

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igoo have launched the corporate website for intecho.co.uk, the market leader in the fields of intelligent building technologies, home automation systems and audio visual solutions.

Intecho works with some of the world’s most recognisable lifestyle brands and the UK’s most prominent public and private sector organisations, using cutting edge technologies to create intelligent buildings. As well as this they regularly create stylish, intuitive control systems for private homes.

igoo presented a clear and concise design, separating the residential and commercial arms of the business along with an in depth knowlege base area. A clear navigation allows content to be organised logically and the clean brand promotes a fresh, professional image of the company.

See the brand and website design at http://www.intecho.co.uk/

25 Years of the .com domain name

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It was on 15th March 1985 when the first .com domain name was registered by Massachusetts computer systems firm Symbolics.

Although Symbolics.com didn’t spark a domain name gold rush, the event planted the first seed of a transformation that has changed the world into a Web-fueled digital river of news, commerce and social interaction.

VeriSign, the Internet security retailer that controls the .com registry, is hosting an event celebrating the milestone, with former US President Bill Clinton booked to deliver a keynote speech.

In 1985, only six organisations registered a .com, one of six top-level domain names created a year earlier in the reorganisation of the Internet’s naming bureaucracy. At one stage , .cor (short for corporate) almost beat .com as the designation for commercial Internet addresses.

Since then, .coms have defined the Internet. Now there are 84 million domain names, including 11.9 million e-commerce and online business sites, 4.3 million entertainment sites, 3.1 million finance-related sites and 1.8 million sports sites.

According to a study released today by the Information Technology & Information Foundation, the annual economic benefits of the commercial Internet equal $1.5 trillion, which is “more than the global sales of medicine, investment in renewable energy and government investment in R&D (research and development) combined.”

The Internet should add $3.8 trillion to the global economy by 2020, which would exceed the gross domestic product of Germany, the report said. An estimated 1.7 billion people, 25.6 percent of the world’s population, now use the Internet.

First 10 .com domains

Symbolics.com – March 15, 1985
BBN.com – April 24, 1985
Think.com – May 24, 1985
MCC.com – July 11, 1985
DEC.com – Sept. 30, 1985
Northrop.com – Nov. 7, 1985
Serox.com – Jan. 9, 1986
SRI.com – Jan. 17, 1986
HP.com – March 3, 1986
Bellcore.com – March 5, 1986

Source: www.iwhois.com/oldest

From http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/14/BUS61CEVQ6.DTL

Google adds Cycling to Google Maps

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Google has added ‘bicycling’ as a method of transport for the Google Maps ‘directions’ feature. It joins the existing, walking, by car and by public transport options as a fourth alternative method of transport.

The only difference I can see that a ‘cycle route’ offers to walking is the estimated time, I am unsure how well mapped out, even if there are any routes designed JUST for a bike.

The feature is still only available for the US map but expect it to be rolled out worldwide in the nest few weeks and months.

Directions from the empire state building to ground zero

Sao Paulo’s ban on outdoor advertising

By On March 8, 2010 In article With 1 Comment Permanent Link to Sao Paulo’s ban on outdoor advertisingPermalink

In September 2007, the world’s fourth biggest city was scrubbed of almost every type of outdoor advertising, even leaflets. It was all part of mayor Gilberto Kassab’s quest to eliminate visual clutter, making the city the focal point rather than coluorful, increasingly desperate marketing campaigns.
Outdoor advertising is so ubiquitous in almost every urban setting around the world, it’s difficult to walk down a street, take an escalator or sit on a bench without getting slapped in the face with one product or another. But the city of São Paulo, Brazil is like an advertising ghost town: all of its billboards stand oddly blank and empty.

“The Clean City Law came from a necessity to combat pollution..pollution of water, sound, air, and the visual. We decided that we should start combating pollution with the most conspicuous sector – visual pollution,” said Kassab.
The results are astounding: gone are the 50-foot lingerie ads and oversized neon signs a la Times Square. In their place are strange vacancies, gaping holes… space. Suddenly, the architecture and natural scenery come into sharp focus.
While advertisers weren’t too happy about the law – $8 million in fines were levied against those who dawdled in taking ads down, and Clear Channel launched an unsuccessful campaign to raise support for putting them back up – the citizens clearly approve. Surveys found that at least 70% are happy with the change.

photos and videos can be found over at http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/06/clean-city-sao-paulo-scrubbed-of-outdoor-ads/ where the original article was spotted

Microsoft send flowers to the funeral of Internet Explorer 6

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It appears that Microsoft is as happy as anyone to see the death of IE6.

At the browser’s “funeral” held yesterday by a web design company in Denver, organisers received a bouquet of flowers from the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft. The flowers were accompanied by a letter of condolence, saying “Thanks for the good times, IE6. See you all @ MIX, where we’ll show a little piece of IE heaven. Internet Explorer Team at Microsoft.”

It’s nice to see Microsoft has a sense of humour about the funeral, but it also reveals that Microsoft is about as sick of IE6 as web designers are.

It’s not hard to see why. Although IE6 is still their product, it’s positively archaic compared to the browsers that the IE team have released in the past couple of years. While IE7 and IE8 aren’t the best browsers on the market, they’re at least able to render unicode without crashing. IE8 in particular (especially when paired with Google Frame) is a legitimate competitor to Safari 4, Firefox 3.6 and Chrome.

Despite their hard work, neither browser has a commanding lead over IE6 in market share. IE7 and IE8 each have between 20% and 25% market share, the same amount as IE6 does.

The IE team’s note does reveal an interesting bit of information. They talk about revealing a “little piece of IE heaven at MIX” which suggests that they’re going to be showing off IE9 at the conference, which is less than a week away.

The IE team is no doubt tired of patching up the broken old machine that is IE6 at the expense of focusing on IE7, IE8 and IE9, but they have no choice in the short term. Even though Google no longer supports the browser, there are still too many business systems based off of IE6 for the browser to die right away. Indeed, Microsoft has said they plan to support the browser until at least the planned 2014 end of support for XP SP3. Here’s hoping that day comes quickly.

From the nextweb.com

Colour Chart

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