I found this large collection of attribution free social media icon sets to be a very useful resource, with some great designs.

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I recently enjoyed a post on SEOmoz about presenting web traffic stats in a more meaningful and useful way. I found this to be a great way to visualize how traffic to different sections of a site compares over time.

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Surprised to see that mystery meat navigation is still alive and kicking (on an otherwise very nicely designed site):

Mystery meat navigation menu

Hull Digital Live website navigation menu

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Movie review aggregator website Metacritic underwent a complete redesign last week, much to the dismay of its regular users.

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The Glasgow Collective breadcrumb trail

The Glasgow Collective breadcrumb trail

Breadcrumb trails can be a useful secondary navigation tool for large sites such as online stores. They facilitate easy navigation back up the hierarchy of a website as well as providing a location indicator for visitors who may have arrived directly at the page (via search or a referring link) without navigating to it.

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