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Your Home Page is NOT Your Website

April 19, 2010August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

Gerry McGovern’s recent post on the decline of the home page reminded me of a similar post I wrote last year.  Read More

Netflix Movie Page Redesign Causes Community Outrage

March 14, 2010September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

Netflix recently overhauled their movie details pages, ostensibly (according to the official blog post) to pull important information to the top of the page, better support episodic content like TV shows, and to make it easier to find similar content.

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Components of a Great Website Footer

March 1, 2010August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

Footer design has come a long way in the last few years, as can be seen in the many footer design showcases on various web design-related blogs. Creativity and aesthetics aside, what are the elements that make up a great footer design? Read More

Nexus One vs. iPhone: How do the Websites Compare?

January 10, 2010September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

Now that the iPhone has a true competitor in the Nexus One, I thought it would be interesting to see how their home pages compared. What is Google doing from an online standpoint to take on the smart phone market leader?

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10 Key Tasks For Your Next Web Site

November 6, 2009January 2, 2022 Christian Watson

Last year I wrote about 12 essential web site building blocks – things that you should check when you take on responsibility for a new web site, or even just launch one.

Well, this year I’ve come up with a few more, mostly as a reminder to me for the next site that I’ll be running. Read More

Website Navigation Then and Now

September 29, 2009September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

I recently came across a collection of website navigation bars from a few years ago. I couldn’t help but wonder how those navbars looked today, and how the impact of site growth, redesigns, branding updates, etc. have affected them.

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Two Schools of Thought to 404 Error Page Designs

August 22, 2009September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

There appear to be two schools of thought when it comes to 404 error page design. The first, as exemplified by Apple and BMI, present the 404 page as a standard page within the regular site template.

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Landing Page Optimization with A/B Testing

July 18, 2009September 20, 2020 Christian Watson

Like many online games, Warrior Epic has a landing page to which we direct traffic from our web marketing campaigns. Luckily for us, our first landing page actually turned out to have a surprisingly good conversion rate.

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10 Quick and Dirty Ways to Lay Out a List of Links

June 4, 2009August 5, 2016 Christian Watson

The best way to lay out a list of links — say, like those you would find in a footer — is typically to code them as an HTML list and use CSS for the presentation.

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The Value of Paper Prototyping

May 10, 2009August 14, 2016 Christian Watson

When I was working on the wireframe stage of the NCsoft West web site redesignI began by sketching the main templates out on paper. Read More

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