Dave Hightower

Great article on how design affects the power of content. There was a book that came out in 1967 called The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, that dealt with the same issue. It’s still a very relevant subject in print and on the web.

Ok…this is awesome! I can already hear the masses of iPad and iPhone users celebrating in the streets. Zencoder out of San Francisco has outdone themselves on this one…nice job West Coast!

As @font-face sites continue to build momentum, and overcome browser compatibility obstacles, we’re seeing some amazing work out there. Here’s a site using League Gothic:

Hearts’ Cry Inc.

Great use of type. I love the simplicity, and how the type conveys the message clearly. No questions about what’s going on here.

Bravo. Can’t wait to see more sites like this.

Let me just say that after trying DotNetNuke, Joomla!, and Sitecore over the past 3 years…WordPress is by far the most user friendly and flexible CMS I’ve ever used. I love it, and I don’t know why I’d go to anything else…unless there’s a big surprise around the corner in 2011…

I also just started using Chris Pearson’s Thesis framework, which gives WordPress an injection of PHP steroids. It’s awesome. I have to give a huge shout out to Pearson for tweaking and enhancing this system.

Get Thesis:

www.diythemes.com

I went to the 2010 SharePoint .Org Conference (hosted by susQtech) in Baltimore, MD in April. Wow. Let me just say that Microsoft is going heavy in the direction of “the computing cloud” and that SharePoint is one if its cloud babies. This product is being nurtured and grown and cared for by Microsoft and is undoubtedly not going anywhere soon. The conference was hosted by vendors who use SharePoint heavily (almost solely) – suffice to say SP 2010 was praised and lifted up as a great step forward. I’m still very skeptical of its capabilities, though. Especially after doing some work with SharePoint 2007. We’ll see if this web software lives up to its mettle. Here’s a shot from the conference:

Post-Conference Page Link: http://www.sharepointconference.org

is the conveying of events in words, images, and sounds often by improvisation or embellishment.

If you go waaaaay back, before we had computers, or books…people communicated simply by word-of-mouth. By stories. Historical stories, tales of what had happened that day, or last week. Somewhere along the line, someone decided to write ideas down on scrolls, and later the printing press took written ideas into hyperdrive.

Fast forward to the present. Information, information, information. Twitter feeds, blogs, websites, emails, etc. We have little snippets of stories that hit us every day…every hour. No, every minute. So it begs the question: Are we still good at storytelling? Do we communicate ideas and information well? Does anyone care?

They should, because the way something is communicated affects whether the listener responds or not. This is just as important no matter whether in a speech, a sermon, a book, or (dare I say it) – a website. What story do you want your site to tell your “readers”? Think about that as you brand, color, and tweak your site. The look and the content are all part of the story.

Here’s Rob Mills on the subject: Storytelling on the web