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"It's often the most neglected page on your website; if you even have this page. However, if you do, it is very likely among the most visited pages. I may be dating myself, but it is the Rodney Dangerfield of web pages. It gets no respect. Do you have an "about us" page? Is it performing at the level it should be?
As brands, we should want people to like us, to share our values, to feel validated by doing business with us. How are we supposed to get them to do this if we don't connect to them on a human level in a "human voice"?"
"Smashing Cartoons is a regular section on Smashing Magazine. Every Friday we publish a new cartoon created by Ricardo Gimenes, the creative mind of Behind the Websites. The cartoons are dedicated to design and Web development, but also have a comic twist about everything happening around the Web as well as give you some insights behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine."
An argument for horizontal web page design, in an interesting format.
Via Christine Drain at Pensacola College, a site with a huge number of relatively inexpensive WP themes.
I find "design" ideas work well in a variety of environments. Hopefully you can transfer some of these.
Washingtonpost.com and chicagocrime.org web hotshot Adrian Holovaty points out resources to become a web wizard.
For Photoshop geeks, a tutorial in making things "web 2.0-ish".
Site that offers tons of web design knowledge for beginners and pros. Free.
A service that allows anyone to "annotate" the web - requires Firefox or IE right now. Read more <a href="http://reinventing.collegemedia.org/index.php?id=360">here</a>.
MIT-developed widget for making Timelines. Requires a bit of XML knowledge, but could be useful for presenting chronological information.
FREE! app for Windows that apparently does a lot of the basics you'd use Photoshop for. TechCruncher Michael Arrington <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/21/if-you-use-photoshop-check-out-paintnet/">was impressed</a> with the speed of the app.
A List Apart has a good article on beginning web design resources.
37 signals, the company behind <a href="http://www.basecamphq.com">Basecamp</a> and other web 2.0 software, have a free version of this book, which deals with planning and creating web apps and sites.
Info for anyone interested in freelancing. Invoicing is part of the job.
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