64: Tablet Indigestion

The metaphor of indigestion compared to site bloat for tablets is just too perfect. They make you feel ill, uncomfortable, frustrated, distracted, and painful. These kind of sites really are hard to "stomach".

63: Page Hijacking

In the late 1990's, Frames were sometimes used to hijack pages from other websites. This was considered unethical. It was essentially stealing content and rebranding it. I'm not an advocate of this HTML Frame con.

I am fan of embedding a web service into a Frame. These services include such things as: Blogger, Jalbum, form processors, and other "cloud or widget" resources. More seem to come into existence every day. They are modules or patterns. The feeling is you have never left the main site.

62: LINKS: Form Processing and background tiles

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/tools/web-forms/

http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/09/24/50-pattern-sets-to-spice-up-your-websites-background/

61: Ego Marketing

Ego Marketing is:
1. Showing off product coolness. Splash and buzz is like a firework (short.)
2. Spends too much of early critical resources on big-bang tradeshows and ads.

Burn Rate: the rate at which a start-up company spends capital to finance operations before generating positive cash flow from operations.

Organic Marketing: Results are what matter:
1. What really matters is where the product is installed and how it's holding up.
2. First seed the market with a minimum of installations and corresponding reputable testimonials. This builds a portfolio of endorsers and testimonials.
3. Target resources for cost efficiency. "Low-fidelity" marketing communications can outperform glitz.

60: Tables for small sites.

Do tables fit the bill for small sites?

• Tables always work. There is less code to learn, so chances of building it wrong are reduced.
  
• Table code is easier to understand. Doing HTML tables is quite straightforward, you have the
  

  tags that make things easier to follow. CSS DIVs look the same! Tables designs look the same in most browsers. Being a very basic code even IE6 does a decent job in displaying the content Table designs make no difference for the customers. Most people don’t know how the code behind a site is made. Another good reference: http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/better-ui-design-proper-use-of-tables.html

59: Web Trends 2010 - 2011

http://ezinearticles.com/?Web-Design-in-2010-2011---Analysis&id=4315617

COMMENTARY

1. The days of static design visuals are dead
This is a gross overstatement and idiotic. This author is an Utopian Idealist. Most of the technologies spoken of are still in their infancy and even when they become mature, they will not replace static images in every case. The visual noise generated would be a "screech."

2. Grid-based designs, Mobile Designs, Retro Designs are gaining popularity as well.
Grid designs have always been important to ALL design. Mobile design from real surveys of real web designers show there is a resistance by designers to support small-screen technology. I anticipate mobile hardware developers will find workarounds to display traditional websites, not the other way around. Retro Designs could mean low-tech design or actual "vintage" theming. They aren't clear about this --but both are popular.

3. Print Design influence
This paragraph is obvious and been the goal of web designers for years. It's just now they can finally do some of those things. So it's not really a trend but a longed for goal.
I heard a good statement from a seminar on web design in 2011. The comment was that web designers are always trying to make "paper behind glass." That meaning the web is a different medium and shouldn't try into mimic another. Quit wasting time on pixel perfect design. The web was never intended for that type of perfection. Think of the web as a 1960's typewriter with the same limitations as far as design is concerned. This will prove less frustrating.

4. Faster and better Web browsers
Big deal! This is the natural progress of things.

5. Growth of community-oriented Platforms
I see these social places as approaching bloat and there has been some negative blow back of "disconnecting" as Twitter and Facebook become more "corporate big brother."

6. Interactive Designs
"Horizontal scroll bars have been out there for a decade, but today it feels that they are gaining a new context. The move to horizontal scroll bars is probably an attempt among some designers to provide a more distinct user experience."

Interestingly, "horizontal scroll" is real easy to do in Frames and I've been watching people struggle in complicated code to do something that is simple with "low-tech." I'd like to do something with this. I've experimented with it before. It's great for displaying side-by-side photos --like for portfolios or products.

7. Slab Typefaces
"These are relatively new as in the past logos and headers were smaller and more understated by web designers. However, combined with the trend toward larger headers, slab typefaces demand the reader to take notice."

I see this trend and I like it. It means using some built type for headlines.

8. Rich and strong Typography
This is "hoo-ha" fluffy stuff.

9. Recent trends
All most all of the trends they talk about in this paragraph are bloated fads. But I agree with one thing very much, "Introduction blocks (place the most important message of the website right there and thus make sure that readers get the message as quickly as possible.) will continue to grow in this year."

This is putting the "market positioning strategy" right up front. It key in my philosophy for HOME pages.

10. More Personalization
Uh. Not on small sites. Sorry.

58: Another lo-band website deconstructed

A 48.3K home page experiment. Here are the 39.4K of graphic components:

7K bamboo

13.8K stone stack

3.1K logo

15K tile

307B X 4 corners

Orange flare 3.2K