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Abazab - Video Comments Shoutbox July 31, 2006

Communicating with your friends and your blog visitors appears to be a hot activity. First there were regular text comments. Then there were text shoutboxes, followed by audio mailboxes and video clips. Combine them altogether and you have video-commenting shoutboxes.

Video shoutboxes let you post your own video clips on your blog. Your visitors can sign in to their own (usually free) account and then post their own video clips. In this post, I’ve used the Abazab video comments shoutbox from FestoonInc.

You can see a sample below. There’s a default video and a couple of short ones …

Applying The Principle Of Kaizen To Weblog + Website Design July 24, 2006

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One of the most overwhelming aspects of publishing multiple blogs is coming up with suitable page themes. Sure, there are loads of free theme templates available, but you probably want to customize it to give it your own “brand”. If you have limited time, resources, or skills for improving your current design, consider applying the principle of Kaizen.

Kaizen is a Japanese word for a Chinese concept. Essentially, it translates to “improvement by slow, steady degrees.” Application of this concept is the main reason I don’t worry when friends tell my blog designs are ugly. Yeah, I know the stats …

Branding Your Site With Favicons July 23, 2006

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Looking for a way to brand your website/ weblog without some honking big logo? Try a favicon. Depending on the browser you’re using, if you look up where the URL of this page is displayed, you might see a light green triangular icon with a black spiral. That’s my “favicon” version of my Chameleon Integration Systems‘ logo (seen somewhere on this page.)

The original logo was sketched out by me, then reworked by Bill Dubs, my brother’s biz partner for their award-winning “green” ad agency, Dubs & Dash. The spiral represents the tail of a chameleon, the green simply …

Do We Need Multi-Column Layout Web Page Designs? July 8, 2006

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Given how long desktop publishing software has been around, and how powerful it is, have you ever wondered why (X)HTML and CSS have such a hard time producing multiple column web pages? Sure, you can create multiple columns with XHTML tables, but you cannot auto-flow text between columns. Sure, you could try replacing tables with CSS code, but try to properly align a layout with more than three columns with CSS, and you’ll be tearing your hair out. Well, UXD (links below), User eXperienced Design, has an exciting post about the new multi-column feature for CSS 3.0 - something I’ve …