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Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps. - Drew

Web strategy is not a nicety that you can afford to treat like an extra while carrying out increasingly outmoded forms of institutional marketing and communications. - Drew

I love that tagline. I love everything about this site. - Drew

If someone approaches you about optimizing your search engine placement, they’re running a scam. Ignore them. If your site isn’t showing up in Google, fire whoever is making your web pages and hire someone better. - Drew

great tips and nice visual examples - Drew

great tips for getting good audio - Drew

i like the visual elements here. centered fanciness. - Drew

great list of NEW required skills for journalists - Drew

well said - Drew

In Columbia’s case, their emphasis on being located in the heart of New York City will likely reduce interest from students to whom an urban campus holds no appeal, or who worry about giant rats. - Drew

Mass production of pages is a good thing because the audience wants the information, not each content contributor’s own personal vision of how it should look. We tried that model. It was called GeoCities and it didn’t work out that well. - Drew

measuring design decisions in dollars. great stuff - Drew

Traffic has been long touted to be the key to online success, but that’s not true. If your site is not pulling sales, inquiries or results, then why would it need more traffic? - Drew

i want to implement horizontal navs, but forsee a alot of trouble in how site owners will use them. nice article. good reading - Drew

loving the design/typography of this site - Drew

wow. it's server based. This is feed reading on steroids - Drew

The fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing. - Drew

probably will come back to this page - Drew

"Wait till these students who are 14 and have grown up learning on the Net hit the [college] classrooms — sparks are going to fly." - Drew

i've thought about this alot but never had the concepts put into words - Drew

I like how he compares "text-only" to other forms of online journalism. - Drew

It reveals another example of how simplicity lends itself to a visually-powerful work when the a video journalist avoids the broadcast news style - Drew

Soul of Athens is an award-winning online publication that attempts to answer the question, "What is the 'soul' of Athens, Ohio and its surrounding areas?" - Drew

I redesigned your website's front page, and I'd like to get your opinion. - Drew

Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products onto your own website. - Drew

The development of the content should happen in sync with the design, and they will inform each other along the way. - Drew

Why does this happen? In the drive to redesign, too often the focus is purely visual. There are dazzling new designs, clean grids, fresh photography, appealing colors. And no content. The redesign becomes a book without words. A business plan without a business. “There is no there there.” - Drew

community-powered approach to local journalism. - Drew

A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive. - Drew

It’s a bald fallacy of presumption to hold that presenting text on a webpage ipso facto induces peripatetic behavior in your audience. The content itself, and the design used to present it, are the leading factors in shaping success. - Drew