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I’ve just stumbled upon Lulu.com, a website allowing creatives to publish books, calendars, comics, music and software without any technical knowledge and with no minimum print run. The idea is very simple and the breadth of products available is great combined with the ability to print one-off copies of your work.
But for a site with such a creative audience, many features could have been more intuitively designed. The site is screaming to be Web 2.0, and while they have obviously tried to mimic Amazon they have missed the boat on many pages. The ‘Browse > All Categories‘ page shows a nested list so narrow it’s unreadable (even on 1280×960), and the next page links on the bottom of the product pages just don’t work.
All I can think is what a great idea this could be - imagine if 9rules published printed article anthologies at, say, $12 per 100 page tome?
I installed IE7 Beta 2 today, to see how a new site design worked, and I am quite impressed. The development team seem to have actually thought about how people interact with an application and have made some of the features quite intuitive. Continue reading ‘Where IE7 could beat Firefox’
I’ve released Pages+ v0.2 and moved it to it’s own page! Updates include a sort toolbar and a few slight tweaks.
I’ve been listening to the Ricky Gervais / Guardian Unlimited podcast, and I have to say he’s a comic genius. Much like The Office, I can’t say what it is that’s so funny - he just is.
A British university graduate has developed a machine that washes, dries and irons clothing automatically.
Benford’s Law can be used to show fraudulent data by predicting the frequencies of the most significant digit in a series of data
Update: I’ve moved pages+ to it’s own page - click here to continue
Pages+ is my first decent wordpress plugin, and will be of use to those with many pages within their wordpress site. It replaces the Manage ยป Pages admin page with a more simple way of navigating to a page.
Chuck Norris responds to chucknorrisfacts.com, uses opportunity to plug autobiography.
The BBC believes its Persian news website has been blocked by the Iranian government, after a sharp fall in hits over the last three days.
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