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Another excellent piece by Andy Rutledge, an admonition/checklist for being a professional designer/developer.
Both the BBC and Fox news web sites have recently been redesigned, with the BBC losing its looks and Fox getting neat and serious.
jQuery diagramming with jsPlumb — cool.
Another wonderful blog post by Walter Russell Mead, this time hoping that the blogosphere find a not-so-distant mirror in 18th-century London.
Google argues that its mobile YouTube site is better than its YouTube iPhone app.
Jakob Nielsen tests reading usability on the iPad and Kindle and reports that they’re almost as good as reading on paper. People didn’t like reading on PCs — it reminded them of work.
Falling out of love with the iPad. None of this surprises me.
Wow, icons made entirely in CSS3 (currently Safari, Chrome only).
security industry analyst, Rich Mogull also writes on security-related issues for TidBITS. When TidBITS’s sister-site Take Control Ebooks was recently migrated to ExpressionEngine, it was Engaging.net who did the job. So when Rich decided to move the web site of his independent analyst firm Securosis from WordPress to EE, he contacted Engaging.
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The new Securosis.com homepage — fun!
To implement the migration, we imported scores of tags, hundreds of posts and members, and thousands of comments. For the posts, we used the new Solspace Importer module, which made that part at least easier and even fun. For tags, we first converted WordPress tags into EE categories, then in turn converted these into EE tags. And we set up a method to 301-redirect all old WordPress URLs to their new EE equivalents. Engaging.net also advised on the EE architecture — fields, channels, categories, URL structuring, etc. — and installed the standard clutch of controlpanel add-ons.
The new site was designed by Insight Designs of Boulder, CO. Rich did much of the EE templating himself.
In the period since the site was launched back in April, we’ve developed some additional functionality, including a consolidated comments management screen.
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