MailChimp’s Ben Chestnut is this week’s newest contributor to Digital Web. Ben offers his e-marketing expertise with 10 Tips For Your First Email Campaign. Web marketing and web standards are finally starting to converge, but that hardly means there are long established best practices and guidelines for people new to e-mail campaigns. Ben’s tips are geared for newcomers to e-mail marketing, but are also handy reminders for anyone running campaigns (like Digital Web’s own Nick Finck, who will send ours out shortly!)
Mar
25
Finally, the Facebook app that I designed for WIRED Science is officially launched. The app is called "WIRED SCIENCE: What Element Are You?" It is basically a fun app that lets you take a short quiz to find out what element you are from the periodic table. Then you can combine your element with your friends and it will tell you the relationship between the two of you. If you are interested in adding me to your network, here is my Facebook profile.
Mar
20
With so many photographers using Macintosh computers, it was high time that someone should write a book that was specifically designed to help photographers understand better how the Macintosh OSX system works and how to troubleshoot some of the common problems photographers face.
Mar
19
First, many thanks to all our participants in our contest for free accounts with Beanstalk! The contest is now closed. We will be judging the comment entries tomorrow, and posting the winners shortly!
Secondly, we have a special post-SXSW treat for our readers. Designer Mike Rohde shares his unique South by South West Sketchnotes made during some of the best panels of Southby. We put together a small collection of his work, panel descriptions, podcasts, slides, micro-sites and a short interview with Mike about his style. Take a short foray into SXSW’s panels with Mike’s sketchnotes as your guide.
Mar
12
Killersites.com is an old site, nearly 12 years old now! Since web years are worse than cat years … that makes killersites.com one of the oldest websites on the Web today!
Mar
12
After a few years of (I must admit) pure laziness, I finally started to work on a new set of Dreamweaver CS3 video tutorials.
… But, to be fair to myself, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade my Dreamweaver MX videos since the differences between CS3 and MX are really minimal … most of the changes are ‘under the hood’.
Mar
12
Floating around the universe, are certain universal principles that transcend disciplines. I would like to explore a few of them here, and talk about how they can be applied to web design.
Mar
12
Hi,
I just released a new video tutorial on Dreamweaver CS3. In this video (part 1 of 3) I walk you through the process of building your first web page with Dreamweaver CS3.
Mar
12
It’s not really a shock to find out that Microsoft is interested in Buying Yahoo (YahSoft?). Microsoft has bidded a massive 50 Billion for the internet giant, probably to form an possible acquisition or partnership that could potentially topple Google as the search king. What will this mean for web designers and the internet?
Firstly, Microsoft has never really had the success of Yahoo or Google on the internet and has lost its market share over the years to the cuddly Google, Googles offering is a friendly simple to use face to internet searching that does seem to return more accurate search results and its Gmail to my mind is still the best webmail out there.
Mar
12
Digital Web’s founder and publisher, Nick Finck, on The Contextual Web:
“There are four Elements of Context – the User, the Task, the Environment, and the Technology. Who is your user and what obstacles are they facing; what task are they trying to complete; what is the environment in which they are working; and what kind of computer or device are they using? Designing interactive experiences is not limited to the web on your computer or phone – consider gas pumps, fridges, or devices like Microsoft Surface.