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Luxury Website Headers By Reese – byreese.com

David — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:00:04 +0000

Posted in Links

My good friend Reese has launched a fantastic new product – luxury website headers that are unique and limited. From the FAQ:

I couldn’t give my best and brightest work to some of the people who wanted it most, the kind of people I wanted to design beautiful things for. People like you.

I take on only a few full website designs a year, at rates in the thousands. But there was all this beauty and design inside of me waiting for the right people. So I created By Reese, so that a handful more people could have a gorgeous website without needing to make the full custom website investment.

Go check out byreese.com. It’s definitely worth a look if you need a touch of design magic for your website or blog.

"I'm Not Here To Be In a Relationship"

David — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:44:06 +0000

Posted in Blog

I was listening to the Boagworld podcast #150 where Paul talks about The $300 Million Button, a case study where a small change in the login form caused a $300 million increase in sales.

That was super interesting, but the article also provides evidence for a pet peeve of mine.

..first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to register when they encountered the page. As one shopper told us, “I’m not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.”

Users don’t want to register to buy, and I also feel that they don’t want to register to comment on your blog, join your social network blah blah. That’s why I don’t like to make commenters register on my blog and also why I’m a big supporter of projects like Open ID and Facebook Connect, which allows me to share my profiles across many other sites.

Naked Day '07

David — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:48:19 +0000

Posted in Asides

Today is annual CSS Naked Day. That’s why this site is all boring today. The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards and the use of semantic XHTML and CSS.

myzone

David — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:23:45 +0000

Posted in Asides

Malaysian banking giant Maybank has launched myzone, a financial portal for teenagers aged 12-18. The launch comes with a web design contest where the public can submit ideas/designs for the myzone website.

Personally, I think that the design is ok, but the code is from the last decade. Table-based design, obtrusive Javascript and so many popups! And site organisation is crap too, I can’t even find a page with info on the contest to link to.

DF response to JT