Month: September 2005

Corporate Identity Questionnaire. Don't want to look like a boob at your first creative kick-off meeting? Bring a print out of Ivan's handy questionnaire. [Return of Design – Links]

Web Designer's FREElance Toolbox for Windows. The basic software needed to run a web design business can be expensive — unless you check out this list of high-quality free substitutes. [Return of Design – Links]

Harness The Power of Three. Business dude Mike Pollock points out and example of how marketing and information architecture often intertwingle. [Return of Design – Links]

Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates. Particle Tree provides some free templates to jump start your site coding. I've got a few issues with the code, but it's generally a great idea and an excellent start. [Return of Design – Links]

Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes. Mike Davidson exerts his rockstar muscle by showing you how to quickly and easily make your site work on reduced-functionality browers. [Return of Design – Links]

What's Your Elevator Pitch?. Can you quickly explain what makes you different from your competitors? Post your pitch and this site and see what other people think. [Return of Design – Links]

Amazon No Longer the Role Model for E-Commerce Design. Traditional wisdom states that e-commerce sites should imitate Amazon.com. Unfortunately, that wisdom is almost entirely wrong. [Return of Design – Links]

Interview with Josh Williams of Firewheel Design. Everything you've ever wanted to know about Firewheel, Iconbuffet, and Blinksale. [Return of Design – Links]

Web Word Processing and Document Sharing: Writely.  Writely is a hosted Web application that serves as a pretty good word processor and document sharing service. I've been playing with it for awhile now and so far I'm pretty impressed. It's currently beta (no Safari support, bummer) but it's also free. It's document sharing portion is… Continue reading Web Word Processing and Document Sharing: Writely

Task and To-do Management: Voo2do.  Voo2do is a free and simple online to-do and task management application. It's a bit more than what you'd get with Ta-Da lists but not quite a full project management system either. Unlike ta-da list (and clone bla-bla list), voo2do tracks priority, due date, and time estimates for each task.… Continue reading Task and To-do Management: Voo2do