Years of link rot can be a real bitch.
Anyway, one of my links that is definitely alive and well is Ark-rep.com. Really nice art done in a style that I completely dig, Check it out.
Maybe I'll link blog for a day or two? Yeah, that sounds like fun.
One of my favorite guidelines from the Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines is the following:
10:1 Use Meaningful Link Labels
Guideline: Use link labels and concepts that are meaningful, understandable, and easily differentiated by users rather than designers.
Comments: To avoid user confusion, use link labels that clearly differentiate one link from another. Users should be able to look at each link and learn something about the link’s destination. Using terms like ’Click Here’ can be counterproductive.
Clear labeling is especially important as users navigate down through the available links. The more decisions that users are required to make concerning links, the more opportunities they have to make a wrong decision.
My emphasis. In terms of web design and development pet peeves, I hate "click here" even more than I hate opening a new window for off-site links* to "keep people on your site," so it's always nice to have some place with gravity to point to when telling people "click here? that's a bad idea."
*imagine how much I hate clicking here to to open a new window….
I'll be back in writing mode starting tomorrow or Wednesday. Until then, here's another letter in my continuing alphabet experiment
Matt Cutts talks about how Google puts together their search results. Fascinating stuff (for me at least.)
I'm just filling in the holes…
This is what I've done, and (in the form of white spaces) what I still need to do.
I best get working:
H!
Yes!
I still haven't tracked which I've done and which I haven't. I really need to increase the pace to get the whole alphabet done so I can do a fancy poster or something…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Full Screen Edition)
A nice, after-thanksgiving treat for the whole family.
I got an interesting thing out of last night's viewing. For my money, the scene where Harry casts the Patronus charm to save himself and Sirius is the best moment in all of the movies so far, and just might be the coolest single moment in all the books. It seems like the pivot around which the series revolves in some ways. At least in terms of the idea of Harry-as-a-great-wizard. His earlier exploits were all based on luck and courage. This? This is a powerful spell cast against a slew of powerful opponents. Pretty cool.
Was this year's turkey better than last year's turkey?
You be the judge.
*although it's actually the fourth year we've hosted Thanksgiving. I just never posted pictures of my turkey before last year.
All graffiti interested individuals are hereby instructed to click on over to The Cool 5 - TC-5.com and check out one of the best style crews of all time.
And while you're there, make sure to check out DOC's profile. The flicks in there are INSANE. STYLE.
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