16 December 2004

Today's reading list

  • The Most Hated Advertising Techniques
  • complete css guide
  • Not Funnies
  • Several comic book related stories
  • The Most Hated Advertising Techniques
  • [ via Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox ]

    It may be obvious, but people hate pop-ups. This article enumerates that at the other most-hated tricks of Web advertisers. More importantly, it also lists those techniques people liked:

    • indicate what will happen if people click on them,
    • relate to what people are doing online,
    • identify themselves as advertisements,
    • present information about what they are advertising, and
    • provide additional information without having to leave the page.

    They all basically go under the category of "honesty."

  • complete css guide
  • [ via web standards software and learning ]

    A free, online guide to CSS from Westciv. I've read a few of their articles--good stuff.

  • Not Funnies
  • [ via New York Times (mirrored) ]

  • Several comic book related stories
  • [ via BoingBoing ]

    An article from July on graphic novels. Discusses Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan) and several others. The NYT page has it for purchase. I found a mirror and then also copied it to my site. BoingBoing mentions that there's some new Chris Ware stuff in both Esquire and The New Yorker (both print-only).

[ posted by sstrader on 16 December 2004 at 4:45:28 PM in Today's reading list ]