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Friday Focus 09/23/11: The Dip

Happy Friday Focus! Today we’re looking at designs with a bit of a “dip” in them—one content area leading into another with a nice little curve. Can you spot them? Read on!

Friday Focus 09/09/11: Denim

This week on Friday Focus we’re featuring a specific type of texture being used in websites: denim. Is it the new wood pattern? Let’s find out.

Friday Focus 07/29/11: Triangles

We’ve looked at designs with irregular shapes and circles before (twice, even), and this week we’re adding triangles to that list. Time for this week’s Friday Focus!

Friday Focus 07/01/11: Exploded Views

This week’s Friday Focus features designs that utilize the exploded view diagram technique. You could say this a more controlled approach to chaotic designs.

Friday Focus 01/21/11: Four Ninjas & a Samurai

These Japanese warriors seem to be very popular figures in design and tech companies, so let’s see how these websites take off on the concept. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Friday Focus 01/14/11: Coffee Break

It’s all about coffee this week on Friday Focus!

How to Handle Customer Complaints

In the event that you get an angry email or telephone call complaining about your service, what do you do?

How Do You Keep, Develop and Execute Ideas?

Different things might work for different people. What are your “magic formulas” for success?

3 Common Online Business Partnerships

In my last post, I talked about a couple reasons why partnering is better than outsourcing. Today, let’s look at some common online business partnerships.

Outsourcing IE6 bug fixes: good or bad idea?

I found a very interesting idea by Tim Van Damme, which examines the possibility of a service that fixes nothing but Internet Explorer 6 bugs, much like the slicing/PSD-to-HTML niche that’s grown in popularity over the past years.

The Dangers of Buying a Blog

So, for a while now, I have been watching Sitepoint, and other places where you can buy and sell sites. I have also watched as numerous sites I know well have been bought and sold, and there is one major thing I have realized: on average, a site will lose up to a third of its traffic after being sold.

I know this is a generalization, but from what I have seen over the last couple of years proves to me that I am right, especially where blogs are concerned.

Slogans That Make Sense

Replace that your slogan here with something a little more practical.