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Alex Mathers has this amazing blog with great advice for promoting yourself online. Nothing is better than when the content and design of something are both of excellent quality. I just bought his ebook and cannot wait to read it!

This is the future my friends, explained in a great video.

Compared to print — which is at least 1800 years old — web design is new. If you learned about design in school, you probably didn’t learn very much about web design. If you have been designing solely for print for the past x number of years, there are most likely assumptions being made or questions needing answers.

If we go over a few things that you already know, don’t fret or be offended. There is surely someone else who will read this that didn’t know it. More →

http://www.rekn.it/ is pretty darn cute. You pay $30 and send in an old sweater and http://haikavanian.com/‘s mom unravels the wool to knit you something new! They have a different item each month, the site is well designed and the idea is fantastic.

A new category — website tips! I will be periodically writing articles to help people managing and or taking part in the design of their own sites. This first one was written for a company I work for who created TweakCMS.

1. Organize your pages logically

The more people have to click around to find what they are looking for the less likely they will be to stay on your site and become your customer. There is an easy way to figure out how to organize your pages so people can find what they need — it’s called card sorting. More →