Monthly Archives: March 2009

Everyone’s a designer now

By Mark Anderson | Published: March 31, 2009
Graphic design is now part of everyone's job description. Your only choice is whether to be a good designer or a bad one.
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Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices (Smashing Magazine)

By Mark Anderson | Published: March 26, 2009
I’m mostly posting this for myself. The more content people have, the faster they ask for dropdown menus. Here’s a list of best practices and examples for using dropdown menus from the good people at Smashing Magazine. Dropdown menus add complexity and potential confusion for users. These tips can help you make the call or [...]
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Open for Questions Tag Cloud

By Mark Anderson | Published: March 26, 2009
Disabilities Defense Urban Policy First Ladies Poverty The Administration Eisenhower Executive Office Building Women First Lady Michelle Obama Dr. Jill Biden Executive Office of the President Slideshows The Oval Office Nominations & Appointments Speeches Vice President Joe Biden [...]
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Rebranding != Changing Your Name or Slogan

By Mark Anderson | Published: March 17, 2009
There must be something in the water. The great state of Wisconsin has a new tourism slogan “Live Like You Mean It” and the SciFi Channel is changing it’s name to SyFy. I can imagine these meetings: “We need new energy! We need a new brochure…no…a new SLOGAN!…a new NAME!!” Imagine broad sweeping arm gestures accompanying [...]
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What took me so long?

By Mark Anderson | Published: March 2, 2009
Just added the ShareThis button to all news and events on www.bus.wisc.edu. Now site visitors, faculty, staff…whoever…can crow about their accomplishments and upcoming events on any number of social networking tools. In the spirit of “it’s not a problem until it’s a problem,” I’ll now get to work on how to measure the results of this [...]
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