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Focusing on 'above the fold' is as much about first impressions of your site as it is about where the content is located. It definitely is still an important consideration even with scrolling.

Though my initial impression of the article was that he was saying 'the fold is bunk', which I'd disagree with, I think he wrapped it up clearly with advice on how to pay the right attention to what is above the fold.

I have not tried it, but Zimbra released a desktop client. http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

Along with the other reasons, I think price plays an important part of the upgrade decision as well. Several years ago I upgraded a PC from Windows 98 to XP but only after I found the upgrade for under $50. Now, in addition to my 2 XP desktops, XP laptop, and my primary Vista desktop, only the latter will I even consider upgrading. However, looking at a $120 upgrade to 7 I have to decide is it really worth it - and right now my thinking is it's not.

Tekzilla just had a good interview with Anand on SSD. http://revision3.com/tekzilla/visback/is-it-time-to-go-ssd-a...

I love his quote on the blog - "blogging is simple, it's real life that's complex in so many ways - Marius". Sure blogging is simple when you copy your content from others. Just run his articles through Copyscape and you find the original sources.

In my time in the corporate world I much preferred Lotus Notes to Outlook for email, calendering, etc. And generally, you also had Notes development occurring which provided useful applications for the department. All IBM really needs to do at this point is develop and announce an 'App Store' for Notes and they'd be the hot topic again.

Though you can do like I did. Call to cancel cable, and they reduce it by half bringing your total package of cable/internet to a more reasonable price. I guess they have a greater fear of showing declining subscribers than sticking to their (outrageous) price.

What I don't understand is how they can say the blue-eye mutation occurred in one single individual. I would think it is just as possible that the mutation could have occurred multiple times, and thus there would be multiple origins to those with blue eyes.

I did find a different source that would tend to support the randomness of mutations, and that also indicates that there are two different mutations that can lead to blue eyes, and as such, it is unlikely there is only one ancestor. http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=160

I'm a Google News user, and think yes, I am the market. I also read and skim magazines (your definition of the market). In general, for all content, all people skim to choose what to read. It's what printed layout, and even web layout, is based upon (with possible exception of scientific/research journals - those always give me a text overload headache).

In my opinion, I could see something like this working if it was presenting me with printed content (say the actual print newspaper or magazine, which in some instances you can get in pdf viewer format that is similar to this). But for web content, the existing method is better. The new format is actually harder to read/scan (and I'm using a 22inch display). So I expand the many articles to one per page, and use the arrow navigation to go article to article. The result is more time spent trying to catch up on news, and more clicks since I have to bypass the articles I have no interest in reading. My choice would be to go elsewhere if this was all Google News provided.

Agree with you. I see no use for it at all. I'd rather view the headline/snippet approach of Google News, Techmeme, and other sites.

The issues with Evony are not made up. I was introduced to it by a friend, but became very leary of it when 1) I could not really find out information about the company that runs it, 2) seeing numerous customer service complaints related to payments and their ievony client, 3) the reported copying of other games (Civilization, Age of Empires) including images and text, 4) the use of certain of the advertising images that call into question their rights to use them (http://blog.costumecraze.com/2009/05/dubious-civony-game-use... (note, Evony was originally called Civony)).

I also find their monetization model fails to understand the value most people place on the dollar. $30 = 300 game cents, and with that you'd find most items needed are in the 50 game cent($5) to 200 game cent ($20) range. Fine for those willing to pay it, but I think they're failing to recognize the true potential of the game at those exchange rates.So in the end, I refer to it as the carny model of payments. It's about hooking a few new (and gullible) customers.

I'd say because Google is clearly not interested in customer service. If they were, you'd not see all the stories of people unable to contact them to resolve issues with so many of their services.

So, why trust them with something as important as your email when they fail at other things?

Personally, I use a gmail account for non-important communication, and my primary remains a Yahoo account. I've never had a problem contacting a live person with any Yahoo service, or getting back a response that actually shows they read what I wrote.

Customer service is an area where Google could learn from yahoo, but I doubt they care to implement such an infrastructure.

Sorry, but very few websites have the need to have full demographic detail (name, address, dob, etc.) on who I am. I assume many use it to establish demographic profiles for basing advertising rates, or more nefariously, sell off to direct marketers.

Also, that any data I provide about myself is stored in some other persons/companies database, with some unknown level of security, you will never get real information about me unless I have a real sense of trust of the website, and there is an obvious need for the information related to use of the website.

I used to cycle a lot when I lived in California. I knew several people that used a Bike Friday, and they were as durable and functional as a regular bike. I'd even see them on Century (100 mile) rides. http://www.bikefriday.com/

I've often thought that if you removed any site that uses Google Adsense you'd get much better results.

I actually find About.com useful at times. However, an About.com site that is no more than a spam site is Consumer Search. Sad that such a site is owned by the NY Times.

I see no excuse for dropping an affiliate link on a submission to HackerNews. It applies not just to the kindle, but anything one would buy after follwoing the link to Amazon, and even at a later time when purchase is not even related to this article. I visit comments first, before link, but I'm sure many others would be impacted. Affiliate links should be discouraged altogether on a site like this, and worthy of banning/suspension.

Sensationalistic and bad title for this submission. It's not 'most printers', it's color laser printers. And that's not even going into it being a 4 year old article.

And just about every product company. Newegg is not far off. Left column to modify your selection, right column to list products.

I don't infer the same from the quote. It just as easily could have been her single source, Mitnick, that are the 'hacker circles'. The wording alone does not suggest multiple sources.

You're right in your definition. SEO (search engine friendly design, link building, etc.) is a subset of SEM. SEO is about improving your organic (non-paid) search results. SEM generally refers to a combination of SEO and PPC (pay-per-click) advertising, and other online marketing methods.

That said, I think things like the 37 signals post are too easily classified as SEO when it's really just publicity seeking with no real intent on improving the sites rankings.

Similar to my reason why I'll never move to Australia - too many poisonous things that will kill you.

With the direction of broadband ISPs being going to bandwidth caps, 'hosting' on personal PCs is not something I'd be looking at getting into at this point. It's kind of like why I would choose using Vimeo or Youtube to host a video instead of my own web server, bandwidth is not going to be free. I never see this getting beyond a miniscule niche.

Hopefully it'll be their stopping going after Internet Explorer via the EU courts, and actually come up with a product people would want to use/buy.

Not sure if it will help, but one tool I use at concept stage is FreeMind. I like it for forming a structure to a site.

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

But in a work environment it's often not your choice to pick what you work on. I tended to find that those with the experience were set on legacy systems, and the new technology went to contractors, or were outsourced. And no matter what your 'application experience', any chance at employment elsewhere became based on your 'language/platform experience'.

I think you're missing the point of the article by focusing on her. They may have been able to find a more sympathetic subject to focus on, but the point remains that many freelance workers are now facing a decline in demand, and they are really an uncounted part of the unemployed economy.

Don't confuse a framework with a template. I would not consider YUI a template, and even basic CSS layouts (the common 2-column, 3-column, etc.) are not complete templates. Using a true template the design decisions (graphics, colors, etc) are made for you.

I'd recommend determining what content you want on the site, find similar sites, and then that will provide a basis for design. Look at oswd.org and smashingmagazine.com as mentioned above. Do a google search for css templates, etc. Even consider templatemonster.com.

The general basis of the article should be that Wordpress (or other blog platform) can be used as a CMS for a website, and that it is an alternative to a static site. However, implying that it can replace a designer/developer to represent the business in a professional manner, and it can be done for little to no cost, is way off the mark.

The article fails early when he compares a website to a word document or e-mail (more appropriate comparisons would be trade show booths, marketing brochures, and store layout/design), and all arguments he makes against a static site can also be made against the use of the weblog he promotes.

I'd examine relocating the buttons, or adding more to the top. I tended to just use the Go button over and over, instead of moving the cursor down to the Next button.