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Animated Avatars on Websites – Good or Evil?

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Lucy

Personally, I hate websites with sound. If I don’t absolutely need something from that particular site, I’ll always go somewhere else. But, you know what … I’m not everybody! A lot of sites are now using animated avatars to personalise … Continue reading →

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Why Your Site Desperately Needs a Search Bar!

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Lucy

Don’t have an internal site search bar? Why, if Jakob Nielsen saw you in the street he’d rap you across the knuckles, young whippersnapper! Seriously though, an internal search bar is vitally important to the success of most sites. Your … Continue reading →

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Flash … Is It Really 99% Bad?

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Lucy

Poor old Flash … while some people love it, it has to deal with all sorts of abuse from high profile internet personalities like Jakob Nielsen. Nielsen wrote (a while ago now, in 2000) that Flash as 99% bad. Today … Continue reading →

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