BrainFuel

Adopting Macromedia’s idea of substituting 2 letters for a version number, Adobe releases the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, Indesign as “CS” for Creative Suite.

I was just checking out Harrison Hurwitz Photography’s web site and was impressed by both the usability of this site (by using Flash, they didn’t lose any functionality or readability) and wanted to share it with everyone. I love the simple navigation style. The choice of colors and movement. The simplicity is what makes it a winner. Hands down a winner.

DigitalKick Design makes me feel like they’re a special group of designers with enough creativity to do something really innovative. I get this feeling that whatever they do might have a feel and look to it that most people wouldn’t have thought of. In some ways it reminds me of Dominey and Second Story, however it has it’s own feel, too.

With CBC Home Delivery I can get my news and learn about things all from my computer and it’s entirely Flash based. Check out the cool interface.

The Olympic Movement web site (official) is pretty well done. What I think is neat is how I can browse past Olympic venues and see the logotype and artwork for each one.

Did you see the article the other day blasting Microsoft for basically being a “national security risk”? Well, the guy that helped research that and write it got fired. Sad. He ran a company called AtStake (@stake). Anyways, they have an interesting site. The navigation style is all typographically defined and quite interesting.

Some great resources for CSS tab-based navigation:

http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/september/simplecsstabs
(cross browser compatible and includes handy zip file!)

http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/rounding-tabs/

Also many more are listed at the bottom of this page. Enjoy!

I’m reading a book right now called Creating Customer Evangelists, compliments of my sales coach. The book is about creating in your customers a desire to tell other people about you and your business. Basically, your happy customers become your sales force… but they do it because they like you, not because of any great incentive.

So, this book talks about a company called Solution People and I was reading their web site and just thought I’d share with everybody a bit about the company.

To sum it up in a sentence: Solution People helps companies come up with ideas. Generally the companies spend a large fortune for a days worth of idea gathering and do it at the cool offices that Solution People has built. So there you go… you can read more at the solutionpeople.com web site.