Have you seen the new Amazon.com site navigation system? What do you think about it? Personally, I think it’s ugly. It’s less intuitive and harder to find stuff on the site. What’s up with the huge blue bar anyways? The Amazon logo is now part of a tab where before it was on its own. The Your Account button is not bold and prominent like it was before. I could go on and on.
Some interesting sites not worth a screenshot: Mckinney-Silver, and I like the rollover effect on the Merkley and Partners site.
Copper Square is quite nice. And this navigation bar is really slick.
McGarry Bowen site is really classy. It’s for a NY agency and curiously different.
Well it’s in the news so I think I’ll let the cat out of the bag. I am the proud new owner of some nice new beachfront property. There’s plenty of room for everybody and we’re going to have lobster every single night for a year and then we’re going to eat more lobster after that.
I’ve included a photo of the beach area (above). Observant readers will say to themselves, “hey, palm trees don’t grow on the east coast!” and I would reply, “well, *cough* this isn’t your average property, is it?” No, it isn’t.
Besides the beautiful sunrise pictured here, the property has a swimming pool (just in case you don’t want to swim with the sharks). This property is described by our friends in the media as follows: “A 40-acre estate in the Hamptons – the Long Island summer retreat of New York’s rich and famous…”
As the new owner of this property, I will be renaming the Hamptons to “Chrisville” simply because “Hamptons” sounds too much like “hamper.” My house isn’t a hamper. Not in the least.
Notice in the picture the throng of guests all enjoying a lobster breakfast on the beach. Mmmm!! Makes me hungry just thinking about it.
Ben pointed me to this great WordPress Plugin which effectively changes your entire WordPress administration panel to the great look pictured below. I installed it on another blog of mine and it works. Very cool.
What other great unknown Admin interfaces exist in the wild? Anybody?
Tornado is looking for a Linux administrator to assist our company with a new project that requires a Linux box be installed at a location in uptown Phoenix. If you know someone local or you yourself are interested please contact our office. The project would take about a half day to a day and would involve ongoing support. You have to be local for this project.
Nike All Conditions Gear site is pretty cool looking. I’ve never really taken the time to peruse the Nike web sites and found this one over the weekend. Pretty cool.
Here’s an interesting CMS that will be released later this summer.
Symphony looks neat, too.
Browse the Library of Congress archives online.
Uptime looks interesting. I’ve used software for this purpose but this is a hosted service.
Steve Jobs told Stanford University graduates Sunday that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made because it forced him to be innovative even when it came to finding enough money for dinner.
Something I didn’t know how to do in Windows XP and that is very cool to find. How to turn off startup applications (it only allows you to turn off non-critical apps on startup).
Nokia has a new web site and the animated intro looks exactly like the Nike one.
An extinct date palm reborn after planting 2000+ year old seed found in King Herods palace. Check out the pictures.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the screw.
Learning how to say no. Boy do I need to read this.
What’s wrong with this site for Stonewall Kitchen? For some reason I like the site, but I think it needs some more structure or something. Odd.
Ever wonder why Amazon and other sites say “price too low to show, add to cart to see”? Well, the reason is that the price is below the MAP price. “MAP Price” stands for “Minimum Advertised Price” which means that they are not allowed to advertise some of the actual prices because they are below the manufacturers Minimum Advertised Price. When manufacturers sell a product wholesale, you are given a suggested retail, a manufacturers minimun advertised price, and a cost. Amazon sells stuff at the MAP price most of the time.
Paypal is now in the merchant services business. Meaning you can use it to proces credit cards without having to require your customers have a Paypal account. Cool.
Phoenix the sweatiest city? No, I don’t think so. It’s a dry heat.
Here’s a link to a speach Steve Jobs gave (an mp3 that’s compressed in the tar format, why can’t more people use the zip format?).
I wonder if anybody can shed some light on this product? www.staticcms.com.
Play Duck Hunt (the classic Nintendo game) online.
Press the spacebar and move around with the keyboard to play this game.
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