Bosch Appliances The color

Imon.org Personal/portfolio site with a modernist aesthetic and color scheme that’s quite easy on the eyes. Not too much contrast and not too little. Not too flashy, but not too sparse either. Smooth and balanced, it goes down easy.

Flash Chess What nobody thought was possible? Chess in Flash. These guys did it with the new Flash MX using Actionscripting. Quite a kick, however, I won easily. I played the hard version and the computer just moved its Queen around and tried to take pieces. It even missed some obvious opportunities.

Do you create Site Maps for your prospects/clients? I assume you do if you’re in the business. What tools, techniques, and methods have you found most conductive for building good looking site maps (and fast)? Do you use Adobe Illustrator? Microsoft Visio? Another application? I’ve used all of the above and some other programs and…

I read the Google Blog from time to time and something I’ve noticed is that they have a sidebar of links to related sites. Since this is official Google public relations going on here, it’s interesting to see that they link to their competition… Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves.

Magellan, an Ampoliros module We’re evaluating affordable Content Management systems. This open source one appears to have a very attractive interface. An ASP-based solution I was just clued into is called Q-Publishing. Thanks, James.

CommArts Article: Hollywood and the Internet An interesting article about web sites for Hollywood.