Post by Bill Dugan

How the Banner Ad Was Born

Here’s a neat historical look back at the birth of the banner ad: The ad, which ran in October 1994, performed very well. It initially got a 44 percent click-through rate, according to O’Connell. It was hard-coded into the Hotwired page. Back in those days, as Internet advertising spread to other sites, there were no [...]

posted by April 12, 2013 - 1:27 pm No Comments

A Little Automator Goodness

Here’s a script I use on an almost daily basis: It’s an Automator Workflow that takes an image, converts it to a PDF, prompts the user for a name, and then prompts for a location to save the file. Services are scripts that show up in the right-click menu when you’ve selected a file; for [...]

posted by November 29, 2012 - 11:38 am No Comments

Microsoft Redesigns its Logo.

…The world yawns.

posted by August 23, 2012 - 2:09 pm No Comments

Is Google+ Really a Ghost Town?

According to a study published by RJMetrics titled New Google Plus Data Shows Weak User Engagement, 30% of first-time users on Google+ who post publicly never do so again, and those that do, on average, wait 15 days to make their second. Equally as interesting is user response to public posts: An average of 0.77 [...]

posted by May 17, 2012 - 3:06 pm No Comments

Eye Candy

Take a peek at this web-based magazine design: Suit Up Or Die. I like the way it works both on the web, but sadly when I pull it up on an iPad I get a message saying it’s not available for mobile devices. It seems to me that something set up this well for a [...]

posted by May 14, 2012 - 10:22 am 1 Comment