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Happy Webbies

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, new idea!, user experience

Love website design and development? Love the people who make it great? Check out Happy Webbies! It’s like Happy Bunny for web geeks. You can get desktops of your favorite web gurus bashing bad design or better yet, Eric Meyer can span your chest on your very OWN eric meyer happy webbies TEESHIRT! Watch out!

THE Brian Shaler

THE Brian Shaler

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, new idea!, seo, speaker reviews, things to do, viral marketing

So I got to sit down with Brian Shaler yesterday during the Phoenix BarCamp and really pick his brain regarding his recent boost in popularity on the net. I’ve been on a big personal branding kick and I’m trying to talk to anyone who’s someone to ask them how they “did it”. Not necessarily to

Letters from Bar Camp…

By aprilholle | new idea!, new technologies, speaker reviews, technology reviews, things to do

I had a GREAT TIME at the 2008 Phoenix BarCamp today! I was a little… OK maybe more like VERY nervous about having to stand up in front of people and tell them about things that I might have some expertise in. But once I saw that everyone else was just as informal, I got

Refresh Recap: ALA Web Design Survey

By aprilholle | new idea!, speaker reviews, things to do

Alright so at this point everyone has read the 2007 Web Design Survey at A List Apart. If you haven’t, you should… really. This is the first time we’ve ever had a survey for the web industry alone, and while it’s not necessarily scientific, it is a good sampling of the community, nearly 33,000 web

Quarterlife and Internet Television

By aprilholle | art forms, new idea!, user experience

So I got a recommendation from Erin Enriquez at Terralever to take up watching the new internet series Quarterlife. The premise is basically this intern writer decides to take up video blogging about her two roomates and the two guys that live across the courtyard whom are all friends. It’s a pretty decent concept, but

If You Love Threadless, Check out Blik

By aprilholle | art forms, new idea!

If you love funky, designer tees check out Threadless.com, not only can you score some threads, you can submit designs to be printed and score other designs! I love having control over what could be printed next, not to mention, being able to submit your own designs into the running. If you already love Threadless

National Blog Posting Month

By aprilholle | life news, new idea!, things to do, wordpress

November, the month of brisk winds, first frosts, pumpkin pie, giving thanks, and now… national blog posting month. That’s right folks, for the month of November I will be posting every day. While there have been some discussions on how blog posting frequency doesn’t matter, I believe that I truly do have something interesting and

Internet Stars are Viral Video

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms, new idea!, things to do

If you spend any time at all watching viral videos online or are into viral marketing, you NEED to watch this video! The team over at Cakke has mashed together some of the greatest viral moments (online and off) into one amazingly funny video. It’s really interesting to note just how many of them you

sIFR 3.0 Inline

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, flash, new idea!, new technologies, technology reviews

Recently we’ve completed four sites for Civigroup Companies. Within those sites you’ll notice several instances of sIFR (flash replacement text) inline with content. This is no easy task for sIFR text. While trying to accomplish this feat of magic, I spent quite a bit of time researching different aspects of sIFR and how it works

Wait Less – Sprint Style

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms, new idea!, things to do

I have been seeing the WaitLess Sprint commercials on tv lately, I figured it was just another bad commercial gimmick like the Alltel’s commercials Man Cave. But honestly, the way Sprint has married their TV commercials with the web is genius! Waitless.org is all about spending less time doing the boring things in life, to