By Pem McNerney on August 17, 2010
While planning for an upcoming website redesign project, I sought advice on LinkedIn about the best way to conduct a content audit. We were in the midst of a time-consuming, page-by-page evaluation of our site, which has more than 2,000 assets. Compared to many sites, that’s not very big. But it started to feel like […]
Posted in Content, Content Audit, Design, Editing, Uncategorized | Tagged Alice Ainsworth, Content, Content Audit, redesign
By Pem McNerney on March 16, 2010
Julie Zhuo, the product design manager at Facebook, has had plenty of experience dealing with people who are unhappy with change. In this podcast with Jared Spool, Design Lessons from Facebook’s 350 million with Julie Zhuo, she talks about why people don’t like change and how Facebook takes that into account when they introduce new […]
Posted in Design, Facebook, Social Media | Tagged change, Design, facebook, redesign
By Pem McNerney on March 14, 2010
The software development and technology solution company, Amadeus Consulting, is combining several blogs and moving them to WordPress “to better accommodate its readers.” “We needed a better way to reach our customers,” said Jay Millard, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing. “Our designers and application programmers provide very useful insights into the development process, […]
Posted in Blogging, WordPress | Tagged blogs, redesign, WordPress
By Pem McNerney on March 13, 2010
Examiner.com, which bills itself as the “insider source for everything local,” plans to launch a new Drupal-based Web site in the Spring, according to this article from AP. The focus of the article is Jim Davidson’s appointment as president of the news Web site which has a presence in 240 markets around the country. It […]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Al-Akhbar, CMS, Drupal, New York Observer, news, newspapers, redesign, Ski Magazine, whitehouse.gov
By Pem McNerney on March 13, 2010
A recent post from Website Magazine hails the new MSN.com design as simple, clean, and bright, with “a focus on the user and their evolving Web savvy.” The old MSN.com design was bogged down by a lot of blue in the background throughout the page and was littered with boxes and too many choices when […]
Posted in Design | Tagged Design, news, newspapers, redesign
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