why not !

you need to remove advetising

$3 /month to remove advertising on the right side of the site

why not paying for your own advert for this price

http://listen.grooveshark.com

Kampyle blog

http://blog.kampyle.com/
very nice organize blog

Google Maps Navigation (Beta)

a demonstration of Google Maps Navigation (Beta), an internet-connected GPS navigation system that provides turn-by-turn voice guidance as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 phones.

Modern Sitemap and Footer

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/modern-sitemap-and-footer/

text from webdesignwall :

Benefits of Placing a Sitemap in the Footer

• Engage user click and visit duration:
  As you may know, online readers don’t read everything on the page, they scroll and scan. Footer is probably the last place they look at before exiting. Placing a sitemap in the footer may attract readers’ attention and increase page clicks and views.
• Make sure your visitors are not missing out:
  Sometimes your visitors might be too lazy to click on the sitemap link or miss it all together, having a sitemap in the footer can ensure your visitors are aware of every page.
• Use your footer to promote links:
  You don’t really have to use the footer to list out everything, you can use it as an alternative location to promote important pages.
• Save readers’ time:
  Having a sitemap in the footer allows users to quickly jump from page to page.
• You save the visitors a click:
  By placing the sitemap in the footer rather than a separate page, you save the visitors a click.
• Enhance layout design:
  Don’t know what to put in the footer? Perhaps a sitemap can fill up the page and make your site look bigger.

Tips For Designing Footer Sitemap

1. Categorize – organize your links in categories.
2. Use Headings – use headings or titles for each category.
3. Be Consistent – the order of the links should be consistent
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Few ways to navigate in one website – Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson lunched a new website this week. what is more interesting is their decision to use multiple types of navigation in it. Every category has specific grid which is very intuitive.

In the Homepage they used Jquery menu that opens when rollovering it.

The innovation in this navigation compared to the old one (some screens below) is the main menu. by using very smoothly  animation that scrolls the hole screen to the bottom, the user doesn’t have to make any effort  in order to filter the products. As soon as he check a type of cellphone all of them aligned to the top of the page.

As seen in the 3 remaining categories pages, the navigation types and different grids were adapted to it’s target audience except the one in Fun and Downloads page.  The page looks broken with to many flash menus in it:

Well, you are welcome to explore the site,Indeed, the switch from the old website was perfectly done.

Some screens from the old web site are below:

Modern (Or Not?) Navigation Technics

After browsing some websites we found some interesting ways of navigate. one of the most interesting is what Canon did on their website. By selecting from a drop down boxes i managed to get to a product in the site. the next box will appear after selecting specific category.

cannon-navigation

One more example is sweden.se navigation. they uses an Alt like indication for each of the tabs.

Sweeden-se

Flash navigation always look clumsy but rpa achieved very calm and flow able feeling.

last example is a new type of home page component that uses Jquery to enable very sweet introduction with the website content.  you can find it here.

That is it for now…

Aaugmented Business card (AR)

Very inspiring way to have a business card. this is AR business card run by flash application installed in the owner website.

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo

Google’s latitude

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/latitude/intro.html
See where your friends are right now
Enjoy Google Latitude on your phone, computer, or both.

Start using it on your phone
See your friends’ locations and status messages and share yours with them.
View it on your computer
See your friends’ locations and status messages on a full screen even without a compatible phone or data plan.

iPhone 3GS vs HTC Hero – Dogfight, Pt 1

Google gmail Lab

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&fs=1&view=pu&st=labs#settings/labs

there is unlimited ideas in google to make your gmail become your home…

- YouTube previews in mail

- Picasa previews in mail

- Flickr previews in mail

- Yelp previews in mail

-Message translation

- Quick Links

- Multiple Inboxes

-etc…