http://imulus.com/blog Ramblings, Random Thoughts and Coding Goodness Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:48:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Work on Spec has long been a very dirty word in the design industry. The AIGA's stance on this issue is very established. But recently a number of big agencies such as Crispin, Porter + Bogusky and a new agency created by two former CP+B executives, Victors & Spoils, have ... http://imulus.com/blog/scott/opinion/crowdsourcing-and-the-death-of-an-industry/ These are not valid metrics of the health of a website. These are numbers that executives like to hang their hats on, and they are shortcuts to thinking and in-depth analysis. I love metrics, no doubt, but it’s time to start telling stories of user-interaction. Hard numbers lack context; and ... http://imulus.com/blog/george/google/visitors-pageviews-bounce-rate-time-on-site-by-itself-is-useless/ We are extremely lucky to work in the industry we do. By having everything online, it's just silly to not be able to work from home. When you have a group of trusted individuals who get their stuff done and are accountable for it, it is such a nice ... http://imulus.com/blog/stephanie/random/top-10-benefits-of-working-from-home/ Those of you familiar with Imulus know we've been working on a Group Task Management application for sometime now. It's called Stacks We developed Stacks out of necessity. It was once an Excel spreadsheet three years ago. It has morphed into an online application which we can't live without, so ... http://imulus.com/blog/george/web-design/stacks/ We've been equally as guilty as other agencies in designing lead generation forms with an American bias. This is not entirely awful if your target customer/prospect resides in the US; but it is annoying for the non-American end user to have to shoehorn their information into an Americanized format. To ... http://imulus.com/blog/george/marketing/rethinking-the-lead-gen-form/ We spent much of Friday down at MATTER Studio collaborating on a t-shirt design, experimenting with the presses and exchanging ideas. Here are a few photos of our outing. http://imulus.com/blog/george/creativity/matter-play-date-with-imulus/ For those responsible with switching sites from one server to another there's a sure-fire way to quick propagation. It's done by lowering the TTL (time-to-live) settings from a typical default of either an hour or day, down to 5 minute intervals. I'll show you how. First gain entry into you ... http://imulus.com/blog/george/hosted-applications/propagate-dns-in-minutes/ Name, rank, and occupation soldier! My name is Taylor Smith and I'm an Interface Developer. I take all the pretty pictures the designers draw all day and turn them into functioning, interactive websites. What was the first development project you worked on? The first websites I can remember working on weren't exactly what ... http://imulus.com/blog/john/random/who-is-imulus-interview-with-taylor-smith-interface-developer/ After installing Snow Leopard on my 15" MacBook Pro a few days ago I noticed that fonts, specifically at low sizes, looked terrible. Edges where overly rugged and text seemed dim. In essence, it seemed as if every font had decreased an entire weight. With further research I discovered that ... http://imulus.com/blog/bruce/os-x/text-aliasing-and-font-smoothing-on-third-party-displays-in-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6/ I've learned two valuable lessons recently: Don't be lazy. Don't be a brat. More specifically: add a subject line to your e-mails. It's not that hard and it makes everyone's life easier. When I first started at Imulus, I was not accustomed to inter-office exchanges of e-mails. Most of the ... http://imulus.com/blog/kathryn/productivity/re-what-goes-around-comes-around/