The CSS Zen Garden web site is a collection of beautifully designed templates that includes several amazing designs complying to CSS and XHTML standards. The site that first started out as a way to show what can be achieved through designing sites with CSS and XHTML became a book. The book takes some of the key template designs and explains how some of the magic was achieved...
May 2006
Friday, May 5, 2006


CSS Zen Garden
Published on Fri May 05 2006
by John Garner
Thursday, May 11, 2006

Can you think of the next "meme"
Published on Thu May 11 2006
by John Garner
A meme, the dream vehicle for an ad message
An article in Ad Age covers the novel concept of a meme which they define as follows: a meme "at its simplest refers to any cultural information transmitted from one mind to another". One of the first things that comes to mind following this definition is viral marketing of course....
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Monday, May 15, 2006


Series and Movies distributed intelligently
Published on Mon May 15 2006
by John Garner
Learning from the MP3 fiasco
TV programs and movies are set to be distributed in an intelligent manner, in other words, unlike the MP3 fiasco that the music industry put itself in. I often felt bewildered by the way the music industry seemed to be playing the ostrich about the electronic distribution of music over the Net. Hopefully this will provide us the users with better services !...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Where Google should be transparent
Published on Tue May 23 2006
by John Garner
Why Google believes that less information about Google is better

Google not only seems mysterious, as companies go, but actually cultivates the mystery surrounding its operations. As an article published in the LA Times today explains “Consumers had already been dazzled by Google's search engine for years, with little idea of how it worked.” Google has over the years become a highly complicated and ever-expanding empire that is no longer just about searching text on web pages...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

The F Shape of Reading on the Internet
Published on Wed May 31 2006
by John Garner
Watch where the eyes go

How Internet is being used to create pop stars
I recommend a very interesting article in which Nielsen explains on useit.com following an eyetracking study how the majority of visitors to a web site will view pages. The resulting conclusion is called the “The F shaped pattern reading” concept....
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