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We tend to get in some heated arguments around here about keeping things above the fold. Do you need to design a page with 600 pixels in mind, or do you ignore the fold?  Jakob Nielsen’s research indicates people don’t like to scroll, but there are some great sites which  use the fold to their advantage:

Paddy Donnelly thinks the fold is dead,

The newspaper’s goal is for you to actually read the newspaper, not just the front page. That should be your goal too. You want your visitors to explore your site/see your product or content. Don’t let the statistic scaremongers bully you into thinking the visitor will decide in 3 seconds whether to stay or leave your website. Trust me, having no space and information overload will most definitely make your visitors leave before the 3 seconds are up.

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I am amazed no one thought of this yet. I cannot tell you how much time I spend in PhotoShop or Fireworks creating placeholders for images. Invariably they all come out looking poor.  On a wireframe they stick out like a sore thumb and clients just cant see past them.  Well, those days are over.  Need a FPO for 350×250 image?  Easy. Just point your browser to:

http://dummyimage.com/350×200

and viola!:

Any combination of height and width’ll work.  It’s simple and elegant.  And it gets better…

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If this doesn’t move you, you have no soul:

[Youtube] via [Neatorama]

An even newer new video!

Their first video for this was awesome, but sadly not embeddable (unless of course you embed the Vimeo version…). This caused a bit of an uproar to fans since it was embedding which made them so popular.   The Band responded, mostly that they were at the mercy of the labels.  This time it looks they worked around it with a little sponsorship (note the StateFarm truck at the very beginning, and the logo at the end).  So watch the video then add some collision covarge.  Enjoy.

Bonus:  The marching band video after the break

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From Techcrunch, This is what the USA v Canada hockey game looked like on facebook:

The first big spike comes 24 seconds before the game end, when the US scored tied the game.  A few minutes later, a giant spike when Canada won the gold.  3.5 million status updates.

source: [TechCrunch]

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I use the fastdial extension in firefox, and love how Chrome and Safari give thumbnails of favorite sites, but I’m really digging fav4.org.  It’s simple and elegant:

From IconDock Via webdesigner wall.  A pretty nice set, missing a couple of key ones I’m looking for (Picasa?), but  they are high quality, vector based, and best of all, free.

check ‘em out:

[IconDock] via [WebDesignerWall]

This American Life has it’s own iPhone App.  Access to all the podcasts and a handful of extras $2.99.  Money well spent. Screen shots and a full review in a few.

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