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I recently came across Khoi Vinh's post about using a background image of a grid to help you lay out your page as you are building it [via Garrett Dimon ]. http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000264.php

Background Image Grid to Lay Out Your Web Site | Smiley Cat Web

Overcoming Depression

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/06/overcoming-depression/ Earlier this week I wrote about How to Help Negative People . But what if you’re the one who’s feeling chronically negative? In this article I’ll give you a process for helping yourself out of negative emotional states, not just temporarily but permanently.
So you’ve done the marketing, found the client, signed the deal. Now you only have to do the work! This article isn’t going to focus on selling your services or the actual design process or even Photoshop techniques, but all the obstacles (and there are a lot) that many of us run into while trying to complete a project for a client.

Designing For Clients Made Easy

http://www.sitepoint.com/designing-for-clients-made-easy/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's A

How to Write a Thank-You Note, by Leslie Harpold

Question: I have a crushing inability to write proper thank-you notes. http://www.themorningnews.org/article/how-to-write-a-thank-you-note
Some of the spiritual gurus advise people to live only in the present. http://www.aish.com/sp/pg/48883992.html

How to find happiness

how to addict your audience to powerpoint

http://www.sociablemedia.com/articles_addict.htm But with only minor changes to the molecular structure of your thinking, this coma-inducing software can become a powerful force to addict your audience to the mind-expanding content of your presentation. Stop using templates . Templates restrict, constrain and force information into a small part of the screen, and make the viewing experience visually boring and tedious.
Laboratory (SURL) at Wichita State University. The SURL team specializes in software/website user interface design, usability testing, and research in human-computer interaction.

Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses

http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/81/PersonalityofFonts.htm
http://pfeifferreport.com/trends/trend_userexperience.html Media Multiplicity and the Post-Digital World

why features dont matter anymore

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/311/search-engine-marketing-part-1/

The 80/20 Of Search Engine Marketing - Part 1 » Entrepreneur’s J

Just this morning I had a listen to one of the CDs you receive when you first join the club.
by David Johnson

Color Psychology

Top Five Dell Shopping Tips

Dell is a company that built its reputation in part by driving prices down, so it would be easy to assume that when you buy a Dell you are automatically getting the best deal. However, there is a fair amount of variability built into their merchandising model.
by Gina Trapani Someone out there's trying to find information about you right now, whether it's a potential employer, date or a long lost friend. What happens when they Google you?

Have a say in what Google says about you - Lifehacker

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I Stopped Working for a Minute and Started Thinking

C.K. Prahalad Business Prophet

Take a cab ride through Bombay, and these are the scenes that will likely strike you first: raggedly dressed homeless families sprawled on blankets amid shacks. Traffic hopelessly clogged with every manner of soot-belching vehicle and wooden cart.