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Articles by Timeshifting Staff

A Case For Web Standards
by Matt Gifford
The business benefits of adopting web standards on your next web project or redesign.
http://www.timeshifting.com/articles-webstandards.html

Recommendations From The Timeshifting Bookshelf

Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction
by Dan Margulis
The definite resource on color correction in Photoshop; covers color correction, image optimization, sharpening, and many other topics.
Highly recommended reading for people who produce images for their web/e-commerce sites.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764536958/

Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
A great guide to developing sites that make sense to visitors.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789723107/

Envisioning Information
by Edward Tufte
Written by the foremost theorist of information presentation of our time, this book identifies the design techniques that can be effectively used to convey high-dimensional data on a flat piece of paper or web page.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0961392118/

The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald Norman
Donald A. Norman, former Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California, reveals how user-centered design is the new competitive frontier. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how and why some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465067107/

Internet & Developer Resources

The Internet Archive - Way Back Machine
A near complete archived history of the Internet. Using the Way Back Machine you can browse the Internet as it was from any year 1996 onwards.
http://www.archive.org/

Running Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer (on the same windows install)
Testing your site with different versions of Internet Explorer is now much easier due to the discovery that standalone IE installations are in-fact possible. Information on the technique to convert a windows installation integrated version of IE into a standalone one can be found here:
http://www.insert-title.com/web_design/?page=articles/dev/multi_IE

Pre-packaged ready-to-run standalone versions of Internet Explorer 3.0, 4.01, 5.01 and 5.5 can be found here:
http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/000094.php

Online Business Resources

Fast Company
The business magazine for the digital economy.
http://www.fastcompany.com/

Boxes and Arrows
One of the leaders in Information Architecture (IA) theory, how-tos and discussion.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/

Search Engine Watch
A highly regarded site with tips about search engines & search engine submission. You'll find a wealth of useful information here.
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

Inspirational Resources

“Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product.”

—Steve Jobs

“Fall seven times; stand up eight”

—Japanese Proverb

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”

—Sun Tzu
Chinese Philosopher

“Whatever you find hardest to do, do with all your heart.”

—The Dalai Lama

“High expectations are the key to everything.”

—Sam Walton
Founder of WalMart

“The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”

—Mozart

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

—Bill Gates

“It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.”

—J. R. R. Tolkien

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

—Alexander Graham Bell

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

—Henry Ford

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

—Bob Dylan

“Above all, you want to create something you are proud of... That has always been my philosophy of business. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I believe you are better off doing nothing.”

—Sir Richard Branson