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Practical advice on doing content strategy in conjunction with UX on a new project

(I'd like to bridge the gap between UX design/IA and graphic design by getting us thinking more about the usability of images) Images are used for navigation, content, or ornamentation. Navigation and content image offer clear value...ornamentation less so.

(I'd like to bridge the gap between UX design/IA and graphic design by getting us thinking more about the usability of images) Images are used for navigation, content, or ornamentation. Navigation and content image offer clear value...ornamentation less so.

This is not a ground-breaking site but there are a handful of things they're doing well that demonstrate how much simpler/better our design could be: 1. It's a visually interesting and attractive site without resorting to images sprinkled randomly throughout content. Each images has a home and a purpose. (We've got to move away from treating the web like a print layout where we allow our content folks to intersperse text with images) 2. The text on pages is structured well and utilizes nicely-styled headings and bulleted lists to make it easy to scan/digest lots of content. I also like how the B/W Feature images on the homepage become full color on hover. A nice touch. Also, nice use of white space to avoid overwhelming.

DrupalCon Portland keynote about the intersection of Drupal dev and content strategy. Really good talk.

Some URLs of other carousel plug ins we might consider or use for inspiration: http://codecanyon.net/item/advanced-slider-jquery-xml-slider/full_screen_preview/132618 http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/28/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/34/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/6/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/26/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/7/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/13/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/39/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/68/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/38/ http://coolcarousels.frebsite.nl/c/25/ http://wowslider.com/?gclid=CIDozI7TuL4CFSsV7AodpBcA8w http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-content-scroller-dzs/full_screen_preview/3827946 http://codecanyon.net/item/multipurpose-bookshelf-slider-jquery-plugin/full_screen_preview/1985655 http://codecanyon.net/item/everslider-responsive-jquery-carousel-plugin/full_screen_preview/5132868 http://themes.themepunch.com/?theme=showbizpro_jq

More justification for taking a hard look at content to start a responsive project.

Food for thought on the relationship between content strategy and front end web design

A good article on using the proper language and injecting some intelligent humanity into the text used on website content, forms and pop-up windows.

Insight into user's issues regarding pay vs free content. I thought this was a good article that explained the future direction in which media providers have to look. Not everything can be free.

Some thoughts on choreographing content as it moves around the page to respond to device.

I don't think this would ever fly for UTL but it might be worthwhile to think more along these lines when deciding what content is important to keep.

NCSU 10 Strategies for a successful library site redesign

How to add a lightbox iframe in Drupal without the page template displaying.