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Mobile Awesomeness is a design showcase for the best mobile formatted websites. Submissions can be voted on and the gallery can be browsed by category or searched. Mobile Awesomeness also has a great list of links to mobile resources, as well as a blog focusing on mobile innovations and announcements. A must visit site for anyone designing or building smartphone formatted versions of their websites.
Designers have a distorted view of the web. We all have huge monitors and speedy computers and it’s easy to forget that your average web user isn’t always so lucky. Testsize.com is a simple web app that allows you to easily check out how your site will display on monitors of varying size.
To use the site you only have to enter a url, a size, and hit enter. There are shortcuts that allow you to cycle through different sizes, and zoom, but the developers of the app have done a good job of keeping the options minimal and the application simple.
Notable is a web and iPhone based service that allows team members to easily share feedback on all aspects of a website. To start a discussion you create a new project called a capture, or a set to hold multiple captures. Captures can be created from a url, by uploading an image, from an iPhone screenshot or from a Firefox Plugin. After creating a capture your team can comment on the page’s design, code, copy or seo. Users can also output the results to a PDF, email, public or private urls.
When uploading a jpg, or a capture from a url, Notable creates and stores a full page screenshot of your webpage. Multiple users can create transparent boxes with comments on top of the page giving the designer consolidated visual feedback.
Code view is organized by html, css and javascript. You can isolate each source file and highlight lines of code by clicking and filling out a pop-up comment box.
The copy tab removes all graphics and markup from your page and reproduces the page as plain text. Unlike code view, you can highlight individual characters or words for comment.
The SEO tab analyzes how search engines see your page and only displays relevant content. The left column contains a list of keywords and keyword phrases appearing on your page. The right column breaks down the page by metadata, headers, first 100 words used on the page, bold/strong elements, alt tags and outbound links giving you a thorough view of how a search engine sees your site.
Pricing plans for Notable range from free to $119 a month based on the number of users and the total amount of storage needed. Notable is one of the most thorough site markup tools on the market allowing you to give feedback on site design, code, copy and seo. Pair that with the companion iPhone application and you have a tool that no production team should be without.
On Friday we lauched our newest artist website on Cisco’s EOS platform for Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights. The site was designed in house by one of our talented web designers Priyanka Batra (her last before going off to freelance full time) and was managed and built by the talented web teams at Atlantic Records and Warner Music Group.
Beyond a stylish yet clean design, and the great community features our fans have come to expect from our websites, we rolled out some exciting new features centered around concerts. For some time now we’ve wanted revamp the tour experience on our artist’s websites, and JTNL is the first site to include some of these new ideas.
Across the music industry most artist websites do a fine job of alerting you to new tour dates, but very few have given much attention to past shows. Live shows are a huge part of the music experience and we wanted to add features to our web platform to reflect that. The ARCHIVE section of the JTNL site displays past shows and allows fans to interact with those shows in new ways.
You can now rate shows, comment on your experience or upload videos or photos you have taken at the show. Beyond allowing user generated content each show has the official setlist, and on the JTNL site, each show can be downloaded in its entirety for free via Topspin! It’s a great way to experience this amazing live band and share your experiences with other fans.
Check out the new Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights site.
There is a new article on Adobe.com talking about the success of the Connected Car project by Alcatel-Lucent and QNX software. The article focuses on the development platform QNX has created for automobiles using Flash Lite, and mentions the success Atlantic had porting our Fanbase application to the platform. There is also a short quote by yours truly. A great project to be a part of and continued success to QNX.