Author Archive for Marcus
There’s something great about having a clean desk. It makes people feel more comfortable when they’re around you in the office and it makes working easier with fewer distractions. How to do it? LifeClever has 10 tips. As usual, here are the titles, visit LifeClever for the full monty:
Use a system to manage paper
Banish Post-it […]
Top Five Marketing Mistakes for Entrepreneurs
0 Comments Published by marcus August 17th, 2006 in lists, business, marketingWorkHappy (an excellent entrepreneur blog) has this exclusive from Seth Godin to promote his new book Small is the New Big. Here are the summaries. For the full list, see WorkHappy.
Expecting gratitude in exchange for having done something that was hard.
Spending money as a substitute for doing something great.
Not realizing that it’s your company, and […]
7 Habits For Junior Employees
0 Comments Published by marcus July 14th, 2006 in lists, learning, design, careersThe actual list calls this a list for junior designers, however I’d argue that most of these suggestions are useful for anyone starting a new career. Here are they are:
Work quickly, produce a lot
Attend to details
Be versatile
Make an effort to learn
Anticipate problems
Set goals
Display a positive attitude
Click any of them to go to LifeClever and […]
10 tips on how to read any book in 7 days (or less)
1 Comment Published by marcus July 12th, 2006 in lists, learning, readingEric Allam has a great list with a 10 ways to read a book in a week. I won’t quote his list here, but I’ll add my suggestion for a number 11 (which is also in the comments on his blog):
I’d also add listening to audiobooks to this list. I’ve found that if I add […]
Om Malik lists his top ten Mac apps. Sometime soon we’ll do ours.
The “largest list of oxymorons” ever compiled. The first five are:
5. Dodge Ram
4. Work Party
3. Jumbo Shrimp
2. Healthy Tan
1. Microsoft Works
The ten best designed blogs according to Elliot Back. Definitely some nice looking sites in there. It’s interesting that four of the ten have 3 columns in their layout and two have only one column, making the two column layout a minority.
The 100 most powerful game developers based on games sold in the United Kingdom 2005. Check out the full article.
Here are a bunch of resources to help you learn Ruby on Rails.
Top 10 CSS Tutorials
0 Comments Published by marcus April 17th, 2006 in lists, software, computers, designCameron Olthuis has posted a great list (with images and descriptions) of the top 10 CSS tutorials. Most of these are newer techniques many of them pretty slick, check them out if you haven’t already.
Hoverbox Image Gallery
CSS Bar Graphs
CSS Vertical Menus
Listamatic
Floatutorial
Rounded Corners
40 CSS Layouts
CSS Photo Gallery
CSS Drop Shadows
Style Sheet Switcher







