Earlier this week, I ran a poll on what people like to do on Facebook. It’s part of my research on online communities and what makes them so attractive to people. This poll asked the question: “What do you do the most [on Facebook]?” Voters could choose more than one activity, or add their own. The poll received 45 unique visitors and 84 votes. My visitor base was mainly adults with some technical savvy.
Here are the results:
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I got an email this morning from a former Web design student of mine. He was asking for a copy of a document I used to have on my previous design Web site and is long gone. Fortunately, I still have it in my files. And I’ve updated it and posted it here.
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microsoft vs. apple vs. adobe vs. yahoo 1996
I posted on Saturday about the
evolution of my old site, dawnsbrain.com. I thought it would be fun today to compare four sites that been around about as long as the Web itself. The
Web Archive begins in 1996. I took a sample of each site roughly every two years. Please forgive any missing images; the archive doesn’t always get every piece.
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Evolution
My original business name was Dawn’s Brain Design, and my Web site for it was dawnsbrain.com. I kept a teaching blog there since 2006, when I started teaching full time. I thought it would be fun to take a look at how dawnsbrain.com evolved since 2000 when I began it.
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For years, I have worked with blogging software like WordPress and shopping cart software like X-Cart. For much of that time I have been intimidated by the prospect of developing an online community. They seem to be an order of magnitude more complex than anything I’ve worked with before. That has changed.
I spent the earlier part of this past week at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. I learned many things there, and got some great visual introductions to 3D motion graphics. But the most paradigm-shifting (please forgive me the cliche) experience I had was a 3-hour seminar on Wednesday.
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