QBN is proud to present, QBN Sessions. A design lecture with an incredible lineup at LA’s most breathtaking venue imaginable. A full day of creative inspiration and discussion followed by cocktails and music with sensational views of the city lights below.

In one way or another every website out-there is using some sort of structure. Since it's good to have something to start with when you are building that great new website/service, I recommend grabbing some CSS templates from here.

They will make your life easier, and if that is not enough here are some more layouts that will surely make your web designing more joyful.

Yesterday at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. New version will be activated on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks.


Redesigned reporting interface for greater customization and collaboration.

Although the admin settings and the actual data collected are not changing, this update is a good improvement over the last version. Maybe now more and more bloggers will switch to google from Mint. I personally use both, they have their advantages and disadvantages.

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[tags]Google, google analytics, design[/tags]

The rise of ‘web 2.0′ has brought with it a slew of new interaction styles and concepts, most of which give the web some magical powers it never had before, making it a significantly more powerful platform for application development. But RSS, tagging, drag-and-drop, slide transitions, and many other new paradigms are unfamiliar to web audiences, who have been trained for years that the web has severely limited capabilities compared with the desktop.

So how do we teach our users to use all these fancy new gadgets? We do it through the magic of instructive design. Let’s take a look at how some simple design elements can be used to communicate the value of these new interactions and get our users moving forward quickly.

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In October MTV launched an all flash site. Now that site is history as MTV decided to go with a simpler all html design. It was a lot simpler to browse videos in previous version. And personally I thought that design appealed to MTV more.



Visit MTV.com to check out new site.