Author: mccormicky

Why Do Splash Pages Still Exist?

What’s Wrong With The Splash Page?
Mainly, that ridiculous enter prompt. By going to the site we have already decided to enter the site. Requiring your site visitors to click on an image in order to get to see something is just a waste of their time. Can’t you just assume your site visitors want to see stuff and that is why they have chosen to visit the site? What would be the harm in showing them something without requiring them to perform another action in order to see it? When you open a shop’s front door expecting to see the interior do you think it would it bug you to find instead a door marked enter?

Random Things of Possible Interest to a Few People

This might be my first link round up. I can see the appeal of a link round up. But I prefer to rattle on endlessly about some boring subject until your eyes cross.

If you sell things online:
Don’t “give your customers a reason not to buy“.

NYC Parties
See pictures of the parties you couldn’t go to because you are too insert appropriate adjective here to go out anymore.

This is very name droppy of me
I met this actress when her mom started dating the middle son of my grandmother’s late husband. She was 16 at the time I think. The actress, not her mom. That would have been strange.

15 Books You Must Read in 2010
http://www.good.is/post/the-15-books-you-must-read-in-2010/. If you don’t read these books you will not have read them, then where will you be?

Never Listen to Electric Guitar

What do you do with a bit of free time? Make another Photoshop brush, of course. This download contains The Rays of Excellence, 3 Bad Stars and 1 man with an electric guitar and a mic at his feet (Photoshop CS3). I’ve also included a smaller,horizontally flipped of the man/guitar/mic brush. And the download is free as always, my friends.

Download: [download id=”11″]