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Why the Kindle Should be Free (or Some Other e-Reader)

April 22, 2009 By Brent Chaters Leave a Comment

When Amazon launched the Kindle they missed a great opportunity. It’s not like they need it, but they should have made the Kindle FREE. The e-book reader market is still a developing market, but we’ve seen that whoever is king early on is often hard to knock down once they are on top. Amazon could […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: amazon, amazon store, book, book reader, books, books written, digital books, kindle, kindle free, market, news papers, print, profit, reader, reader market, readers, reducing costs, section book

Which Came First Content or Navigation?

April 4, 2009 By Brent Chaters 2 Comments

Actually this post should probably be titled “Which is More Important Content or Navigation?” The term “content is king” has been around for at least as long as I have been involved in web design which is quite some time. I have heard this saying repeated over and over. However in the other corner you have the usability group usually lead by Jakob Nielsen which leads me to the question; after your sites aesthetics which is more important to a users experience content or navigation?

Filed Under: CSS, Navigation Tagged With: amazon, amazon recommends, content, content navigation, important content, information architecture, Navigation, page, product, reassuring, SEO, site search, supporting content, traffic, user, web design

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