Smashing Magazine shares 10 not-so-great-to-hear truths about corporate websites. Company owners, take note, and take five minutes to read this post- your web guy will thank you.

Via Smashing Magazine.

Via Rosscott, Inc.

This isn’t news to anyone, but I was trying to explain this to a client the other day and I couldn’t find the link. So, well, this one’s for me.

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content:
Summary: Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.

I just did a little tinkering here at the office, and it works perfectly. View the instructions here- your two minutes of effort will be well spent, getting rid of Entourage’s poorly designed notification bubble.