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Just a couple of minutes ago, I wanted to blog about the Sensitive Floor. Then I realized that the site is a full flash site and I can’t copy any of the text.

So, in fact the problem is not that the site is in full flash. The problem is that they made the text not selectable. This is understandable if you are presenting text which consists of sensitive information and you want to make it harder to copy and paste but this is not the case with this website.

I am sure they would be very happy to blogged about. Anyway, moral of the story is that you should be very careful when presenting text in a full flash site if you want media attention.

I have been thinking on a project that involves some minor information design. I suddenly caught up by the idea of what is a post and what is an article. This reminded me of a blog post of Dave Shea.

I think a blog is news source regardless of what is it about. It may inform you about that the blogger saw this movie and has slept with that person, etc. It’s a news source that can tell you that the blogger person has written a new article, but its not the article itself.

Therefore, Wordpress has the static pages feature. So that the user will be able to both blogs about this and that and then also writes articles, or essays in whatever kind of nature.

Just a couple of cents in a break.

I recently added something to my home page. The addition is a little information on what this web site is about.

I have done that because I noticed the fact that even blogs have to identify their home pages. When users land on to any post or page from search engines like Google, there is a purpose there. The visitor reads the page, gets the information she needs and that’s it. However, if she clicks for the home page, than there must be some additional information where she is and what this place is all about. Briefly, of course.

Do this for your own good. The less confused visitors you have, the more user-friendly you will become (Master Yoda, 2007). Becoming more user-friendly is beneficial for your sites search engine optimization, results in more people bookmarking your site and increase overall quality of experience of your website or blog.