Here’s some more inspirational links to look at (click headline or “Read more” to see full list):
News/Current Affairs
http://www.newsweek.com/
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/
http://www.time.com/time/
http://www.slate.com/
http://www.salon.com/index.html
Business
http://www.inc.com/
http://www.businessweek.com/
http://www.realtor.org/rmohome.nsf/pages/rmohome
http://creditunionmagazine.com/
http://www.kiplinger.com/
NBC’s Nightly News has an online video page with a nice, wide screen player and thumbnail images that rotate as new video is loaded. Also, note the expandable banner on the page and commercial video that causes an associated banner to pop-up as it plays. Below the fold, they’ve included many links to other content. This may be for search purposes.
Study: Online Privacy Concerns Increase
NEW YORK (AP) — Privacy concerns stemming from online shopping rose in 2007, a new study finds, as the loss or theft of credit card information and other personal data soared to unprecedented levels.
Sixty-one percent of adult Americans said they were very or extremely concerned about the privacy of personal information when buying online, an increase from 47 percent in 2006. Before last year, that figure had largely been dropping since 2001.
People who do not shop online tend to be more worried, as are newer Internet users, regardless of whether they buy things on the Internet, according to the survey from the University of Southern California’s Center for the Digital Future. Read the rest of this entry »
. Click on “free preview” for any of these products. Click here.
Chris found this promo campaign for Aquafresh. Very cool. Click here.
This campaign for Dell could work well for PM (different people presenting different offers). Click here.
1. Check out the the position of nav and it’s rollover effect. Click here.
2. Take a look at nav, flash banner and background image on the sides. Click here.
3. The flash hort. scroll is a great way to highlight the affilaite offers on the home page. Click here.
4. Similar to HP, Target has a robust drop-down menu. Also, rollover one of the images and click on “Quick info”. This is a great way to preview a product on the Portal or even mod-sites. Click here.
5. Nice flash banner to highlight different products, categories, or offers. Click here.
6. I like the layout of elements on this home page. Click here.
Google has rolled out a new option in its Labs-based experimental search program which allows you to rank and re-order search results. The new experiment is reportedly showing up for select users only, but the help page says that the goal is to allow you to “influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results.”
The new options appear as a series of buttons on the search results page which allow you to star a page, reorder results and even add a URL to a site you think is relevant. Next to each page link there’s an up arrow and an “x” button for ranking and rearranging the results, and any changes you make will be remembered the next time you search those keywords.
Vignette.com has a very nice header and flash player main offer. The integration of a movie player to the right of the flash player can be a good enhancement for our home page. We’ve also talked about moving the nav below the player, similar to hp.com. Read this post about the nav concept.
Here is an example from Walmart.com that displays a nice aggregate page for their support page. They also offer a “Top 5 Help Topics” section.
Yahoo.com is another example.
