Archive | Design

BlackVoices’ Relaunches

3. December 2007

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Today AOL relaunched BlackVoices. While the clean look of the site is appeasing the biggest and most notable change is the welcoming community that the site now offers readers. For those of you who are like me and like to comment on articles but not so much in forums you will be happy [...]

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Where Are The Black Web Professionals?

18. October 2007

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Young and middle-aged white men are designing the modern Web. It’s a rather obvious claim which can be supported by the results from the 2007 Web Design Survey results from A List Apart (ALA). According to ALA, “the results represent the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced [...]

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BET.com Cleans Up its Act

1. October 2007

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BET.com recently redesigned their site, if you swing over there you will be please to see that the content is organized so much better then before and thus easier to read. Editorial and news on the site is presented in blogs rather then articles on static web pages powered by overly complex Content [...]

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AllHipHop + Social Networking = HipHop’s Biggest Social Network?

4. September 2007

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Visually…Very nice, I was totally impressed and eager to explore the site more when I just happen to login one day a few months ago. Overall content was presented effectively (I didn’t expect anything less, they have insightful editorials, reviews, and features); a commerce element (powerd by Amazon) was intergrated into the site seamlessly; [...]

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Radio One & TV One try their hand at online communities

28. August 2007

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Take a look for yourself… Radio One TV One I really don’t know what to say about this one. Don’t get me wrong, Radio One’s corporate site is much better then it was but honestly I was just expecting much more from this “Urban Media Specialist.” TV One, on the other hand, is much better then its [...]

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So Fresh and So Clean…

20. August 2007

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I must say I love EbonyJet.com the design is so clean and the approach to publish the publications content in a blog format versus the typical online magazine format is refreshing, and lets not forget this site is not even officially launched yet! Ebony and Jet has definitely brought their ‘A’ game. This [...]

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BET’s New Broadband Video Player

17. August 2007

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I recently came across BET’s new broadband video player called BET On Blast and was very impressed with the presentation of the video content. The UI as a whole is slick. Even the ads featured here flow seamlessly into the design and look as if they belong there, this can be hard for [...]

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BlackEnterprise.com Redesign

16. August 2007

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This is kind of late but you will have to excuse me, I have a lot of catching up to do. By now many of you have already seen the new BlackEnterprise.com and formed your impressions of it. I decided to make this my first post because I keep getting emails for them [...]

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