Moral of the story: Retrofitting can be tricky

(Yes, it’s no more ironic than rain on your wedding day…but couldn’t resist the rare triple pun.)

Awesome alliteration and appropriate abstract allegorical animation.

(by Neill Cameron, check out all 26 here)

‘Irregardless’, this is tough to argue with…

Judging books by their covers has a bad rap — a cursory look at the difference between the British and American book jackets for the same novel, by The Millions.

An emerging Godfather of web forms, Luke W, with a theory on achieving higher completion rates with your website’s Contact Form. A plausible idea that a free flowing (and less boring) sign up form could result in a 25% to 40% increase in completion rate.

While other enhancements might have contributed to this particular spike, the idea is worth a shot if compatible with the nature of your website. (Fun works for certain content and industries, but perhaps not for your average web banking portal or CIA recruiting site).

More details here.

PS. Another admirably easy ’sign up’ worth checking out is the robotic-ally efficient blog platform: Posterous.