Webability Trends

The latest edition of the "Webability Trends" Newsletter went out today. This month it's about the different services surrounding the web.

Webability Trends is Azavar's Newsletter, This year it received the award from IAC for Best Consulting Online Newsletter campaign. It's managed by Patrick D'helf, written by Emily Aleisa and designed by Erin Hupp.
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Gift Sites with fun unique products

Here are some trinket sites I have come across that I absolutely adore.
(listed in no particular order)

1. Perpetual Kid
Features all kinds of crazy things!



2. Vat19
Another site with unique gifts including gummybear soap, and something my dad would love to give me....the 63 piece AAA Emergency Roadside Kit - complete with a poncho. Also, have you ever heard of color flame candles?



3. Think Geek
Because really, any site that sells a Fish Training School Kit has to be awesome!



4. Uncommon Goods
This site is a bit less quirky and a bit more modern artsy. The item that caught my eye: The Aerodynamic Senz Umbrella.
I dont know, but I think my fellow Chicago-ians may be curious too!

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WebAward

Its official! My company received the award in the mail for the "2008 Best Design Website". We are all very proud! The main leads in the project were Brian Flanagan and Patrick D'helf.


This was one of my first projects I worked on at Azavar. I cannot tell you how sick of xml sheets and photoshopping faucets I was at the end. But all the hard work was worth it, and the jurors for the Webawards agreed.

Nice work to all that contributed at Azavar and thank-you to the Justyna Team that helped make this possible!

The site: Justyna-collections
The award: WebAward
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Make your own What Not Muppet

Yes that's right, you can be Jim Henson this Christmas. FAO Schwarz has again come up with a "make your own" Christmas present.

Last year they featured a "Make-My-Own-Monster Custom Design Kit" for $249 you could submit your child's monster drawing and they create a stuffed animal out of it.

This year for the low price of 90 dollars you can create a Muppet. They allow you to pick your body, eyes, nose, crazy hair. There's all sorts of adorable outfits such as a labcoat, cheerleader outfit, Broadway Showgirl and even a Bowling shirt. This definitely beats build-a-bear!

Here's the Muppet What Not I designed:


Make your own Here
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Is your user name taken?

Today I found this great site usernamecheck.com! The site has a place to type in your beloved username, upon submit the site searches the popular web2.0 sites and displays which are available on which sites.

This is a very useful tool!

My wishlist for the site:
1. A description about what the site is/does maybe utilizing some sort of AJAX rollover.
2. A Better design
3. A place to type in your email to see if you are in-fact the one who owns the "taken" usernames
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Holiday Card (take two)

I finished the Holiday Card for my company today! One small change and it will sit on the shelf till its time to send it to cheerful clients.
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"a Flickr treat"

Halloween in the Time of Cholera

"The idea being that people back then were probably on a more intimate level with death — and that would have affected the way they celebrated Halloween." wrote Steven Martin.

Creeeepppyyy but very cool!
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