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As a passionate fan of mindmapping I've grown accustomed to mindmaps as a data visualization tool. Mindmap user interfaces allow you to organize your ideas into hierarchical bundles of 6-7 concepts in collapsible groups and then drill down in a logical relationship tree. This is very close to how a human brain works.

Anybody who ever filled in time sheets knows what a pain it can be. Worse, any ticket based time tracking implies that you should be doing productive work at all times. We all know that's not true...

Today I saw the following message in my Twitter timeline...

Views 2 has undergone significant improvements to it's UI over Views 1. But even for moderately experienced Drupal users it can still be a bit overwhelming. When I need to show the edit views form to a customer who just wants to tweak the header or footer text on a view, that's just plain wrong.

When I stumble upon an interesting graphical webdesign, I always feel sorry that I can't store a screenshot in a structured accessible way for future reference. Bookmarks just don't really work when you want to store only part of a website or if there are several interesting bits in a design.

Many people underestimate at first the difficulty of writing good copy for their site. But for a lot of web development projects late delivery of copy is the main reason for project delays. This article is an inlead to an article series in which I will walk through the 10 most used page types on biotech websites (see our whitepaper on biotech web development).