Mike McCue Quotes

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat.

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

There is room and time for multiple tracks to flesh out in the web space. I enjoy this format.

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in it and not distract the user from using the product they're trying to sell.

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.

Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet.

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.

Some millennials have completely stopped watching TV. So for them, we've created special digital content for handheld devices only. We've paid close attention to how to present online content effectively. We try to catch their attention within the first five seconds - otherwise, they click onto a different content.

My heart has always been in programming and marketing.

My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control.

I design for social media. My customer reads blogs, is on social media, so I design with contrast in mind. An all-black shirt looks good on the shelf but not online.