My design team and I have been experimenting with an in-window subscription pop-up for ScottHYoung.com. This is where an in-window display (like the image above) asks if you’d like to join a free newsletter. They have been increasingly popular on the blogosphere, arguably because they work well–they turn casual visitors into subscribers. I was reluctant […]
Ask the Readers: Advice for Learning a Foreign Language
I recently got accepted into an international exchange program through my university. It seems I’ll be living in Montpellier, France, for one year starting in early September. There’s only one problem: I don’t speak French. I’ve taken some basic classes, but I’m far from fluent. I understand many of my readers are multilingual, so I […]






