Tuesday, December 14, 2010
An efficient and user-friendly online shopping cart is an essential tool for any business or website owner involved in e-commerce product sales. But with so many online shopping carts available, it can be hard to decide which cart application will be up to the task at hand. To begin with, there is the issue of [...]
Friday, December 10, 2010
Writing that recent post on trends in tech got me thinking about where trends and new ideas come from. If you wanted to be the creator of the next big thing, what kind of thinking would help you figure out what the next big thing might be? Plain old creative thinking is important, of course. [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Fashionable Web Forms: Traps and Tips has UX advice from a pro on how to make forms work better. Why Wired Loves the Ladies. That slide of the last 32 Wired covers tells the story with such impact no other comment is necessary. Find Websites that are Copying Your Content. Great tips for tools. Mozilla [...]
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
I know the look on your face. There is no use trying to hide it. You are thinking that the three words “Linux”, “file”, and “permissions” cannot possibly be associated with the word “fun”. Many system administrators and web developers have spent sleepless nights trying to figure out which permissions they had wrong that caused [...]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
I saw a movie made using xtranormal.com and couldn’t resist trying it out myself. Registration was easy. The free options are few. If you wanted to turn out something really powerful, you’d have to pay to do it. I did make a free movie just for fun. It was easy to do. Here’s my first [...]
Step 1: Scroll through the refreshingly charming post about the live tracking and analytics tool Woopra from Maya’s Amalgam–Discovering Woopra. Step 2: Come back here to learn more about Woopra, because after you complete step 1, you will want to know more. This is part two of a three part series on web metrics tools. [...]
This is the first in a series about analytics tools. In following weeks I’ll also examine Woopra and Post Rank Analytics. We’ll start off this look into the hows and whys of analytics with a look at Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tracking tool that will help you understand how many people visit [...]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tim Berners-Lee on TED Talks in February 2010. The video is only 5 minutes long. Seems particularly appropriate the day after the article about Twitterscapes.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Transcripts on the Web: Getting people to your podcasts and videos at uiAccess provides valuable resources for creating transcripts of audio and video. My (current) opinions on HTML5 from Dori Smith is a reflection on the writhing mass of eels known as HTML5 and what has happened in that arena in the last few days. [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
It can. Are you looking for a way for Twitter to locate mutual friends or people who know people you know? I love this feature on Facebook and often find BlogHers or long-lost classmates based on the application’s suggestions as to people I may know because they know people I know. People who know people. [...]
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