Archive for the 'website' Category

New Feeds: November

Friday, November 9th, 2007

My last feed update was in September. Since then I’ve discovered a few new gems. If you like finding new feeds you might find some here you like.
Free Speculative Fiction - http://www.freesfonline.de/rssfeed.xml
Speculative Fiction, a superset of science fiction, is a latent passion of mine. When my Xbox died I spent a lot of time reading [...]

A Broken Billboard

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Steve Krug’s fantastic introduction to web usability, Don’t Make Me Think, begins by presenting two views of website content:
1. The Website is a novel - It is carefully designed to be read and understood completely. This is how the website builder thinks.
2. The Website is a billboard - It will be glanced at quickly, stripped of the required information, [...]

Your hitcounter is so Web 1.0

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

One of the first things I did when I made my first website was to add a hit counter to the bottom of every page. Do you remember seeing those? They were little tags that said: This page has been viewed 000210 times since January 11, 1994. Every time you went to the page or [...]

Projects finished in August

Monday, August 27th, 2007

August was a busy month for building new sites. Even better, it was a busy month for finishing sites. As any software developer will tell you, you can add a hundred features to a product but the most important one of all is the last one.

New feeds: August

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I think I'll start doing a semi regular update on new feeds I've added to my reader. I love discovering new cool things so maybe you will too.
Webcomics
KittyBot - http://www.kitty-bot.com/rss.phpThe title should be all you need. Kitties? Bots? Sign me up. It's actually much better than that even. Gorgeous artwork, engaging writing, and some really [...]

Creating a page that wants to be read, the human element

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I just now had a bit of a what I call a "user moment". It's one of those times where my refined, logical understanding of technology and design breaks down and I see things the way an ordinary, "unskilled", user would. It can be a bit unsettling.
Clicking through Digg I saw an article titled: [...]

I love you, I hate you

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Edit: I decided to update these with some qualification. Maybe that will make me sound like less of a douche.Some online services I love and use:Freshbooks - Great interface. Frequent updates. It does a lot for free but they have a solid business model so I feel like I can depend on them down the [...]