Archive for November, 2005
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
With the release of Firefox 1.5, I thought it’s time to make a round up on the tools and plugins that makes my everyday work faster, more efficient. Here are some of my favorite tools for Firefox and a few for Internet Explorer.
Posted in AJAX, CSS, JavaScript, Links, Web Standards | 5 Comments »
Monday, November 28th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Webstandards evangelist Molly Holzschlag wrote a brisk open letter to the Disney Store after they recently dumped their webstandards compliant site and introduced table-based layouts, spacer gifs, <font>-tags and lots of style attributes.
Posted in CSS, Usability, Web Standards | Comments Off on Disney Store moved away from webstandards
Saturday, November 26th, 2005 by Thomas Watson Steen
Google opens free internet cafe in London’s Heathrow Airport. But there is of cause a catch that you should be aware of.
Posted in Usability | 4 Comments »
Saturday, November 26th, 2005 by Thomas Watson Steen
Each year in Denmark the Danish government awards the best public sector websites. The competition is called “Best på Nettet” and this year the focus has especialy been on usability.
Posted in Usability, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 25th, 2005 by Thomas Watson Steen
Just a quick note on Google and their Analytics tool. This is an update in relate to a previous post in this Blog named “Google Analytics vs. Usability”.
Posted in Usability, Web Statistics | Comments Off on Google Analytics status
Thursday, November 24th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Also day two had very interesting presentations. Here’s more about Rolf Molich (DialogDesign) and Benjamin Gundgaard, CustomerSense.
Posted in Usability | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 by Thomas Watson Steen
The second and final day of the Danish usability conference. Here I cover the highlights of Eric Reiss’ presentation like for example how he cut him self with a kitchen knife while showing us how to slice mushrooms on a Steinway Piano.
Posted in justaddwater.dk, Usability | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Thomas Watson Steen
Google Analytics – The website statistics service provided by Google free of charge have come to stir up the waters in the statistics business. Here I take a further look into some of the problems that still exists with this beta.
Posted in Usability, Web Statistics | 5 Comments »
Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Jakob Nielsen, web banking experience and news on danish usability conference “usability dagene 05”
Posted in Blogging, Usability, Web Standards | 6 Comments »
Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
ASP.Net framework has severe problems producing HTML that follows webstandards. This is the first article of two where I take a closer look
Posted in Code, CSS, Web Standards | 2 Comments »
Friday, November 18th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Danish usability event coming up next week.
Posted in justaddwater.dk, Usability | Comments Off on On our way to Danish usability conference
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Recently the CSS hackers at Position is Everything posted an indepth article “In search of the one true layout“. After a couple of reads, it seems that this is the future way of making 3-column page layout. In fact, it can be used for any number of columns. Eric Meyer thinks this is so good […]
Posted in CSS, Web Standards | Comments Off on 3 column CSS layout equal height solved
Monday, November 14th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
We just signed up for testing the new Google Analytics statistics software. It gives us an idea of who is browsing our website. On the humorous side, the signup process is missing something. It seems that the license agreement is not found. Hilarious. Of course I accepted (but I’m still wondering what that means). We’re […]
Posted in justaddwater.dk, Usability, Web Standards, Web Statistics | 1 Comment »
Sunday, November 13th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Firefox browser gets some more usability brush-up. Once again, usability is an important piece of quality assurance for mainstream products.
Posted in Usability | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 11th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Danish companies are slowly picking up the trend: Blogging as a tool to communicate with customers. However, the vast majority of Danish blogs are personal blogs.
Posted in Blogging, Links | 5 Comments »
Friday, November 11th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Jensen Harris (working on Office 12) has written about using labels to aid the understanding of icons. Part of the user experience effort around Outlook 98 was improving the menu and toolbar structure. One of the problems noticed again and again among non-expert users was that people didn’t use the toolbar at all! With the […]
Posted in Usability | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen
Jesse Ruderman has a tool for live-editing JavaScript and DOM on any webpage. I have found it very useful and indispensable for rapid JavaScript development, bug finding in unknown code. Couple of days ago I asked Jesse to consider some improvements, which he now incorporated. I really recommend this tool, especially the ability to investigate […]
Posted in JavaScript | 1 Comment »