Archive for November, 2005

Web developer’s collection of browser tools

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.

Disney Store moved away from webstandards

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.

Google have set up usability testing lab

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.

Public Sector Usability Awards

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.

Google Analytics status

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”.

“Usability dagene 05″ day 2 roundup part 2

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.

“Usability dagene 05” day 2 roundup part 1

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.

Google Analytics vs. Usability

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.

“Usability dagene 05” day 1 roundup

Monday, November 21st, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jakob Nielsen, web banking experience and news on danish usability conference “usability dagene 05”

ASP.Net 1.1 and web standards support

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

On our way to Danish usability conference

Friday, November 18th, 2005 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Danish usability event coming up next week.

3 column CSS layout equal height solved

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 […]

Just added Google Analytics as tracker tool

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 […]

Firefox usability work

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.

Weblogs in Denmark

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.

The importance of labels: Usability work at microsoft

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 […]

JavaScript Shell: Useful tool for editing DOM and JavaScript

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 […]