Syndicated feeds in form of RSS or Atom is the hot way of getting news from around the world delivered instantly and dynamically to your desktop. Previously a user could only do so by registering for an e-mail newsletter. Believe it or not some people don’t have a news aggregator installed. They might not even [...]
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Last week Max Kiesler wrote “Round-up of 30 AJAX tutorials” where he included our article “Live search explained”. Max’s post has been mentioned everywhere on the internet, which also means that our blog gets visited a lot. Ajaxian.com (that has previously driven a lot of traffic at us) has also mentioned his AJAX round-up.
If you are a frequent reader and take a look at the front page sometimes, you might have noticed that we updated the layout quite a bit. The new layout is the first of many steps we will take to make the life easier for blog readers.
In the spirit of sharing we now once again have a full month worth of statistics boiled down to a few easy-to-read paragraphs with the highlights of last months stories and private data on our readers – all spiced up with nice graphics courtesy of Google Analytics :)
I’m a big fan of Steve Krug and especially the “Don’t make me think” mantra (because most people actually get the point). In his presentation at the Boston-IA chapter from Jan 26, this blog suddently shows up.
Steve Krug refers to “25% of all web users are disabled”. Steve Krug. I’m amazed!
If you have tried to read our blog within the last half hour you might have gotten a “Permission denied” error. This was due to a server move that should have gone smoothly – but as it sometimes happens with server moves things go wrong. But after a bit of hacking it now seems to [...]
January is so far the most visited month. This post shows just what happens when that monster story you have been writing on hits your front page and gets noticed around the globe. Read on for the full statistics for justaddwater.dk / January 2006.
Via Del.icio.us popular list I found this quote from an IBM Linux commercial
Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom
but sharing data is the first step toward community
To follow up on Thomas’ post from yesterday about how to improve usability on out-of-the-box wordpress blog, we decided to prioritize the 23 20 point list that we’ll work on. (Three items are already done since we started the list).
We prioritize improvements so that we get the low hanging fruit done right away.
Many blogs today use common blogging software like WordPress or Movable Type. Tools like these are very easy to set up and you will probably get your blog up and running with the default design within 10-15 minutes. This speed comes at a price though… Very bad usability. Help us fix the birth defects.
We just started using MeasureMap and have added it to this blog after Jared Spool recommended it in a comment. Recently I have looked for better ways to display incoming links (referring URLs), Google Analytics can but it’s a tedious process. The WordPress Dashboard can only show some of the incoming links. I must say [...]
In the previous “Mullet-style blog layout and complete archive page” we had a look on the Mullet-style blog page that makes more content available on the fronpage, and also argued for replacing monthly archives with a single archive page.Danish “brugervenligeblogs.dk” pointed me to a research document from July 2005: Blog Mainstream Market Penetration Likely Limited [...]
Better late then never… In the spirit of sharing here is our statistics for December 2005. We have as usual filtered out our own hits, so these numbers should show only “real” readers. Enjoy :) RSS/Atom We still get about a quarter of our hits from news feed readers (RSS, Atom, etc.). The issue with [...]
We use Google Analytics as a stat tool on justaddwater.dk, and we’re overall satisfied with it. Unfortunately, one crucial feature is hidden and very hard to find. Here is how you find referring URLs and not only the referring websites.
Hi and welcome back in 2006. As you might have noticed, we’ve been a little lacy over the holidays – but not to worry… We’ll be back in force ;) During the Christmas holiday we have canceled the automatic bookmark-posting-engine since it unfortunately seemed more like spam than like the good quality content we had [...]
I’ve been a bit irritated with WordPress for a while now (our blogging software for justaddwarer.dk). For some reason most of our trackbacks from other blogs seem to use ugly styled permalinks. But I found a solution…
We have been online with our Blog for little over a month now. This means that for the first time we now have a full month worth of log files. Since we love sharing we of cause also want to let you know the status of our statistics.
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.
Danish usability event coming up next week.
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 [...]
Ok, let’s get right on it. This weblog is meant to deal with all aspects of usability. Here we will write about new and interesting technologies that hopefully will make usability easier to implement into your software or website. We will offer you our best tips and tricks and from time to time take up [...]
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