Feb 05 2010

7 Tools for better Web Design

Category: Web Development, technology — admin @ 4:30 pm

If you’re into web design/development, SixRevisions.com should be on your rss feed list.  They have a list of 7 tools that can become essential to your web design.  Besides the firebug tools, and your google analytics, these tools can really help to design or redesign a site and get feedback on its success.  Tools such as

1. Heat Maps – visual representation of what users are doing on your site by tracking each individual click a user makes.

2. Online Usability Testing – various companies throughout the web offer this service.

3. A/B Testing – do you use the Google Web Optimizer? Why not?

4. Crowdsourcing – take A/B Testing to the next level.

5. Internal Search Data – Google Analytics Site Search tool.

6. Monitoring Services – Yet another Google tool.

7. Blogs – I know you’ve got one, get some feedback using it.

are mentioned in this article.  One thing that is evident, Google has a lot of tools out there to help us website creators.

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Oct 23 2008

Gmail Canned Responses

Category: technology — admin @ 6:09 pm

Canned Responses. A solution for the lazy person writing emails, or just something simple to make life a tiny bit easier.  A canned response is basically some text that you use often. Like a phrase or a common response that you use to respond to certain emails.  Gmail is simply allowing you to save these types of responses and have them for later use.  This seems like a pretty neat feature. I can imagine many of you tech support specialists could most definitely use this feature. On one hand, I could use it when sending out responses to my resume being found by recruiters that want to know salary requirements, whether I’m still in the market, etc. On the other hand, it seems like its a lazy person’s solution to replying to certain emails. Don’t get me wrong though, I know there are plenty people out there that are severely busy and barely even have time to read emails let alone reply with the same tiresome comment. Would any of you out there use this feature? If so for what? Check out the full article

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