One interesting point I picked up from Paco Underhill’s book Why We Buy is that people don’t just buy goods online, but do research as well. We gather information about products we’re considering so that when we do go to a shop, we have a greater understanding of what we’re paying for before we hand [...]
Time always goes from left to right. Time flows from left to right, at least in the Western world. It progresses in graphs from the axis on the left to the empty space on the right. You click on the right facing button to go to the next month in a calendar and on the [...]
When Mark Boulton published A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web as a PDF book earlier this year, I was intrigued, but not convinced enough to buy it. As convenient as e-books are, to me they’re no match for the reading experience a proper paper book offers. So when he announced a limited print [...]
Last week I launched a redesign of the Impact website, my second since I was elected as Web Editor last May. When I took over, the magazine’s website was the same as it was when it originally came into being in 2006 and badly needed an overhaul. The administration system wasn’t the easiest to use [...]
A couple of weeks ago I moved my web hosting from Media Temple to WebFaction. Just before I did, I signed up for a 30 day free trial with Pingdom, who offer an uptime and latency monitoring service. Having had my websites monitored for a couple of weeks, I can now evaluate the difference between [...]
I must admit that I’ve never been that interested in my family’s history or in the distant relatives that I might have. Simply knowing who my closest relatives are has been more than adequete and I’ve never been particularly curious about my origins. Well, at least until I discovered Geni. It’s essentially a cross between [...]