Share This111.9:The average number of cookies you pick up in 1 minute of surfing
I stumbled across the Cookie Collective and their cookie browser extension (different approach to ours) earlier in the week. They’ve just published this infographic.
Wee Experiment: Gavin Walker Challenge
We’ve just recently put together a very quick website for Gavin Walker, Senior Broadcast Journalist with the BBC. Nothing special at the moment (and waiting for more content as usual!) – should be updated over the next few days.
More information to follow here about the nature of the experiment [...]
Online Surveys: 4 tips on how to waste a budget
Online surveys have become one of the must-have tools for any marketer working to increase conversion rates or improve user experience. As brilliantly noted by Avinash Kaushik: while traditional analytics are extremely good at answering ‘What is going on?’, online surveys (as a part of user voice/feedback tactic) are responsible for answering ‘why is it happening?’ (not a quote, just a personal interpretation).
I’ve stumbled upon a survey highlighting 4 issues I had thought were easy to avoid for everybody. Perhaps the pitfalls are not so obvious…
LINK: Tinker with WordPress themes
At Attacat we like Wordpress. It’s good to have a bit of knowledge as to how the themes work so that you can make tiny tweaks if required, and that’s where the chaps at Yoast have helped out by providing a cool infographic that explains the mains ‘chunks’ of a Wordpress theme.
Video for Business: New Media Breakfast in Glasgow & Edinburgh
This morning’s New Media Breakfast was kicked off by Paul Levinson over video phone from the US. Paul is the best selling author of New New Media, and he had recorded this piece specially for the breakfast here in Edinburgh and last month in Glasgow. His key points:
easier than ever to get [...]
Video SEO: Why & how you should do it
The latest New Media Breakfast covered the topic of Video for Business. As is becoming customary, I was invited to do a short slot on the search engine optimisation (SEO) aspects of the topic. Here’s what I talked about in relation to SEO & video, both in Glasgow last month and [...]
User Testing: Hard Won Experience
Reading tips and guides from others can really help with getting to grips with a new process. The most valuable insights, however, come from doing specific tasks hundreds of times, making thousands of mistakes and learning from them. That’s what people usually call “experience”!
Full House @ Attacat: 3 new recruits join the team!
3 new recruits, office getting too small!
Google TV: Sit back and relax
I’ve looked forward to the convergence of the web and TV for a long time (though I’m not looking forward to the arguments over who gets the remote!)
Google TV seems to be the boldest play to date in this direction and as their new “Optimising for Google TV guidelines” [...]
Checklist – New Site Launch: the basics
So then, you’ve decided it’s time to take the plunge & get a new website. The old one wasn’t working for you (this assumes you’ve been testing and making improvements over the years - quite often spending money on website testing is going to give you better bang for your buck than a full re-design).
Before you head off think about a [...]
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