Simplify your business
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Get your mum to test it

Monday, 4 August 2008  

Here’s some great advice on how to cheaply but effectively test a website for usability:

I’ve used a subtle variation of this on a number of occasions, and I can tell you that it really works.


Yellowpages search still sucks

Monday, 14 July 2008  

Here’s why the yellowpages search still sucks from the point of view of those who matter: their users.

Try searching for “Travel Inn Hotel in “Carlton Victoria” and you’ll get 10 results, all for the same Carlton Inn Hotel, situated on the corner of Grattan & Drummond Streets:

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Our top 40 local searches

Monday, 23 June 2008  

A few months ago I wrote about how most of our visitors come here via a Google search. A small percentage of those even use the search box on the top-right, once they get here.

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Australian dictionary for Firefox

Monday, 26 May 2008  

As most of you Firefox users are probably aware, the latest version has a built-in spell checker which is really useful in web forms. But if you prefer a proper spell checker (rather than the default American one), you should download the Australian Dictionary extension from Cameron Roy instead.


Saving web pages as images

Monday, 5 May 2008  

Sample screengrab of entire web page

Recently, I needed to write some documentation for a web application and I needed a way to create screenshots of web pages which are longer than one screen.

While there are several shareware applications which can do this, I stumbled on a Firefox extension which does exactly this in such a simple and elegant way.

Screengrab allows you to grab a screenshot with a simple right-click of a mouse. You can grab the complete page, visible portion or your own custom selection, and copy it to your clipboard or save it as an image file.


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