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# Thursday, September 20, 2007

An article located at http://etech.eweek.com/content/web_technology/top_web_developer_mistakes.html makes really good reading.  It's a slide show, but below is a condensed list of what the article says!

My additional comments are in dark blue, you got any?

1) Click, Click, Click - This is great, someone is at your site and they're ready to make a purchase. Here they go; one click, two clicks, three clicks, just one more! And.... they're gone. Maybe if they could get to where they wanted to go right away you would have made a sale. (I disagree slightly in that as long as the navigation is logical and correct then it should not matter to the user how many clicks...)

2) Just Click on the Magic Compass - It's great that new web technologies make it possible to add lots of cool new navigation and interaction techniques. But don't put access to important features and content behind a strange graphic or icon. People know how links work on web pages. Some icons might as well be in elvish.

3) Don't be too Graphic - The Following Web Content Contains Massive Image Files and Graphics That May not Be Suitable For Visitors With Anything But the Fastest Possible Internet Connections. Toning Down the Giant Graphics Files Is Advised For Site Developers. (This is becoming an increasing problem given that mobile internet is really taking off!)

4) Registry of Lost Web Sites - The legend of the Invisible Web Site. Unseen by search engines, web users or anyone who might actually use the services of the website. It uses the magic of enforced site registration to keep its valuable content hidden from all who might want to use it, especially those who want to give the owners of the site some business.

5) Sticking to the Script - Scripting languages are so useful. They make it possible to do lots of cool things in web design. Click this link for an example. Mmm, getting a script error. If only there was some other way to link to content, you know like an HTML link. Don't use scripting where HTML will work just fine.

6) Too Rich - Animation is great, when it comes to Saturday morning cartoons. On the web too many animations, Flashy graphics, spinning graphs and windows popping in your face is sort of like a sign saying, "Stay away". (100% agree)

7) Welcome To Our Site "image placeholder" - Here's a great idea for the budding web site and application developer. There's this technology that makes it possible to display information to visitors and users. It's called Text! And unlike images and animations used where text would work just as well, text will always show up.

8) What's Your Color Scheme? - Whoa, trippy man. I love the way the orange text looks on that purple background. Dude, that financial firm is just going to love this site design. Or probably not. Unless you're designing for a jam band or some other client that likes wild colors, stick to color matchings that are pleasing to everyone. (Obviously they didn't see the custom colours that I used on the TtG Brokers site ;-) )

9) Directionless Navigation - Wow, this site looks like it has lots of great content and products. But where is everything? Can't find related content? Where's that thing I saw the other day? I'm lost! Users of your web site shouldn't need a trail guide. Make navigation clean, simple and easy to find. (All computer users are very aware of hierarchical navigation [Windows Explorer] and also an address bar 'bread crumb', so play to their strengths!)

10) Can We Table This For Now? - Aren't tables great! They provide so much flexibility when laying out web content. And it looks so nice, at one specific resolution on one specific browser. At other resolutions, yuck! When using tables make good use of percentages and make sure the design looks good on all users screens.

11) Sloppy with Text - Wilcom too my grate neww web apliccatiun. Im a perfessinal web dervelper! The greatest coding skills won't help if your web content is full of misspellings and poor grammar. (Being dyslexic, I have no cammant!)

12) Click Here for Click Here - This is such a nice web application that you've built. It will really help our business deploy content to the web. And look it automatically creates links that say things like "Click Here", "More" and "Continue Reading." Now how do we change those to something more descriptive? We can't? Don't call us, we'll call you. (Use your Tool Tip and Alt tags!!!)

13) Putting up a Velvet Rope - This is such as cool web site, can I come in? Oh, you only let in people from the IE click? Us Safari geeks aren't welcome? And I was going to spend so much money. Don't you know that browser-specific web sites and applications are like so five years ago?

14) This is a Web Site, Right? - Now this is what I call a content rich site. Look at the useful information here. Let me click here, wait, this is a PDF document, and this is a Word document. I thought this was a web site, you know, something I could view in a web browser. (What is the point of providing a content managed Web site when half the content the user wants to view is hidden away in PDF and Word files?  I bet 90% or more of content in Word and PDF that are available on the internet would be easy to provide on a Web page and if it was users would read it more!)

15) Over-crowding - You know, when people say that something is like finding a needle in a haystack, they don't mean that in a good way. On the web, too many links and other components can make it hard for a visitor to find the content that they want.

Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:06:53 PM UTC  #    Comments [0]   Browser Compliance | Content Management | debug | Development | General | Internet | Web Hosting  | 
# Monday, June 11, 2007

I do a lot of development on my laptop, both at work and ay home.  Both machines are running Windows XP Professional, and have IIS installed.  I often get the error HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected".  I have done some digging around this, and found that by default IIS 5.1 on Microsoft Windows XP Professional allows only ten concurrent users connected at any one time.

To get around this, you first need to change your default windows script host to cscript.exe:

cscript //h:cscript

Then you can increase the connection limit to 40.  it can't be increased beyond 40 as this is a hard coded windows limitation:

c:\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil set w3svc/MaxConnections 40

I would then re-set your default windows script host back to it's default of WScript.exe, by:

cscript //h:wsscript

Monday, June 11, 2007 12:52:58 PM UTC  #    Comments [0]   debug | Development | Internet | Web Hosting  | 
# Thursday, March 09, 2006

I thought that I would have a look at the locational statistics for my Web site.  Below is what I have so far!  Are you one of the locations?  If so, let me know, I'm interested to hear from you!  Leave a comment by clicking here!

Date Range: 15/11/2005 - 8/3/2006
Country/Region/City Visits P/Visit
Canada-Vancouver 112 10.23
United Kingdom-London 67 3.58
United Kingdom-West Langdon 48 4.98
Canada-Tsawwassen 23 14
United Kingdom-Milton Keynes 20 9.15
United States-Morristown 17 2.53
United Kingdom-Guildford 16 2.38
United Kingdom-Langdon 15 7.73
United Kingdom-Watford 12 1.42
United Kingdom-Leeds 12 1.92
(not set)-(not set) 11 4.27
United Kingdom-Elmers End 9 7.33
United Kingdom-Aston 8 6
United Kingdom-Slough 8 3.25
United Kingdom-Gurnard 7 3.86
United Kingdom-Huddersfield 7 3.71
United Kingdom-Millwall 5 2.2
United Kingdom-Winchester 5 2.6
United Kingdom-Stoke 5 3.6
United Kingdom-Wyrardisbury 5 2
United Kingdom-Gosport 5 2.4
United Kingdom-Woking 4 2
United Kingdom-Bletchley 4 1.75
Switzerland-Schübelbach 4 5.25
United Kingdom-Plymouth 4 1
United Kingdom-Birmingham 4 4.25
United States-Cary 3 2
Canada-Victoria 3 1
United Kingdom-Stevenage 3 4.33
Switzerland-Eschenbach 3 5.67
United Kingdom-West End 3 3.67
United Kingdom-Esher 3 5.67
United Kingdom-Glasgow 3 9.33
United Kingdom-Limehouse 3 3.67
United Kingdom-Edinburgh 3 2
Netherlands-Woerden 3 5.33
United Kingdom-Sheffield 2 1
United States-Hacienda Heights 2 1
Switzerland-Mühlehorn 2 9
United Kingdom-Cambridge 2 1
Switzerland-Weisstannen 2 3
United Kingdom-Upminster 2 2
United States-Saint Paul 2 36
United Kingdom-British 2 1
United Kingdom-Ealing 2 1
United Kingdom-Bristol 2 2
United States-Los Angeles 2 1.5
United Kingdom-Dudley 2 1
United States-Gig Harbor 2 1
Switzerland-Wald 2 9.5
United States-Glastonbury 2 1
United Kingdom-Welling 2 1
Switzerland-Bellaluna 2 2.5
United Kingdom-Northolt 1 1
United States-San Francisco 1 1
United Kingdom-Streatham 1 1
United Kingdom-Ropley 1 1
United States-Westerville 1 2
United States-Portland 1 1
United States-Bettendorf 1 1
United States-Suncook 1 1
United States-Pasadena 1 4
United Kingdom-Saint Helens 1 1
Spain-Barcelona 1 2
Italy-Rome 1 1
United States-Boulder 1 1
United States-Molalla 1 1
United Kingdom-West Dulwich 1 1
United Kingdom-Middlesbrough 1 1
United Kingdom-Letchworth 1 4
United States-Raritan 1 1
United States-Newport 1 2
United States-Seattle 1 1
United States-Union 1 1
United Kingdom-Litherland 1 1
United Kingdom-Camberley 1 5
United Kingdom-Preston 1 1
United Kingdom-Gateshead 1 1
United Kingdom-Liverpool 1 1
Canada-Nelson 1 1
United Kingdom-Crewe 1 2
United Kingdom-Manchester 1 1
United Kingdom-Catford 1 7
Indonesia-Denpasar 1 1
Canada-Airdrie 1 1
United Kingdom-Bolton 1 2
Canada-Woodbridge 1 1
United Kingdom-Bow 1 1
United States-Park City 1 1
United Kingdom-Lancaster 1 9
United Kingdom-Leigh 1 2
United States-Vacaville 1 1
United States-Seattle 1 1
United Kingdom-Saint Mary Bourne 1 1
United Kingdom-Lincoln 1 2
United Kingdom-Scunthorpe 1 1
United Kingdom-Chobham 1 1
United Kingdom-Mangotsfield 1 3
Finland-Kokkola 1 5
United States-Woodside 1 1
United Kingdom-New Malden 1 27
United Kingdom-Salford 1 1
United Kingdom-Upton 1 3
United Kingdom-Gotham 1 1
United Kingdom-Dundee 1 1
United Kingdom-Bracknell 1 1
Israel-Gevim 1 1
United States-Reston 1 1
Canada-Richmond 1 6
United Kingdom-Shooters Hill 1 1
Canada-Montréal 1 1
Hong Kong-Pak Sha Tsuen 1 1
United Kingdom-Misterton 1 4
United States-Elk Grove Village 1 2
United States-Denton 1 1
United Kingdom-Worcester 1 1
United States-Millburn 1 1
Switzerland-Le Grand-Saconnex 1 8
United States-Falls Church 1 3
United States-Hayward 1 1
United Kingdom-Aberdare 1 1
Japan-Yosida 1 32
United Kingdom-Sutton Coldfield 1 1
Switzerland-Glarus 1 9
Switzerland-Ebnat 1 5
United Kingdom-Baxterley 1 3
United Kingdom-Heanor 1 1
United Kingdom-Bickley 1 1
United States-Secaucus 1 1
United States-Brea 1 3
France-Giron 1 2
United Kingdom-Nottingham 1 1
United States-Boulder 1 1
United Kingdom-Gilling 1 1
United Kingdom-Chichester 1 1
United States-Long Island City 1 1
United Kingdom-Cheam 1 1
United Kingdom-Dagenham 1 1
United States-Camden 1 5
United Kingdom-Romford 1 4
United States-Tyler 1 1
United Kingdom-Staines 1 1
Taiwan-Hsinchu 1 2
United States-Southfield 1 1
United Kingdom-Send 1 4
United States-Denver 1 1
United States-Napa 1 1
United Kingdom-Brentford 1 1
United Kingdom-Halesowen 1 2
United States-Des Moines 1 2
United States-Rockville 1 1
United States-Westfield 1 3
United Kingdom-Barking 1 1
United Kingdom-Bagshot 1 3
Poland-Poznan 1 2
Japan-Musashino 1 1
United Kingdom-East Ham 1 1
United States-Erie 1 1
United States-Weehawken 1 1
Philippines-Palanas 1 1
United Kingdom-North Woolwich 1 2
United Kingdom-Hatfield 1 3
United Kingdom-Ashton-under-Lyne 1 1
United Kingdom-Snowshill 1 3
Canada-Sydney 1 1
United States-Keller 1 1
United Kingdom-Southall 1 1

Visits is the number of visits to my site from the country/region/city. P/Visit is pageviews divided by number of visits.

Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:15:28 AM UTC  #    Comments [0]   Development | General | Web Hosting  | 
# Wednesday, November 30, 2005

You may remember, in early November 2005 I posted a blog about "How much is my blog worth".  Well, I just checked it today, and lo and behold...It's worth some money!  Whoo Hoo!

See...


My blog is worth $564.54.
How much is your blog worth?

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:53:56 PM UTC  #    Comments [0]   Web Hosting  | 
# Saturday, November 26, 2005

it feels like I have gone Google mad lately!  I have found another good service that they provide!  Google Personalised Home (http://www.google.com/ig).  In summary, it allows you to personalise your Google home page!  Have a look!

I do think you need a GMail account though!  Want me to invite you to have a GMail account?  Add a comment and I will!

I think that Google offer so many different services, and advances search capabilities.  It's therefore a shame that most people dont use them, they just go to google, and enter a couple of words!  Wake up people, your on-line life would be much better if you actually took the time to use the tools avaiable to you!  You are good at surfing, so why not do something constructive instead of looking at those stupid video's and porn! *rant over*

Saturday, November 26, 2005 2:42:21 PM UTC  #    Comments [0]   Web Hosting  | 
# Friday, November 25, 2005

After my exploits of finding Google Analytics, I thought I'd browse around Google a bit more.  Lo and behold, another chesnut!  This one is Google Sitemaps (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login).  Bit of a pain to get working, but it is already giving me some good information.

Basically, its an 'easy' way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google search index.  it is a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep them informed of all your Web pages, and when you make changes to them.

My rating: 3 out of 5 (bit difficult to implement)

Friday, November 25, 2005 2:34:31 PM UTC  #    Comments [0]   Web Hosting  | 
# Thursday, November 24, 2005

Whilst looking at my RSS feeds I came accross an article about Google Analytics (sorry can't remember where, otherwise would cross post!), so i thought that I would have a look.  Glad I did!  It really is quite impressive, and best of all free!

I managed to sign up and get it working, really good!  You can access Google Analytics here:

http://www.google.com/analytics/

It basically "tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site".  In easy speak, it provides free trend analysis of your site!

Thursday, November 24, 2005 2:29:08 PM UTC  #    Comments [1]   Web Hosting  | 
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