Design and Development

I’m in a testing mood tonight and put together a list of tests that you can run your blog or website through if you feel up to learning more about your pages… 1. See what grade level your blog is at with a Readability Test. (The original link has been replaced with a more informative … Read more

Websites, like people, have personalities. They can’t help it. They do. I’ve looked at many websites over the past few years and sometimes wondered about the personalities of the sites that I’ve seen. If you take a close look at a website, can you describe its personality? Does it attempt to evoke emotions in visitors … Read more

Back on July 4th, I wrote about Intel’s Mash Maker, which was featured in a paper presented at SIGMOD’07 in June, and was coming out in a private beta release in July. Robert Ennal, one of the paper’s authors was kind enough to send me an email letting me know that people can now sign … Read more

Imagine being able to quickly and easily be able to take information from sites like Google Maps, eBay, Craig’s List, Digg, and others, and join it together in meaningful ways – such as the many different mashups displayed on Programmable Web. The difficult with creating many of those mashups is that they require some knowledge … Read more

After posting at Search Engine Land on a new patent application from Google, I decided to keep things simple over here tonight, and go back to basics. I couldn’t think of anything more basic that to ask why someone might want to have a web site to begin with. Here are ten reasons that I … Read more