Add Google Calendar to WordPress Site
Looking for a way to add your Google calendar to your WordPress website? Check out this tutorial on how to accomplish this with a WordPress Plugin. See Easy WordPress and Google Calendar Integration
Website key performance indicators – what to measure
Is your website a success? Not sure of the answer? You’re not alone. Website owners around the world are scratching their heads and wondering if their website should be doing better than it is. It starts with your expectations. What was the intended purpose of the website? Perhaps you just …
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New Site Launched
In time for the New Year, we’ve launched our new website! It looks a lot like the old site – but there is a major difference. Our new site has been developed in WordPress a blogging platform. We’ve got a blog, where will be writing commentary on what’s happening on …
ALA Web Design Survey 2007
A List Apart has just released their findings from a survey they conducted in April 07 – involving 33,000 web professionals from around the world. It makes some very interesting reading. The respondents were asked 37 questions about their roles within their organisations. Here’s a quick summary of what I …
Usability Testing
I recently had the opportunity to sit in on the results of a usability test. It was extremely interesting and very enlightening. The sample size of users was quite small, but the results were very clear. The participants in the study were well chosen as they fitted the profile of …
Sticky Note Project Management
I used this fairly basic but highly effective method of project management to work out how to get a rather large website live within a few weeks. It was a daunting prospect but once it was all on the wall it was suddenly manageable. This is also a great way …
Web Standards – a competitive advantage?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about web standards – those confusing and sometimes arcane set of guidelines to building a ‘standards compliant’ website. Firstly, you have to pick a standard! But I’ve been more interested in what competitive advantage a company in the web biz can gain by deciding …
Social Networking
Came across Rob Howard’s excellent blog and I highly recommend reading his “Conversations Matter” post if you are looking to gain a deeper understanding of blogging and social networking. Website: http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/default.aspx
MyLive Search – Can it find my most recent post?
Well, yes it did – the test was with my Christchurch daily photo blog and a post published half an hour before the search. Click on the thumbnail to see the results (my photo blog is highlighted in yellow) The only thing I was not too keen on, was that …
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Search engine optimzation nz Update
I’m now ranked at number 2 and number 3 for this ‘typo term!’. And yes, still get visits. Just goes to show that there is definitely opportunity in spelling mistakes. Oh and if you are in tourism, here’s a tip for you, zeland is apparently how many people spell zealand.