Sleepless Nights
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Anon. (via clientsfromhell)
Brilliant! I just love the thought of the web without HTML. So Zen.
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“Facebook serves 260 billion page views per month. That’s more than six million page views per minute, or a staggering 37.4 trillion page views in a year.”
via Facebook boasts 11 times more page views than MySpace, 59 times more than Twitter | Royal Pingdom
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Yep, folks, this is it.
Looks easy, huh? OK, you start…
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Deal in Microsoft-EU browser war
“Microsoft reaches agreement with European Union anti-trust regulators to allow European users a choice of browsers.” So says this BBC article.
OK, guys, enough already! Honestly, does it really matter who wins any more? Browser wars, shmowser wars. It’s not like you can’t download any browser you want. Usually for free too - except Opera! Ironic how they are one of the challengers in this case.
On the Windows platform there must be a dozen browsers to choose from. On Mac maybe 3, on Linux maybe 3 or 4. Yeah I know Microsoft was a bit of a bully 10 years ago about all this, but now browser democracy has meant people pick the one they want. It’s over folks, nothing to see here, move along mow.
By the way, did you hear about some EU policy-maker who insisted Microsoft ship Windows 7 without Internet Explorer at all? Picture the scene: Fritz buys Windows 7, rushes home to install it. He can’t wait to hop on the net to download his preferred browser of choice, so he fires up the browser… er… wait, there isn’t one. Tricky, huh?!
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Google Analytics: Now even more intelligent
It’s no secret: I love Google products. It’s hard to say which is number 1 for me. But Google Analytics must surely be close.
Just recently they have launched a new feature called Intelligence.
This allows you to create multiple alerts to track patterns, for example:
- increases or decreases in traffic
- traffic from a certain keyword search on Google
- traffic from a city or country
- when a particular page or section of your site is accessed
- when traffic comes from another referring website
- when your bounce rate hits a pre-determined percentage
- when a goal has been successful
- or even when an ecommerce transaction of a certain value has been made
I could go on and on. Its extremely flexible and powerful. Props to the Google Analytics team, once again!
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Clients from hell…
This person’s account of their client meeting about their web design cracked me up. It’s so familiar. It could have happened to me.
Client’s 70-ish year old father storms into boardroom during our first meeting brandishing a sheaf of papers—all print outs of Google search results, covered in highlighter and red circles.
Him: “I want to know the meaning of this!” <throws papers on table in front of me>Me: “I’m sorry? The meaning of…Google?”
Him: “NO! I want to know why our website is not listed here! HOW ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO FIND OUR PHONE NUMBER?!”
Me: “Um…you’ve just hired us to start building you a website, sir. You don’t actually have a website at the moment.”
Him: “YES I DO! My granddaughter writes to me every week! www.bill AT xxxxxxx.com!”
Me: “Ah, right. Yes, that’s your email address, sir.”
Him: “Look at this! These are all our competitors! <points to highlights and red circles> Why are THEY on here? I search OUR name and THEY are on here!!!”
Me: “Again, you don’t actually have a website yet. We are going to build you a website so that you WILL be listed in Google.”
Him: “Listed in Google?! What are you talking about? Who do I call to get www.bill AT xxxxxx.com listed in Google?!”
Me: “Ah, it doesn’t quite work that way sir. You’ll need an actual website first, and that’s what we’re here to do.”
Him: <rolls eyes and looks at his now fully mortified son sitting across the table from me> “I already told you that we HAVE a website. Good choice, son. This lady clearly doesn’t have a CLUE what she’s talking about.”
I ended the meeting and left right then.
from clientsfromhell
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This has so much geek-web-awesomeness it’s astounding.
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Forward Slash Forward Slash
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Internet, says he’s “sorry” for the forward slashes (//) included in every web address. He admits the symbols were actually “unnecessary” and didn’t realize they would be “so much hassle.”
Via Guy Kawasaki - URL slash creator: “It seemed like a good idea at the time” - Holy Kaw!
