June 29th, 2004
A little background: I work for muvee Technologies as a web developer. Much of what you see there isn’t my work though, since I’m only 3 weeks old in the company.
I’m coming up with a list of things to improve with regards to the website, in terms of making it persuasive and consequently generating more sales. Of course, things like layout, accessibility, design and look and feel are important as well, but secondary for this evaluation. Truth be told, this is something my boss asked me to look at, because I’ve a pair of fresh eyes undeadened by years of working on the same old (same old) pages.
Nope, I’m not going to be try and get away with hoping that everyone here will generate enough ideas for me to present to my boss. I have my own list and I’m coming up with more stuff (gradually), but I thought that while I had your attention, I might as well see what other minds can come up with and if they are so discordant from mine.
So there, if you could help me evaluate and recommend things that can be changed/improved, I’d be grateful to you, dear mister or missus reader. Focus on how the site could be more persuasive to prospective buyers, or conducive to buyers (transactors). Recommendations on design, layout, accessibility are also welcome, but secondary (I expect plenty of these, nevertheless).
I don’t have Gmail invites now, but I promise you I’ll send one over if you help me out. Those already with Gmail will instead receive my gratitude (really - a favor is worth something nowadays, right?)
June 28th, 2004
In the spirit of http://weblog.wlkr.net/archives/000182.html:
| Referrer |
Visits |
| http://gemal.dk/mozilla/blogupdates.html |
983 |
| http://feedhouse.mozillazine.org |
812 |
| http://www.javablogs.com/Welcome.action |
569 |
| http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm |
440 |
| http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Jun/09/firefox_09_tour.html |
414 |
| http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs_display |
294 |
| http://www.thauvin.net/linkblog/ |
257 |
| http://gemal.dk/mozilla/blogupdates-beta.html |
229 |
| http://animetopia.com/search.php |
215 |
| http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php |
180 |
And yes, a table is entirely appropriate.
June 28th, 2004
More and more cool Mozilla Firefox extensions seem to be popping up nowadays. FoxAmp is a Firefox extension that integrates (to an extent) Winamp into the Firefox browser. It adds several buttons into your statusbar, allowing you to play, stop, pause, and change tracks.
There isn’t any indication of which track is being played (umm, beyond listening and recognizing it with your sense of hearing, that is), which I got around with the Lounge skin that I’m currently using (it displays a small window for a short while indicating the track name when a new track is played).
Still, a very cool tool added to my list of favorite extensions.
June 28th, 2004
Czech Republic 3 - 0 Denmark
I wish I’d bothered to look for a betting station earlier today - the odds were 1.78 in favor of a Czech win. The Czechs really booked their place in the semis in style, beating the Danes by the most solid margin of all the semifinalists.
And what a sweet chip from Milan Baros.
June 27th, 2004
Doron has written a Gmail Notifier extension for Firefox. It adds a button to your toolbar that displays the number of unread emails you have in your Gmail account. Like how I have 0 new emails (I’m a lonely, lonely guy) in the screenshot below.
Neat work, and this is still early stages for Gmail Notifier. Doron has promised Gmail/Mozilla integration and this (Gmail Notifier) seems to be part of that exciting project. Check back with Doron for more later - this should lead to something really neat.
Critique my employer’s website, please
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