Analysis The hidden Impact of those extra little features I was indexing Swedish digital agency Avantime’s new website for The Beantin Index. Indexing sites is always a great exercise. Amongst other things, it gives me the chance to brush-up on and evaluate various methods, techniques and ideas. Of the sites I’ve reviewed, almost all have an eyebrow
Analysis The Beantin Index Last week I launched The Beantin Index, a site where Swedish websites are graded and ranked! After a number of months of planning and preparation (as a side-project) The Index has, at last, seen the light of day. There are plenty of awards handed out to Swedish websites every year,
Analysis Meta descriptions on gerrymcgovern.com Meta descriptions on gerrymcgovern.com From August 2009 until the point of writing this, each of the weekly articles published by Gerry on his website has contained incorrect meta description content. In this short video I highlight two of the ways in which this has a significant impact on his
Analysis Svenska Lottakåren A quick check of Svenska Lottakåren’s new web site (released May 2010) against a handful of best-practices and web standards. Amongst the things I babble about this time are the start page banner, the drop-down menus, and calls to action.
Analysis National Rail Enquiries A quick check of National Rail Enquiries’ new web site (released 2009-12-15) against a handful of best-practices and web standards. The site was heralded as being made “more user-friendly after sophisticated consumer research techniques” in ATOC’s press release. Although redesigns of websites (especially prominent ones) almost always throw up