Kale Davis » Web

Steve Ballmer Q&A with Guy Kawasaki

Kale — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:35:48 +0000

Watch Steve Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki Live

2008 Scripting Games

Kale — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:21:22 +0000

Check out the 2008 Scripting Games over at Microsoft. I am doing the advanced Perl division and having a great time trying these out. Overall they are on the easy side so they are quick to write, but still fun to think about and a good challenge. I will post my solutions on here afterwards.

What an IA isn’t

Kale — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:41:09 +0000

As I work with IA more on my projects I realize that in the past I had thought IA and usability were very related. In many ways they are, but you are looking at two different areas. After reading Information Architecture is not Usability I now realize how they relate and differ:

The distinction between information architecture and usability may seem like semantics, but there are significant differences between the two disciplines. Though they are often discussed interchangeably, and practitioners are often well-versed in both, information architecture and usability differ in their scope and areas of focus.

The article really focuses on Peter Morville’s thought of “information architecture is a subset of usability, and usability is a subset of information architecture”, which really helped me understand what an IA does and doesn’t do.

Google Analytics

Kale — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:45:17 +0000

Are you using Google Analytics yet? Overall I am very pleased with it and you can’t beat the price (free).

Did you know you can use it with a intranet as well? One thing that you have to watch out for though is if you use http internally and SSL (https) externally. If so, check out Reuben Yau’s post on how to handle both cases with a little extra javascript. If you want to use it with SharePoint 2007 you will just need to place the javascript within the master page so all your pages get tracked.

If you have some money to burn, I have read/heard that Mint is another package to check-out. Leave a comment on others that you like or if you have used Mint.

Future Web 3.0 UI?

Kale — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:27:25 +0000

ClockLink

Kale — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:26:59 +0000

Thought this little utility might be helpful. They have regular and count up/down clocks that you can easily embed into your site to display. I was going to post an example here, but just found out that you can’t embed javascript within a post with WordPress. Oh well, you can check out what they have at their website and see how easy it is to customize one and add it to your own site.

They have a big selection of clocks, here are a couple examples:

WordPress, I like it!

Kale — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:01:52 +0000

I am running the latest version of WordPress and it works so nicely. I would definitely recommend it to anyone out there who wants to create a blog. If you don’t want your own domain you can go to their wordpress.com site and get a free hosted WordPress site. Get blogging!

Design 101 – Fonts

Kale — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:57:15 +0000

Fonts always help. It is that simple. While you can’t count on people having much more than the standard Windows fonts, you can incorporate other (cooler) fonts in graphics easily. Hands down the best free font site I have found is dafont. I love their interface, other sites should take note of how simple and useful it is.