Design

6 Reasons to puts ads on your site that have nothing to do with revenue

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Earlier this month, I reworked the Enter Venture theme a bit.  There’s now a top navigation, a few more pages, the columns are a bit wider, and the home page’s performance was improved. There are also wayyyy more ads on this blog. Online ads really bother some people.  They ruin the user experience and drive [...]

Crazy Egg tells you what your users are doing

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

In previous posts, I’ve talked a little bit about analytics tools I’ve used to track the number, type, and location of Enter Venture visitors. Crazy Egg does something different. It allows you to “visualize your visitors.” In plain English, Crazy Egg shows you how your visitors use your site. Where are they clicking? Crazy Egg [...]

Get to the net first

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Early entrepreneurs are typically just brimming with ideas. There’s almost too many of them. You might know you want to start a business. The real trouble is knowing which one, or better, which part of which one? You might know you want to start a website, but it’s tempting to imagine your site 3 years [...]

Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

One of my issues with the internet is its deemphasis of a beginning. You can find all kinds of blogs and other resources that can teach you about a whole number of things, but it’s hard to find a starting point. Books, on the other hand, have been used to teach us for centuries. They [...]