Tools

Have a website idea? Make it “real” with Balsamiq’s help

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

A few months ago, I wrote about my love for my whiteboard and how it was the best $75 I’d ever spent.  Back then, I had a large, 3′x4′ whiteboard that, along with brainstorming and keeping lists, allowed me to put together a fairly detailed website mock-up.  Since moving to San Francisco, however, I’ve had [...]

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 [...]

Gmail’s Tasks complete me.. err, my work stream

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m listening to feedback and getting back to writing about what I know and can share on Enter Venture.  While writing this post, in fact, I realized just how far I’d strayed from what it is I do best.  How on earth could I have never talked about [...]

Use the web to get off the web

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather for a few days so I’m cheating a bit and re-posting something that I originally posted to thenextweb.com.  My apologies to readers of both blogs, the Google search bots, etc. Recently, Boris over at TheNextWeb.com wrote a bit about the things he hates about the web. After [...]

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 [...]