Web 2.0 Startup

Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:26:00 +0000

Jakob Nielsen wrote a nice article about the top 10 mistakes in Web design. Here the summary of the top 10 mistakes:

Bad search
PDF files for online reading
Not changing color of visited links
Non-scannable text
Fixed font size
Page titles with low search engine visibility
Anything that looks like an advertisment
Violating design conventions
Opening new browser windows
Not answering users' questions

Read the full article here...

Protolize - collection of web tools

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:21:00 +0000

I just came over Protolize wich is a place where web designers and developers collaborate to create an ultimate collection of web tools. Currently Protolize offers tools in the following categories: General, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, PHP, Ruby, Flash, CMS, and Inspiration.

50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:51:00 +0000

I just came over a collection of 50 beutiful CSS-based web designs in 2006. There some really gorgeous sites in this collection. It's worth taking a look on it!!

Web 2.0 how-to design guide

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:25:00 +0000

A must read for all people that are working on Web 2.0 web design: Web 2.0 how-to design guide. The article shows 15 design guidelines for a great and cute Web 2.0 site!!!

Rounded Cornr

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:37:00 +0000

Rounded corners and gradient colors are two basic concepts of Web 2.0 pages. If you want to integrate these two essential concepts easily to your Web 2.0 page check out http://www.roundedcornr.com/ which offers HTML/CSS code generation for rounded corner and gradient color :-) Really nice!!

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:17:00 +0000

I just came over a rather old article from Jesse James Garrett who explaines the principles of Ajax. However, it's still worth reading!! The article defines Ajax and explains the basic idea behind Ajax. Furthermore, a nice Q&A about Ajax is presented.

101 Easy Ways to use Google's New Website Optimizer

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:55:00 +0000

There's a great article of how to use Google's website optimizer. Website Optimizer is designed to help AdWords advertisers test different landing pages in order to determine which one drives the most conversions – whether they are sales, sign-ups or downloads. It's worth reading!!

Global Business - 8 Ways to Challenge Yourself

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:47:00 +0000

I just read an intresting article from Steve Rucinski who states the following 8 points to challenge yourself and your team in order to be ready for a global small business:

Think of the current constraints within which your team or business operates. If those constraints were gone, what could you do?
Identify your current greatest business challenge. What could happen if this were eliminated?
Consider and entirely different way in which the organization could be structured. What would be the consequences?
If your present distribution channels disappeared, what would you do?
If your current sources of material disappeared, what would you do?
Suppose your staff members were all from different parts of the world. How would your staff be different?
If you could increase sales by 250 percent in one year, what would be the consequences?
What would happen if you could reduce the time it takes to do your work by 50 percent? What would you do with the time?

Google Web Toolkit 1.3 released: Open Source

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:34:00 +0000

Google released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) version 1.3 under open source licence. See the GWT Blog entry or the site of GWT (including demos)

Matt Sweeney: "Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time"

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:51:00 +0000

Matt Sweeney, Senior Engineer on the YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) team at Yahoo!, delivers a talk on best practices in frontend engineering at Yahoo!'s Developer Day/Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006. In my opinion it's a very good talk!

Yahoo! UI Extensions Library: resizing elements

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:52:00 +0000

Jack Slocum wrote an interesting article about how to use the Yahoo! UI Extensions Library (YUI) for resizing elements in the Web . He presents code snippets and examples which show how easy it can be used.

9 tips for making 90 seconds count in an investment pitch

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:50:00 +0000

Jason Stitt wrote an informative article about stating your ideas in 90 seconds. Imagine you're in an elevator next to a venture capitalist who could invest millions in your idea - you've 90 seconds to outline your business idea.

Folksonomy: 7 Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:54:00 +0000

Michael Zhang wrote in the Folksonomy blog an interesting article about naming your Web 2.0 startup. He defined the following 7 rules for you Web 2.0 company's name:

1. Keep Length at a Minimum
2. Be Generic or Be Original
3. Encourage Word of Mouth
4. Capture the .com
5. Avoid Using Hyphens
6. Avoid Domain Hacks
7. Keep it Meaningful

Categorized Ajax Tutorials

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:19:00 +0000

That's really the bulkiest list of Ajax tutorials I've ever seen. And the best thing is, each tutorial is categorized within the following categories:

Getting Started
Bookmarklets
Chat
Drag
and Drop
Dynamically Content Loading
Forms and Autocomplete
File
Uploader
Image/Display/Edit/Gallery/Lightbox/Slideshow
Keyword
Suggest
Live Search
Misc/General
CodingParadise
CodingParadise
Progress Bars
Rounded Corner
RSS
Shopping
Cart
Lists/Sorting
Tabbed Pages
Trees
Username
Availability
Voting

Check that out!!!

script.aculo.us - it's about the user interface, baby!

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:07:00 +0000

Web 2.0 is about user interface - script.aculo.us is about Web 2.0 development.

The web page says: "It provides you witheasy-to-use, cross-browser userinterface JavaScript libraries to makeyour web sites and web applications fly. What's inside? animation framework, drag and drop, Ajax controls, DOM utilities, and unit testing. It's an add-on to thef antastic Prototype framework."

script.aculo.us is used by sites such as Apple, Feedburner, Ruby on Rails, etc.

Interview with Web 2.0 Startup CEOs

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:25:00 +0000

Michael Arrington from Techcrunch interviewed 14 Web 2.0 Startup CEOs and asked them their opinion about Web 2.0: Are we in a bubble? What are the business models that will work on the web today? and more...

The good thing: it's a video so lean back, listen, and relax ;-)

Best of Web 2.0 sites

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:51:00 +0000

Real World Software Development collected a list of Web 2.0 sites starting from social bookmarking sites to real estate sites. The list is updated on a daily based on user comments. Take a look at it!

Web 2.0 – Was ist dran?

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:23:00 +0000

Willi Schroll und Andreas Neef wrote a good overview article about Web 2.0 - What is it all about. The article is written in German and can be found on perspektive: blau. You can probably try the English Google translation... but however, don't do it :-)

A collection of Ajax tutorials

noreply@blogger.com (Klaus Leopold) — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:57:00 +0000

I found huge list of Ajax tutorials in the blog on Ajaxmatters. Very great overview!!