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Having Google at Home

ramiro — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:33:04 +0000

What happens when Google becomes your new roommate?

Google's Wonder Wheel on Drupal

ramiro — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:28:05 +0000

One of Google's current experiments enables participants to use options for restricting search results by certain criteria or to use tools like the wonder wheel for related query suggestions on Google's search result pages.

The Future of Film?

ramiro — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:00:08 +0000

I just watched this Trailer of The Hunt For Gollum, a 45 minute independent film, which was inspired by The Lord of the Rings. The Hunt For Gollum is announced to be released to the internet for free on May 3 2009. Will this be a role model for the film industry.

Getting Viral with Dots

ramiro — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:07:42 +0000

or how to tweet as a pantomime. TheMime shows how to get viral on Twitter with always posting nothing but three dots. TheMime certainly deserves his popularity on Twitter, as I haven't seen any other user with such a stunning consistency in high quality tweets.

The chart below created with TwitterCounter demonstrates that it clearly helps to be mentioned in tweets from Google and many others.

The Credit Crisis Explained

ramiro — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:37:59 +0000

A fantastic explanation and visualization of the credit crisis by Jonathan Jarvis.

Bash Accelerated Drupal Installation

ramiro — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:00:27 +0000

When developing Drupal modules or checking out modules I don't know yet, I run an instance of Drupal on my local machine. Sooner or later I feel the need to erase this installation and do a fresh install. The Drupal installation process is pretty straightforward and simple making it a good candidate for automating at least parts of it.

In the Drubuntu Drupal group I found this install script for Drupal that does not only install Drupal but also creates an operating system user, as well as apache2 and DNS configurations. A pretty useful script, but it does too much for my development needs.

Linking the Logo to the Home Page with JavaScript

ramiro — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:45:40 +0000

The logo of a Web site is not only important for branding but also as a navigational element, that many users expect to link to the home page. According to usability guru Jakob Nielsen the first of Ten Good Deeds in Web Design you can do is link your logo to the home page except you are on the home page.

Mr. Nielsen conducted many usability studies and has written groundbreaking articles and books on Web usability. Good reason for me to trust him when it comes to this topic, especially when it sounds completely plausible.

How to Optimize Views 2 More Links Anchor Texts

ramiro — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:11:33 +0000

One of the great improvements in Views 2 is the ability to create various page and block displays for one view. Block views can be linked to a page display when the More link option in the block's settings is enabled.

If there are one or more page displays set up in the view, the page to be linked can be chosen after clicking on the link next to the Page display option. See the screenshot below for an example:

MediaWiki can Look Great

ramiro — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:22:49 +0000

MediaWiki is the wiki software that drives one of the most popular sites on the Web Wikipedia. I would't say that Wikipedia looks ugly but it feels a bit moldy.

MediWiki also drives the jQuery documentation site which demonstrates that MediaWiki can look great. Before the recent redesign of jQuery.com the designers of the jQuery docs site already managed to create a unique look in contrast to 99.9% of the other MediWiki driven sites. Now they made it a blast, congrats!

Drupal.org Redesign Yahoo Pipe and Widget

ramiro — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:57:13 +0000

According to Dries' State of Drupal 2008 presentation backed by a survey with 1367 participants the drupal.org redesign is a very important task for improving the user experience of the Drupal project as a whole.

In the current stage of the redesign process feedback from drupal.org users is essential. To participate the GDO Redesign group is a good starting point.