10 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 29-31, 2010)
BBC News website’s content management and publishing systems
The BBC Internet blog often produces some really good in-depth insights into how things work at the BBC. This time, in connection with the recent redesign of BBC News, they take a look at web management, web standards & their in-house CMS
Why QR Codes Are Poised to Hit the Mainstream
SL have just started testing Quick Response codes at a number of bus stops here in Stockholm. Co-incidentally Mashable writes “Why QR Codes Are Poised to Hit the Mainstream” around the same time. You shouldn’t produce any printed matter now without a QR Code in my opinion.
Half of site searches are unsuccessful: report
Half of site searches are unsuccessful. Yet studies have shown that site-searches result in a significantly higher conversion rate than the average. Clear opportunity for improvement there…
The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World
This article from Spiegel Online describes how the (German) Internet Generation would appear to prefers the Real World – or rather, that it is integrated into their lives but that they are not necessarily “internet experts”. What you can conclude is that there is no global norm when it comes to the internet generation and their internet usage. Read my earlier post about Internet usage and young Swedes in Sweden
18 Simple SEO Items Commonly Missed in Web Development
Not a bad list. Your next site won’t be worse if you follow all of these 18 points! There are, of course, more than 18 things that are normally missed.
Blog – Subdomain or Subfolder? Which Is Best?
More on the eternal question of on-domain, off-domain, or sub-folder blog – which is best? Well, they all can be in my opinion. Really does depend on each individual case.
Will the Real Browser Stats Please Stand Up?
Global visitor stats are always misleading. Make sure to always study the stats for your own site (and therefore visitor groups), especially browser version and viewport size before a redesign.
How long are intranet projects?
Steptwo write about how long an intranet project should be (it is often not given enough time) – As is often the case, similar things apply to Internet projects too.
Employees demand a clean intranet home page, no scrolling
Keep it above the fold! Employees demand a clean Intranet home page, no scrolling, fewer links.
Enterprise 2.0 Roll-up: Google Kills Wave, Collaboration Ain’t Easy
In this CMSWire article they’ve taken the example of how a global collaboration product (Google Wave) failed to be adopted and likened it to the difficulty of implementing collaborative tools within the Firewall. Fair few pearls of wisdom from some clued-up people.