Orange County Web Design Blog

I was reviewing our latest website project with one of my friends and he suggested that I get some “User Testers” that will test the site and give feedback. He gave me a company called Usertesting.com easily enough. So I decided to signup and test it out after watching the Video Demo of a actual user tester, testing Trip Advisor.

Each tester records their session on your site with their audio and you can visually see where their mouse is with a tracker. They also submit a written report of their session on your site.

I can see this being a very valuable service for new websites, new web applications, etc.

Their prices are pretty reasonable as well. It’s $29 per user tester and you actually get $10 off your third tester for your first order. I signed up for 4 testers, so we’ll see how it works out.

The site was actually created by Evan Williams, Co-Founder of Twitter, so that had some credibility with me right off the bat.

This is a very interesting article by Cnet talking about Facebooks new Beta to re-engineer their Status Updates on your Facebook home page. In a short nutshell, Facebook is going to give you Privacy options on each update, that will allow you to select who can see your feeds, very much like they do with your friends groups and photo albums.

You will be able to set the filter to say that “Everyone” - “My Network” - “Friends of Friends” or only “Friends” can see the posting. I can see how this could cause some snafu’s for people who don’t select the right setting, but that is just going to teach a person a valuable lesson that if you’re going to put something out there, you sure as hell better know who can see it and who can’t.

Here’s the link to the Article by Cnet - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10272179-36.html

In these hard economic times anything free that can help businesses is a godsend, and that’s where XMind comes in. Xmind is a Freeware - Open Source Flow Chart and Project Management Application. While yes it’s a download, they do cover ALL, yes I said “ALL” Computer formats.

So if you’re in need for one of these applications for your business, be sure to check it out before you run out and purchase something.

Here’s their link - http://www.xmind.net/

Now this is really, really cool. - http://soytuaire.labuat.com/

This was super creative..!