TheWayoftheWeb

If you really want to underline the way control is now being shared with an ever greater number of people historically know as your ‘audience’, then show people the increasing rise of Firefox browser usage – then show them Greasemonkey.
Now Firefox isn’t the most used browser globally – Internet Explorer still rules, and Google’s Chrome [...]

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I’ve coined the term ‘the supermarket effect’ in conversation and in passing, and never really publicly defined it. So for future reference:
The Supermarket Effect: The initial response to a new layout to a website, which echoes your first reaction to a supermarket changing it’s layout; ‘Oh, for crying out loud, where have they put the [...]

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The most important element of a successful website isn’t the technology, the content, or the marketing. It’s having a clear and defined proposition which is understood by the entire team – and most importantly, by the users of the website.
I’d always been implicitly aware that the likes of Google, Ebay et al had a clear [...]

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