I recently received a question regarding why I have taken down the tags on my posts. The reason was because watched a video from google (Also embedded below) which made me wounder how much they are benefiting (and being used by) my users. After a brief test (I watched how many people were using the tag pages) I found that very few users actually were using them.
The best way to summarize what I found would be:
For every 246 human users clicking a link on a page, 1 would be clicking a tag link.
I’ve just finished a quick update on my wordpress plugin Socialize This which increases the functionality of the Widget Sets. If you want to try out a few new Widgets in Socialize This take a look at the Widget Sets page.
Also, if you have made some Widgets and would like them listed on the Widget Sets page, contact me.
My motto is “Clients are idiots”, though if you let them know this odds are you will not be paid. I tend to find this motto is true 90% of the time in the Design/Development field, mostly because clients see you as someone who is paid to make something the way they want to, not in a way that will look good & be functional. Here is a video which pretty much sums up why clients suck.
Click here to go to the original source of the video.
2009 has been a somewhat interesting year for the internet; it’s become more mobile & more user friendly. However here are a few ideas I have had over the year, which I would like to see arrive in 2010.
One of the big annoyances I have with streaming video files (normally on websites such as YouTube & Megavideo) is whenever I go to jump to another section of the video I lose what I currently have already loaded. It would be really useful if I could quickly go back to the section I’ve previously loaded.
This is a mock up I done, the video I used is from RayWilliamJohnson
I’m quite sure this would need to be implemented by the software, but I can’t see how it would be difficult to add.
