Thoughts on the business of the web industry from a small business perspective.Yes, I just wrote business twice in the one sentence. Sorry about that.
Here’s a blast from the past: When I was 14, I wrote a game for my Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer II (Or CoCo for short) (Or Trash-80, if you prefer!)
I managed to find a copy of the magazine on Ebay recently, and so here it is in all its glory: Scans from the February 1985 edition of Australia CoCo magazine.
For those not old enough to remember, before the age of DVDs, and even before floppy disks were in common use, computer magazines printed listings of programs that you had to type in yourself and then save to a tape.
The monster I wrote this on had 16 kilobytes of RAM, no internal hard drive, a 320x240 pixel display and 8 colours.
I can’t think of any computerised device available today that has smaller specs. A $10 calculator perhaps?
If you’re quick enough, and clever enough, you can turn almost anything into a marketing opportunity!
Great case study of a business that “seized the moment” when Westpac’s EFTPOS facilities went offline recently.
Some useful tips here. Staying on top of Facebook’s ever-changing settings and functionality is a lot of work!
Started playing with Instagram on the weekend, I don’t know why it took me so long to get started.
Love it!
Importing from WordPress to Tumblr
I’ve given up.
After trying several scripts and reaching several dead-ends, I stumbled upon this one.
Hooray!
My joy was short-lived however - it imported my posts, but many of them were truncated, special characters were a mess, and they all came in at today’s date.
So I think I’ll just leave the old blog at waterfallweb.net and my newer stuff will be here. Not ideal, but I’ve spent as much time on this as I think I’m inclined to at this stage.
Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit - UX Movement
In may cases Submit buttons are “calls to action”. You’re asking a visitor/user to do something. Instead of the default “Submit”, consider what’s actually happening from your user’s perspective. Is there a better way to word that button?
When users fill out a form, they are engaging in a task. The action button should affirm what that task is, so that users know exactly what happens when they click that button. A button that describes the user’s task tells users that the form focuses on carrying out that specific task. The more focused your form is, the more likely you’ll get users to complete your form.via Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit - UX Movement.
