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Moving out in to the cloud – reverse proxying our website

August 25th, 2009 3 Comments

For a fair while we’ve been thinking about how we can improve our web hosting. At the Powerhouse we host everything in-house and our IT team does a great job of keeping things up and running. However as traffic to our websites has grown exponentially along with an explosion in the volume of data we [...]

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ROI Revolution’s Google Analytics Report Enhancer

March 5th, 2009 Comments Off

Anyone who attended my double web analytics workshops today at the Transforming Cultural and Scientific Communication conference in Melbourne today saw this lovely little Greasemonkey script in action.
And I thought I better link it for everyone who is not already using this to install.
What GARE does, amongst other things is go some way towards addressing [...]

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Readability – reducing clutter with a bookmarklet

March 4th, 2009 Comments Off

I’ve become a fan of a bookmarklet tool called Readability.
What it does is remove the clutter from a content-rich webpage and optimise it for ‘readability’ (which of course, itself can be customised). Now museums tend to be serial offenders on text-heaviness – we love long text and I’m not one to argue that we should [...]

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Usability and IA testing tools – OptimalSort, ClickDensity, Silverback

August 10th, 2008 2 Comments

As the team has been working on a large array of new projects and sites of late we’ve been exploring some of the newer tools that have emerged for usability testing and ensuring good information architectures. Here’s some of what we’ve been exploring and using –
We’ve started using Optimalsort for site architecture – especially [...]

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