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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Developer tools'
Usability and IA testing tools – OptimalSort, ClickDensity, Silverback
August 10th, 2008 2 Comments
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Google Teleportation / Google’s ‘search within search’
March 27th, 2008 8 Comments
Google’s ‘search within search’ or as they call it ‘teleporting‘ has hit the Powerhouse Museum. I’m not sure whether this is a compliment or not, but as the New York Times reports, this is a very interesting development which raises many issues for content-rich sites with vested interests in their own internal search. As you [...]
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OpenSocial, social networking and museums
November 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
Google’s OpenSocial has finally gone live. What it provides for the museum sector is a much easier way to seed content to social networks, where apparently our younger online audiences, like to spend a lot of their time. OpenSocial, as opposed to a Facebook application, promises to work across multiple social networking services – meaning [...]
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Comparing a site across browsers
September 24th, 2007 5 Comments
One of the biggest problems when designing and developing a new website or rolling out a new look and feel is cross-browser compatibility. Usually the solution has been to have a series of machines, real or virtual, with different versions of the various different browsers out there installed, and then go through each one laboriously. [...]
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OPAC2.0 – Go bulk taggers!
July 18th, 2007 Comments Off
Thank you to everyone who has been tagging the collection with our bulk tagging mini-application. Since announcing it 2 weeks ago we’ve had 515 new tags added to previously untagged objects. That’s a lot. If you are one of the many who have added some tags – thank you. If you haven’t tried it yet, [...]
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Visualising a metasearch with SearchCrystal
June 26th, 2007 Comments Off
SearchCrystal is a very nifty search visualisation tool. Above is the results of an image search for ‘Sydney’ across multiple engines – you can see clearly in the visualisation where results crossover and there is similarity. I really like the different types of search that can be done in this way – web searches, image [...]
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Museums on the Web UK 2007 – Friday June 22 – register now
June 18th, 2007 1 Comment
If you happen to be one of our UK or European readers then you may be interested in Museums on the Web UK 2007 which happens on Friday June 22. It is organised by the Museum Computer Group, 24hr Museum and the University of Leicester. The Web is changing – faster, smarter, more personal, more [...]
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All you ever need to know about Google Page Rank at Smashing Magazine
June 5th, 2007 1 Comment
Smashing Magazine have put together a splendid and pretty much definitive guide to how Google’s Page Rank works. It is full of links to more information. Essential reading.
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