One of the nice finds of the past few months has been Kiss Insights. You’ve probably noticed a little pop up survey on this blog – and maybe you’ve even answered it – well, that’s Kiss Insights doing its magic. Easily deployed to a website, Kiss Insights is a bit of Javascript code that calls [...]
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Powerhouse Museum collection WordPress plugin goes live!
January 21st, 2011 4 Comments
Today the first public beta of our WordPress collection plugin was released into the wild. With it and a free API key anyone can now embed customised collection objects in grids in their WordPress blog. Object grids can be placed in posts and pages, or even as a sidebar widget – and each grid can [...]
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Moving out in to the cloud – reverse proxying our website
August 25th, 2009 Comments Off
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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