Arno Manders

I’m going to try to shift the focus of my blog a little bit more to examples and away from the “I have this problem bla bla”. Well I just try to blog more because it a bit quiet here. I’m going to post some things that is useful for myself to archive and maybe I can help someone else with it.

DateTimeAxis

for the source you can click right mouse button

While I where surfing the Internet I found a nice website to search and discover music: SeeqPod. SeeqPod is made in Flex and it is really nice!

How is it working?
It is just a powerful search, what Google is for webpages is SeeqPod doing for music. Give the search your favourite band or artist and he is searching the internet for music files that are matching your search.

When you have the music you like you can place it in a playlist what is on the right side of your screen. And while you are browsing for other artists you can play your playlist.

Discover option
Another option is the “discover” button to find bands that are related with your searched band or artist.

I’m wondering how they find the related artists because I noticed this:

YouTube?

Is there room in the market for this service?
Of course, since Pandora.com is restricted for dutch music lovers maybe this is a new way to find new music next to last.fm

There are already a lot of tips on the internet how to optimize your site for search engines but before you do this you first have to make sure that search engines can find your website.

On the website www.usarchy.com Ruben Timmerman wrote a nice article about the 10 basic rules to make your site search engine friendly(dutch) . The article is dutch so for my english users I shortly describe his article.

(more…)

Most people think good coding and a nice design is the most important part to make a great success of a website. I agree these things are important, but usability is just as important.

I just finished my book from Steve Krug (If you like the book by it from his websites he earns more) and there are a bunch of nice tips and examples of usability. Now I will try to give some nice usability tips assisted with a few examples.

Why is Usability so important? If your site is one big mess with a lot of words and with a hard to understand navigation the frustration grows. If the frustration gets to much they will leave, and with some people this means that they will decide in a split second.

(more…)