many of you know the f-shaped pattern in which visitors look at your webpage. Jakob Nielsen describes it on his weblog.
There is however something else you should keep in mind when thinking about your ad placement.

Thanks to Seth Godin.
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You can obtain input and information from your visitors from website forms. Such forms may have text areas and input fields for usernames, passwords, e-mail addresses, etc.
The website should check the provided input and determine if it validates based on a pre determined set of rules. E-mail addresses should for example contain a “@” and […]

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Since a few days, my Google analytics graph is running behind. I contacted the Dutch Google Analytics team and received a message that this is normal because the data is not real time. However, until a few days ago, my Google Analytics graph ran up to and including the selected day. What is happening here?
Google […]

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Recently I came across a discussion about the comparison between a book and a website. The main point of this discussion was the use of a welcome text in a similar way as a foreword in a book.
Thinking about this discussion I would like to digg a little bit deeper into the comparison […]

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Did you ever wonder if you were the only one having that spike in traffic? Would it not be nice if Google Analytics would show you how other sites are performing? Google Analytics is now implementing the benchmark function into Google Analytics.
Benchmark your own website
Take for example the screenshot to the left (taken from the […]

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There are many alternatives that may replace the unreadable captcha or make it more reader friendly. Some of these alternatives can be used without the user noticing, the non interactive alternatives. Others are just variations of the reverse Turing test of which the captcha is also an example. Although I realize that these alternatives are […]

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I think that captchas will drive away some of your visitors. Captchas are irritating, annoying and damage user experience.
Most of the times, Captchas are used to prevent spammers to use automated programs to insert spam into your websites. This is a good reason to use a captcha as long as it is effective against spam.
I […]

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