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Shopify Review: Create Your Own Online Store
Background: I agreed to design and launch a customized e-commerce store for a luxury menswear brand in just 3 days. My adorable client landed some very high profile press and wanted to maximize the exposure and get the cash register ringing. I’ve built many, many e-commerce sites and I prefer custom builds over hosted e-commerce [...]
Toolbox: Usability Engineering with a Card Sort
If you’ve ever done the card sort exercise, you will be interested in this idea: websort.net which uses Flash to create virtual cards and lets users perform the requisite task online.
Interesting idea. Great demonstration of using flash for good rather than evil.
My tip: instructions are sparse – hit the forum for the most helpful information.
Toolbox: Finding Competitive Intelligence Online
Want to know which sites your visitors are also visiting?
http://www.alexa.com
Who is linking to your competitor’s site, but not to yours?
http://www.linktree.info/
What is the overall visibility measure for your site?
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
Want all the gory details on a URL?
http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/
Toolbox: Generate Dummy Placeholder Text
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nulla in neque. Duis ultricies, nulla non hendrerit feugiat, nunc odio consequat sapien, id vestibulum orci lectus eget wisi. Donec porttitor tempor mauris. Sed massa purus, fringilla et, vestibulum ut, blandit eu, eros…
Look familiar? Lorem Ipsum, or Lipsum for short, is simply dummy text of the printing [...]