August 27, 2007 at 17:00 · Filed under Private
Let’s take a look at the elections with the eyes of the web-developer.
We’ll take a look at following parties: RV, SV, DNA, SP, KrF, V, H, Frp
I choose to focus on 4 areas, each of those will get a score -2(awfull), -1(bad), 0(neutral), 1(good), 2(excellent). The areas are:
1. Visual design
2. W3C conformation and source code
3. Ease of finding the “electoral promise”
4. Ease of finding of party’s vision and long term plan
Let’s start.
RV
1. -1: Boring visual
2. 0: No doc type, but they “play” HTML :-), just look at this 
The guys have sense of humor though
who disagrees :-)?
3. 0: Located in section “Useful”, one click away from the front page leading to a pdf document :-(
4. 1: Second link from top to the right, one click away from the front page, not bad at all.
RV Total: 0;
SV
1. 1: Actually not that bad, could give them 2 if it were not those red boxes at the end of the page and sesam search field at the top :-)
2. 0: they are on the way to writing better code, if they check it for missing closing tags, remove some inline css, etc
3. 2: In the middle of the front page, you hardly find better place
4. 2: In the middle of the front page, you hardly find better place
Total SV: 5.
DNA
1. 2: Very good visual
2. 0: Suffers from divitis, missing closing tags, but is on the way to good code
3. 0: Top banner is actually the thing, but I thought it was a top banner :-)
4. 0: Two clicks away from the front page, starting with first link in the left menu.
Total DNA: 2
SP
1. 1: Three pictures of Aslaug Haga on the front page is too much of a good thing :-)
2. -1: it looked to be 0 for inline css, nonlimited use of br tags, etc, but then I spotted font tags and tables :-( grrr and it functions bad in firefox
3. 1: One click from the front page, though the link is not very descriptive
4. 0: There are two-three links that talks about the same and could be counted as “the thing”, why not say that in plain text and have only one?
Total SP: 1
KrF
1. 0: white text on white stripes does not work very well
2. -2: Tables, deprecated tags… Looks like web-designers at KrF just stumbled upon FrontPage :-) Wake up, it’s 2007 out there.
3. -2: Didn’t find one. At all… Seriously…
4. 1: One click away from the front page
I’ve seen this too much during my surfing
P.S. And it’s god damn sloooow.
P.P.S. Have you seen your fonts in FireFox? Neither did I, had no microscope.
Venstre
1. 0: You have to do something about fonts.
2. 1: Wow. It actually validates!!! MediaFront has sold their ability to make flash where the client needed web-design. Let’s see what google sees on front page:
I think Venstre will have problems getting new votes: they are not even on the first page for search “venstre politisk parti” on google. But the main site is good.
3. 0: you are actually coming to the election version of website, and have to click to come to the normal one
4. 0: three to ten clicks away, depending on how fast you realize that there are two versions of the website :-)
Total V: 1
Høyre
1. 1: Pretty good visually, would have been 2, if they had removed the banner on the right side.
2. 2: Hey, this one validates too :-) P.S. one typo: atl instead of alt, but we forget this.
3. 1: One click away, though the link name could be more descriptive
4. 2: Right on spot. Two clicks away and the choices you make are very logical.
Total Høyre: 6
FrP
1. 1: Nice visual, fonts chosen did not allow to give 2.
2. 0: well, there are other tags then div’s, you know.
3. -1: When clicking on link with the right name to see their “election promise” I was greeted with “access denied” (ingen tilgang) :-) he he, do they have something to hide? Though I could download a pdf version
4. 1: This one worked as intended, two clicks away from the front page.
Total Frp: 1.
Well, the web-developer votes Høyre this year.
August 26, 2007 at 13:27 · Filed under Linux
For those of you who want to use ctwm window manager on ubuntu.
I installed ctwm and was surprised that it did not show up among other sessions in the login screen of gdm.
With a little research I found that all you have to do is:
- cd /usr/share/xsessions
- copy one of those existing_session.desktop files I’ve chosen Fvwm.desktop: cp Fvwm.desktop ctwm.desktop
- edit this new file, exchanging Fvwm with ctwm everywhere: sudo vi ctwm.desktop
- restart and enjoy ctwm
January 22, 2007 at 22:13 · Filed under Design, Web-sites, Private
I tried installing a WordPress plugin today that should show random picasa albums (Picasa Web Matrix was choosen for the task). Of some reasons it did not work :-(, so I had to dig into code myself. Found out that probably google have changed the structure of the feed, so some minor changes should be done in the source in order to get it working.
If you need a solution drop me a notice, I share mine :-)
I’ll play a bit with WP widgets so I removed my old theme (it was to old for widget to work), and replaced it with one distributed with WP 2.0.7.
Let’s stick to this for a while.
January 22, 2007 at 1:01 · Filed under Private
One more gadget in my collection at home is this beatiful Network Storage device with a capacity of slightly over 1Tb :-)
It took a night to build RAID5, and another 15 hours to transfer everything from two external hard disks, but after that… it’s only joy. It runs scielently
I never felt so secure about my work related data, family pictures and videos, etc
January 22, 2007 at 0:56 · Filed under Private
I’ve been shown a little video by a friend of mine and just want to share this one with you.
Enjoy beatifull music and amazing 3d graphics.
October 22, 2006 at 14:02 · Filed under Design, Web-sites, Search
Well if you ever wondered why there was so scilent here I tell you. We were intensively working on redesigning www.kvasir.no so I simply did no have time.
Now things are finally falling into the right place (still som bugs to fix) but you can check it out and make a seach.
By the way, it’s one of the first major Norwegian Internet services that validate XHTML Strict :-). Something I’m very proud to announce here.
June 27, 2006 at 20:24 · Filed under Private
Have you ever caught yourself trying to remember a password when asked and then being not able to answer? I did. Not only once. And the strangest thing is that I simply do not remember the password. I have typed it so many times that at the end it sits in my fingers. The mind gets rid of unnecessary information counting many of those passwords as such. And we have it there: I can logon into many web-services correctly typing something that I do not remember. This is the best kind of security one can get isn’t it :-)?
There is surely a research done in this field so if you know an interesting link, please drop me a line in the comments.
June 18, 2006 at 14:44 · Filed under Design
Indeed, following ideology: color by itself does not mean anything! Nothing. At all. All taks about some colors not harmonizing with others or meaning something without the surrounding context is shamanism worse then horoscope.
“Red means danger” says a man that in the morning had eaten a tomato with fortitude without trembling. “Black is too obscure” - says another who read black letters in his morning newspaper and were laughing. “Grey is boring” - compains third. You are boring! Look at Baster Kiton. He is all grey but much funnier then you are. “Blue symbolize hope, green renewal” - designer talks nonsense. Please… designer… stop this and tell the client here are 16 millions colors point your finger. We will color it any color but delete button remains red (by the way, the client never argues that one :-)).
When I hear that red and green do not harmonize I go mad. Look at the freaking range of strawberries you moron!
June 16, 2006 at 2:01 · Filed under Web-sites, Private
I have made changes to the design of this blog throwing away old theme and making a new one. Pretty happy with one. Enjoy.
May 3, 2006 at 22:19 · Filed under SEM & SEO
Often I find myself analyzing the ad, thinking of relevancy towards my query (or page I’m on), etc all this in a blink of an eye and then suddenly I start using ages (comparatively to the milliseconds that went on the previous step) and my thoughts are very strange:
…how much money this guy makes from his blog…
…how much will my click cost the advertiser and how much money will the page owner get…
…these guys are offering a good product I rather type their url directly to the address bar and save them some cents/bucks…
…this is totally unrelevant and done on purpose by the advertiser, I’ll click and leave just to tap their budget…
And the best part is that I actually do all those things :-). I click on unrelevant ads, I type straight into the address bar etc… Am I the only one being such a #%¤& ? Did you find yourself doing same things, thinking the same? Is it all about how much you know about the Internet marketing? Have I been too much on the net?
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