Matt / February 29, 2008, 10:05 am
OK, this is a pretty boring tip but it’s saves me a few minutes of tracking down URLs every time I want to compare something across several websites.
I use the “Bookmark All Tabs” functionality in Firefox to save the state of a competitive audit. This allows me to return to it later (or after Firefox crashes) by using “Open All in Tabs,” which loads all competitors’ websites at once.
Here’s how to do it:
- Open a new window in Firefox, create a new tab for each competitor you’re examining
- Go to
Bookmarks > Bookmark All Tabs... and save the set of tabs
- When you need to re-open a competitive audit, navigate through the Bookmarks menu to your saved tabs and select
Open All in Tabs
- Happily resume auditing
This method has the added benefit of recording for posterity the sites you audited for a project.
Caleb / February 21, 2008, 3:28 pm
this is what happens when clients and vendors have a communication breakdown
Customer: ‘Yes, I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.’
Employee: ‘Whatchu want on da cake?’
Customer: ‘Best Wishes Suzanne.’ And underneath that ‘We will miss you’.
Caleb / February 7, 2008, 11:23 am
A website from Graydon Parrish, a painter, and Mikhail Simkin, an electrical engineer at UCLA, Donald Judd or Cheap Furniture challenges people to choose between the work of Donald Judd and furniture from Walmart. It’s an interesting concept to challenge one’s idea of design and attention to detail.
This reminds me of a time I went to my friend’s aunt house and said I thought something on her wall was from Ikea. She got very offended and yelled at me saying that it was from an Italian designer in the 70s and that she had paid a lot of money for it. I never assume something is from Ikea anymore.
Sadly, there is a dead give away to tell what the pieces are. I won’t tell you, but I got 100% right on the first try.
Matt / February 5, 2008, 5:40 pm
websitegrader.com
I haven’t used it enough to be sure whether I trust the numbers, but it’s the first site I’ve seen that tries to distill SEO down to a single number. It’s worth checking out.
