Karl's Blog

Copy writing for the web, the “Gran Torino effect”, google search in 2010 and screencasting. All of that in my first mini-poadcast.

• Words are the soul of UX
• How to write for the web: 23 useful rules
• Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched
• Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting

My comments about these links in audio format (3:15):

PD: This is my first mini-poadcast, someone called me in the middle of it but I’m definitely not recording another one, it doesn’t need to be perfect. I also noticed that I make funny pauses when I speak english, specially with the “aaaannnnd” :). Hint: turn off skype or office communicator while recording audio.

Yesterday I went to an event for web professionals in Madrid called First Tuesday, the main topic to be discussed was SEO. By the end they had 4 experts in SEO answering questions, and one question was raised: “How HTML5 will affect SEO?”. For my surprise silent took over the place, none of them wanted or knew how to answer this question.

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• Information overload is not the problem – Very good article, couldn’t agree more. If the design prioritize information it will never feel like information overload.
• CSS: A Little More on Less -An overview of LESS CSS, great tool for developing better css, I’ve been used for a month already and I loved it.
• Good Help is Hard to Find
• The Web Design Community Offers Advice To Beginners
  

Today Bonzzay (The web development company I run together with 3 other partners) released the first Beta version of DecidoKit. It’s a social network linked with Facebook designed to help people make decisions. We are working on improvements and soon we will start releasing more features. (more…)

Today I just moved all the code related to the Jquery Photo Tag Plugin to GitHub. Actually it’s my first time with GigHub but I think we’re going to have a great time together.

GitHub Project Home Page

I’m really looking forward to get more developers onboard to keep updating this plugin. If anyone would like to help please contact me.

UPDATE: You can get LESS working on your .NET projects easier by using the Nuget package dotless.

This week I’ve trying out LESS Css, it’s a great tool for creating dynamic css. Christopher Owen, Erik van Brakel, Daniel Hoelbling and James Foster created a version of the LESS compliler for .NET, but there are no instructions on how to implement it with ASP.NET MVC. So, here it goes:

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Update: Version 1.3 now compatible with jQuery 1.7 and jQuery UI 1.8. – release post.

This is a highly configurable photo tagging plugin. It has been used in Ikluu (Social Network for travelers). It’s primely for tagging people on photos but it can also be used to create notes, but you will need to adapt the form part a little bit. The code is really clean and easy to understand, it follows the jquery plugin recommendations. (more…)

I’m working on a social network project at this moment, I’m taking care of creating some  javascript (jQuery) + HTML + CSS components so the developers can use all those components without knowing why or how they work. One of the needs was to be able to create modal windows for warnings or even forms. (more…)