Archive for May, 2005
I Just came across this weblog analyzer.
It’s an analyzer, which displays usertrails in a graph. Very interesting if you want to know how your users tend to browser your webpage. Easy to install and easy to use. You just have to run a Makefile and run the program. There is an online helppage here.
I just managed to graph my webattitude on romazini.com. Now I just have to analyze the graph in details and make some improvements.
Even SSL can be handled. As ssl queries are storted in different files, I need first to merge the relevant access_logs.
An interesting thing is that Visitors can for example be used like this to analyze single users:
zcat access.log.*.gz|grep “cookie=mycookie” | visitors -
I just read this interesting book Defensive Design from 37signals.
They describe possible design improvements in 40 guidelines with a lot of dos and donts. It’s worth buying it. Here are some guidelines in a nutshell:
- Guideline 1: Give an error messag that’s noticeable at a glance
- Guideline 2: Use color, icons, and text to clearly highlight and explain the problem area
- Guideline 3: Always identify errors the same way
- Guideline 4: Eliminate the need for back-and-forth clicking
They developped guidelines in topics such as “Show the Problem”, “Language Matters”, “Bulletproof Forms”, “Missing in Action” and “Lend a Helping Hand” or “Search and Rescue”.
So be prepared to see some improvements on my wineshop soon!
I attended the EWZ Training Days last saturday. EWZ sponsors the Swiss triathletes and they organize workshops for everyone for FREE about how to find your optimal training! I can only recommend their workshops (if you life around zurich).
Last Saturday we learned and excercised a newer approach for mid- or longdistance jogging, which is also a training method for our triathletes:
- Warm-up with low speed for 15 minutes
- Repeat 3 times during 5 minutes: 15 sec full speed jogging, 15 sec low speed
- Make a 5 minute low speed recovering jogging during the 3 intervals
- Only do this kind of training max. once a week!
By using this kind of method your heart frequency will not drop during the short intervals but as you have some short recovering time, your body will produce less lactate. You are able to train for a longer period in heavy sessions (see also Trainingslehre1, slide 12).