Category: User Experience
Google Analytics and Rails in 60 Seconds
July 8th, 2009, 3 Comments
This quick post will show you how to install Google Analytics into your Rails powered website in less than 60 seconds.
Before I start, I need to ask you…
In real terms, what is each visitor to your website worth? Do you know? Would you like to find out how you can find out?
What is [...]
Correct Format Plugin Released
July 4th, 2009, Comments Off
I have released a new Plugin for Rails, called Correct-Format.
Github URL: github.com/mendable/correct-format
This plugin allows you to automatically correct simple user input mistakes
and format user-input without raising an ActiveRecord Error and without
inserting inconsistently formatted data into your database. Using this
plugin will enhance the usability and user-friendlyness of your application
and increase your data integrity.
You can automatically:
Make a [...]
Nudge Book and User-Website Interactions
June 18th, 2009, Comments Off
I have been reading the book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness recently.
The book talks about how “choice architects” can make small changes to the way choices are presented (in every day life) and have a huge impact on the choices that people make.
What I found particularly interesting is how many [...]
Setting User’s Locale Based on Domain Name In Rails
June 18th, 2009, 2 Comments
In this tutorial I will show how you can quickly set the user’s locale based on the domain name they use to access your website. Let us assume you have your app, and you also own your own domain in several different country TLD’s, let’s say, you have example.com (main site), example.co.uk, example.fr, example.it example.es, [...]
