Andrew Maxwell

Web designer in Portland, Oregon

Entries for the ‘Web’ Category

Better Access To The Evernote Trunk on Mobile Phones, iPad and Netbooks

Recently Evernote came out with a great feature called the “Trunk”. This feature is basically an app store for Evernote. Well if you have an iPad, mobile phone, netbook or any other kind of mobile device you probably can’t get access to the Trunk, or if you can it is limited due to the size [...]

Find A Problem On The Web?

This year I have been trying to make a point to participate in making the web a better place. I know there are a lot of tools and websites out there, and many of us use these on a daily basis, but how often do we notice a bug, or an issue and just move on?

Google Buzz Up – Portland, Oregon

I’ve been talking about Google Buzz now for a few months and now it is time to take it up a notch. I am organizing a Google Buzz meet up here in Portland Oregon. The meet up will be Saturday, July 24th.

Communication: A Must For Any Website

Being a web developer I use many websites on a daily basis, some for my social needs like Google Buzz, Twitter, Facebook and even Youtube and others for News, like Google Reader, NY Times and the local TV news. What do these sites have in common? Almost all of them have no way for a [...]

Problems With Google Buzz Mobile

In response to the positive feedback that I got from my previous article, from both Buzz users and the Google Buzz Team, I decided to explore the mobile version more and give my opinion on it as well. Below you will find things that I think could be ironed out further to make the mobile [...]

Free Project Planning Software: Wireframes and Flow Diagrams

Over the past few years that I have been doing freelance work I have come across a handful of tools which allow me to create wireframes,  flow diagrams and general project plans. Most of these tools are free, but tend to give you a limited number of features. April 12th 2010 this has all changed.

The Proper Way to Repost on Google Buzz

I started using Google Buzz about a month ago and from the very beginning I wanted to share articles with other readers. Sometimes the articles I wanted to share would only show up in my Buzz stream. Google Buzz is still new so there is no standard way to repost an article, since there is [...]

Is Google Helping All Users? Or Hurting The One’s Who Use Their Tools For Good?

Reading the article “Rely heavily on Google Analytics? You won’t like this.” got me to really think. I understand that Google is trying to do the right thing for all users, even the paranoid ones, but this seems to be sort of an issue for anyone who is actually trying to improve their website for [...]

How To Make Usability Testing Fun: A Usability Testing Method

Website usability testing is something that should be done by any major web development company, or freelancer.

Evernote Search Feature Built Into Chrome

Last week Evernote released instructions to add the ability to search your notes using the search bar in Google Chrome.