280 slides; make online presentations

September 15th, 2008

You want to make a presentation whenever and wherever you like? 280 slides might be your solution. No software, no installation or costs. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection. Choose different background themes or layouts and enjoy the extensive media features. You can download pictures or movie fragments and place them directly into your presentation. This online slides editor has limited utilities compared to PowerPoint. Nevertheless you can export your presentation in PowerPoint format or PDF and share it online with whomever you like. Or just watch it on your computer in presentation mode…

Evernote: a backup for your brain

August 18th, 2008

Evernote wants to be a database for every bit of knowledge in your life.
It allows you to capture information from web pages, your camera, mobile phone or web cam and takes all of the digital data you collect throughout your day to store it in a centrally located database.
You can tag items and add comments to remind yourself why you saved something. Thanks to the image recognition software, everything you enter is now fully searchable and accessible online or offline.


Viewzi: a new way of searching

August 3rd, 2008

From the most recent search engines that we heard about and that we tested we can say that Viewzi is the most promising. Compared to Guil, the self-declared Google killer Viewzi has many different views to present search results. And in that way it’s a revolutionary way of searching. At Antroad we fully support Viewzi in its search to become more known. And as they say, it’s all about the views… So give it a try…

Silverback: Usability testing

July 27th, 2008

Silverback is a quick and easy to use solution to have a good indication of user friendliness. It registers both your view and actions at the same time in a archived file.

Making your own favicon

June 24th, 2008

When surfing to our website, you will see a small icon in your browser’s URL bar. This icon also appears when you use tabs or when you add our site to your bookmarks. Making an icon like this for your own site is fairly easy.

Open an image editing program like Photoshop, GIMP,… and make an image that’s 16 x 16 pixels. Make the icon the way you want. You can save it as a gif, jpg, png or bmp. Once you’ve done this, you surf to the FavIcon generator from Dynamic Drive. Browse through your files and upload the image you just saved. Afterwards, click “create icon”. The generator will make an icon from your images. Upload the FavIcon.ico to your server and add the code that you’ll find under the generator in your code.

Other interesting FavIcon sites:
Favicon.cc : make your FavIcon without opening an image editing program
MpP Favicon Gallery : an inspiring gallery full of beautiful FavIcons.

Web analytics

June 3rd, 2008

Google Analytics is one of the best tools to analyze the behaviour of your visitors.  Where do they come from, which keywords do they use, which buttons do they click,…  When you use Google Adwords there is no reason not to use Google Analytics because it tells you everything you want to know.

We now found a new tool that goes further then Google Analytics.  With Robot Replay you can capture all the mouse movements of your visitors.  Where do they spend the most time or where do they get lost or leave the site.  You can also check how they fill out forms, register or log in to your site.

It’s a great tool that allows you to monitor user behaviour on your website and shows you where you can improve your website usability.

Ajax loading images

May 20th, 2008

When you are building websites that are AJAX enabled, you probably want to show the user when something is loading in the background. Most of the time an animated gif is shown on screen. We found a helpful website where you can generate several animated loading gifs. You can select the colours and the type of the loading image. Your animated gif is generated and you can download and use it on your website!

You can find the AJAX loading gif generator here.

Web Developer Extension for FireFox

May 19th, 2008

If you are a web developer/designer there is a very useful extension available for your Firefox browser. The functionality we use most is the CSS edit tool. It allows you to alter CSS and to see the result directly on your screen. Moreover, there are some validation tools, that you can use to display a lot of detailed information about the html structure, elements and lots more.

You can find the tool at the website of the developer: Chris Pederick

Online Photoshop

May 16th, 2008

In the last year there’s been a remarkable evolution to use online versions of applications. Google has his own calendar, Excel and Word system, which are qualitative online applications for personal usage. Nowadays there is even an online Photoshop, named Splashup, which is available for professional usage. These applications demonstrate the upcoming online programs. The client applications as we’ve used so far, will eventually disappear.

Music On Demand - Deezer

May 7th, 2008

You can listen to full albums of any artist by surfing to Deezer.com. Recently they came up with a stable version with a very good sound.