Birger Hartung

A geomap is a map of a country, continent, or region map, with colors and values assigned to specific regions. Values are displayed as a color scale, and you can specify optional hovertext for regions. The map is rendered in the browser using an embedded Flash player. Note that the map is not scrollable or draggable, but can be configured to allow zooming. - Birger Hartung

ISO 3166-1 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. The official name of the standard is Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes. It defines three sets of country codes:[1] - Birger Hartung

We're currently working with a dozen different clients, all web application (re)designs. All of these clients have data rich applications and need equally rich data visualizations to help their end customers analyze data quickly and effectively. What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight. - Birger Hartung

Create and share micro podcasts, images and text updates - Birger Hartung

Though grid layouts may not be new to print design and certainly not design in general, CSS grid systems are still somewhat new to the field of web development. CSS grid systems allow the developer to easily and quickly markup and create structured, grid styled websites and layouts. Each grid systems has its pros and cons, and different ways of accomplishing goals. Today, we'll review 10 amazing CSS grid systems. - Birger Hartung

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed real time reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more. - Birger Hartung

It's tough out there. There is no shortage of information on the web, and no shortage of tools with which to consume it, whether you're on your couch, at your desk, or on foot somewhere in between. As a card-carrying member of the digital revolution, you should therefore be well-versed in the available news media at your disposal. Hacking though the weeds to find the most interesting and relevant things for you remains the primary challenge in this day and age. - Birger Hartung

Today we have a review of some of the additional design features you may wish to consider adding to your blog in order to make it visually more appealing and also to make for a better overall user experience. I get a lot of emails about design – it appears most people can install a nice wordpress blog – especially when using the easy install feature that is available on the Cpanel at Hostgator.com and adding themes such as those available at Woothemes.com - Birger Hartung

ince 2007, every year I do a round up of best of CSS from Best Web Gallery (check out 07 and 08 collection). Well, it is the time of the year again — Best of CSS Design 2009. This year I’ve selected another 50 nicely designed web sites. Among the list, I notice a lot of them are minimalistic design with beautiful serif fonts. The grungy and sketchy styles are still strong. However, the large background is no longer as hot as in 2008, instead, texturized background is popular in 2009. - Birger Hartung

In my previous post titled "Top 15 Web Metrics" I wanted to share with you some useful web metrics which should be tracked for a classified (e-commerce) site with a free analytics tool such as Google Analytics. This time, I'd like to focus more on tracking KPIs related to SEO. Why? You'll all probably agree with me that: - Birger Hartung

ProjectSpaces is a simple, secure, and powerful online workspace and extranet tool to help your project teams, workgroups, committees, partners, and others easily connect, share and collaborate. It provides a flexible set of online project management and community features to help busy groups of people manage documents, coordinate projects and activities, and share knowledge and information. - Birger Hartung

FormSpring's easy form builder gives businesses and organizations an easy way to build any type of online form, integrate it with their website and begin collecting data. Once you have started collecting that data you can use the information you gathered in our online database or export it. With FormSpring anyone can build all types of web forms, collect data online and do it simply and efficiently. - Birger Hartung

This is a real-time analytics tool working towards private beta which helps businesses understand where their cloud computing costs are going. This hopefully saves them from the shock of a massive bill when those PUT and GET requests come thick and fast. This is pretty exciting stuff, when you consider that Amazon itself doesn’t have a solution like this for its own customers. In addition to giving clear graphical breakdowns (including by application type and node) of where users’ cloud spend is actually going, CloudSplit offers a real-time control and budgeting service via alerts and cut off mechanisms. - Birger Hartung

Tigerlily offers a white label Facebook Page management system that makes community management a heck of a lot easier than Facebook intended. In essence, the tool set encompasses flexible contest and quiz widgets to customize a Facebook Page, and is targeted at media groups, large brands and their agencies and marketers. The FPMS uses ‘Share’ buttons on the individual items, encouraging conversation around posts. There’s a free and pro version, with the latter sold on the basis of an annual licence fee. Orange France is among the early pro users. - Birger Hartung