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11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits. The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits.
These best practices serve as a foundation for upgrading your website to be compatible with the Social Web and are then elaborated upon in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Online Fundraising and e-Newsletters. Also, Defenders of Wildlife is listed as an “Example of Excellence” in the book. You can view their website at defenders.org. 11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits The rise of social media and mobile technology has changed the way people process information. Your supporters also now expect a more social experience from your website. 1. The home page of today should have large, powerful images and minimal text. 2. A good Content management System (CMS) will take care of this for you. 3. Write for Web 2.0! 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Articles and information pages that are text-only tend to overwhelm visitors. 10. 11. Grunge In Web Design: Samples And Best Practices.
With the major focus for web design lately shifting to the minimal designs, apple inspired designs and clean cut layouts, it’s about time someone stands up and showcases the awesomeness that is grunge!
I guess I’ll have to be that person today :) Grunge has undoubtedly become my favorite form of design and I know Matt Brett can say the same as well. I believe though that a lot of people misinterpret grunge as being sloppy and unappealing – which is the furthest thing from the truth. So today I want to showcase the best practices and examples of grunge in web design. Feel free to read the article over and leave your thoughts in the comments at the end of the article – we love your opinions here and value your input. Grunge and Grids This section will kill off the doubters who say that grunge is sloppy and it can’t be controlled in web design. Ryan Dean-Corke ↓ Mindutopia ↓ Web Development & Design Foundations with HTML5, 6th Edition. Missing Persons Alert: Analytics Superhuman. Andrew Edwards | February 13, 2012 | 9 Comments inShare29 Companies looking for the caped crusader of analytics are probably hoping in vain.
I need to file a missing persons report on the following individual, last seen in the mind's eye of a human resources director looking to hire an "analytics person": Age: YoungishHeight: Able to see over the horizonWeight: Big and brawny due to accumulated multi-disciplinary knowledge including business acumen, big data analysis, analytics tool expertise, mastery of social media (in whatever form that takes at the moment), very deep and flawless knowledge of several programming languages, ability to create beautiful presentations targeted at senior executives, possession of charming personality, and ability to answer arcane, unanswerable questions in real timeHair: May have fallen out due to excessive brain-heatClothes: Stylish, and includes jetpack, night vision goggles, and multi-channel communications deviceHave you seen this individual?
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Not bad eh? The passing score is 75%. So thought I’d post some tips here while the exam questions are still fresh in my mind. You have 2 hours to complete the exam (more than enough) and there’s 70 questions that consist of multiple choice, true/false and select all that applies type questions. Basically the trickiest one I found was the select all that applies type questions. Materials To Go Through – Conversion University Before you start the GAIQ exam, make sure you go through the materials at Google’s conversion university – especially the ones that you don’t know much about. The ones that I think will be handy are: Knowledge To Learn In my opinion, these are some of the things you should’ve had some experience implementing before doing the test. Handy Links Here are some handy links that you should have open during the test: Adwords Information Conclusion.