Link Sharing Blog. Links to Source Codes, Tutorials, Bookmarks, Downloads. Does virus marketing really help to sell? Till the Music Business (tough by F.Selden) lesson on Friday I was absolutely sure, that virus marketing is one of the best advertising ways to talk with people and that you should definitely include it, writing a new advertising plan campaign for some product/ service/ music group or etc. Why? Because virus marketing has a dozen of good points. Here is my list of some of them: Virus marketing provides an opportunity to break through traditional advertising fuss and gives an opportunity to reach audience more effectively; If you are using virus marketing than product/service etc. don’t need to have resounding features to increase its visibility and create noise, because virus marketing already consists of communication components causing surprise and interest; Unlike traditional advertising, virus marketing is not intrusive.
On the contrary, people are willing to watch them in Internet and if it really works, then send this link to other Internet users. BUT! That’s all! P.S. Twhirl or Twitterific, which one's better? :: Free Tech Support from Ask Dave Taylor! Dedicated Hosting, SharePoint Hosting, Data Centre Solutions, Database Services & More. STANZA. The Central City projects. Version 6. 2004. Intelligent Experience Design » Articles » Dealing with Radical User Experience Redesigns.
In my last article ‘Radical Redesigns May Be Dangerous,’ I wrote about the potential hazards of drastic changes to existing user experiences. In a poorly executed redesign, these pitfalls can turn away hard-won users (customers). In this article, I explore ways that radical redesigns can be successfully implemented, so fewer existing users leave, and more new users can benefit from the improvements.
Unfortunately, the truth is that almost all user experience redesigns will be unpopular with some people. The more substantial the changes, the greater is the possibility that it will strike discord with users, causing them to abandon the product or service. The good thing is that there are measures that can be taken during design and implementation to increase acceptance of the new design and ease adoption. The Roots of Displeasure Any redesign inherently carries four difficulties for users.
AnxietyShockDisappointmentConfusion Anxiety arises because users are not sure what to expect. Design Patterns: Architecture of an Autonomous Application. Design Patterns Architecture of an Autonomous Application Sten Sundblad and Per Sundblad No man is an island. That's even true of developers. Software architects, designers, and developers need to communicate with each other in order to be successful. The same is true with applications. This isn't so anymore.
Obviously, when we architect and design applications, we should consider this need for integration across computing platforms. What Is a Fiefdom? A service should be a completely autonomous application. Pat Helland, an architect at Microsoft, was one of the first people to talk about autonomous applications, but he's not the only one anymore.
A fiefdom keeps, manages, guards, and protects its main resource—its data. A fiefdom doesn't allow an outsider to put a lock on any of its data. Most fiefdoms insist on managing their own transactions. An example of a compensating transaction is one that follows the Web Services Transactions specification, Part II: Business Activity (BA). Webcreatives. Tag - Flash. Free CSS lessons. Learn CSS. Intro to Cascading Style Sheets. Presents Enterprise 2.0. Reference Guides > Web Design & Development. Beekeeper Recording. Optimizing a website for mobile devices - Modern Nomads. Mobile browsers are growing rapidly and a lot of webmasters start to wonder how optimize their website for these new users. First there are some general rules of thumb which you do have to take into account for mobile users, then there are some decission to be made how to allow access to mobile users.
A point of special consideration, before you start designing your website, is how you would like to allow mobile users to access your page. There are several options, ranging from automatic generation of mobile pages under the same URL's to having dedicated mobile pages to even having special (sub)domains for mobile devices. The way you want to deal with the pages in your domain greatly impacts the way you design the mobile webpages. Using the same URL for both the mobile and desktop version has huge benefits. Adding a specific subdomain ( mobile is most commonly used, resulting in mobile.yourcompany.tld ) to your site is another way of opening your website for mobile users. Meta-tags. Blogs For Money - Make money with Google AdWords and Amazon Associates. Below the Fold, Size Doesn't Matter.
The ClickTale Blog has some valuable insight regarding page length and visitor interaction. According to ClickTale, total page length is not a strong factor in terms of how many people will scroll below the fold or reach the bottom of page. The average location for the fold is between 430 and 860 pixels down on the page.76% of people will scroll below the fold.15-22% of people will reach the bottom of the page.64-68% of people will reach the halfway point of a page.91% of pages are long enough to require scrolling. This makes me wonder whether the same groups of people make it to the bottom of the page, regardless of where their web surfing takes them. This appears to relate to how different personality types interact with the web. As the ClickTale article suggests, people are scanning and skimming a page’s content regardless of its size. But keep in mind, shorter pages did perform slightly better. Bottom line: If you have good, well-formated web copy, they will scroll.
15 Design Decisions That Annoy Readers. I usually view a lot of sites when trying to come up with inspiration for a new design. After recently re-designing a site and creating a WordPress theme from scratch, I thought I’d share a couple design decisions I found annoying. It should be noted that this article is a combination of two articles I wrote over at the Reader Appreciation Project regarding annoying design decisions, so a lot of the annoyances mentioned here are directly from reader feedback. Pop-Ups Let’s face it. In-text advertising is annoying. An example I came across (unfortunately no screenshot) is when you hover over a link and it displays, “You have the nth most popular outgoing link.” Another example of pop-ups is in-text advertising. Turning Off the Time Stamp on Posts Erica says, When I find a blog with no time stamp, I feel conned.Read the full comment. Rory Sullivan lays it out when he tells his readers that taking the time stamp off on a blog post is like public speaking with one hand in your pocket.
Flash Players - Accessibility Examples. Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up. Advertisement Web 2.0 can be beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you are planning on designing a web 2.0-project, you probably should know how and where to start from. Badges, Gradients, Mirror and Shadow Effects as well as Shiny and Glassy buttons are trendy. But do you know exactly how to design them?
We’ve collected over 65 tutorials, references and related resources, which are supposed to help you to create graphics in Web 2.0-Look. P.S: We’d like to thank to Leandro D’ Onofrio, whose efforts inspired us to create this round-up. Visual effects 1. 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Logos, Logotypes 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 22. 23. 24. web2logo.com 26. Text Effects 27. 28. 29. 31. 32. 33. 34.
Badges 35. 37. 38. 39. 40. Buttons 41. 42. 44. 45. 46. 47. Web 2.0 Layouts, Gradients, Headers 50. 51. 54. 55. 56. 59. 60. 61. Web 2.0 Round-Up 62. 63. dHTML Tutorials, dHTML Information, dHTML Help. This is the first part of the tutorial for building native mobile application based on AngularJS framework, HTML5 markup and CSS styles. The second tutorial part can be found by following the link. I have recently started using AngularJS a JavaScript tool set for building HTML5 applications. As we are covering cross platform mobile application development here on htmlcenter, I decided to write a tutorial and share my experiences while using powerful and quite easy to understand AngularJS MVC structure for developing cross platform mobile applications.
This tutorial is about how to build Angular powered HTML5 mobile application, wrap it up with PhoneGap and distribute as a native mobile app (on several mobile platforms if you wish so). What we are going to cover? First, we will briefly explore what is AngularJS (however, this tutorial is not about learning the basics), we are going to pick Ratchet as a front end framework for our HTML5 mobile application and create MVC structure. <!