QR Codes - The Best and The Worst QR codes have been gaining in popularity in Europe & the US over the past years. Commonly used throughout Eastern Asia – including Japan and China – their uptake in the Western world has been a little slower. However, with everyone starting to jump on the band wagon, we look at a few examples of where businesses got it right, and wrong. The Big Mistakes 1. Seems obvious right… Yea, some of the worst throughout QR codes are ones that go to flash sites (I’ve seen this with plenty of alcohol brands who look to look great but they’ve just lost the iPhone/iPad audience). 2. Kind of the same as above but a bad mobile experience is as bad (or potentially worst) than just a blank screen. 3. These things can be designed people, stop chucking ugly black QR codes on your beautifully designed packaging! 4. Duh. 5. In the subway, no-one can hear you scan a QR code. The Good…. Real Estate A really good use of QR codes is in real estate – you drive past a house and want more details. At Events The Bad…
30 things you need to do to be a great web developer - Web Development - Seopher.com Posted on Monday 26th of September 2011 at 12:44 in Web Development I'm forever being asked what it takes to be a web developer; and it's not as complicated as it might seem. Learning a subset of the overall skills will get you hired, while a good attitude will keep you employed. But is that really all it takes? Clearly not. I seem to be in a perpetual cycle of interviewing candidates to join the team, vetting contractors, rejecting freelancers and fixing other peoples problems. Core skills I'm not even going to discuss the concept of core skills. Accessibility and SEO I maintain that good SEO is a bi-product of strong accessibility adherence. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Security Every single developer needs to know a basic amount of security stuff; otherwise every site you build will get hacked. 6. 7. 8. 10. User experience, wireframes and basic interaction This is one of those areas that developers either don't have an aptitude for, or simply don't enjoy. 11. 12. 14. 15. Testing and risk management 16.
How Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education In 2008, Sal Khan had a bright future making millions as a hedge fund manager. He gave it up to produce low-budget math films on YouTube for free. Fortunately, hidden among his millions of loyal students, were the wealthiest of educational philanthropists, Bill Gates and the Google Foundation. Now, with a whole lot of cash and even more street cred, Khan aims to demote the institution of "school" to just one of many educational options. Beginnings Khan Academy, the YouTube open-course series, began as verbal contract with a 7th-grade girl. Since YouTube encouraged universal access, Khan thought “Why not? “Random people started watching it, and I started getting good feedback,” Khan tells Fast Company. The Success Factor and Company Growth To his amazement, the videos were far more popular than his dedicated tutoring sessions. Five years and dozens of lessons later, the YouTube series was reaching tens of thousands of views a day. The Motivation Changes to the System
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Beyond YouTube: Turning Video Viewers Into Customers - Smb - Two SMBs dissatisfied with a lack of tangible return from their online video audiences went looking for an alternative to YouTube. Here's what they found. 5 Social Networks To Achieve 10 Business Tasks (click image for larger view and for slideshow) So your YouTube video was a hit. Some viewers probably gave it a thumbs-up or left a comment. The safe bet? YouTube's sheer size--800 million unique visitors watch more than three billion hours of video there each month--is both a blessing and a curse for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). "YouTube is about YouTube," said Tom Telford, CEO of Cedar Creek Cabin Rentals, in an interview. Telford sees online video as a must-have means for engaging potential customers--especially in his high-end travel business. [ Drive more traffic to your website with SEO For SMBs: 7 Timely Tips. ] Another Viewbix user, Aish.com, has had its share of YouTube hits. "That was the biggest thing. SMBs have saved big buying software on a subscription model.
Media :: Developers :: We Buy iPhone Apps! We works with App Developers to Market and Promote their Apps. No costs to the App Developers Who is Wizzard Media? We are the largest podcasting company in the world, with over 1.64 Billion downloads in 2010, mostly via iTunes. That's over 4 million a day! Our new media network consists of 15,000 podcast producers and our Podcast listeners & viewers are familiar with iTunes, enthusiastic about new media, early adaptors with disposable income. Our studies show that the people who are active in iTunes for podcasting are a perfect target audience for app promotion. Meme Creation Resources To Start You On Your Way To Internet Fame Posted by Jared Carrizales on Wednesday, July 4, 2012 · 1 Comment inShare Move over infographics, it’s time for memes to have their 15 minutes of fame. With the successes of companies like Virgin Media, SEOmoz, and even schools like ASU and the University of Wyoming, marketers have started to ride the meme wave. Unfortunately, creating the next “Success Kid” or “The Most Interesting Man In The World” is probably going to take some creativity-or at the very least a flash of genius. Meme Generators These are very straight forward and easy to get started. Know Your Meme Cheezburger Quick Meme Meme Generator Motivator Making Your Meme Once you have your generator of choice picked out, it becomes a matter of finding a meme that will compliment an idea that you have. A Brief Overview of Internet Memes & How You Can Quickly Create Your Own 5 Internet Websites And Tools To Create Meme Comics Making A Meme Comic With Rage Builder Marketing Your Meme How To Use Memes To Build Easy Backlinks and Traffic
New elements in HTML 5 Development of HTML stopped in 1999 with HTML 4. The W3C focused its efforts on changing the underlying syntax of HTML from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to XML, as well as completely new markup languages like Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XForms, and MathML. Browser vendors focused on browser features like tabs and RSS readers. Web designers started learning CSS and the JavaScript™ language to build their own applications on top of the existing frameworks using Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax). But HTML itself grew hardly at all in the next eight years. Recently, the beast came back to life. This new version of HTML—usually called HTML 5, although it also goes under the name Web Applications 1.0—would be instantly recognizable to a Web designer frozen in ice in 1999 and thawed today. At the same time, this proverbial unfrozen caveman Web designer would encounter some new and confusing elements. That's not a happy coincidence. Structure Listing 1. Listing 2. aside mark
Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers The project 'Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on this page, has a new url ( a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources. The reason for changing the basic concept of this project was a huge number of suggestions and links, which have overflooded my mailbox recently. Over the last few days, a new project was created and updated. The old version (which also will be updated in future) is still available on the page "Bookmarks: Maxi edition". Please update your bookmarks! How did it begin? This page is actualized once a week. This list was created with the help of many web designers and enthusiasts from Germany and United States, but mostly it was created by myself. Thanks!
CSS Tutorial Eight Easy Backlinks from Social Media Profiles | Hostway Web Resources | Hostway Web Solutions Link-building is one of the most important activities you can do to maximize search engine optimization (SEO) for your website; it’s also one of the most daunting. Luckily, there are dozens of sites you’re likely already familiar with that can get you started. These sites provide dofollow links – also called backlinks – which incorporate HTML markup that informs the search engines to follow the destination inside the link. With the ability to influence the target page’s PageRank, dofollow links require minimal effort and, for the most part, are under your control. Dofollow links offer a wealth of benefits: They help improve indexing when good quality links are created;They increase credibility and ranking in search engines;They boost traffic to your website. Many sites alternatively use nofollow links, so it’s imperative to understand the difference between the two. Google+: On Google+, not all links are created equal. Republication Requests Interested in republishing a Hostway article?
10 Websites Every Web Designer Should Know About There are a number of websites that you, as a web designer, will use on a daily basis making life easier and making you more efficient. Here is a list of 10 websites (in no particular order) that I find useful and am constantly using. I'm also interested in what websites you swear by and use all the time, so please share in the comments below. 1. iStockphoto iStockphoto is a collection of royalty free photos, illustrations, video and audio. iStockphoto saves you time and money. I find it really useful for illustration graphics. 2. Checks the availability of domain names using Ajax. Very handy when you have a brain wave and need to check if the domain name is available. 3. Smashing Magazine is the ultimate web design blog. If you need to know how to do something, or need some inspiration, Smashing Magazine will undoubtedly have an article on it somewhere. 4. A question and answer site for programmers. 5. SEOmoz is one of the best search engine optimisation related websites on the net. 6. 7. 8.
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