Before and After Special Effects from Various Notable Scenes Special effects are crazy and if they’re overused, can be off-putting (I’m looking at your Star Wars Episodes 1-3). But used right, and special effects can make a scene and drastically reduce set budgets. Check out these before and after shots of rather notable sets that we stumbled upon, including a pair from everyone’s favorite zombie show, The Walking Dead. Related The Best Fstoppers’ Posts From January 2013 Your "Likes", "Tweets", comments and clicks all help us know which are our best posts of the month. In "FS News"
Naldz Graphics — All Designs, Graphics and Web Resources Trends | Web Design Ledger 847 shares Accessibility for Modern Responsive Website Layouts The older methods of web design have fallen by the wayside to make room for HTML5/CSS3 design. Read More 1843 shares Top Web Design Trends for 2015 There’s no clear-cut scientific formula to great design because it’s undoubtedly considered more of an art than a science. 809 shares Building Websites with a Focus on Usability & Performance The total number of usability designers worldwide is small but growing. 528 shares Icons in Web Design: Tips, Resources, and Examples Modern icons have become a staple for every digital interface. 910 shares Best Practices for Creating Fullscreen Website Backgrounds The artistic use of fullscreen backgrounds has become a large part of the web design lexicon. 768 shares How To Design Interfaces from a User Experience Perspective Both web design and mobile app design share many similar features. 647 shares Clean UI Trends for Large Recognizable Website Headers shares 10 Essential Elements of a Landing Page
Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved? Advertisement If you’re looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following steps are a guide to applying for, enabling and taking payments online. At first glance, the prospect of integrating a payment solution on a website can seem unwieldy, what with the vast array of payment options and technical acronyms. This article breaks down the entire process into bite-sized pieces, helping you understand the process much better. Apply For An IMA When taking any kind of credit card payments connected to a bank account, you must apply for a merchant account with a bank. Even if you currently take “card-not-present” payments (such as for mail orders) or use in-store payment terminals (such as chip-and-pin), you still have to speak with your bank about taking payments via your website (ask your bank for an additional IMA ID). It’s worth noting that it is possible to process Internet payments manually, using your regular point of sale system. Select A PSP PayPal
Color + Design Blog by COLOURlovers Marketing, using illustrations, is more powerful than using text, which most people don't read. After all, they say that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' A marketing illustration needs to have a strong message to the intended market to make an impact. Most news indicates that all illustrators are different, so what are the various marketing mistakes they need to avoid when doing their work? This article will highlight some. No smooth illustrations Illustrations use more drawings than from just the imagination. Use of the wrong file format Well, one would conclude that it's not worth spending a whole day designing a logo for a client and creating the best resolution only to download it in the wrong format. Using the wrong colors Colors are very crucial in marketing illustrations. Not using swatches While most young illustrators will try to build their own swatches to remain unique, this can use up most of your time and never achieve the best quality. Poor cropping Conclusion
Unique SEO Challenges Facing Bloggers There are increasingly numerous challenges for bloggers to face in order to be successful. Google’s determination to clamp down on spam creates ever-changing problems for bloggers. The Panda and Penguin updates hit bloggers especially hard because they flag poor content that has been duplicated or looks spammy. Note: You Should Hire a SEO Consultant Specialist to solve all SEO Challenges you may be facing with you website or blog and take your business to next level. Image by Nadya Peek Bloggers now need a good understanding of SEO to be able to alter how they operate and create their content. Creating Great Content The main goal of a blog post is to create great content that the intended audience will find new and interesting. The challenge for bloggers is the frequency in which they have to produce great content. Another problem that bloggers face with their content is that it can be moved about a lot. Google’s Penguin Updates Blog ‘Smell’ Solutions Article by James Duval
Computer Security in the Real World Computer Security in the Real World Butler W. Lampson Microsoft Note: This web page was converted automatically from a Word original. Abstract After thirty years of work on computer security, why are almost all the systems in service today extremely vulnerable to attack? In a distributed system with no central management like the Internet, security requires a clear story about who is trusted for each step in establishing it, and why. People have been working on computer system security for at least 30 years. The Internet has made computer security much more difficult than it used to be. Today half a billion people all over the world are on the Internet, including you. · Attack from anywhere: Any one on the Internet can take a poke at your system. · Sharing with anyone: On the other hand, you may want to communicate or share information with any other Internet user. · Automated infection: Your system, if compromised, can spread the harm to many others in a few seconds. Money talks, though.
The Ultimate “How To” Twitter Guide Did You Know... 43% of people follow a brand on Twitter for special offers/deals 75% of users are more likely to purchase from a brand they follow 67% of users are likely to recommend a brand they follow to others What is Twitter? Just a beginner to Twitter? How to use Twitter Effectively Now that you know what Twitter is and how it works, learn how to use it effectively: How to Increase Your Twitter Followers So, you know how to use Twitter, but no one is listening. Best Practices: Hashtags Hashtags can be an effective way to target specific users on Twitter. Best Practices: ReTweet Retweeting is a easy way to share content with your Twitter followers. Best Practices: Search Find users or search for users based on your custom search criteria. How to Create Lists Lists can be a useful way to attract users to your page so that they start following you. How to use Twitter for Business Now you’ve gotten your feet wet and learned how to use Twitter for your business. How to use Twitter for Marketing
social media tools By B.L. OchmanI love technology and tools, even though I totally lack the technical gene. So I’m always experimenting with new ways to find and interact with information. While there are myriad expensive subscription search services (which will be the subject of another post) I depend on some elegant and effective tools for searching social media that are free or very inexpensive. Here are some I currently love: Flowtown is the missing link in social media marketing. Reasons why you cannot ignore Google Plus for content marketing Google Plus is all powerful ! Google has evolved a lot in the last few years. Getting a good ranking is no more about keyword stuffing and irrelevant link building. There is much more to it. After the Penguin and the Panda updates google attaches more weight on how a piece of content is ‘liked’ by humans rather than search engine bots. So what metric does google use to find out how much a particular content is liked by humans? A great way to feature your business is to use the About page in google plus. “We deal in furniture. These type of introduction will clearly be marked as spam by the google bot. Another great feature of google introduction is the use of live links. So long we were talking about the About page. Another curious thing is that the images uploaded in google plus have EXIF information embedded in them. Google Circles is a great feature of Google Plus to segregate your contacts into groups. There is another way to verify ownership of articles. Priyankar
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