Educating Your Clients: A Web Designer's Guide When running a web design studio, it's important to remember that your clients are the heart and soul of your business. The type of clients that you choose to work with says a lot about you (or your studio), and likewise, the fact that they've chosen to work with you says a lot about them. Maintaining a great relationship with clients is tricky though - and a lot of it revolves around our ability, as web designers, to educate our clients and set expectations so that both sides end up feeling satisfied at the end of a project. What is #followfriday on Twitter? Follow Friday, which is better known as #followfriday or #ff is a hashtag used on Twitter set to happen every FRIDAY (duh.. otherwise why is it called Follow Friday?). It was started by Micah Baldwin to encourage people to suggest great tweeple that they think others should follow as well. To make a hashtag on Twitter, you would need the # symbol. The symbol is recognised and tracked by Twitter search. Here is an example of a #followfriday
The new Windows 7 ad is, um, happy Windows 7 will be breaking down the doors on October 22. So the advertising has to start round about September 10, right? And, indeed, here it is, making its debut Thursday in the prime-time premiere to which America is no doubt glued, the CW's "Vampire Diaries." The ad is as safe as certain critics suggested Vista wasn't. There's a girl. And it's not Lauren, the one who isn't cool enough to buy a Mac. HPCC Frequently Asked Questions In the compiler world, a highly (sometimes called globally) optimizing compiler performs a series of mappings or changes to the program it is given, in order to produce code which is better than the one the programmer specified, while achieving the same effect. Obviously the point at which you declare a compiler ‘highly optimizing’ is somewhat subjective. However, we believe ECL exceeds the mark by a good distance. Some of the global optimizations it performs are: 1.
Fun, Fun, Fun!! Oh, my go-sh! {Make "gosh" two syllables and you'll get my gist.} I had sooo much fun with my project this week! I made jewelry for the first time ever, unless you count the macaroni necklaces and friendship bracelets from yonder year. I made these little pendants for a few friends of mine. Aren't they cute?
6.5 Million Twitter Lists Created So Far 1 November '09, 07:49am Follow Just, it seems, a few hours into the full release of Twitter lists, some 6.5 million Twitter lists have been created. Just ask Google, it will tell you. Web Seesmic has been acquired by HootSuite and as of March 2013, the Seesmic website is no longer supported. But HootSuite welcomes all Seesmic users into our nest! Here’s how you can start using HootSuite today. Making the transition to HootSuite: Getting started is easy. Just click the button below or learn more about HootSuite here.
2011 Debut Author Challenge This will be my FIRST challenge ever :) I'm super excited to get started. The 2011 Debut Author Challenge is hosted by a very awesome girl named Kristi over at her blog, The Story Siren (Click the link to sign up). If you've never heard or visited her blog, DO SO NOW! It is AMAZING! I just recently stumbled upon it and I was literally blown away. She has so many awesome events going on... Lists Coming For Everyone – What To Do With Them 29 October '09, 10:07pm Follow Twitter is in the process of opening the lists functionality to everyone at the moment. If you have been waiting with bated breath, keep your pants on, it is coming. Follow @nk for live updates of the process.
Social Today Feels Like Search A Decade Ago: Lots Of Noise And L A decade ago most of us were using AltaVista or something similar for search. No one was really complaining very much about the huge amount of spam and other noise that cluttered the results because we didn’t know there was a better way. Then Google came along with Page Rank, and had a profound effect on the quality of Internet search.