Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Twitter - Can Even Be Used As Your Graphic Design Business

Being a popular and widely used tool, among the designers and web professionals, most of the people think that it is only used for announcing day-to-day social activities, whereas there are many ways to apply Twitter for your graphics design business.


















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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet Combined with Other Collection

As per W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is apprehended to cease work by the end of this year and W3C is planning to increase resources for HTML 5. HTML 5 has been widely adopted with great appreciation.

Keeping up the spirit of this new advancement, we have tried to come up with the following Cheat Sheet:

HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet




                                         

 HTML 5 Cheat Sheet   













HTML 5 Canvas Cheat Sheet














HTML 5 id/class Name Cheat Sheet














CSS3 Cheat Sheet 













CSS Properties Index









                                                                                     
Friday, November 20, 2009

Web Survey Software Types of Questions and Answers


After you have decided to conduct a survey, the most important part is to design the survey questionnaire with questions that are more relevant to your business. Although most web survey software has a good collection of questions, it is important to know their purpose so that you can use the right ones.

Open Ended Questions - These get a more detailed picture of the customer’s response. It also gives the customer a chance to give as much information as possible, without any constraints. However, as these are time consuming, its use should be limited.

Demographic Questions - These are used to gather information such as age, sex, income, nationality etc. This helps in getting a better understanding of the customers and design promotional programs in a more customer centric manner.

Personality Related Questions - These help to get a thorough understanding of the personality of the customer. The questions may be related to hobbies, personal likes and dislikes, special interests etc, to understand the attitude of the particular customer and study how it affects customer satisfaction.

Dichotomous (yes/no) Questions - These are used to screen out the non-customers, especially if you are interested only in your existing customers.

Multiple Choice Questions - These questions allow answering by selecting the best of a given list of options.

Rank Order Scaling Questions - These allow the customer to rank a list of various brands based on personal preference or a particular feature.

Most survey software have a collection of these and many other types of questions in a database, and all you have to do is select the relevant questions and add it to your survey form. You can also add your own question if you think that is more relevant.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Web Site Performance Monitoring

Your web site performance and availability depends on a complex infrastructure of the web server that hosts your site. A good web master always monitors the most important aspects of a web server to make sure that the web site as available 24x7 from around the globe. What exactly must be monitored?

Firstly, web server availability. Almost all the web hosts maintain that they guarantee 99.9% uptime. But is it true? What technology did they employ to monitor their servers? In accordance with one estimate, 75% of inaccessibility is not on the hosting server, but surprisingly on the Internet's backbone network and/or in global routing. An external web site monitoring service with servers situated around the globe can help identify the nature of the problem, so that you can work with your web host to fix the cause of the problems. Obviously this will help avoid losses and keep your customers satisfied.

Secondly, web site performance. Are there problems with your server speed? Maybe not where you are, but on another continent. Global web site monitoring can alert you to transatlantic connection troubles, so you can take it up with your web hosting service.

Thirdly, electronic forms. Are all of them functioning? An advanced web site monitoring service can keep tabs on them for you. The last thing you want is to have lost hundreds of subscribers because a sign-up form stopped functioning properly.

Fourthly, shopping carts. Slow and complicated shopping carts are responsible for an estimated $35 billion yearly in lost sales. Make sure yours is functioning! A good web site monitoring service can check this for you, too.

And fifthly, download speed. Spend half an hour and test your pages. Maybe those images are a bit large. Are all of them necessary? Try and compress them into JPEG or PNG format. You may be surprised, but many people have slower connection than you are. Use also other web site performance optimization techniques: remove redirections, combine all your background images into one CSS sprite, merge JS and CSS files, and add GZIP HTTP compression. Your web host can help you with the latter.

Web site performance is too important not to keep an eye on it. Use external web site monitoring services; don't let your customers alert you to the site downtime.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Well Designed Barcodes in Japan

D-barcode pursues in turning barcodes into something fun and noteworthy.





Barcodes enhances almost every product for sale. Since 2005, D-Barcode has been creating custom barcodes for a mostly Japanese clientele. They started selling their products to anyone who requires licensing them.

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