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Your Views on Brazil 2014 World Cup Logo

Shabbir — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:22:08 +0000

FIFA revealed the logo design for the next world cup which will take place in Brazil in 2014.

The logo is a representation of the World Cup trophy formed by three linked hands in the national colors of Brazil, yellow, green and blue.

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Share your views.

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How Good is Your Website Design & 5 Ways To Judge Yourself

Shabbir — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:19:40 +0000

Today we will explore on points to test and judge the performance of a website. We will use Accessibility, Usability and web browser compatibility and many more to judge a website.

1. Usability

The way to test this website is to define some tasks that user can perform when he is on your website and see how easily user can perform those task by designing use cases. Revisit them and see if you can make it even more simpler for your users. Being on the development side you may always think it is simple but always put yourself on the side of your users and see if it is actually as simple as it looks to you. The simple example could be of user registration system.

Is user able to register at your site easily?

Consider the example of reCaptcha which when enabled on MBA Forum lead to many issues with user registration. MBA Students are not very technical and so had issues with the registration with reCaptcha enabled. As a developer we can never understand reCaptcha is something that is complicated but then it was actually true for MBA Students.

The next use case can be how easy it is for the user to understand the flow of your website like what he should be doing just after he has submitted the registration form and whether he should activate his account by clicking the link in the email or is it the case that sent an email with a password in it to his email. The important think is that to let your user know about it and not to take it for granted that user will understand it.

2. Accessibility

It is very important to test your website's accessibility of your website. When it comes to website you can have wide range of users and it is important to know the type of users visiting your website.

If you have a user base where people do not use high speed internet connectivity then you should always keep your site to fast loads and concentrate lesser on images and flash?

If you have non-computer based users like mobile users you should concentrate more on how easily user can navigate your site. You can also test your website without using a mouse. Some people like me prefer using keyboard to the extent possible.

Refer to W3C accessibility guidelines.

I just remember one thing which I always follow and that is to have search in the most prominent position possible. This has really helped me a lot.

3. Scalability

People always think that scalability means increasing your hosting bandwidth to support your traffic but that is not what I am talking about but what I mean by scalable is performance of your site under the peak load. When your website is new it does not take much of load but when your site's traffic grows you need to see how fast your website responds.

Say you have hundreds of concurrent users in the peak time and you should make sure your site responds faster in such situation.

Understanding your Audience

Any website design is incomplete without users feedback and next 2 ways to judge your website is feedback from your users.

4. Browser Compatibility

You should always test your website in all possible browser and even if you do not support some browser it is better to mention that somewhere. Something like "This website is best viewed in ... browsers".

No matter how I hate IE can I afford not to support Internet Explorer for my websites?

5. Screen Resolution

You should also be aware of the kind of users who are visiting your website. If you have users who uses more Wide Screen monitor it would be a good idea to have the design of the website as fluid and not fixed width.

Have you tested your website yet?

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How to Center Align Entire Site Using CSS

Shabbir — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:06:31 +0000

For Webmasters cross browser compatibility is one of the major concern and if you are trying a fixed width layout and want your site as centered all you need to do is add the following to your CSS file.

body {
 text-align:center; /* for IE */
}

div#contentwrap {
 text-align:left; /* reset text alignment */
 width:748px; /* or a percentage, or whatever */
 margin:0 auto; /* for the rest */
}

Now make sure you add the following div just after the body tag.

and end the div just before the closing body tag. Now your entire site will be center aligned in all browsers.

Enjoy !!!

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Taking your readers from 1 to 1 million

Shabbir — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:49:50 +0000

Kevin Rose, founder of sites like digg.com, WeFollow ... is talking about taking your readers from 1 to 1 million.

Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose from Carsonified on Vimeo.

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September Elance Work Index

Shabbir — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:43:10 +0000

Elance published the September Elance Work Index which ranks the hottest skills in-demand and hiring trends in the freelance industry on the Web in September. PHP, graphic design, flash and article writing were among the fastest growing skills in demand.

Check out September Elance Work Index at the official blog.

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Smilies using plain text

Shabbir — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:59:33 +0000

Normally you do have the option of smilies everywhere but now you can use the smilies everywhere. Even where images are restricted.

♪ (musical eighth note) looks like: ♪
♫ (musical notes/double note) looks like: ♫
✈ (airplane) looks like: ✈
☹ (frowning face) looks like: ☹
☺ (smiley face) looks like: ☺
☻ (solid smiley face) looks like: ☻
† (dagger/cross) looks like: †
∞ (infinity) looks like: ∞
♥ (heart/valentine) looks like: ♥
♣ (club/shamrock) looks like: ♣
© (copyright) looks like: ©
® (registered trademark) looks like: ®
☎ (phone) looks like: ☎
☑ (check box) looks like: ☑
☞ (pointing finger) looks like: ☞

The above list is from Ferodynamics Symbols. I found some more interesting symbols there by some users like.

╔╦╗════════════╗
╠╣╠═╦╦╦═╦╦╦═╦╗╔╗
║║║║║║║╚╣║║║║╚╝║
╚╩╩═╩═╩═╬═╠═╩══╝
╚═══════╚═╝════╝
╔╗
║╠═╦╦╦═╗
║║║║║║╚╣
╚╩═╩═╩═╝

You should check them out.

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Vbulletin Red Buttons

Shabbir — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:56:57 +0000

I just created the vBulletin Red colored buttons for one of my sites and I have not used them and so thought would share here for anyone to download.

Here is the sample

And you can download the zip here

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Web development services

Shabbir — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:07:57 +0000

Web development has gradually increased recently and the most notable features now include web design services, web programming services, seo services and all marketing services provided to all the clients who want their websites to come out of a crowd and be noticeable in the major search engines. It is very important to not overestimate your efforts and address your desired to the professionals as they will do it faster and in a more qualified way.

Web design is important nowadays as you will not be ready to use the common free templates, it is not professional and your potential clients won't be glad to see a commonly used template as this shows that profitability of your company is on a low level and you can not afford customized design of your website.

Search engine optimization is of tremendous importance as you do not want your website to be found nowhere. In such a case the whole idea of creating a website can be in question. No need to spend thousands on beautiful design and perfect navigation if no one is aware of your web resource and can't find it except entering the name of a company in a search field.

Find out more about professional web development services by referring to the guru-companies in such a sphere. Their prices would not be even above the average but be quality of services providing will be really high and the time limit will be definitely observed.

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