6 Free Chrome Apps and Extensions for Small Businesses : Technology :: American Express... - 0 views
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6 Free Chrome Apps and Extensions for Small Businesses
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Eyetrack III - What You Most Need to Know - 0 views
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visual breaks -- like a line or rule -- discouraged people from looking at items beyond the break, like a blurb. (This also affects ads
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We found that when people look at blurbs under headlines on news homepages, they often only look at the left one-third of the blurb. In other words, most people just look at the first couple of words -- and only read on if they are engaged by those words.
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People typically scan down a list of headlines, and often don't view entire headlines. If the first words engage them, they seem likely to read on. On average, a headline has less than a second of a site visitor's attention.
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Note to Yahoo!: Tumblr not a Platform for Brands, Yet | Optim.al - 0 views
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Of the 10,600+ brands we examine on a daily basis (see optimalsocial.com/portfolios for more on these across 100 sectors), we see about 2,400 (just less than 25%) have a tumblr presence.
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25% of these are mostly empty and many appear to be brands squatting on their own names and planning to get to it later when they have time, perhaps. About 588 of these brand pages have fewer than 10 items of lifetime activity. Some brands like Pepsi are quite active, though the activity levels ebb and flow quite a bit, but others are far less so. The mean number of total engagements per brand on tumblr is 224 but the median is just two. Tumblr hasn’t yet figured out how to get users to engage with brands, yet, and it doesn’t seem that users are falling over themselves to engage with brands.
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Tumblr’s content distribution model still needs to be sorted out, in order for brands to truly achieve viral distribution and authentic connections with consumers
Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices | Smashing Magazine - 0 views
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Only 34% of websites use a serif typeface for body copy.
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Two thirds of the websites we surveyed used sans-serif fonts for body copy.
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the most popular font sizes ranged from 18 to 29 pixels, with 18 to 20 pixels and 24 to 26 pixels being the most popular choices.
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What's the most readable font for the screen? - The Next Web - 0 views
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In print design, we’re told that serif fonts are considered the most readable. The serifs purportedly serve as aids to the eye, moving you from one letter to the next in a smoother fashion.
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The bottom line is that the fewer details a font needs to convey a character clearly, the more readable it will appear on a broader range of screens.
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the current consensus–at least as close as anyone can get to one–is that sans-serif fonts are still superior for screen body text, and serif fonts are best used for headings. For many users with newer displays, though, the difference is negligible.
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The Ideal Length for All Online Content - 0 views
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100 characters is the engagement sweet spot for a tweet.
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a spike in retweets among those in the 71-100 character range—so-called “medium” length tweets. These medium tweets have enough characters for the original poster to say something of value and for the person retweeting to add commentary as well.
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the ultra-short 40-character posts received 86 percent higher engagement than others.
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Facebook Studio :: Blog | Introducing Graph Search: Help People Discover your Business ... - 0 views
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The name, category, vanity URL, and information you share in the “About” section all help people find your business and should be shared on Facebook. If you have a location or a local place Page, update your address to make sure you can appear as a result when someone is searching for a specific location. Focus on attracting the right fans to your Page and on giving your fans a reason to interact with your content on an ongoing basis.
The Infinite Grid · An A List Apart Article - 0 views
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Creating a layout is like doing a jigsaw puzzle; you have a bunch of pieces and you have to figure out how they should fit together.
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designing native layouts for the web—whatever the device—we need to shed the notion that we create layouts from a canvas in. We need to flip it on its head, and create layouts from the content out.
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When designing from the canvas in, the canvas dimensions are the constant on which the whole grid is anchored. Everything is sized and positioned relative to them. Designing from the content out means finding a constant in your content—be it the ideal measure of a paragraph or the dimensions of an ad unit—and building your grid out from there to fill the space available.
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