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Michael Tran

6 Tips on Choosing a Proper Template for Your Website - 0 views

  • Each kind of a website has its own peculiarities. A common mistake in web design community is to ignore the specificity of a website.
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      A lot of people pick a template because of how it looks but certain templates don't work for certain kinds of sites. An online shop for example shouldn't have a template that was originally designed for a fashion blog for example.
  • In order to help people that want to create their own website at any cost, the designers came with a great solution: website templates. A template is a structure that needs small customizations, especially for personalizing it, and after finishing these it may be uploaded.
  • Tip #2: Choose the template you need but not the one you just visually like
Claudia Yung

Designspiration - Design Inspiration - 1 views

    • Claudia Yung
       
      Below are links of various categories people can find inspiration in on this website
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    A website all about inspiring people through sharing designs of architecture, typography, illustrations, etc. It is a community in which members are encouraged to pin and post their favourite designs and share them with other members. The photos on this website can help inspire ideas for people creating their own websites.
Michael Tran

Why Should My Website Have a RSS Feed? What is a RSS Feed? - 0 views

  • It seems like almost every Website or blog you visit has a RSS feed. They have been around for years and the buzz is up about them as the technology continues to go mainstream.
  • More free traffic to your site
  • It’s an easy way to update your audience
    • Michael Tran
       
      Readers will be able to keep themselves updated easily with notifications and see where they left off
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  • To summarize, a visitor sees the headlines they want to read, view the summary, and click through to your site to read the rest of the news, either in a new window, or without having to leave the application they are in. And when you update again, the reader will notify them that you have new headlines, and/or populate the list of items you have available. This can keep your audience coming back. It is so easy you would be crazy not to do it!
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    Reasons why your website should have an RSS feed and how it benefits you for free.
Claudia Yung

A Collection of Page Transitions - 0 views

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    A website showcasing various transitions people can use to make their website interesting when transitioning between pages. The animations may be applied to "pages" for creating interesting navigation effects when revealing a new page.
ilana enoukov

The Keys to Making Fresh, Forwardly Aesthetic Web Designs - noupe - 0 views

  • Great graphics. Beautiful typography. Clean design. These are all things designers typically think of when creating stunning websites
  • In terms of development and coding there are details as well as tricks that can be used that really take a website from 0 to 60 in seconds
    • ilana enoukov
       
      Negative space, layout, cleanliness, attention to detail
  • he most important thing you must do as a designer is figure out your target audience and figure out what the purpose of the website is (I,e., is it to sell or is it to inform?)
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  • The trick though, is to not get SO outside the box that the website fails to make sense or lose sight of it’s purpose.
  • challenge yourself to be bold and forward thinking when it comes to design.
  • Always be on the lookout for fresh new ideas and see what people are doing
    • ilana enoukov
       
      Everything is a remix of something else. Observing other people's work will improve your own creativity
Elaine Leung

Best HTML5 website examples of designs with HTML5 - 0 views

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    With the overdue update to HTML5, many designers have already opted to use the newest version of the markup language. Awwwards is a website that collects the best web designs from web designers, developers, and agencies in the world through an evaluation system. This link shows some of the best uses of HTML5 in web design, to date.
Claudia Yung

vlog.it - 0 views

    • Claudia Yung
       
      People can simply click on any of the rotating images and videos of the author's work will show up. It's an interesting way of allowing people to get to know the artist. It's different than youtube where people just look up videos and watch them
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      A share link allows people to share their favourite videos or the website with others. 
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    Great example of an interesting and unique website design! It's extremely interactive and eye-catching.
Richard McMaster

Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo - 0 views

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    Introduction Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer. Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups. Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.
Jasmitaa Chhabra

How To Write A Script, Writing Tips | WritersDigest.com - 0 views

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    Great list of websites linking to effective script writing techniques.
Claudia Yung

Spur - A fun and easy way to critique a webpage. - 0 views

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    A site that allows people to critique their website through various tools provided in the app. There are seven tools. For example; One is Grayscale, which makes your webpage black and white to see if the design still works. This helps a person to evaluate their website's design effectiveness.
Michael Tran

26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog - 0 views

  • Need a professional-looking image but don't have the budget for spendy stock photo houses? Check out these great alternatives for free stock photography.
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      Blogs aren't too interesting to read without pictures in between to keep them attracted
  • Nothing makes a blog post more eye-catching than a great header image, but not all publishers have artistic talent. And even accomplished digital creatives often crave some found material to start from or work with in a project. Luckily for all of the above, sources abound for finding a compelling photo to grab your readers' eyes and draw them in, or to locate fresh multimedia to remix.
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    A comprehensive list of sites for people to find free audio, video, and visual media to add extra detail and spark to their websites.
Tracy Ta

Awwwards - 0 views

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    This website showcases the best designed and developed websites in the world.They aim to discover, recognize, and promote the talent and effort of web designers, developers, and agencies who create unique digital experiences that are useful, innovative, intuitive, and beautiful.
Stanislav Gamar

POWER TO THE PIXEL « Crowdsourcing: Using Audiences to Bankroll Projects - 0 views

  • Now, with online tools that enable direct connections, filmmakers can reach out to their fans for support in the early stages of project development
  • crowdsourcing is a collaborative way to overcome barriers in the filmmaking process
  • lacking financial resources
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  • One of the first and most well known filmmakers to use crowdsourcing is Robert Greenwald
    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      While crowdsourcing is all the rage this days, ranging anywhere from film making (seeking funding on pirate websites) to video game funding, yet not so long ago crowdsourcing was a new concept. This article is one of more early examples of such funding in its infancy.  Article dates from 2009. Please note that such examples that are covered in this article geared towards financing funding as opposed to innovation and idea funding. In first article out of five we will look at early stages, in following article climax of financial/social success will be covered with ultimately looking on last two articles how such crowdsourcing ideas have failed and succeeded.
Danielle Rose

Understanding Copyright Law In The Age of Content - 0 views

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    This article from the Forbes website talks about copyright in business. It discuses what can and can not be copyrighted it tells writers to be mindful as to who and to what degree are they collaborate with someone else as this other contributor may end up owning part of the copyright.
Danielle Rose

Facebook Aims To Weed Out Piracy By Analyzing Your Personal Data - 0 views

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    This article considers some of the challenges of using algorithms to identify copyright infringements in electronic media. So far this method has been successful especially on FaceBook, catching users posting material they do not have rights to yet claim their own. The downside of this method is that occasionally websites that are perfectly legitimate are taken down.
Danielle Rose

50 Disney Movies Based On The Public Domain - 0 views

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    In this article found on Forbes magazine website the article discusses the continuous extension of copyright terms. In specific it highlights how disney used its influence on members of congress to keep extending copyright term therefore disney material could never be used by other authors or film makers. It is ironic owing to the fact that a large number of works created by disney were based on stories in the public domain.
Stanislav Gamar

Obsidian surpasses Kickstarter records with their crowdsourced game | Lazygamer .:: The... - 0 views

  • numerous new titles have received a kick up, bringing to life ideas for games that most big name publishers would scoff at
  • people actually being willing to fork out cash for a game that they would want to play.
    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      World of video games by many business folks is viewed as form of entertainment, and as result it is categorized as such. At one point it was considered the niche of grand marvel of entertainment industry.   But this was in the past; now-a-days videogame industry has more money flowing through it then even filming industries like Hollywood, and biggest drawback from this sudden growth has been inflow of money hungry investors whom view this sector as only vessel for cash flow and not creativity. Who can blame them? Its part of the game! The downside comes in for of taxation on creativity and vision, large publishes are only willing to make bet on sure-fire hits with general public, they wish not to invest in to truly wonderful and creative games that would redefine the landscape. Kickstrater website is one of many of its kind that allows gamers and any one else who is interested in investing towards such video game venture in hopes of playing it one day and claiming the credit of making the difference!
Michael Tran

Blogger v Wordpress: Which Is The Best Platform For Your Blog? - Epreneur TV - 0 views

  • Blogging is perfect for every entrepreneur. It doesn’t matter if you are a start-up business or running a growing concern, or whether you have a bricks-and-mortar store or operate solely online. The bottom line is that blogging can help drive traffic to your website, build authority and create community.
  • Perhaps the biggest advantage of using Blogger.com is that it is free, quick and easy to use.
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      Easy to start up!
  • I hope I’ve convinced you that every small business owner and entrepreneur needs to blog.
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      Start one now!
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    A comparison between the blogging platforms, blogger and wordpress.
Michael Tran

Our Mission - StatCounter - 0 views

  • StatCounter's mission is to help our members easily understand their visitors, so they can make good decisions to become more successful online.
  • Fast, Responsive, Quick loading Service
    • Michael Tran
       
      I've personally never noticed any downtime
  • Well we certainly don't believe so - with StatCounter you get what is probably the most configurable free hit counter available in the world, as well as the option to go completely invisible. There are absolutely no ads on your website!
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    I use this site for my blog to keep track of the geographic location of my viewers as well as how many views I get on a certain day to see how successful my posts seem to be. 
Daniela Iurato

Viral Viral Videos - 0 views

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    An entire website of Viral videos revealing how many shares and likes each video recieves. View the examples of how these videos became so popular. Why do these videos amaze people?
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