Thursday, June 28, 2012

Qualities and Characteristics of High Quality Websites

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The best qualities of a website include:

1) Having quality content is vital to the life of any website. Interesting, original, and carefully researched and developed writing will always win over the minds and hearts of users. Content should also be regularly updated and directly related to the website’s theme.

2) Websites should have a unique template that fits your company profile. It is important that templates are original to reflect an individual identity which will attract users.

3) Make sure navigation is smooth and user friendly so that it is easy for users to move to and from internal and index pages. Title tags and appropriate Meta tags are essential in getting good ranking in the search engines....

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A Newbie's Guide To Selling Online [Infographic]

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Are you looking to sell your products on the internet but don’t know where to start? Well here’s an infographic from CPC Strategy, a shopping feed management company, that will show you how and give you a few laughs along the way too. “A Humorous Guide To Selling Products Online” is a flow chart that starts us innocently enough with a man kicking over a taped box. “Are you just trying to get rid of old stuff?” And the journey begins.

The flow chart takes us through the different online options for selling our products and lists prominent websites such as Ebay and iTunes, but also gives us lesser known options like Yardsellr and Etsy. The infographic is colorful and visually enticing which helps to keep our attention along the way. Even a novice can find their way through the chart, and after a few chuckle-induced stops (Are you in a band? Are you any good?) you arrive at your destination.

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How to Control Unwanted Tagging of Facebook Photos

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Stressed out with too much unsolicited tagging by friends on Facebook? Granted that tagging is fun, but when your friends starts tagging your name in too many unrelated photos and videos, or just to get their photos or messages onto your Wall for your ring of friends to see, it starts to become rather annoying.

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Everything About Google's New Gadgets

Google unveiled three new gadgets during its Google I/o keynote yesterday: a tablet called the Nexus 7, a home entertainment platform called the Nexus Q, and computerized glasses called Google Glass.

Watch our video below to find out everything you need to know about these three Google gadgets and what they mean to the company and its future...

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Why I Told Anonymous to Kiss My A$$ - the UFC Story

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Early this year, after its parent company came out in support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the mixed-martial-arts promoter Ultimate Fighting Championship was attacked by the hacker group Anonymous. As told to J.J. McCorvey

I was in Chicago for a fight when I found out these Anonymous guys had started crashing our site. During an interview, I looked right into the camera and dared them to do it again. I said, Who do you think I am, eBay? I'm in the fight business. I could give a shit if you knock my website down. Do it again! Go ahead. I dare you!

You're gonna send some pizzas to my house and put my Social Security number out? Who gives a shit? If people really wanted to get your Social Security number, I'm sure they could find it. I'm supposed to bow down to you guys now? I'm going to come after you harder. If you want to fight me, you better pack a f—ing lunch, man. Because we're gonna go until somebody wins and somebody loses.

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30 Unbelievably Awesome Print Advertising Examples

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Creative advertising has a profound impact on the way that we think about products and services. We know credit cards are often to blame when people make an impulse purchase, but advertising is often the reason for these impulses.

Advertising is always pushing the limits of design and finding new ways to promote products and services.

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iTunes Set for Major Overhaul

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Apple’s iTunes media software is long overdue for an overhaul, and before the end of the year it will get one.

Apple is reportedly working on what’s being billed as the biggest update to iTunes since it debuted more than a decade ago. Sources familiar with Apple’s plans tell Bloomberg that the iTunes 11 overhaul will bring to the software tighter integration with the company’s iCloud storage service, improved search and discovery — presumably via Chomp, the app search engine it acquired earlier this year — and a new sharing feature that will allow users to send songs to friends.

Beyond that, details are slim. But, hopefully, Apple has put its considerable software and UI design acumen to work on streamlining iTunes or, better yet, rethinking it entirely. Because that’s really what it needs. Remember, when iTunes launched back in 2001, it was a music jukebox — nothing more. In the ensuing years it became a digital storefront for music. And video. And apps. And books. It became a device-syncing system and an app-management tool. And each feature was patchworked on with a bucket of preferences and dialogs that ultimately overburdened it with unnecessary complexity. So, while iTunes certainly works, it no longer “just works” — in other words, it no longer fulfills Apple’s dictum of intuitive simplicity.

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