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I am the webdesigner from india.

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:52:57 +0000

Hi, it is great forum for presenting a website design and graphic design related problem to solve.

I've been defeated!!!

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:27:57 +0000

I've just purchased a E525 notebook and have downgraded from windows 7 starter to XP SP3. I didn't get a support cd so i dowloaded all the drivers from the manufacturers website. Chipset, VGA, Lan and Webcam have been intalled but for some reason the realtek audio driver doesn't work or pickup my hardware. the installation completes without a glitch but after restart there is still no sound or audio devices loaded in device manager. the exe. in the root directory doesn't respond (non of them). I'm stummped as the sound worked perfectly under windows 7 starter (Although for a day).

Any suggestions, I've tried afew online tips but they haven't helped!!!

About affiliate business

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:55:13 +0000

Every strategy and method you can find to promote your affiliate business would be very beneficial. We aren't starting our affiliate business to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it.

Why do you need a good web design?

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:07:39 +0000

Whatever your size of business may be, as an online business owner, it is nowadays impossible to deny the significance of strong internet presence. The idea is to attract visitors and keep them interested and this is exactly where your sleek online presence actually matters. However, the extent of the importance of a neat Website Design is not known to many. The fact is, with the right web design you can actually boost up your business with atleast 30 percent more business and leads as compared to an average web design.
However, as the website is made of several dynamic elements, it is indeed necessary to comprehend and recognize the impact of each on your web design and your visitors in order to be benefited from the significant role web design and thereby enhance your business growth.
Let us see how web design and a good web design can help you!
Color & balance: Today, websites are more than mere online catalogues but is reckoned as the walking talking sales person creating your brand identity on the World Wide Web. The kind of colors you use and also the particular types of shapes and patterns you have on your website hence create the first impression of your products and services to the viewer. The fact is although you can get tons of visits to your site, but dull colors , bad symmetry can nullify all your efforts which you put in optimizing your site to drive the targeted audience to it.
Logos & Brands: Remember this thumb point that your logos help the visitors to remember you easily and can make a huge impact on your brand. However, the way to present your brand online is an art itself as you just cannot have anything placed anywhere. It is only the professional eyes of the web design companies which scan through user preferences and can aid you in determining the positions of each element on your website.
Call for action buttons: Now that everything is on place, once the visitor logs on to your site you would like him to take certain actions right! After visiting your site if he simply logs out without taking any action then you are going to lose on your prospective leads. The fact is after the visitors come to the site, there is a point when his/her interest peaks and this is the time the call for action button or banner should appear. The professional web designers know where to place the call for action buttons or your contact details so that you do not lose out on opportunities.
Last but not the least, a good web design is all about getting all these elements together in a so that the site looks attractive and also serves the business purposes. Professional web design is thus to make your website be easy to surf with clear headers and title, neat, user friendly to help you in generating great business online with an immense web presence.
Source: http://www.xigmapro.com/blog/professional-web-design
Please add your suggestion about this. Thanks.

Custom web design for auto dealers

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:03:39 +0000

A professional online presence is very important for people like auto dealers, as they deal with a highly competitive market. A website will help them to establish a strong online presence. Using a Custom Web Design will help them in creating unique and effectual websites for the targeted customers.

A professional and search engine friendly website is highly necessary in for auto dealers. It will help the website to appear in the top search results of search engines. Thus they can easily focus on the targeted online customers using custom web designs.

It is very difficult to stand-out of the competitors, as you should have a professional custom web design that differentiates your business from others. Only a custom website can give a competitive advantage over the others.

The first impression that a customer gets from your automotive website has a strong impact on the buying decision. A custom web page helps in creating an every lasting impression on the customers and provides better results. A specific design and targeted content will always leave a positive impression on the customers and make them aware that you always try to address their needs in the most accurate way.

Custom websites are highly user friendly and comfortable for customers to find out the necessary information.

Jack Dorsey�s simple need to know what his friends

Mon, 10 May 2010 11:39:38 +0000

Jack Dorsey�s simple need to know what his friends were doing led to the creation of Twitter, launched in August 2006 and today, you have Barack Obama sharing his thoughts on Twitter. It had a growth of 1382% as of Feb 2009, which is the highest among all social networking sites. Twitter is an online application that is a micro-blog, social networking site, cell phone/IM tool all combined into one. You want it explained in simpler terms? Twitter is a free service that allows you to say anything to anyone with 140 characters at your disposal, using web form, text message or instant message. These posts or messages are called tweets and they can be anything; from questions as to what the user is doing, responses to other tweets or pointers to online resources, just like regular blog posts, but small in size.

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Secret Affiliate Secrets - Monetize

Mon, 10 May 2010 11:38:40 +0000

When you start your own affiliate programs, establishing it is not like what it used to be. There will be thousands of competition thats want to get a bigger share of the pie. Every strategy and method you can find to promote your affiliate business would be very beneficial. We aren't starting our affiliate business to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait just to see their profits. There are always those who would rather see profit every day. That's why you must work hard to find every scheme and method to augment your sales.

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Knight A. Kiplinger

Mon, 10 May 2010 11:38:00 +0000

Knight A. Kiplinger [KIP-ling-er] (b. Feb. 24, 1948) is an economic journalist who heads the Kiplinger financial media company in Washington, D.C., publishers of business forecasts and personal finance advice.
He serves as editor in chief of all its publications, including the weekly Kiplinger Letter, monthly Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine and daily Kiplinger.com. He writes a bimonthly column on financial matters in the magazine and also writes its monthly "Money & Ethics" feature, which explores ethical dilemmas in consumer affairs, business, and family relations.In the civic realm, Mr. Kiplinger is active in nonprofit governance and philanthropy, especially in the fields of secondary education, choral music, and historic preservation.

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Keyword Tool Supercharger

Fri, 07 May 2010 11:16:06 +0000

That is the new feature of keyword tool.The feature is quite helpful in such competitive world.It provised the filteration like:
Desired Daily Volume
Desired Supply/Demand Ratio
Filter on SEO Criteria
Search within your keyword list
Reload Competition Data

SEO and AJAX-Great Combination

Thu, 06 May 2010 08:49:16 +0000

I feel great to share this discussion over here.AJAX and SEO is a tricky topic I think.Yet AJAX can and should be search engine friendly and have no any kind of issue with SEO..I want to share here few points related to it.
1) Decide where your website ends and your application starts: it does not make sense to make spiders crawl your drafts, but the documents made public and archived instead
2) Make sure you have a URL for each �page� you want to get crawled and indexed
3) Load the basic content containing the keywords at the beginning in a non-dynamic way
4) Cache dynamic pages and serve them as static ones, you could even take snapshots of �pages� which content changes all the time and publish the snapshots
5) Menu items, links and other crucial structural aspects of a site should work without AJAX and/or Javascript
6) Use Ajax for extra functionality in spite of AJAX for effects

universally acceptable website

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:01:51 +0000

well if a site needs to appeal to the universal audience then let the design be followed the one
that is universally accepted. on the otherhand if the site is catering to needs of the niche
audience then the site can be designed according to the niche audience expectations but if a site
needs to be global then let it to be according to the expectations.

What takes a website to its intended audience

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:59:57 +0000

Well sometimes even after much of the efforts by the business to sustain
the online competition, the website still fail to pickup and stand up to
the competition. Well even now there are still websites that don�t follow
certain standard practices that makes them to feature in search engines.
When a website is developed everything should be done that takes it to
the intended audience.

Free PSD Template

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:39:02 +0000

Internet is more and more becoming a place where things are shared this is another example, take a look at it,web design fan dot com

lets go back to basics

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:40:12 +0000

while some sites has been trailing on sucess ride other sites do not even come in the race, well a study says that sucessful websites have greatly focused on the primary purpose of the website this is quite important because a site which is centered around its primary purpose greatly ranks in the usability features.

Rhinoe.

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:02:45 +0000

Hey everyone,

Could anyone critique my WIP logo, please? Any comments would be appreciated

Many thanks,
Gareth

HTML5 Video Players

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:24:41 +0000

So youtube has started to support html5 players, with a view of replacing flash, and so has vimeo.

What do people think about the new players? Will you be joining the betas?

(http://www.youtube.com/html5)

League Gothic

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:22:24 +0000

Hey,

Just wondered what free fonts all you designers recommend!

I've recently downloaded the League Gothic font found at http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/7-league-gothic. Amazing font!

jQuery 1.4 is out, and damn, what an improvement!

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:16:27 +0000

As some may know, jQuery 1.4 has been out for almost 2 weeks. And what an improvement performance wise! The 'html', 'empty' & 'remove' methods especially, now using a lot less function calls. A nice article about this can be seen below (with a pretty graph).

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/01/15/jquery-14-performance/

HTML Emails

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:41:57 +0000

It has been a while since I've built a decent HTML email, but today at work I had to make one for a client.

A bit of Googling helped me find the following "cheatsheets".

Style elements support in email clients: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Unnecessary Elements in HTML Email (Source: www.pageresource.com - currently down, but could still view through Google Cache)

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Unnecessary HTML in Your Email
In this chapter of our continuing discussion on HTML email, we are going to talk about the different elements which are not really all that necessary in your mailings.

The following are not necessary for HTML email and should be stripped out before you mail. This will reduce the overall size of your mailing and increase the speed in which it is delivered, rendered, and received by your customers. While this may not seem like a big deal for a hundred piece mailing, imagine send 5 million or so emails in a single day.

All Meta Tags, including Refresh Cache & Pragma
Many systems will disable some of these by default, however when Outlook receives a refresh command it will merely display blank content in both the preview and open message. Web-based systems will usually only display context taken from between your tags.

The subject section of your email message takes care of this element.
Long comments or commented -out sections.

Programs that export to HTML
Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or Adobe - Any references to extensions, styles, or Fireworks/Image Ready tables. This is most common with Front Page extensions, which reference IE only styles quite often. If you have a document which uses a library item, such as Dreamweaver, you will have to break the library item apart and insert your code as raw HTML in order for your mailing to work correctly.
Redirects
Since many Web-Based email clients place their own redirects on your links (for whatever neffarious reasons..we cannot say) if you place your own redirects on urls, turls, or query strings, they may break, or show up as plain text in the middle of your email.
Extraneous Style Sheets
Make sure if you use style sheets, only the elements you will be using for a particular mailing are included. This helps cut out bulk & unnecessary code from your mailings. This is most often found when a mock-up contains the entire style sheet for a website, rather than the styles used in the mailing. While this may not seem like a big deal for a couple hundred emails, it adds up if your doing, let's say, a Million emails in a day.

So a simple example for extraneuos style sheets would be if you had 100 lines of code to define 25 styles from your website, but you were only using one style for your HTML email. You could either mark up the style in HTML code, or you could just define one style and apply it to the entire email.
Special Characters
You must be mindfull when you use special characters in you HTML email. Special characters include those which must be generated through an escape sequence (ex: � = © in HTML) and many email browsers will have some trouble reading them.

One character sequence to be especially careful of is the non-breaking space character ( ). Many WYSIWYG editors (like FrontPage & Dreamweaver) have fallen in love with this character.

Furthermore, many WYSIWYG editors use the Non-Breaking space to wedge open 's. These will usually close up when viewed by the majority of Netscape browsers. A spacer GIF should be used when you absolutely have to keep a cell open in order for your design to work.

Forum Design Critique Please!

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:21:32 +0000

Hey everyone,Could I get your critique/comments on the following forum design, please?Thank you!