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Jan
Archive for January, 2010
29
Jan
Free iPad’s for everyone (?)
29
Jan
Twica – Student Collaboration tool
Promising Twitter tool for students.
TWICA is an AIR desktop application that lets you make notes on a lecture via Twitter, and browse everybody else’s notes to save the ones you like as a PDF to your desktop.
Currently in development (by AlivePDF), but will surely come in handy for a few people.
22
Jan
The 10 commandments of Webdesign
- Know the purpose and goals of a website before starting to design, perhaps the audience.
- Plan the website layout according to the client’s perspective and interaction.
- Choose colors and color combination very carefully, go for browser safe colors.
- Keep the font style and size consistent throughout the website, maintain typography.
- Keep navigation and menu structure simple and clear, properly organized with sub-menus if any.
- Websites main header is the first impression, so make it stand out. Speak a bit louder.
- Divide content into sections and paragraphs using headings and bullets. This increases the content’s readability and impression.
- Use interesting images that compliment the website and integrate with its whole theme. Induce call to action.
- Each page of the website should have appropriate title and Meta tags to help rank well in search engines.
- Search box option is a must to help user find relevant information on the website.
21
Jan
Find, Mix and Watch
YouTube just launched their very own Music channel. You type your favorite artist and the music starts playing. Nice one…