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Bookmark worthy articles on 11 Feb 2017
Is Responsive Design Killing Your creativity?
When we talk about web design in 2017, we?re really talking about responsive web design. In just over six years, the term ?responsive? has become an all pervasive industry standard. Responsive web design is the process of designing a site, or a web app, so that its content adjusts appropriately according to the device it?s […]
5 Things To Think About Before You Start A Blog
It’s time! You’ve had it in the back of your mind for a while now, but you’ve realised the hour is right to take the plunge, and you want to start a blog. Welcome! You’ve come to the right place. If creating a blog is something you’ve been thinking about ...more
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How To Make Snow Ice Cream
The easiest ice cream you can make.
Why Keyboards Make Such Different Clack Sounds
A look at the surprisingly complex mechanics of keyboards.
How Can Your Website Deliver A Better User Experience?
In order to answer this pertinent question, you need to consider the basis of existence of websites. The main goal is to cater for the needs of all those who visit your given site. Users could be in search of some insight on a given subject, selling and buying of various items while others may...
Your Own Personal Wifi Storage
Our kids have reached the age – at ages 4, 4, and 7 respectively – that taking longer trips with them is now possible without everyone losing what's left of their sanity in the process. But we still have the same problem on multiple hour trips, whether it's in a
Community Discussion Your One Thing For 2017
At the ProBlogger event on the Gold Coast last year, Darren motivated us all with his rallying cry to find one thing we want to do with our blogs, businesses, and lives. Just one thing that we would prioritise, measure all things against, and work hardest at among all the ...more
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2017 Content Excellence Challenge The February Prompts
Leave a comment with your entry for this month’s content challenge. You’ll have the chance to win a really good book! Hey, it’s February! And that means we have two new prompts for our 2017 Content Excellence Challenge. This month, we’re going to send a copy of Jonah Sachs’s book Winning the Story Wars to
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Reading Roundup What?s New In Blogging Lately?
After taking some time off over the holiday season on my blog, I’ve been thinking about things I normally don’t have time to – and I think those things have been reflected in today’s roundup! Things like going back and optimising older posts for SEO, thinking about my blogging origins ...more
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The Sites I Liked on 06/14/2016
Mama Knows Best
HiMama is an early years education app that allows parents to stay up to date with their children?s preschool education. Teachers and daycare providers upload reports to the HiMama app so that parents know exactly how their children are progressing.
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A Little Pickme Up
Pickasound – currently re-branding as Pick-Media – is a great little concept that brings music, video and gamification together in one easy to use, fun platform. Now music fans can create new tracks and videos, and unlock new musical content by playing games online.
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How To Write Engaging Content About ?boring? Subject Matter
This is a guest contribution from Anna Johansson. Unfortunately, if you?re an industry expert in construction, finance, software development, or other similar ?dry? field, you?ve already been handed the short end of the content stick. Your industry is important, and the subject matter is interesting to you and other industry ...more
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Thanks For Ruining Another Game Forever Computers
In 2006, after visiting the Computer History Museum's exhibit on Chess, I opined:
We may have reached an inflection point. The problem space of chess is so astonishingly large that incremental increases in hardware speed and algorithms are unlikely to result in meaningful gains from here on out.
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Why We Love To Hate Myspace
As with AOL, Internet Explorer, Yahoo, and other web properties perceived as dinosaurs, many users seem strangely eager to tear Myspace down over its struggles to remain relevant, as if t...
Keep Your Startups In The News With PressKitHero
If you want your startup to receive press, make life easy for journalists. Easily put together a press kit with PressKitHero.
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App Development 10 Splendid Bug & User Tracking Tools
Although bug tracking is one of the most important tasks when your app is still in the development phase, issues may still rise in the production phase after your app went online. In the "bug-collecting" process, it can also be useful to enable your users to give you
Trampoline Wall Is The Cool New Sport For Trendy Ninjas
This is Sam Sendel. She's a trampolinist for the Canadian national team. She's also a ninja.
How One Desert School District Used Buses To Bring The Internet Home
First, Coachella Valley Unified School District Superintendent Darryl Adams got his students iPads. Then, he had to figure out a way to provide them Web access outside of class.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
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Here's The Programming Game You Never Asked For
You know what's universally regarded as un-fun by most programmers? Writing assembly language code.
As Steve McConnell said back in 1994:
Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, and Visual Basic have been credited with
What Is The ?gig Economy? And How Does It Affect You?
As we move into an even more Internet-dominated world, freelancing is become more popular. It’s a culture of gigs — workings doing jobs as independent contractors. Both services and shopping area moving towards gigs. Don’t think you’ve taken part in the so-called “gig culture?” Bought anything on eBay? Ridden in an Uber? Paid for a task on TaskRabbit? These, and many other popular online services, are all freelancer-based! Via SelfStorage.com Click To Enlarge
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Intel Knows It's No Longer Inside
You don't hear "Intel Inside" too often these days. The company's new slogan, "Experience what's inside," has been kicking around for a while, but its deployment betrays a shift in Intel's priorities, and an acceptance of a harsh reality.
Reading Roundup What?s New In Blogging Lately?
Happy Saturday! (or Friday, if that’s where you’re at). We’ve been working hard this week on shaking up the content plan around this place so I’m super excited to see where the next few months will take us, and keen to get started. I hope you’re feeling as motivated as ...more
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Thanks For Ruining Another Game Forever Computers
In 2006, after visiting the Computer History Museum's exhibit on Chess, I opined:
We may have reached an inflection point. The problem space of chess is so astonishingly large that incremental increases in hardware speed and algorithms are unlikely to result in meaningful gains from here on out.
So. About
The Secret Life Of YoYos
I go there a lot and I’ve seen them do it—they’re lethal.” He made a sudden gesture, like Spiderman throwing a web .
10 Awesome Drupal Books
The 5 Splendid Free Ftp Clients
A list of awesome free FTP software. There's at least one option for you in this list, whether you use Windows, Mac OS, or Linux.
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The Psychology Behind Web Browsing
When it comes to web site optimization, even global enterprises with dedicated web teams can unintentionally trigger adverse behavior from visitors to their site if they don?t take psychology into account.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Sunday, April 10, 2016
The Sites I Liked on Sun 10 Apr 2016
If You Aren?t Using Voucher Codes You?re Losing Money
Economical-minded consumers have always courted bigger savings by clipping the paper coupons published in flyers or given out at stores. Coupons can also be used online. These are the codes you type into a textbox asking you to enter promotional codes for benefits like free shipping or discounts. Even the most savvy shoppers may be...
9 Books Every Content Marketer Should Read
I’ve been struggling to write this post for some time because when you work in a field like content marketing, where the landscape can change from month to month, it’s difficult to recommend books to read. And I read a lot of books. For instance, books on social media written five years ago may be
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The Beginner?s Guide To Ux prototyping
Prototyping, as a concept, has been around since before the Internet. Typically, people developing a new physical product would first build the thing, and make sure that it worked as intended. The first version would be patented, perhaps, and shown to potential investors. If the inventor had access to their own means of manufacture (if […]
How To Reply To Emails Without Cluttering Up Threads
Whether you’re working in an office or planning an event with a handful of friends, it’s easy for email threads to veer out of control — and even easier for replies to start looking cluttered and unwieldy as previously quoted replies pile on top of each other. It’s especially bad when you’re replying to a specific part of a massive email because the other participants may not know what you’re talking about without a bit more context. This can also be a problem in ongoing one-on-one conversations, but to a lesser degree. So here’s a wonderful trick you can use...
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6 Good Expressionengine Addons For Websites
If you want to create your own E-commerce website, wherein you can sell your products at competitive rates to potential and existing users, the one Content Management System or CMS that can satisfy your requirements is ExpressionEngine or EE. Believe me or not but EE websites have proved to be the best when it comes to running an online business and making a considerable amount of profit. That is because ExpressionEngine comes with some of the most astonishing and useful features and tools which improve the performance of your e-commerce website in the most amazing way possible.
If at all there is something that you cannot accomplish with ExpressionEngine then there are enough of powerful add-ons to add additional functionality to it. In this post I will talk about 6-must have add-ons for EE, which can scale up the performance or efficiency of your e-commerce website radically.
How One Blogger More Than Doubled Her Comments Traffic Shares And Subscribers With A Simple Tweak
?Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.? ? Chinese Proverb ? Darren Rowse (@problogger) March 23, 2016 I tweeted this little proverb a few days ago because it encouraged me in a moment of personal frustration with the slowness of growth of one of my projects (something I’m sure many […]
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Everything You Should Know About Locationbased Marketing Technologies
Information is clouding up more than ever and customers are increasingly performing shopping-related activities on the go. While online retailers are definitively capitalizing on this drift, brick & mortar stores aren’t too far behind. Physical store owners are also becoming adept in modern technology to win back sales
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How To Write Better Css With Performance In Mind
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