Whats web talking on Mon 19 Dec 2016

Can Software Make You Less Racist?

I don't think we computer geeks appreciate how profoundly the rise of the smartphone, and Facebook, has changed the Internet audience. It's something that really only happened in the last five years, as smartphones and data plans dropped radically in price and became accessible – and addictive – to huge

7 Design Ways For Effective Website Logos

Many web designers and developers hold the common misconception that a logo is simply a picture to stand in for a brand's name on a site. The truth is more complex?and it's absolutely imperative to know if you're going to design logos for the web.

Logos not only stand in for a brand's name; they represent the core of its identity. All logos portray a personality, whether that's traditional, witty, modern, or something else. This personality has to be in harmony with the style of the website you're creating, too. After all, logos appear in navigation bars, banners, images, and various other places; you don't want to create a logo that's going to clash with the rest of the site design.

Logos are also about creating a dialogue. Their purpose is to introduce a company to potential customers and convince them to interact with the company in some way. That's why the best logos show an understanding of the target audience's wants and needs.

So it's no surprise that there's a lot of pressure to design the perfect logo for a website. Let's take a look at some design tips for making effective web logos:

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We Hire The Extraordinary Just Like Everyone Else

One of the most common pieces of advice you'll get as a startup is this:

Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success – or failure.

I've heard this advice over and over and

A Strategic System That Produces Powerful Content Marketing Campaigns

It’s easy to get wrapped up in the fun parts of content marketing. Being creative, writing articles, and seeing a post go live are all exciting and enjoyable parts of the job. So, a lot of us jump right in, quickly publishing and sharing without taking much time to think about what we are doing
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Scooping Thousands And Thousands Of Goldfish Out Of An Overpopulated Lake

We're pretty sure that, in terms of water-to-fish ratio, the fish are winning here.

How To Start Fresh Again On Social Media

Drunken ramblings, bad sports predictions, political opinions you?re now ashamed of... there are plenty of reasons why you might want to clean up some (or all) of the social media trial you?ve left behind.

Game Day Fun Is Even Better Pop Culture Style With Ios App FootballBFF

FootballBFF is a mobile app that invites outside fans into the huddle by covering the game pop culture style.

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Reading Roundup What?s New In Blogging Lately?

Coming to you live from amid the christmas tree, twinkle lights, and wrapping paper – I’ve got the holiday spirit full force! It’s my favourite time of year, Grab a glass of eggnog and wander through the news this week. How to Figure Out Your Overarching Theme ? The Definitive ...more

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8 Wordpress Plugins To Boost Speed And SEO

The beauty of having a WordPress website is that many issues or problems can be addressed with a simple plugin. You don?t need to know a line of code to add this piece of software to your site, and your site will quickly and easily get the...

Inside Nike?s Quest For The Impossible A Twohour Marathon

Today, after two years of preparation and research, Nike is announcing a project called Breaking2 that has a single goal: to break the two-hour mark in a special marathon planned for the spring of 2017.

Whats web talking on Sunday, 21 Feb 2016

10 Apps To Batch Install & Uninstall Windows/android Apps

Installing and uninstalling an app is a necessary process to ensure that your device is working fine. Sometimes, you need to install certain apps that you need while at the same time, you have got to uninstall some apps that are now not necessary. However, installing and...

Awesome Typography That Takes Titles To The Next Level

Modern techniques allow obtaining amazing results: offer visitors outstanding experience, engage them in an interactive environment, impress with stunning vivid illustrations, and so on. Nevertheless, despite such a lavish diversity and tremendous potential the common constituent of any UI, aka typography, is still a fully-fledged player in this arena that has passion, ardor, and courage...

How To Manage Your Android Smartphone From Desktop

No matter how advanced your smartphone is, multi-tasking on it is a living nightmare. We are limited by the small screen on a smartphone or tablet and its insistence on allowing us to use only a single app at any viewing. It is probably easier to manage a

Can A 1789 Law Apply To An iPhone?

The All Writs Act of 1789 was cited by a federal magistrate in ordering Apple to unlock an iPhone.

Neko Atsume Is The Cat Game You Didn?t Even Know You Were Missing

Welcome to Neko Atsume, the game for Android and iOS that will make you obsess over virtual cats.

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Get Inspired By 6 Of The Coolest Arduino Projects Ever

Like most people, I remember the first Arduino project I made. I was at an Internet of Things event, and I’d built an Arduino from scratch (sometimes called “Arduino Shrimp”), which I attached an LED to. I then wrote a simple program to make that LED blink – essentially the “Hello World” of Arduino. I remember it well. I also remember thinking, “What’s next?” When you learn to code for the first time, you approach it in an iterative manner. You write something to the console. Then you learn about variables and functions. Then you learn how to write more...

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20 Methods For Better Business Blogging How To Use Blogging To Generate Leads

This is a guest contribution from Zoe Uwem. Blogging can be an effective lead generation strategy, if done correctly. The majority of companies that hope to use content marketing to grow their businesses all understand that blogging is one of the most effective ways to go about it. Big corporations, start-ups and even smaller companies [...]

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20 Tips for Better Business Blogging: How to Use Blogging to Generate Leads

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How Anthropology Can Make Autonomous Cars Safer

Engineering and assembling a rolling cocoon is the easy part of creating an autonomous car, relatively speaking. The hard part is dealing with humans ? these machines' end users, and pedestrian and vehicular obstacles.

50 Geeky Valentine’s Day Cards You’d Love To Receive

Valentine’s Day is coming soon (if you forgot, this is your reminder) so you probably are looking for gift ideas and cards. Instead of the cheesy, done-to-death, lovey-dovey V-day cards you send as an obligation rather than because you know your significant other will actually like, we have

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Saving Money Has Never Been Easier ? Digit Does It Automatically

Let's be honest ? saving money is hard for everyone. But Digit makes it so easy, you don't even realize you're doing it.

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50 Unbelievable Onepage Websites For Inspiration

Excellent one-page/single-page websites to check out for ideas and inspiration.

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Building A Pc Part Viii Iterating

The last time I seriously upgraded my PC was in 2011, because the PC is over. And in some ways, it truly is – they can slap a ton more CPU cores on a die, for sure, but the overall single core performance increase from a 2011 high end Intel

Do Readers Really Prefer Parallax Web Design ?

Whether that step takes web design in the right or wrong

Call To Action 13 Tutorials For Creating The Perfect Button

Here we have come up with some detailed tutorials on creating buttons and badges. All these tutorials are easy to follow and provide complete and detailed instruction on how to create beautiful and amazing buttons and badges for your designs. Creative and unique buttons and badges help...

Overstockcom Has $10 Million In Gold And Silver Hidden Somewhere In Utah

The online retailer is hoarding gold and food to keep its employees paid and fed if the financial system collapses.

How To Beat The ?blank Stare? And Get Customers Fired Up With Your Sales Copy

Have you ever felt as though you?re giving it your all when writing about your products or services, but readers (ones you know would make perfect customers) just don?t seem to “get it?” You could be falling foul of the “blank stare” — here?s how to avoid it. This week on Hit Publish, we?re tackling

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Have You Considered Twitter Polls For Feedback?

Twitter Polls is a new feature that could connect you with your community in a whole new way!

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What If We Could Weaponize Empathy?

One of my favorite insights on the subject of online community is from Tom Chick:

Here is something I've never articulated because I thought, perhaps naively, it was understood:

The priority for participating on this forum is not the quality of the content. I ultimately don't care how smart or

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50 Design Agency Websites For Inspiration

These are some of the most beautiful design agency/studio websites you can find. Check them out for inspiration!

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Has Linux Been A Victim Of Its Own Success?

Jim Zemlin is the head of the Linux Foundation. Their mission is to “promote, protect and advance Linux”. So, why did Jim recently say that the “golden age of Linux” might soon come to an end? The answer to that lies in the ability of the Linux community to cope with security problems. It turns out, it’s harder than you think. A Flurry of Security Problems The past 48 months have been brutal for Linux. That isn’t hyperbole. Major security vulnerabilities have been found in almost every single distribution, with serious consequences for end-users. The one with the most notoriety...

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Dell's $67 Billion Emc Deal Dwarfs All Other Tech TieUps

Now that we know the full details, we can take stock of just how big a transaction this is. The short version? Very, very big. In fact, it?s arguably the biggest in all of tech.

The New Divi Builder Plugin From Glowing Themes

This is a sponsored post. In June, we announced that Elegant Themes had released their new theme, Divi 2.4. This month they have followed up with a new plugin ? Divi Builder ? a drag and drop page-builder for any WordPress theme. It has taken many features of the Divi theme and packaged them into...

Drugged Up Spiders ?design? Web Bowls

Using the results of a NASA experiment?where spiders are put under the influence of certain psychoactive substances?French designer Guillaume Lehoux has designed a series of bowls, entitled 'SOD_project', that replicates the webs spun by the drugged up spiders.

Facebook Goes Shopping Internet Porn Kills Playboy Nudes? [tech News Digest]

Facebook feeds shopping sites, Playboy hates Internet porn, Pepsi brands an Android, Google Street View in virtual reality form, Call of Duty admits it’s all about the multiplayer, and Luke Skywalker gets crushed by an AT-AT. Facebook Wants You to Start Shopping Facebook is testing a dedicated Shopping feed which will deliver information of products on sale from different retailers. The idea is that rather than having to sift through random status updates and news stories to find products you’re interested in, you can switch to the Shopping feed to see them all in one place. The Facebook Shopping feed...

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The Tablet Turning Point

Remember how people in the year 2000 used to say how crazy and ridiculous it was, the idea that Anyone Would Ever Run Photoshop in a Web Browser? I mean come on.

Oops.

One of my big bets with Discourse is that eventually, all computers will be tablets of varying

8 Web Industry Surprises No One Warns You about

For the past 5+ years, I?ve been in web development marketing in some shape or form. From the customers to the travel, it?s been an interesting journey, to say the least. I?ve done it all: sales, digital marketing, paid, organic, trade shows, content curation/creation, etc. I?m now at the stage in my career when the […]

Prototyping Tools And Practices That Yield Maximum Benefits

Taking a prototyping approach to an app or website design project brings with it a number of benefits. Peer/Client reviews and feedback, together with testing and validation activities conducted early on, can contribute greatly to the creation of a highly successful user experience. The benefits of prototyping can