Unless you’re a well established blogger or website designer, you’re probably constantly looking for ways to improve your readers’ experience and keep them coming back. Self-proclaimed gurus make all sorts of (often) bogus claims about what they best way to setup your site is, but they never back up these claims with real data
Enter Smashing Magazine, one of the premier sources for all that is graphic and design related. On my birthday, they wrote the gift of an article 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines which are:
- Form labels work best above the field
- Users focus on faces
- Quality of design is an indicator of credibility
- Most users do not scroll
- Blue is the best color for links
- The ideal
Search “Make money online” using Google, and you’ll get 181 million results. Try “make money bogging” and get another 175 million results. With so many resources out there, it is hard to determine where to go and what to read.
Among all the amazing blogs in this niche, there are five that I check on a daily basis because their content is so powerful and written with such quality that I can’t stop reading: John Chow dot Com, Daily Blog Tips, Copyblogger, Problogger, and Site Sketch 101.
In March of 2007 Daily Blog Tips did a Bloggers Face-off series; to this day it is still one of his most popular topics (see the Darren Rowse vs. Jeremy Schoemaker for a great example). He used a table to… Click to continue...
I have a simple confession that many people can identify with. I am an music junkie… I can’t help it; I would listen to music 24/7 if my work and family let me.
Last month, I was really high on the Spotify Music Player, but Spotify noticed I was listening from a US ip and put a 14 day limit on my listening. I could hunt down a proxy server in the UK to listen through if I really wanted to.
Instead, I remember my all time favorite music player of all time (yes, intentionally said all time twice to make the… Click to continue...
I am a child of the 80’s. When it comes to video games, I have seen the progression starting with NES and moving forward to now. While graphics may have become more realistic and mind blowing, and controls may have become more sophisticated and user interactive, nothing compares to the fun I had playing NES (and maybe a handful of Genesis/SNES) games. There are three major things I remember about NES games:
1) Anyone who had a Nintendo Entertainment System (the original) can remember frustratingly blowing on game cartridges hoping they could insert them into the system in just… Click to continue...
According to Alexa, Craigslist.org reaches just under 2% of the global internet users everyday. That is a huge number of people. When I first heard about Craigslist in Details magazine over 4 years ago, I had a completely different impression of Craigslist than I do now.
That article told the story of girls selling their worn panties for outrageous sums of money; they even charged extra to remove them in front of the buyer in a public place. After reading that article, I dismissed Craigslist as legitimate online classified ads. I figure it was mostly for obscure adult fetishes and online prostitution.
About 2 years ago I heard that people were selling their World of Warcraft accounts on Craigslist, so I posted my account in the for sale… Click to continue...
For someone unfamiliar with the internet and even some who are, proxy servers might sound scary and complicated. You might think proxy servers are just for hackers or people who are up to no good (and you are probably right), but your opinion might be changing soon.
In very basic terms, a proxy server is a server that allows someone browsing the web to be (semi) anonymous to the sites they are browsing by providing a different IP to the server. What is my IP has a much higher level explanation regarding proxy servers if you want to know more. They also provide a ton of tools for tracing IP address, detecting proxy servers, and a variety of other fun!
You probably think I’m exaggerating a little bit about how much UpgradeMaster.com helped me, and you are probably right. That doesn’t mean that I don’t believe it though. As many of you know, my Dell Inspiron 1720 decided to stop charging. No warning. No nothing. I’m in the middle of writing a post, look down, and see my laptop has less than 10 minutes of life left.
After spending about an hour of messing around with the plug, battery, and trying a different outlet in every room in the house, I turned on my wife’s laptop and started digging. It turns out many Dell laptops have a similar problem. I read stories of many people, especially students, who… Click to continue...
Jeff Cohn is a fashion, commercial, and fine art photographer from Model Mayhem.
Leah Waddill: Where are you from? Where is most of your work done?
Jeff Cohn: I was born and raised in Delran NJ, which is a small suburb of Philadelphia. I moved to Philly after college and have lived in or around the city for the past ten years.
Most of my work is shot in my home studio located in North East Philadelphia. My living room is converted into a studio space, which provides the best of both worlds; convenient location and I have my TV and DVD’s handy while MUA’s… Click to continue...
There are dozens of useless toolbars that software companies try to clog your browser with. Every search engine (Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc..) wants that prime real estate at the top of your browser. Admittedly, they can occasionally be helpful, but after about 20 seconds, I disable mine.
Source: www.alexa.com
There is one toolbar that I installed and will probably never uninstall: The Alexa Toolbar. The Alexa Toolbar only takes up a tiny space in the bottom right of your browser where there is already a toolbar and doesn’t take up any additional viewing space. It also adds a Related Links tab right next to Help at the top of your browser.
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This blog is officially one month old now! What better way to celebrate than to Get High Now? Not what you were expecting? Get High Now will blow your mind. Featuring audio highs and visual highs, this site has more than enough trippy sound and images to make you hallucinate for a week. Both what effect you should be perceiving (normally self explanatory) and why your brain perceives it that way are included with every high.
Source: http://gethighnow.com
My favorite brainteaser is the pirouette silhouette. Some say that the direction the silhouette spins indicates if you are right brained or left brained. I’ve also heard that you are a genius if you can get her to change directions without… Click to continue...
