If a web design agency wants to increase their sales, there’s one way that’s easier and quicker than the rest: sell copywriting services.
When you sell copywriting to your clients, their websites will achieve more sales and better results.
In addition, your projects will run more smoothly and efficiently.
via Web Designer’s Guide To Copywriting Profits | Webdesigner Depot.
via The foreign language internet: the 21st century gold mine? | Econsultancy.
Working often with CSS for my own website or for my job makes me trying always to be organized and that made me thinking about a thing. What is the best way to organize my CSS file(s)? With this article I will try to present you a short guide about CSS organizing.
Amazon’s product pages are long and require lots of reading and scrolling (it would take screenshots to show the whole iPod Touch page) to digest the lot, but the pages clearly work well, and contain plenty of innovations that are now commonplace on e-commerce sites.
The most obvious of these innovations is user reviews, but the cross-selling options (customers who bought this also bought…) are also inspired. The pages may be cluttered, but if customers are looking for any information about a product, it’s almost certain to be on the page somewhere.
The WordPress platform offers a simple user interface when it comes to other content management systems. After logging into WP you’ll arrive at the dashboard. The WordPress dashboard allows you to change many elements of your website without having to know a line of code. You can change/edit images, pages, posts, content and a variety of other features fairly quickly. Check out the logged in WP dashboard below:
(WordPress dashboard)
User Friendly:
WordPress is extremely user friendly. Other content management systems boast about their endless list of features, but more often than not, they are extremely complicated to use. WordPress however, is easy to adapt to without any needed support. To add a new post to your blog/website you’ll need to create a new post, customize the URL, upload/edit content and “update†the page, which will push it live on your site. Check out this process below:
(WordPress Dashboard – Editing & Posting Content)
Earlier this month, the New York City Department of Transportation announced plans to experiment with 20 mph zones — replacing the city’s default 30 mph speed limit in one pilot neighborhood. Whoever gets the first 20 mph treatment will see benefits that residents of British cities and towns have become increasingly familiar with in recent years.
In the UK, some 3 million people live in areas with 20 mph speed limits. The experience there shows that not only do slower speeds save lives, but lowering the limit to 20 mph improves the way local streets function in more ways than one. According to the 20’s Plenty for Us campaign, the change has produced wide-ranging benefits, including less traffic, increased walking and biking, greater independence for children, the elderly and infirm, better health, and calmer driving conditions for motorists.
A few months ago, I discovered Matt Logue’s Empty LA photographs. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but every time I was stuck in rush hour all-hour traffic, I found myself thinking, “What if tomorrow everyone’s car disappeared?â€What would that scene look like? How would people react? How quickly would the atmosphere rebound from centuries of fossil fuel emissions?So I took Matt Logue’s still photography concept and applied it to something that I do best — time lapse. I built a story around the idea of us being shackled to this ball and chain; this love-hate relationship with whom we spend so much time with here in LA.
Inspired by Matt Logue’s Empty LA.
Read more about this video at http://rossching.com/running-on-empty
Another feature of the modern Nokia bureaucracy, that wasn’t present 15 years ago, is the obsession with data gathering. I remarked that no other company spends us much on ethnography or focus groups, or market segmentation strategies. Turn to almost any page on the website, and you’re invited to fill in an questionnaire.
“Yes, that’s it – and Apple doesn’t do this,†Risku agrees. He highlights one in particular as an example.
“When you have a branded product, the marketing is merely informationâ€
“There is a philosophy called Contextual Design, every designer at Nokia has been trained in it by the guru Karen Holtzblatt [2]. Everybody has attended her courses and got her very expensive book signed. The idea is that you ask the users what they are doing, then design something. If you think about Apple, they don’t ask anybody. The idea of users as designers is a catastrophe!
“It’s only relevant to evolutionary products, it’s not relevant to blue-sky products.When you have a blue-sky product, there are no users, and so there are no users' opinions. We have to rely on what the desires of users are and trust the designers.â€
Because the market decides what’s a hit and a flop?
“Yes.â€
via Rescuing Nokia? A former exec has a radical plan [printer-friendly] • The Register.
Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. In addition, Amazon RDS allows you to easily deploy your database instance across multiple Availability Zones to achieve enhanced availability and reliability for critical production deployments. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.
