Our generation has witnessed the evolution of website design in a major way. If you have been the child of the 1990s, you have experienced websites which were mostly text based. Based on the path of the table based sites and online page builders, flash designing, PHP and CSS, Java Scripts and Semantics, Web 2.0 and the mobile website, the website designers have always taken center stage for representing the World Wide Web to us. 2010s have just started and the role of website designers is far from over.
The phenomenon of Parallax scrolling has become quite a roar in the recent times. Those of you who are not familiar with Parallax design can have some amount of enlightenment through the following lines.
You know that attention spans are quickly becoming even shorter. When people watch movies and television, go shopping, browse for books, and surf the web, they make up their minds in seconds—sometimes to their detriment, true, but that doesn't matter in cyberspace. You can't track down every person who visits your site, delivers the Blink Test, and decides that you've failed. All you can do is prevent it from happening.
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The Blink Test refers to the approximately 0.02 seconds it takes for a person to decide if something interests them enough. It applies to books, shows, movies, and especially to websites, blogs, online shops, articles, and even social media sites. Some marketers claim that you have a larger window of 3-5 seconds to impress; researchers maintain that, at other times, you have only 445ms, mere milliseconds to make a first impression. As a host, a business, a writer, a blogger, or a web designer, you have to make those seconds work for you. Your first impression has to dazzle.
The rich often get a bad reputation for forgetting about the poor and living lavish lifestyles. However, there are many wealthy families who find time and money to help others. Sometimes, it is families who have a long tradition of both wealth and philanthropy. Other times, struggling business people have successfully found the American dream and want to ensure that others have the same opportunities as they do. Through using their money for good, these individuals and families inspire others.
Famously, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett give away a lot of their fortune to help others. In fact, in 2010 they set up a challenge to other billionaires to give away a significant portion of their profits. Although many have answered the challenge, there are many who did not even need to be challenged. Giving to the less fortunate is a simple, obvious step for them.
A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Ready Themes Giveaway had announced the 5 winners of Premium Theme along with 2 hours of Free WordPress consultation service.
We’ve got more than 40 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 32 valid comments. It’s really good to see that how we can able to help in our reader’s life and their profession.
In case, If you missed this giveaway, make sure you are ready for next one as we going to create more such giveaways in future.
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A website that isn’t usable is just a waste. For high performance, usability of the website plays a pivotal role. For new web designers, web developers, or even the website owners, it’s not easy to check whether a website stands good in terms of usability or not. It’s the job of experts, who know how to test the areas affecting usability and what path to follow for usability testing.
In this piece of writing, there will be in depth discussion on the things to be considered for usability testing, how to move for that, and what experts say about that. If you are serious to gain knowledge about usability testing, then read this post with care.
Advertisement is a way to manipulate minds in order to like ones goods or services but many people often associate advertisement negatively with mind manipulation of the masses for the purpose of benefitting their business. But sometimes, you can notice that some advertisers use advertisement for some noble causes as well.
Issues that deal with social causes and that are closer to home and to our hearts. These are the advertisements that raise awareness to social issue, for instance issues related to health, public safety and the society as a whole.