Four Pillars of a Trust-Inspiring Website Design

Whether you are sharing information, selling products or trying to impress potential employers with a portfolio website, trust plays a major role. The Internet has kicked gullibility out of people. People take all things on the Internet with a pinch of salt. Proving trust on the Internet is not an easy task, but it can be done. Most users automatically judge a website on the basis of multiple factors – the efficiency of the website, the way the website looks, how secure it feels, etc.

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Optimize Web Speed

Optimize the Speed of Your Site

A slow site is like standing in a long queue at the grocery store. At first we’ll stand in the queue, but if it doesn’t start moving quickly, we’ll simply go off and find a shorter queue in which to stand in. It’s the same for your website. If it takes too long to load, customers will go elsewhere. It is for this reason that you should consider adding a few bites in your code because by doing so it could save you a few seconds when IE or similar browsers are processing your code. Here are a few suggestions of how to speed things up.

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Firefox OS

The Downside of HTML5 OS

In the coming months, we will be witnessing several launches of mobile operating systems on the market, one of the signification operating system that strikes my mind, is the Firefox OS. Firefox OS is designed based on HTML5 platform, many features are experimental, but this is the first innovative approach to utilize web technology for mobile computing.

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Create Killer Infographics

5 Resources to Create Killer Infographics

Creating Infographics is not exactly hard, but it can sometimes be a pain if you have to do everything manually. That is why people create tools to help others build better Infographics. It allows you to apply highly graphical techniques without the pain of having to do all of the detailing manually by yourself.

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Getting Image Ideas

A Quick Guide to Creating a Memorable and Successful Logo Design

There are lots of ways in which logos are designed: logos can be crowdsourced, companies may pay millions for a logo, or an average designer can be asked to create a logo at reasonable rates. And there is no way to judge what a logo design is really worth. An unknown logo designer can stumble upon a winning image accidentally, or the world greatest logo designer can end up designing a lousy logo.

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Creative Carnival Photography: Tips and 30 Images

As a photographer, taking pictures of vibrant events like carnivals is a personal favorite. I get to witness a barrage of colors dancing to different genres of music. This effect also provides for striking shots especially when the light reflects on anything that glitters, be it the dancers’ regalia or an attendee’s pair of sunglasses.

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Get Your Customers to Open Your Emails

A common marketing tool of ecommerce merchants and online business owners remains the humble email. Whether you use autoresponder messages, newsletters, or daily emails, the point of these writings is to increase your customer loyalty as well as to boost your sales. However, according to the Direct Marketing Association, only about 1 in 4 emails ever get opened. This means that about 75% of your emails and hard work are going straight into the trash bin.

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PROS and CONS of using Twitter Bootstrap

PROS and CONS of using Twitter Bootstrap

What is Twitter Bootstrap? Simply said, Twitter Bootstrap is an absolutely free, thanks to Twitter’s Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, “multi-toolkit” for web designers. Twitter Bootstrap offers HTML and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, charts, navigation and other web design components.

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