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As we're nearing the 10 year anniversary of InetSolution's start, we're hitting another adolescent growth spurt. We need to inject some new energy, talent and, of course, manpower into the InetSolution machine.
We're looking for another senior programmer/architect with a ridiculous amount of ASP coding experience and mad skills migrating classic ASP applications to an ASP.Net platform. This is a full-time, long-term job for the person who meshes well withour culture and ambitions.
If you've ever tried to print something from Internet Explorer, you've probably realized what a headache it can be. Whatever you were trying to print mostly prints on 1 or 2 pages, but the right 20% of the page seems to be cut off. Sometimes your printer might spit out 1 or 2 pages with that other 20%. If you're trying to write a research paper, cut off words and sentences can be a real headache. Even if you (or your customers) are just trying to print a simple coupon, cut off information is a pain.
Now that you've weened yourself off of using tags to set the font attributes on your web site, it's time to refine your style sheet even further. It may be easier to just use the point (pt) or pixel (px) size, especially when converting a Photoshop mockup, but if you use percent (%) for your font-size, you'll greatly improve accessibility.
The goal of ads on your website is to generate clicks. As marketers, we have trouble limiting ourselves to just one ad on our home page, and eventually our home pages become a cluttered carnival of ads. Each additional ad dilutes the impact of the other ads on the page and thus click-through rates decline.
Donovan and I are working with a client whose home page has this exact problem. Our new design will show only one large graphic ad (instead of the five it shows now) on the home page, but the company still needs to show multiple ads throughout the campaign period. We had to decide whether to show a single, but different, ad on each page refresh, or to use code to change the ads every X seconds while the user sits on the page. How did we decide?
Most people can't resist reading a story that promises to answer an intriguing question, or to shed light on a mysterious situation. The writer who authored the cover of this month's MIT Technology Review provides an excellent example of writing that practically forces a reader to turn the page.
A client asked, "How can I tell how many of my web pages are in Google search results?" Let me show you how.
Two gas stations I frequent are so close to being able to take more of my money, more often, if they'd just take their on-pump video advertising one step further. Here's my idea.
Many people have asked about the new data center since we moved in August. I finally got around to taking some pics for those geeks out there who have been asking, "What does it look like?" So, for those of you who find boring data center pics interesting, or just wonder where exactly your website files live when they're in our care, here ya go.
No matter how creatively you plan your web site design, the underlying structure of (X)HTML is grid based. Even if you aren't laying out your site using tables (you aren't right? good) you can think of multiple DIVs, headings, paragraphs, and images as a piece of your grid. So, if you're creating your web site mockups in Photoshop, dragging out some grid lines should be the first move you make.
On the NYTimes.com website, they've added a new E*Trade advertisement in a rather questionable location that makes me wonder whether their designers are just careless, or if they're intentionally trying to trick visitors into clicking the ad.
I was searching for live chat software to integrate into one of our websites when I found the LiveHuman.com website. The photo on their home page reminded me that it's important to test your landing page designs, including photo selections, with real users before launching ad campaigns.
How many times have you opened up a photo that you took on your digital camera in Photoshop and tried to print it? I'm willing to bet that you get a message telling you that your photo is too large for your paper and it will be cropped. Well, what if you just want to print some 5x7s or 4x6s? If you're using the image resize method to specify your size, you might be losing detail in your prints.
Do you have a long form on your web site that might be intimidating to users? After all, you only require about half of the fields on your form? Now you can use XHTML and JavaScript to allow your users to hide the optional fields and only fill out what is required of them. Heck, you could even hide the optional fields by default.
In the age of color photos and mega-pixel digital cameras, black and white photography has become pretentious and artsy. But, good news, now you can create pretentious and artsy black and whites from your color digital photos.
PGP (www.pgp.com) is one of the most common methods of protecting financial data that customers submit through bank and credit union websites. PGP provides excellent data encryption, but many users leave sensitive PGP-encrypted data vulnerable without even knowing they’re doing so.