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Review: Nice tool to recruit your own staff
In the past days, Zartis contact us and told us to take a view of their website, and asked if we could spread the word about it in our blog. Well, we made a research, and we found it pretty much a great tool, so we hope it can be useful in your future recruiting process.
Zootool and the best designers to follow on it
Have you ever thought about what would’ve happened if Delicious had not stayed in a moat during the past few years?, it probably would’ve ended up like Zootool, one of the best and fast-growing bookmarking websites nowadays. Every day new designers, photographers, artists and more decide to join the network to share their work, recently we discovered a big list featuring the best designers to follow in Zootol.
Real-time website monitoring with Lucky Orange
One of the most important things when you own a website is knowing how your visitors are interacting with the site, so you can find out the best way of improving the different aspects of your page such as navigation, accessibility, design and others. Today we like to talk about a helpful tool that lets you make a real-time website monitoring and see what your visitors are doing, the tool it’s called Lucky Orange and now we’re going to see how it works.
Best jQuery blogs to keep in your RSS
For those who are not very much into web development, jQuery is a popular cross-browser JavaScript library designed specifically to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. jQuery was released in January 2006 by John Resig and is currently being utilized by over 31% of the 10 K most visited websites, thus jQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library nowadays.
One of the best things about jQuery is its OpenSource condition and the fact that is dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License V2, thanks to these two aspects, every developer can generate their own jQuery plugins and send them directly to the JavaScript library. Now that we have exposed blatantly our love towards jQuery, we like to offer you a grand compilation of blogs and websites where you can find a lot of information about jQuery, including new plugins, good practices and reviews, let’s see what you think about these places.
Design rights, legal terms… learn everything
The term ‘Copyright’ has been a theme of discussion for many years, though ending the argument was a lot easier in the past and people were actually able to set up an agreement. Now that we’re living on the Internet era, understanding copyright has become a more complicated issue that affects among others, us designers.
For graphic and web designers, understanding how copyright works is something that they don’t really care about, because you could say that in this alcove there’s still a lot of confidence in people’s good manners and therefore many design jobs are contracted through simple oral agreements (or not even that), but now we’re going to study why designers need to pay more attention to legal terms, contracts, copyright, Creative Commons and others.
Tracking google analytics
Any blogger, e-commerce entrepreneur or web developer have eventually related to Google Analytics at a certain point. Probably the best free monitoring service until this date, Analytics gives you powerful insights regarding your site’s traffic and marketing effectiveness. The service is flexible and easy to use, making it one of the favorites for many web developers and bloggers.
One popular way of gaining visitors is placing campaign links in other webpages. Either if it’s a banner, a pop window, etc, the idea is to invite people to make clink on it to land in your site. Normally you will simply pass your site’s link to the page’s owner, e.g ‘www.mygrandpage.com’ and the person will place that link within your campaign medium.
Real-time web analytics tool, easier and effective
One of the most important things in the web business is having a permanent eye on statistics, including web traffic, views per day, pingbacks, tweets and more. There are many great tools to help you on this enterprise and one of them is GoSquared.
GoSquared specializes in making web applications to help you monitor and interact with your visitors in real time. The interface is presented in an eye-friendly way that prevents people from spending hours understanding tons of ciphers and data.
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Free credit card icons and payment icons
Having a nice set of icons at your hand is something that can save you a lot of time when you less expect it, not only due their communication properties but because the cutting edge design that is behind them, conceived specifically to reach everyone’s needs.
With the boom of e-commerce websites and with all major companies placing their products online, it’s very important to count with fully functional websites where people can make their purchases without leaving their houses; usually these financial operations are made using credit cards, with brands like VISA, MasterCard and many more huge companies. Today we like to share with all of you the latest release from Iconshock – Icon Sets, an extraordinary set of credit card icons ready to be implemented in your e-commerce and financial projects.
Creating statistical operations with JavaScript
Usually when you’re trying to perform complex statistical operations, you need to appeal to a dedicated statistical language to help you do things with ease, but that process is still complicated and takes a considerable amount of time that could be spent in more productive processes.
Now there’s a fantastic JavaScript named jStat that gives you the chance to execute complex statistical operations without having to recur to dedicated statistical languages. The library simplifies the computing process, giving you more time to focus on more important tasks.
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Designers to follow on Twitter, a deep analysis
If there’s something that we can be sure about regarding Web 3.0 is that social media will occupy a huge role in business and companies will need to pay more attention to sites like Twitter and Facebook because that’s where the money is.
On this article we have chosen Twitter, the world-famous microblogging website that since the Ashton Kutcher days has attracted millions of followers. We fixed our attention in the design community (which is also our main focus group) considering both independent bloggers and big design blogs that have a good amount of followers and make a constant use of the social network. We made a series of tests that helped us determine the most relevant aspects such as average daily tweets, retweets, use of hashtags and more, all of this with the only purpose of identify how designers relate with their clients and followers via Twitter and subsequently obtain enough information that helped us to write some tips on how to improve your Twitter life and establish the main tweeters you should follow for finding quality design information.
Web 3.0, the present and the future of web
At this very moment, somewhere in the world, some guy (let’s call him hmm… “Rupert”) is in front of his computer. No need to imagine him as a super geek or as an obscure techie obsessed person. Our hero is not even a rich or a powerful figure in society. Rupert is just a 15 year old middle class teen that has just got home back from school. His teacher has emailed a literature assignment to the entire class from a Blackberry: they have to read a VI century BC book titled “The art of war”, by some Chinese guy called Sun Tzu… nobody Rupert can recall from his favorite Kung Fu movies anyway.
Rupert chats with some of his favorite schoolmates on Facebook, while browsing through thousands of free eBooks available on Project Guttenberg. Nobody home to cook, so he opens another browser tab and orders some pizza with a few clicks, tweeting to his friends afterwards on how he thinks pepperoni is cooler than anchovies.
Illustration by Iconshock
30 common mistakes in web design
The lightning speed which technology is evolving at is changing our habits in many ways, from how we communicate and socialize to how we shop and earn a living. More and more businesses are beginning to base their operations on the web and soon will be the day when every company will function almost exclusively on the web. There is a need for UX designers and company owners to grasp on new ideas on how to satisfy a new digital breed of customers. With almost 10 years behind the e-commerce boom, there is plenty of data and tons of experiences for new entrepreneurs to learn from in order to develop successful strategies. This list is made upon many of the things we have learned through trial and error, taking many punches in the process. Hope you add to this list your own experiences so we can find together what exactly makes a client tick.
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Best online chat tools and software for your website
When you launch a website that offers a determined service to people, it’s imperative to establish different ways to be in permanent communication with your audience and one to do this is of course the chat. While some people prefer to communicate via email, filling the contact form, leaving comments or even the telephone, it’s certain that the chat is probably the most immediate way to contact the webmaster.
On this roundup we will be studying some of the essential chat services (free and not) that can be implemented in your web page, we will consider different aspects, including price, quality and difficulty of use, we hope you enjoy this article.
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The new Digg, take advantage of it
Many of us saw the new Digg came this past week and with almost no advice, took us into its arms. Like myself, there are many diggers that noticed how many of the things they used to enjoy, like the Bury button, the submitted are among others were erased from the face of the Digg land, there are many persons that have shown unhappy about this new Digg changes and that’s been started to be seeing on the social web area.
But come on, let’s not rush, we should give the new Digg an opportunity to expose all of its new features before we turn our backs on it, we are going to make our own contribution with this quick review that will study the main changes among the old and the new Digg as well as the new features and options, like yourselves, we are still discovering the whole potential of Digg and hopefully we can fully explore it in a short notice.
Best feedback tools
Each time you buy or sell something, either it’s material or not, you have the chance to leave feedback regarding your experience while making that transaction.
Feedback consists of a positive, negative, or neutral rating, along with a short comment regarding the topic in question. Both buyers and sellers build their reputations based on all the ratings and comments (feedback) left by their trading partners. This information is available in each member’s feedback Profile. Positive feedback tells buyers that they’re doing the things right, while the negative Feedback shows them that there are some remaining things to improve. On this countdown, we will be listing some of the most helpful websites that can offer you a complete feedback service, both free / pay and hosted / hosting.
