Archive for May, 2009
PowePoint Templates: The Event We’ve All Been Waiting For!
Posted on 25. May, 2009 by Dave.
Template Monster a pioneer in web design, and the world’s leading website templates maker, today unveils its new, much anticipated collection of Power Point Templates – now when you want to liven up your presentation, you wont have to ask that guy that smells like Doritos, and thinks he knows everything about computer”. All you have to do is browse through our collection and you’ve got yourself an impressive tool to make your presentation look really professional and complete without a lot of extra work.
In other words, PowerPoint Templates are basically the ready-made presentations that only require texts changes. A professional designer does everything and they have huge variety of flavors – for example there are PowerPoint presentations for Business Plan, Marketing Plan and much more.
In sum, if you thought Power Point was easy before – Wait Till You Get a Load of This! Also, if you are like me, and you still feel a little sketchy going into a presentation – take a look at this – this article was written by Jeff Wuorio, he is an author and consultant who writes about small business and personal finance, and offers good advice on this topic at Microsoft’s Small Business Center Internet site. The entire thing is about PowerPoint but all his suggestions really in general apply to any good presentation that uses graphics and illustrations in general to make a message more compelling.
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Blogging: What’s All That About Eh?
Posted on 25. May, 2009 by Dave.
In the past you’ve probably heard me mention that one way to instantly add some of those fundamental features of Web 2.0 on your site is to set up a Blog to run your site. In this article, we revisit the idea of running a full website using WordPress. And explore some of the possibilities that go a long way towards building you traffic – and hopefully get you more comfortable around the whole idea of interactivity and collaboration.
Having a professional looking WordPress theme is simple and I’ll get to that, but first off I just wan to clarify what I mean by setting up WordPress to run your site or using a Blog as your actual website. What’s All That About Eh?
I know for some when they hear the word Blog, they immediately link it with having a personal journal or online diary, so in that setting I could understand how one might think their website “doesn’t constitutes the bases for a Blog” or simply feel the website “doesn’t fall under such a heading” – so, what really is a Blog and what could you use it for? And not only that, but also how can you get it looking professional and still escape all the coding and paying a graphic designer?
Generally speaking a Blog is just a website – the difference is that a Blog works like a CMS (Content Management Systems). The great advantage in that is that it makes it so you never have to call a webmaster for every little edit and then wait a week for him to get around to it.
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Flash vs. Silverlight: Move Over Bacon Now There’s Something Meatier.
Posted on 18. May, 2009 by Dave.
With the release of Silverlight 1.0 and its subsequent versions, Flash apparently has a new contender and with so many strong arguments from both sides of the aisle choosing between Flash and Silverlight is causing a lot of conflict.
The most convincing argument I’ve heard is that Silverlight has XAML based presentation layer for SEO, which means Textual content created with Silverlight is searchable and indexable by search engines as it is not compiled, but represented as text (XAML).
Take into perspective that developers can continue to provide experiences that were formerly possible only with Adobe Flash technology without the trade-off of a loss in search indexing and that’s a huge plus – Flash, regardless of what they say, just isn’t SEO compatible yet.
Performance wise, a practical study on the implementation of components noted that the size of Silverlight component is approximately 10-20 times larger than Flash component…
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10 Custom Fields Hacks For WordPress
Posted on 13. May, 2009 by Dave.
You may not know this but WordPress has a neat little feature called custom fields – this feature is found at the bottom of the page where you go to make/edit your post, and it just another one of those things that makes WordPress so practical and so very easy to use.
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Hundreds of Resources for Finding Content for Your Blog
Posted on 12. May, 2009 by Dave.
Thought this post might be very helpful for anyone experiencing writers block – if you are having a little difficultly coming up with original content for your blog – this blogger has put together for you Hundreds of Resources for Finding Content for Your Blog all on one post – Boneappetite!
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Mobile Template For Handheld Devices
Posted on 11. May, 2009 by Dave.
Hello everyone! I’m writing today to announce the launch of Template Monster’s Mobile templates for handheld devices. This will enable you to properly present your website to billions of mobile Internet users world wide.
Why?
Did you know that the number of users accessing the Internet from their handheld devices has experienced a 107% growth during the period of January 2008 to January 2009? And, that the number of RIM’s BlackBerry users alone has reached 25 million with an additional 3.9 million in the last quarter of 2008. Aahhh! Bet you did not know that…
Similarly, Apple is expected to triple it’s sales on the IPhone 3G for 2009 and as if there weren’t enough, almost half of Earth’s population has access to some type of mobile device such as cell phones. That’s about 3 billion potential mobile Internet users.
Does your website need to be adapted to the small screen?
If you want to discuss a mobile template, if you need a quote, or anything else, just drop us a line.
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Just Finished Another Customization Project – SCI
Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Dave.
Just finished this basic little website for Mr. Brian Stoeckert, over at http://stoeckertconsulting.com. Based in Los Angeles, California, the firm’s practice provides creative solutions to complex money laundering schemes, terrorist financing typologies, and high-risk fraud investigations.
Brian is also a leading authority on permuta bond swaps and is the co-author of “Moving Money North: Currency Exchange in Venezuela via the Permuta.” – very interesting stuff
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Behind the Scenes With Premium Templates
Posted on 03. May, 2009 by Dave.
Did you know that a premium template’s production process always involves a whole teem of professionals? Yes Friends, even the most basic premium template requires a minimum team of 5 professionals – in fact, the whole project takes a lot of time – you get the work of 7 professionals X 8 hours for as little as $120 – That’s awesome!
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50 Vectors To Liven Up Your Web Design
Posted on 03. May, 2009 by Dave.
Foamers understands that not everyone is a graphic designer. Yet we can all appreciate the importance and benefits of having good graphics – particularly if its free stuff – personally I enjoy finding trendy little graphics such as arrows or badges – stuff that will immediately attract the visitor’s attention and that I’ll reuse.
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