The 6 don’ts of Web Development
Over the years i have found (usually the hard way) that there are a lot of guidelines we need to remember whenever we are working with the web. So keep these in mind next time you’re building a website!
Don’t forget to clear your floats.
So maybe you have gotten use to clearing your floats, personally I think a lot of people either never understood the concept fully or stuck too long with tables because you can’t run into that problem with them. Anyways here is the don’t. Whenever you have a float you should remember that the floated element kind of literally floats in the page, hence if there is a wrapping element it will not get pushed down under the floated element, here is a picture to help you visualize this.
The Biggest Twitter Trends Of 2009 – What Was The Top Topic?
By Alex Wilhelm
It being that special time of the year, the end, we are all taking a look back at the last few hundred days. Twitter has given so many people a new voice in the last year, that to ignore what it has to say would be amiss.
WhatTheTrend has compiled a list of the very top Twitter trends of the year, telling us what we all talked about the most. A few people have tried to do similar things, but no other list is as complete and detailed as this one.
So what was the number one trend of 2009? We’ll tell you, but we are going to do a countdown from the top five first.
Clocking in in fifth place: New Moon. We wish that we could start things off differently, but the list is plain: New Moon is the fifth most popular thing that we talked about this year.
5 Ways To Share Too Much Information online
As online social technology improves, the amount that we can share about ourselves in real time is increasing almost every day – but how much is too much? When do you stop being interesting and start becoming a social media bore?
Here are five ways you can share far more than your friends and followers probably want to know.
1. Tweet your weight
The Withings WiFi Scale allows you to share your weight with the world. Connecting to the internet via wifi, it allows you to keep track of your weight over time, providing a graph of your progress and calculating the amount of fat and lean body mass you’re carrying. You can even compare how your weight is doing compared to that of your friends.
The Best Google Street View Fails, Wins, And WTF’s
Long Sunday afternoons were just made for relaxing and enjoying the aftershocks of technology. On Monday, we can all get back to inventing something new.
For today, let’s enjoy some Google Street View victories, disasters, NSFW almosts, and of course ,some awkward oopsies. Let’s go.
10 Reasons Why Your Online Networking May Not Be Working
n this weeks article we are looking at why some people are not yet experiencing success with their social networking activity, Behind all these reasons why your networking may not be working, the most important underlying aspect of what you do must be patience, tenacity and an awareness that this is a new world for all and not everyone ‘get’s it’, but they will and you need to be one of the people who does, and the earlier the better.
Part 1: Dialogue From The Heart, By Penny Power
The Power Of Article Marketing (Part – 1)
Article Marketing is one of the best and most effective ways to drive huge traffic to a website. This has become a must for any web marketing and branding companies to market their brand. The first step to Article Marketing is writing a powerful article.
Easiest Step By Step Guide to Effective Article Writing
List of Top Video Submission Sites, High Page Ranked Video Sharing Sites, Most Popular Video Submission Sites
By Echo
These days’ video submission sites are “popping up” all over the web. Most web marketing professionals get their “feet wet” with video submission sites such as You Tube, Google Video, etc. A well crafted video makes in traffic generation. It has taken few hours to narrow down the choices to few top video sites.
Below are the lists of top video submission sites, high Page Ranked Video sharing sites, most popular video submission sites with their respective Google PR and Alexa Ranking:
Top Social Bookmarking Sites. High Page-Ranked Social Bookmarking Sites
Lists of top Social book marking sites or high PR social bookmark sites are now one of the most important things to be in the pocket of web marketing professionals, web marketing entrepreneurs, and anyone trying to build greater visibility on the web for his/her business.
We have compiled a list of top social bookmarking websites which may be of great interest to those exploring the power of web marketing. Social bookmarking websites are considered very powerful tool in this age of web brand building. These allow you to save bookmark; tag/categorize your favorite web pages online with keywords, instead of saving them in the bookmark list of your browser. Online bookmarking allows other users to view your favorites and vote them as their favorite too.
The below are the lists of 20 (twenty) Top Social Book Marking Sites, High PR Social Bookmark Sites:
Software Compliance Issues in Outsourcing Code Development
The outsourcing of software development to both offshore and onshore development centers has become widely accepted as a part of the business model of many companies. And while outsourcing software development creates efficiencies both in terms of time and money, it comes with its own set of concerns.
By far, the most predominant development model involves the use of pre-built software objects and third-party components. There is enormous time pressure to produce quality software in a shorter timeframe. At the same time, developers mustn’t sacrifice quality for speed. Consequently, use of third-party components represents the most obvious path. There are several benefits, both in terms of more rapid development and also in terms of proven quality. There are, however, licensing issues involved, and these must be managed appropriately. Using third-party components without proper licensing, without paying the appropriate fees or without giving the appropriate attribution can cause a software project to end in disaster.
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Software Development Outsourcing Issues
1. Insurance
The outsourcer should have adequate public liability insurance against loss or liability through injury or damage.
2. Third party suppliers
The arrangements as to which party (purchaser or outsourcer) will hold and which party will administer the terms of any agreements currently in place between the purchaser and other third party suppliers. It is advisable to transfer the Maintenance contracts to the outsourcer unless the outsourcer has agreed to provide maintenance services for all equipment and software.
3. Software licenses
Where third parties supply software used to provide outsourced services, the appropriate licenses must be obtained. Any licenses currently held by the purchaser that relate to services being provided may need to be extended to cover the activities of the outsourcer.
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