3 Web Design Mistakes To Avoid
Here is a list of three things to remember when designing (or updating) a new website for yourself or clients:
- Keep fonts, sizes, colors, and other design attributes consistent throughout the site.
- Don’t bloat your site with unnecessary features and plugins. Doing so can slow down your site and cost you visitors and, more importantly, sales.
- For the content and copy, be sure to make points clear, use words that create an emotional response, and avoid complex or unnecessary words.
Flash actionscript: Using the ESC Key to Quit a Flash Projector
With the code below, you can enable a Flash Player 6 standalone projector to quit via the ESC key:
escKey = {};
escKey.onKeyDown = function(){
if(Key.getCode() == Key.ESCAPE){
fscommand(“quit”, “”);
}
};
Key.addListener(escKey);
fscommand(“trapallkeys”, “true”);
Hope you find this useful.
Bootstrap: Twitter’s CSS Framework
Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions.
Twitter has a new CSS framework, named Bootstrap, that they launched recently, which includes things like grids, custom form styles, tooltips and popovers, etc..
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.
It supports modern, standards-compliant browsers, but I imagine some of the niftier features would probably break down on older ones. That would be a big issue if you wanted to use Bootstrap for an ordinary website, but less so for “web apps,” where it’s more common to assume a user has a modern browser.
Build quality links for your site
A couple of years back a link building campaign consisting of forum posting, blog commenting, article marketing, link exchanges and buying a few links would have done the trick, but a lot has changed since then, buying links is more dangerous than ever before. So it leaves us wondering what one should do to build links? I have written this post to cover some of the ways which you can use to build quality links for your site.
This is a question which I think everyone should ask themselves before trying anything on link building, because if your site is not worthy enough then why should someone link to you? Remember a useful site always gets a link, so if it is not then first make it one.
Link Placement
In recent times Google has started giving value to link placement, it has been observed that links within the content gets more value and links from sidebar and footer the least.
Nofollow & Dofollow
After many of the search engines started to ignore the links containing the no-follow attribute a lot people go out and source dofollow links, but in doing this they do more harm to their link profile. Every website should have a good balance of dofollow and nofollow links both so that your link profile appears to be natural.
Authority Links
I always believe most of the search engines place a great value on the links coming from established and authority sites. Links from sites that are considered as an authority within your niche are the ideal links to have.
Anchor Text and Internal Pages
The most common mistake that a lot of people commit while link building is that they focus most of their time in building links to their homepage and that too with the same acnhor text. Your link profile to look natural must contain links to internal pages with varying anchor text.
Directory Submissions
Directory submission is an important task in any link building campaign. These links make up the numbers when it comes to authority links. Submit to the right directories and they will improve your overall domain trust. A lot of people waste their time in submitting to thousands of free directories when hardly any of them matters much.
Blog Commenting and Forum Posting
Blog commenting and forum posting for links is seen as spam and has been devalued due to many people taking advantage of unprotected blogs and forums. If blog and forum commenting is part of your link building campaign then put some effort in it. Instead of spamming forums and Blogs with “Thanks”, “Nice Post” and other unrelated stuff provide something useful in your comments and posts so that you contribute something to them.
Blog commenting and forum posting should be viewed as more of a reputation building rather than link building. This type of link building is best for increasing the number of nofollow links to your website as most of the popular blogs and forums use a nofollow.
Guest Blogging
After the rise of a lot of Guest Blogging communities, it can be viewed as one of the most natural ways to get a link. The idea is to look for related blogs accepting guest posts and offer them your informative posts in return of a link from that post. A well written and informative blog post featured on a popular blog can get you loads of traffic and links.
Link Bait
Link bait is any content or feature, within a website, created specifically to gain attention or generate links to the website. Link bait could be anything from an article to an event or a special feature that can gain people’s attention. A Link Bait can be created either by writing about some topic that has been hardly written on within your niche or offering some useful stuff like free services or coupons to your users or even writing about something controversial.
Conclusion
Although link building is a tough task in itself but a properly planned link building campaign and tracking the progress will make the job easier with time.
Just remember link building is an ongoing process and every link building campaign is different from others.
How to Autoplay Embedded YouTube Videos with the New iframe Embed Code
A standard embed code looks something like this:
<iframe title=”YouTube video player” width=”640″ height=”510″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/5yle1USyhCY” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
To make the video autoplay when a person lands on your site you should add ‘?autoplay=1′ to the end of the URL. For example:
<iframe title=”YouTube video player” width=”640″ height=”510″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/5yle1USyhCY?autoplay=1” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Google Finally Launches “Real-Time” Analytics
Google finally launched much awaited “Real-Time” analytics. It started showing up in my google analytics account today and it certainly looks very promising.
- Right now: It displays actual number of visitors on the site at that moment, including number of new v/s returning visitors in a bar (with beautiful colours). Along with displaying actual number of visitors on the site at that point, it also displays pageviews per minute and per second in real time. Pageviews per minutes seems to be showing how many pages have been visited in a particular minute, in past 30 minutes. Likewise, Pageviews per second shows how many pages have been visited in a particular second in past 60 seconds.
- Top referrals: Displays number of visitors on the site at that moment, coming from the referral sites, this includes any external domain and social networking sites like facebook.com.
- Top active pages: Displays which page are being visited by the user at that moment.
- Top keywords: Displays what are the keywords used by the visitor to reach to the website.
- Top locations: Displays from which location the visitor is visiting, along with latitude and longitude details.
Though google analytics had been providing most of these data for the previous day till now, it has started providing data in Real – Time which is going to be of great help to the marketers. We strongly believe google should focus on such products, rather than wasting time on fighting with Facebook.com with Google+.
There still is so much to study on what is the best way to use the available data but at this moment the Real – Time data is looking very promising. We have started thinking on how to use this for benefit of our clients. Have you started using it? How you think Real – Time would help your business? Do let us know with your comments, below.
Recent changes Facebook made
In wake of competition or to keep improving, Facebook has come up with new set of changes. At August Infotech, we think they are really cool, though the response from the net community is mix with majority not liking those changes. We think it will help facebook stay on top of the social media world. Below is the list of changes facebook made recently.
1. Top story: Facebook has start listing top stories on the top and is marked with blue corner on top left hand side. User also has facility to mark story as “top story” from the drop down on the right hand top corner of the story and that story will show up on top of the news feed for that user.
2. Friends activity: Now user can see their friends activity updates. This facility is right above the chat users list on the right hand side of the page. Though it is matter of debate if users want to see updates on what their friends are posting at particular time and this is the one feature most of the users are unhappy with. Oh yes and you can make this ticket smaller or bigger and adjust it size with the chat users list.
Let us know what you think of these changes. Did you liked them? Disliked them? Or it really does not matter to you. We welcome your comments.
Pros and Cons of Link Building Services
In this blog you will find some pros and cons regarding link building, before you proceed to build links for your website please go through this niche link building blog, it will help you build better and strong backlink for your website which is important.
Pros of Link Building (Back Linking)
Link Popularity and Prominence:
Link Building drives force for “Link Popularity” which is directly connected with your website promotion and traffic. Link Popularity means your website is accessed by how many other websites. The more quality inbound links you gain, the more is your website rankings and traffic.
Higher Page Rank (PR):
When you start placing your link to other websites through link building or back linking, you website’s “Page Rank” start to increase. Page Rank or PR has many benefits for example, when your site has higher PR, it is an authority for search engine and so other websites tend to start linking with your site.
Long term Back Links:
Another plus of link building is on going back links in future. If your website PR is high, you can effectively get links back to your website. High PR websites are mostly encouraged on high traffic websites for linking purposes. In this way, your back linking process never ends and you can earn even more back links.
Getting Targeted Traffic:
Link Building has an exceptional ways for pulling potential and targeted traffic on your website. And when you get success to pull potential traffic on your website, your business starts to flourish which is your ultimate goal.
Higher Online Sales:
The best thing about link building (back linking) is you always have your chances growing for sales beside your business popularity.
Economical Way to Advertise:
Don’t ever neglect the fact that link building is most effective and cheap way of advertising and marketing your business to million of online visitors.
Cons of Link Building (Back Linking)
Limitation to Opt for Link Builder:
Firstly, search engine optimization expert highly skilled in website promotion and link placement should be involved to start the process of building links and getting traffic.
Slow to Get Result:
Link Building is slow to react, it some times take six or more months to show the influence in the search engine. Nevertheless, it cannot be ignored.
On Going Process:
Link building or back linking is a continuous process and your efforts can never end up so that you can think you are able to be on top.
Knowledge & Skills are Must:
Link Building cannot be handled by a non-technical individual. Certain experience and skills of link placements is must. How ever link building is interesting and also easy to understand.
For your link building related needs, please contact us at seo@augustinfotech.com and we will take care of your all link building needs in a very professional manner.
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Hire iPhone Mobile Application Developers
August Infotech an web development company, has recently emerged into iPhone application development services for their customers. August Infotech is focusing into Mobile application development and to provide their customers an end users solutions.
With the growth of iPhone applications, there is a gradual rise of quality iPhone applications developers too. The iPhone developers design and develop applications according to the client’s requirements. It is quite unbelievable how developers use imagination to develop and run applications on a phone. Our developers can develop applications that will help you make your workflow smoother and easier as they can be customized to individual needs, designed to suit your exact requirement. In iPhone development, applications are built for fun/entertainment and business solutions etc. It’s beneficial as one can access different awesome applications in a single portable device.
August Infotech can create exciting puzzles and games according to your requirements.
Today there are many iPhone users and in this competetive market, one has to lead the business with new technologies, so that not even a single lead for business would be missed. Hire us to solve your problem to develop your iphone applications for your business needs. We provide custom iPhone website applications for business according to your needs and requirements.
August Infotech design and develop iPhone website applications according to principles and standards so that it can work on every iPhone or iPad platforms.
Choosing August Infotech as your web and mobile application development company is the key to a successful growth of business, as we provide end to end solution that includes web development, mobile application development, web marketing and social media marketing including facebook fan page and facebook stores.
Create Customized Facebook Fan Page Design!
A Facebook Fan Page is one such feature which has proved to be substantial for marketers and online firms in order to communicate, interact and share with their fans. A Fan Page is extremely effective as it is a medium of communication between your company and its consumers, essentially all marketers require target and niche oriented activity & a fan page supplies just this!
Fan Pages are a great way to mix and interact with people who are interested in your company and its services. Our customized Fan Page Design offers:
- User discussions
- Photo uploads
- Video uploads
- Application integration
- Send to all option
- Events information
August Infotech posses marked hands on experience for all Facebook features. From Facebook application development to Facebook Fan Pages, we have done it all! In essence a Facebook Fan Page design can be deemed as a one page website representing your company on the Facebook platform. It can be used in conjunction with your current online/offline activity or as a standalone entity. We add life to your Fan Page and customize it so that the Fan Page is engaging, interactive and user friendly but most of all it serves your desired purpose.
August Infotech Official Facebook Fan Page Design:
August Infotech created Facebook Fan Page Design for Customer:
Create your personal, business or corporate Facebook fan page design from August Infotech and let your visitors get attracted towards your services, products and also get more likes for your Facebook fan pages to help your viral marketing efforts.