Thanks God it’s Ad Manager and not Adsense Manager - a minor detail yet considerable. Google today announced the launch of Google Ad Manager. The Ad Manager is free to use and works with other ad networks in addition to Adsense. Existing Adsense publishers only need to login whereas those not having an Adsense account [...]

If your site has a high “bounce rate” here are a few tips to ease it down and capture a considerable number of the new visitors your site gets. Bounce rate is a term used in the web traffic analysis and depicts the number of users who navigate away from your site before a particular [...]

A good blog design is prudent and central to any popular blog. Popular blogs like Vandelay Design, Zen Habits stand testament to this. This certainly a lot of controversy surrounding the term web-design. So before we go further and explore the details let me share some interesting information with you.
When I set up my first [...]

I’m please to announce the beta preview of Binary Turf Forums. Before I let you go and take a look I recommend you read through and get equipped with the essential information to get started.

Why a forum?

In these days of CMS, blogs and wikis, forums sound like an outdated lot. However forums have stood the test of time and are a powerful tool to interact, share, provide support and build a community that shares the synergy amongst common interests. But if the word ‘forum’ sounded dull, let me assure you that its not - not these ones. I’ve taken out time and have worked on designing them for over a week now - to design it for ease of use and add that extra appeal of a web 2.0 design with beautiful icons (no I’m not inviting any arguments pertaining to web 2.0 : )

Google Page Creator is no longer accepting any new sign-ups. The standard message on the site is the following. For those who already have signed yup, this is a hint to get prepared to move elsewhere or Google Sites in this case.

“…We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site, and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs….”

What happened to Google Pages Creator?

From covering the tablet with a paper to sprinkling talcum powder - I’ve tried it all. Taming the tablet can be a task -that is until you play smart. I’ve had a very hard time trying various things to get it going. But it always used to falter - until I trained it from scratch with these tricks. Try the following and see the difference for yourself.

I have serious issues when it comes to expressing with the keyboard as several other bloggers do. Though I am a seasoned programmer, I tend to play and fiddle with the keys while thinking causing distraction and anxiety. Thus I looked for alternatives and decided to purchase a tablet device to replace my keyboard and mouse.

I tend to favor devices (or rather get carried away by those) which flaunt higher specs. and features. After all some bucks on the higher side, I won’t have to make the same investment in case I bought the cheaper one only to find I need better.

The traffic on my blog has exploded in the recent times. This on the down side results in a lot of spam and mails amongst other things. Thanks to these plugins which made my life easy managing the blog. This is all I use on my installation of Wordpress.

On the same note remember the Pareto Principle which in this context means that 80% of the power come from 20% of the plugins. For the rest you may need to possibly explore more or code a few plugins yourself. Let’s get started.

Ping.Fm is an online service with a sole purpose of making it easy to share your posts with the world. You can use it to update all the social media sites at once. It supports a whooping 28 social media services. You need the beta code to register (free) which I’ll share at the end of this post. So instead of publishing a post and then notifying social media about the new content on one at a time basis, head on to Ping.fm. But Wordpress bloggers have more good news. There’s a Wordpress plugin that saves you going to the Ping.fm site and login every time you post. Grab this incredible plugin named PingPress.fm from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pingpressfm/

Here’s the humungous list of social services that it supports.

I am sketching out a template for a premium wordpress theme I’m designing. That inspired me to mention some of the basic elements used in design and the effect they render.While to the naked eye they all look what they are, their effect in combination and overall on the site brings some starking results.

Thus here are a few top elements used in web design and their effect.