Tag: Disaster

Yahoo Listing Still Worth It?

Posted on Jul.10, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

In October 2002, the Yahoo! portal changed the way it delivers search results. In the past, the most prominent results were exclusively culled from websites listed in the Yahoo directory itself. Since October, sites listed in the Yahoo directory no longer enjoy this privileged status.
The Google search engine now drives the primary search results on Yahoo. While this is certainly an improvement for users of Yahoo search, it’s a disaster for many businesses that counted on their Yahoo listing to [...]


Ten Ways To Effectively Increase Your Site?s Prominence On The Web

Posted on Jun.25, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

It’s a strange world, this place we call the internet. Many things here are stark opposites of their real life counterparts. Take for example the following. Whereas blind dating is a most dubious manner of meeting people in real life, it is the norm in cyberspace. Whereas multi-level marketing carries with it a stigma of disaster in the actual world, it is a venture very much sought on the web. And whereas traffic tends to irritate us in our daily [...]


Professional Software Icons For Your Standalone Application

Posted on Jun.21, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments

User interfaces and accessibility are some of the most important aspect of an application. It can have a million features, it can do a thousand things once, but if it doesn’t look quite right then it will be a disaster. Take Linux for example. This open source (free) operating system has been around for quite a while, and it has been very appreciated for its stability and speed. However, in its earlier days it lacked a user interface, which made [...]


3 Reasons Your Website Might Fail To Attract Enough Customers

Posted on May.14, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Virtually all website owners concentrate their efforts and energy into getting more visitors. With business owners this effort is spent on getting more and more new customers. What many people forget – with both their website and their business – is that getting new customers (or visitors) is only a small part of the equation for success. Reason For Failure No. 1 – The ‘I am God’-Syndrome God got his name from being able to do anything and everything and [...]


RSS: Really Simple Syndication

Posted on Apr.06, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

More websites are starting to offer RSS feeds, and more users
are making use of RSS readers instead of visiting every website
they want to read individually. But what is RSS, why is it
getting popular, and – most importantly -what can it do for you?
Read on.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for ‘really simple syndication’, and it does exactly
what it says on the tin. Invented by Dave Winer, one of the
first webloggers, the format aims to provide a standardised way
to obtain a website’s content, [...]


Facts about the unlogos

Posted on Mar.22, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Logos are the first impression a customer gets about a company.
The logo is the business itself. No matter how simple or how
beautiful your logo is, the effect it has on people will
determine how effective your logo it. It is one way of having
credibility. Most often than not, logos make or make the
company. Making use of the best quality and competitive printing
company to design your logo is a must. Several factors are
needed to be kept in mind in logo making. [...]


What is graphic designers greatest fear?

Posted on Mar.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Designers are considered masters of their crafts. They have
created and designed the most amazing things that not all other
people are capable of. They are the ones people run to if they
wanted the best creations that may serve whatever purpose they
wanted. These designers can turn simple ideas and illustrations
into innovative graphic designs. These are what they do best.
What people do not know is that these designers, tackling
everything and making wonders in designs, scram in fear when
made to communicate with words. Talk [...]


Inks need a little fuelling

Posted on Mar.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

In most prints, ink is the ultimate factor why printing outputs
change. Change may be for good or for disaster. Printing is on
the run and on top of the list for a business and marketing
promotion. To have nice prints and nice colors, inks are
responsible for that. Without inks, printing would never be
possible and printing would never exist. The ink is the heart of
printing because it makes everything visible and evident. But
inks sometime cause a disaster. If printing does not turn out
good [...]


Laser printer turning detective?

Posted on Mar.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Laser printers that can fight crime? Impossible, you say? Now,
maybe. But with the speedy development of printers today, the
probability of it happening in the future is definitely
possible. And would it be nice just sitting at home watching
television and having your laser printers do the work for you
like processing your important papers?
These are just some of the things that are thought of that can
happen in the coming years. According to a research, laser
printers leave marks on your documents that will [...]


Sober drivers, not!

Posted on Mar.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Alcohol has always been a problem in society then and now. Its
negative and drastic effects are attributing to accidents and
other misconducts that people under its spell are getting into.
What would happen if you combine this with driving? You would
get disaster in caps. Drivers are always been warned against
drinking and driving or vice versa. Media played its role in the
campaign agent drunk driving. They show advertisements to
emphasize their points. Films were done regarding what happens
and what may happen. And real life [...]