Thanks for all the volunteers who offered to translate Aviary into different languages! Translating languages for different Aviary tools is easy. Just follow these steps:
DIRECTIONS
Step 1. Download a free application called Poedit and install it.
Step 2. Download the Aviary translation files (.po).
Step 3. Just unzip and open any .po file in Poedit, click on a [...]
Aviary is proud to release Falcon, our image markup editor. Falcon is a blazing fast visual markup tool that was designed to work with Aviary’s new Firefox Extension (Talon) for screen capture, as well as for stand-alone image preparation.
Launch URL:
http://www.aviary.com/launch/falcon
One of the first decisions any website creator needs to address is how to manage content. There are two general categories; static HTML, which is written in an editor like Dreamweaver (or even Notepad), and content management systems (CMS). Both methods have implications for design, maintenance and SEO, and have different advantages.
Static HTML
Static HTML is [...]
Useful Tips for Effective Web Design
Listed below are some useful and rather important tips for designing a professional and high quality web site:
Neat and Easy Navigation: Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Ask yourself this, [...]
Looking for new markets? A microsite could help you reach them.
Gerald Prolman launched OrganicBouquet.com in 2003 to sell sustainably grown flowers that are freshly picked and then gift-wrapped. But as the company grew, he needed a better way to meet the increasing demand from florists, event planners and other whole-salers. So in June, Prolman [...]
Wanting to start a real home-based-business that would make you money and don’t know where to start? You don’t trust much of what you read and think most websites are a scam – worst, a fraud. Many internet businesses run out of ethics. Desperate times call for desperate measures for some, that’s where you got [...]
Your Web site should be well organized — Create an outline before beginning the design process.
Every graphic on a web page should be necessary — Each graphic should relate to the text on that page, to the message being communicated, and to the audience.
Background color should be easy on the eyes — [...]
this week there’s been some comment worth noting on the subject. Firstly Martin Kelley on O’Reilly Broadcast:
With the rise of the real-time update streams being popularized by Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed, users are becoming accustomed to a constantly-changing flow of pictures, videos and new snippets. Even actively-maintained websites seem locked in languid stupor in comparison.
This [...]
Technically, they’re called microsites—small, self-contained Web destinations that are separate from a company’s primary site, have their own distinct URLs, and consist entirely of content focused on a particular product or service. And Hanekamp, the CEO of Chicago-based interactive agency The Well Advertising, is such a micro-booster that he’s launched www.microsite.com, a microsite devoted to [...]
In this day and age we are what you may call people on the go. A better description would be people who have so much to do with so little time. We prefer everything to be at our fingertips-we have drive through banking and drive through laundry. At the same time most of us do [...]
