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Website User Testing the Usabilla Way - Features
by oseres
Usabilla integrates usability tests in your daily work-flow and helps you continuously improve your web site's user-experience and conversions with high quality design feedback. No planning, extra work-hours or expenses needed. Just focus on your research, invite your participants, and Usabilla will do the rest. Combine qualitative and quantitative research and find out what your users think and do. Create a Usabilla test in only a few minutes and collect design feedback with clicks and notes.
January 2012
December 2011
How To Create A Better Meta Box In WordPress (Part 2) - Deluxe Blog Tips
by mozkart
After I wrote the article How To Create A Better Meta Box In WordPress Post Editing Page, I received some questions that asked me how to create multiple meta boxes for multiple post types (in WordPress 3.0). So I decide to improve the script to do that.
OCHA oPt. UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
by sbrothier
The OCHA office in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) was established in late 2000. The office was established in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the West Bank and Gaza caused by military incursions and closures - mobility restrictions imposed on the Palestinian civilians, local and international service providers.
OCHA-oPt aims to improve the humanitarian situation by enhancing coordination between agencies to ensure effective distribution of humanitarian assistance. It also enhances coordination and decision making through its dissemination of humanitarian information and analysis of facts.
Announcing ql.io — eBay Tech Blog
ql.io – a declarative, evented, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs. Through ql.io, we want to help application developers increase engineering clock speed and improve end user experience. ql.io can reduce the number of lines of code required to call multiple HTTP APIs while simultaneously bringing down network latency and bandwidth usage in certain use cases.
November 2011
A Guide To Improve Your Website's Readability Through Colors
by Monique
Colors have a huge effect on readability. This is why you need to choose them wisely so that they not only create esthetically pleasing combinations but also make it easier for users to read the text. Text is an integral part of any site and we shouldn’t punish visitors for coming to our site by using hard to read color combinations.
LukeW | UI16: The Business Case for UX
Return on behavior: what is the value of a customer engaging in a desired behavior? We can tie behaviors to financial returns. Look at opportunity and how it maps to behaviors and their expected value. We can build strategies and design to improve the return on behavior.
29 Wordpress Tweaks to Improve Posts and Pages
by touristic (via)
The tweak below will change your excerpt length, which you can just add the following lines of code into your functions.php file, with the value 75 as the excerpt length.
October 2011
High Performance Websites with Symfony2
by Xavier Lacot
Jordi Boggiano gives some hints on how to improve the performances of a Symfony2 powered website
September 2011
schema.org
by gregg & 1 other
This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.
August 2011
July 2011
Better Choices, Better Life
by personmark
Always wondered how you could live a healthy life? Here are the best life saving tips on how to improve the quality of your life!
Everything you need to know about health and happiness is included in this special report:
Reduce stress to feel happier and healthier
How to feel younger
How to look younger
How to live a long and healthy life by eating healthier
How to keep your skin young looking
Eliminate negativity from your life to be happier and healthier
How positive energy affects you
Self help tools you can use right away
Stress reducers to be happier and healthier
The link between exercise and health
Learn to recognize and target stress
How to live longer
How HGH affects you
Age defying concealments
Melatonin and why you need it
And much,much more!
Even if you believe you are currently healthy, there is something important to learn in this report on how to achieve maximum health and happiness.
I show you the tools, tips and strategies you need to balance health and happiness
You won’t want to miss out on this!
I am so confident that you wil
June 2011
Useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript Tools and Libraries - Smashing Magazine
by oseres & 1 other
Front-end development is a tricky beast. It’s not difficult to learn, but it’s quite difficult to master. There are just too many things that need to be considered; too many tweaks that might be necessary here and there; too many details to make everything just right. Luckily, developers and designers out there keep releasing useful tools and resources for all of us to learn, improve our skills and just get better at what we do. Such tools are valuable and helpful because they save our time, automate mundane tasks and hence help us focus on more important things.
How to Improve the Memory Performance of Your Windows7 PC | Windows 7 News
by decembre
Getting the best performance out of your Windows7 OS can involve bringing in many 3rd party tools. But before you do that, try some in house tools first. Step 1: Go to the Control Panel Step 2: Select System and Security Step 3: Select System Step 4: Select Advanced System Settings Step 5: Select Performance – Settings Step 6: On the Visual Effects Tab, select Adjust for Best Performance. This will clear any selections that may be present.t Step 7. On the Advanced tab select programs. Step 8. Select the Change button. Step 9: Customize the size of the cache Click Custom size Enter the initial size (the recommended amount) Enter the maximum size (add 100 to the initial size or some other number so you have a range, minimum to maximum). Click Set Click OK You may have to reboot your system.
Mastering Photoshop for Web Design, Volume 2
by jenny82
This eBook is aimed at advanced and intermediate designers who are keen to improve their Photoshop skills and will help you get most out of the program by providing you with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day. We understand that creating great artwork without intimately knowing your tools is certainly possible, but the more you know, the more likely you are to work faster and with greater confidence. We hope that you will find this eBook useful and valuable as its predecessor.
Schema.org
by Nicolas Lescure & 1 other
This site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages
May 2011
Changes to Big Picture comments - The Big Picture - Boston.com
gros soupirAll comments on the Big Picture are now powered by Facebook. […]-- The quality of comments should improve as people use their real names.
Transfer files to and from an iPad - Computerworld
by oseres
It’s true that you can use your iPad instead of your Mac to take care of many common computing tasks. But unless you’re ready to ditch Mac OS X entirely, you’ll still need to transfer files back and forth between your iPad and your Mac if you’re going to get work done.
Unfortunately, transferring and synchronizing files between the Mac and the tablet isn’t easy. There are several different ways to do it, but none are perfect, and each has its deficiencies. Frankly, this is one area where Apple could vastly improve the iPad experience. Until that happens, here are your choices when it comes to transferring files between your various devices.
English Speaking Online
by Caimin
Site for learners of English. Listen to native speaker conversations, then record your part in the conversation. By comparing your version with the original you can improve your pronunciation.
March 2011
Government of Canada - Open Data Pilot Project - Home
The Open Data Pilot seeks to improve the ability of the public to find, download and use Government of Canada data. You are invited to search the catalogue, download datasets and explore the possibilities of Open Data.
