Friday, September 27, 2013

10 Creative Examples of Contact Forms

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Top Websites to Create Online Portfolio for Free

Are you a photographer, sculpturer, or creative artist? If you are well known among the artist fraternity or is just an amateur artist, it is a good idea to create your online portfolio. There are different methods to execute this process. Usually, online portfolios are being created with the help of portfolio templates of different remuneration and free service providers online, in which WordPress is leading the domain. According to the needs and tastes of the users, there are unique solutions available in terms of custom-designed templates as well as easy to manage control panels.

Read Full Post - http://www.techblogcom.com/2013/09/top-websites-to-create-online-portfolio.html

Are you a photographer, sculpturer, or creative artist? If you are well known among the artist fraternity or is just an amateur artist, it is a good idea to create your online portfolio. There are different methods to execute this process. Usually, online portfolios are being created with the help of portfolio templates of different remuneration and free service providers online, in which WordPress is leading the domain. According to the needs and tastes of the users, there are unique solutions available in terms of custom-designed templates as well as easy to manage control panels. - See more at: http://www.techblogcom.com/2013/09/top-websites-to-create-online-portfolio.html#sthash.GTk5h3dB.dpuf

Friday, September 20, 2013

35 Best Mobile Application Development Icon Sets

From the far end of the 20th century many technological advancements, especially in the field of IT, have taken place that brought about sweeping changes in your life. In a matter of about three decades, mobile phones have evolved from being a gadget that helps in communication to becoming a full fledged minicomputer. The consumers prefer mobile phones over computers as it is a much more convenient to use on the go and can be accessed anywhere. This is largely possible because of the development of different kinds of mobile applications. Just with a touch of finger tip, it is possible to connect to your mailbox or bank accounts and get classified information on the go.

Since the screen area of the mobile phones is limited, developers use different kinds of icons instead of the names of the application for identifying it. The users need to click on the icon images and the application opens up within a few seconds. There are millions of Android compatible and iPhone compatible apps on the internet. The appearance of the icon plays an important role in making a particular icon viral among the users. The app developers have the option of choosing awesome mobile application icons based on various themes from the cyber space for the apps developed by them. Use of these icons makes the job of the developers much easier and faster.

In this write up links to thirty five best mobile apps icon sets are present. Use these to enhance your efficiency and make the apps popular. Enjoy!!





Read full post: http://www.andysowards.com/blog/2013/35-best-mobile-application-development-icon-sets/

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Free Online Payment Icon Set (PSD and PNG)

Monday, August 26, 2013

Mobile Technology behind Online Business Success

Monday, August 5, 2013

10 Flat Design Examples

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

List of Newly Launched iPhone Apps : All free to use

Thursday, July 18, 2013

How #Hashtags Help in Business Promotion


Hashtags are a key to riding today’s social media wave. But understanding what a hashtag is, let alone implementing one, can be confusing for many small business owners -- even ones that consider themselves tech savvy.



“Hashtags open up the social media world to better converse with your company,” says Barry Sloane, CEO of Newtek, a health insurance agency for small businesses. “A website or URL post only brings you to the company’s website, while a hashtag allows people to use it in everyday conversations they have on social media.”

Similar to putting phrases in a search engine like Google, hashtags enable people to search and discover content on social media Websites including Facebook and Twitter.

With a hashtag, users can tag posts, pictures and videos with a hash symbol (#) followed by a word or phrase. This allows the social media site to categorize posts based on like terms, which in turn makes it easier for people to search for similar and related posts.

For small businesses, especially ones that don’t have a big marketing budget, hashtags are a free way to build a follower base on Facebook and Twitter, granted they are posting interesting content and using the appropriate hashtag keywords.

“On social media this is the most cost effective way to get your brand out there,” says Gurbaksh Chahal founder, chairman & CEO of RadiumOne, a digital advertising company.

Hashtags can also be a great way for small businesses to connect with people that care about their product category or business field. For instance, if your company makes hair products and you are able to post relevant content, than a whole swath of people (AKA new customers) interested in hair products can find yours under the hashtag.

“Repeated tweets to those hashtags will hopefully gain the emerging enterprise more notoriety and a regular following that could never be achieved cost effectively in any other known manner,” says Sloane.

For small businesses that have a marketing budget, hashtags can also be a great way to run a promotion and at the same time get the word out about the business. According to a RadiumOne survey, 51% of respondents said they would be more open to sharing company hashtags if they got a discount or a chance at a prize for doing it.

“Not only can you give discounts, and therefore bring in more customers, but this allows you to track promotions activity online,” says Sloane.

But just like there are rules governing how a business should act on social media sites, there’s also a protocol to follow when it comes to hashtags.  For instance, Chahal says small businesses have to choose hashtag categories that are broad enough to reach a diverse audience, but at the same time make sure it also reaches that niche user base. He also says small businesses don’t have to stick to just one hashtag, but can use multiple to reach even more potential customers.

Since any word of phrase can become a hashtag by adding the # symbol in front of it, Sloane says small businesses should use a hashtag in front of their company or brand name and hashtag related keywords or buzzwords. For example, Newtek often uses #smallbiz, he says.

While hashtags are used on Facebook and Instagram, they are primarily found in the Twitter domain. Because of that, experts say small business owners must embrace hashtags in tweets, and consider using them on Facebook and even Instagram as well.

“I’ve seen a brand thrive based on the conversation,” says Chahal. “The best way to get started at no cost and no investment is just using creativity to get your product out there.”

Read more: http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/07/18/entrepreneur-guide-to-hashtags/

How to create responsive module positions in Joomla using Bootstrap

Monday, July 15, 2013

Looking to Speed up your Drupal Website? Use Token Tweaks Module



On larger Drupal sites, the Token module quickly becomes unwieldy, and the UI can consume precious resources while often being never used. Here are some options for mitigation of this.

Token_tweaks module

Written by the same guy who wrote token, token_tweaks aims to reduce the recursiveness of the theme_token_tree() function. This simple fix is enough on most sites to speed up page loads, and reduce memory consumption.

This is a real life example from a current (large) Drupal project I am working on. With vanilla token module installed, and viewing an admin page with a theme_token_tree() rendered on it (it happens to be a webform configuration page). I used devel to produce these metrics. Read More

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Flat Web Designing in 2013 : Some Fancy Designs

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Tumblr Themes with Extra Ordinary Look

Blogging is an integral part of our lives. This has seen a surge in the number of blogging platforms available. Great examples include WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr.

1. Sonata is a beautiful Tumblr theme that is responsive and features unique color variations.



2. Radiant features a responsive layout and retina icons for a clean display on your iOS device.
 

 3. Supple is a versatile portfolio theme for Tumblr by Pixel Moxie. SUPPLE is aimed at creatives-designers, illustrators, photographers, video artists-and allows you to display your work in a grid-like fashion, flexibly enough so you can define the aspect ratio of your thumbnails: from landscape to portrait, including square and anything in between.



4. UltraTiles is a minimal tile based theme with a magazine style post layout.
 
 
5. Fast Blog is a customizable Tumblr theme perfect for creating a beautiful blog with its multiple post types
 


Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Drupal Drush Makefile : Simplify Your Drupal Development

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Slow Loading Speed of an eCommerce Store - Why?

With the rise of technology and latest gadgets in the market worldwide, Ecommerce is in huge demand in current scenario as plenty of people are using online shopping websites to buy and sell different goods and services. Almost every business in the world today is carried out online on World Wide Web. Ecommerce includes wide range of features such as online internet marketing, online payment transactions, supply chain management process, inventory management process, mobile based commerce etc.




Ecommerce has bridged the gap between the buyer and the seller. A seller from any country or location can sell his products or services online. Similarly a buyer from any country or location can buy the products or services online from any place in the world. Ecommerce has given more space and strong platform for interaction between the buyer and the seller. The seller can add new products online to get the reviews of the buyers so that they come to know how well the product is liked by the customers.

Ecommerce stores are created using different open source languages such as PHP and content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress, Joomla, Magento etc. The growth of Ecommerce websites has also led to the increased demand for PHP, WordPress, Joomla, Magento developers etc.


Reasons for Slow Loading of Ecommerce Stores

Improper Optimization of the Images
Images and graphics play an important role in your website loading speed. If the images are not properly cropped and are of large sizes then the website will always load slowly. This will distract the attention of the visitors and they will not prefer to visit the site often. Read More

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

25 Mobile Development Tools and Software


Though the rapid advancement of mobile computation has bestowed software developers with outstanding scopes, dealing with the computation is quite challenging a task. To make the task easier, some mobile applications and development tools are discussed here to help you create useful smart phone application. Even if you are not a technical person, you can easily develop mobile apps familiarizing you with these tools.

Having the right set of software before starting the handheld development can save you a lot of hussle. Sometimes you do not really need to re-invent the wheel. In current software era, a lot of freely available software can make you more productive in your day to day work. Read More

Friday, June 21, 2013

30 Reasons behind WordPress Popularity


WordPress is a fantastic open source platform for creating your website. Though it is primarily known and used as a blogging platform, it has millions of use as a content management system. From both business and development perspective, using WordPress as your web site platform benefits you in several ways. Read More