Tag: web building

Free Ebook: The Guide to Wireframing

June 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Whether you’re building the next hot startup or a solid website or mobile application, wireframes are invaluable in keeping everyone on the same page in the collaborative and iterative nature of product design and development. Wireframing is not just for product managers, designers, and engineers – it’s for anyone who touches the product in the process. This is why â€œThe Guide to Wireframing For Designers, PMs, Engineers and Anyone Who Touches Product is a guide everyone in your team will find useful. With over 100 pages, this book covers what makes a great wireframing workshop. It’s wireframing from the big idea to details: digital and analog tools, web and mobile design patterns sources, all concluded with design principles for people who build products…

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Free Ebook: The Guide to Wireframing

Why is Node.js so Popular?

June 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I am pretty sure you have heard about Node.js. Basically EVERYONE is talking about it right now; everyone wants to learn it, web development trends seem to be moving towards it and even huge sites like LinkedIn, eBay and PayPal have their entire infrastructure based on it. Node.js is a server technology used to build and run web applications, similar to what ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails or Spring Framework does. It uses JavaScript as its main language, a built-in lightweight web server and a whole bunch of plugins managed through the Node Package Manager (NPM) that allows you to mold your application to your needs, like adding Model-View-Controller features, RESTful services, OAuth and SSL security and others. But, really, why has…

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Why is Node.js so Popular?

Web Scraping: Getting Data from Awfully Complex Websites

June 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Intro In this article, you will learn about some tools for scraping and parsing data from websites with Ruby, Capybara, Nokogiri, Firefox, and PhantomJS. We will then try out a script that does site scraping by launching a separate web browser. Next up, we’ll launch a headless browser to do the same thing. Finally, we’ll wrap it up in a server side sinatra app for Heroku. Challenge Find active health professionals teaching recent classes Practice scrapping data from websites Search by studio ID on MindBody Online Prereqs Command Line Script using an automated browser instance Let’s check out Kali Yoga Studio in Columbia Heights. We want to see classes that are posted and click on….

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Web Scraping: Getting Data from Awfully Complex Websites

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The Conversion Optimization Flaw You Need to Know

June 3, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You tensely sit at your desk and watch the data pour in from the first few days of your new conversion optimization campaign. Not good – no sales and no inkling of a winning variant. As the days turn into weeks you feel your blood pressure rise as you stare at the site intently, as though you could simply will conversions to happen. Of course you cannot. Every time the phone rings, you hope it isn’t your client. You would rather receive a call from the IRS than see your client’s number come up. You start to panic because you are spending your client’s money on PPC and labor and are not …

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The Conversion Optimization Flaw You Need to Know

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Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Website

May 26, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Building a website can be easy but the real challenge lies in making it usable. People often mistake a website’s role. They often forget that the website is their face to the world. In reality, website should not be the only way for people to find about you, but it is the way your customers, fans or your donors interact with you. It is surprising that we see little attention paid to getting web design right. I have seen that sites which are often visually attractive lack focus, or it is embedded with too many different fonts. Avoiding a few simple mistakes can help you establish a grand website. But I am sure many of the readers are wondering what mistakes have they done while designing…

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Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Website