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20 Incredibly Useful WordPress Widgets

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Posted on May 14 by Kevin Muldoon in Resources

WordPress widgets allow you to add static and dynamic content to widget-ready areas of your theme such as your sidebar, header, and footer. Without doubt, widgets are one of the best features of WordPress. The beauty of widgets lie in the simplicity of the widget interface. To display a widget on your website, all you have to do is activate the plugin, drag the widget to the appropriate widget zone, and then configure the widget. This drag and drop interface simplifies the design process by removing the need for modifying theme templates. Adding widgets in WordPress is incredibly easy. In this article, I would like to show you twenty WordPress widgets that you will find useful. …

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20 Incredibly Useful WordPress Widgets

OneDrive for Business Updates Web User Experience

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Mark Kashman (@mkashman) is a senior product manager on the SharePoint marketing team. In March, at SharePoint Conference 2014, we announced a lot of goodness coming soon to OneDrive for Business in Office 365. Now, two months later, we’re beginning to roll out some of the user experience innovations and refinements, including Simple Controls, Site Folders, smarter Search, and more. The new web interface of OneDrive for Business appears when you click OneDrive in the Office 365 top navigation. We believe that the user experience needs to be clean, simple, intuitive, and consistentâ€”while maintaining the best-in-class capabilities to store, sync, and share, and that you should have the best destination to get work done. Period. This is why it’s important to us to keep …

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OneDrive for Business updates web user experience

Is Your News Site Too Slow? Probably, Though, The Guardian’s Trying To Speed Theirs Up

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Web publishers face a quandary in 2014: User expectations for how quickly a website will load are getting faster and faster. But web pages keep getting fatter and fatter, adding custom fonts, bigger art, more video, and more complex JavaScript into the mix. Our 3G reality often falls short of our broadband dreams. Patrick Hamman at The Guardian gave an interesting talk last week at the FrontTrends conference in Warsaw about how they’re trying to make theguardian.com load a lot faster in its new, responsive design, and there are a lot of ideas in here ready to be stolen by other news site developers. One remarkable fact: A Guardian audience survey found that, of 17 key product drivers, the speed of the site ranked No. 2, behind only …

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Is your news site too slow? Probably, though The Guardianâ€™s trying to speed theirs up

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404 Page Designs – 32 Fresh Error Pages Examples

May 11, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

The design of 404 error pages is the part of website. Mostly 404 error pages design are really cool and innovative to look at when stumbled onto accidentally. In this post weâ€™re rounded up new 404 page designs examples for inspiration. Many web designers take time to build a custom 404 page design, that helps keep visitors on your website, perhaps suggesting alternative content or simply keeping them amused in the face of an error. You may be interested in the following modern related articles as well. New Amazing Digital Photo Manipulation Tutorials 16 New Free Fonts for Graphic Designers New Modern Style Responsive WordPress Themes Fresh Web UI Design Elements & PSD UI Kits for Designers Please feel free to join us follow on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for updates…

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404 Page Designs â€“ 32 Fresh Error Pages Examples

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The Essential Landing Page Checklist: 16 Things You Need to Double Check

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Whether you’re setting up a landing page for the first time or the billionth time, it’s easy to forget something. Though it’s just one page on your website, there are lots of moving parts you need to juggle. Some of those moving parts are more important than others — if they get dropped in the chaos, you will lose out on valuable conversions. To make sure the ball doesn’t get dropped on their landing pages, people have lots of ways of coping. One of the best ways to make sure you’ve crossed all your t’s and dotted all your i’s on a landing page is to have a checklist handy of all the things your can’t forget to do. That way, anytime you want to publish a landing…

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The Essential Landing Page Checklist: 16 Things You Need to Double Check