Facebook Page Reach May Be Down, But Engagement Is Healthy – AllFacebook
Facebook Page Reach May Be Down, But Engagement Is Healthy – AllFacebook.
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TabSite – Fan Page Platform | Easily Customize your Facebook Page
TabSite – Fan Page Platform | Easily Customize your Facebook Page.
Possible replacement for Buddy Media?
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greg
The problem is as old as forms on the web are. The longer the form, the bigger the problem, potentially. The problem I’m talking about is one you have encountered more than once in your digital lifetime. It uses to occur only after filling out the most complex forms or while you are in a hurry and just wanted to submit this order you promised your wife to place today. There it is. Submission fails, the browser tab closes accidentally, for some reason you press F5 or whatever monkey business you achieve to perform. Result: the form is empty again, you are back to zero. The plugins for jQuery we have for you today, promise to avoid running into a situation like this ever again.
Garlic.js and Sisyphus.js: Save The Content Of Your Form To LocalStorage
If you run an ecommerce site you are aware of the problem. If potential customers have to fill in forms over and over again they will more likely than not lose their desire to buy. In other words: They will leave their shopping carts right in the middle of your warehouse and head for the door.
This effect is not limited to shoppers, of course. Every net citizen will have encountered the effect of having to fill in this large form yet again, I know I had to dozens of times. It is not always due to the disability of your fingers. Web designers have their fair share too.
Garlic.js and Sisyphus.js, two relatively fresh plugins for jQuery promise to be the solution. While Sisyphus.js is the older and more mature project, Garlic.js sees a lot of attention these days, as it is brand-new and backed by an ambitious developer open to suggestions and discussions in general.
via Garlic.Js and Sisyphus.Js: These jQuery Plugins Store Form Values With HTML5 LocalStorage – noupe.
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greg
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IE10: How does it really stack up?
Most browser benchmarks, such as SunSpider, the V8 benchmark suite, and so on, focus on important but narrow low-level functionality, such as mathematical calculation speed. Our benchmark is not directly comparable to these other benchmarks, as we’re attempting to measure user-visible speed of an entire graphical application. We are measuring a much wider variety of performance characteristics to answer questions such as:
- How quickly does the canvas API execute?
- How does the browser perform when we are rapidly changing the size of canvases?
- How quickly can major number-crunching happen on a complex data set in Javascript?
- How quickly can a very complex DOM including tens of thousands of elements be laid out and rendered?
- How quickly can we reorder, re-Z-index, re-style, render to, and move around thousands of elements in the DOM?
While Chrome is still the fastest browser in the test – some of the results may surprise some. However, there were many instances where IE10’s speed times came at the expense of frame-rendering, etc.
Its probably something you need to read … IE10: How does it really stack up? – Lucidchart.
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greg
Pinterest Introduces Business Accounts and Tools
Companies will now be able to create business accounts, which allows them to enter just a business name — rather than a first and last — and verify their websites using a hidden line of code. Once the code has been recognized, businesses will receive a verification badge on their Pinterest profile pages. It’s not quite as good as Twitter’s profile verification — it would still be easy for someone to impersonate a company on Pinterest by verifying a URL that was similar but not owned by the brand — but it’s a start.
Companies that already have a personal account on Pinterest will be able to convert it to a business account.
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Bobby
i still struggle with pinterest … i know it has a place just don’t know where/how/what/when etc.
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Bobby
Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios
Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios – Voormedia.
What’s the easiest way to scale background images in responsive layouts? We use an old technique and enhance it to fluidly change the aspect ratio of background images.
Responsive layouts make it possible to dynamically scale the width of a website to fit on small mobile devices as well as larger desktop computers. An
element with a percentual width will have its height automatically adjusted. Its aspect ratio remains the same when it is resized.
If we want to accomplish the same with background images we must figure out how to maintain the aspect ratio of any HTML element.
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greg
NARS Andy Warhol App Makes Over Your Facebook Profile
NARS Andy Warhol App Makes Over Your Facebook Profile.
Who else remembers when Lux suggested this idea for the last campaign that we brainstormed?
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greg
Wieden+Kennedy » Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists
By Igor Clark, Creative Technology Director
I’ve pretty much had it with the term “Creative Technology”. I’m a “Creative Technology Director” myself, and even I’m over it: already it seems clichéd at best, and at worst, bordering on the meaningless. Here’s why.
Not so long ago, the rise and rise of “digital” meant agencies having to come up with increasing amounts of interactive work. They didn’t know how to do it, so their developers got screwed, and the work suffered. Horribly.
Few outside the tech teams grasped what was involved in building the software needed for digital campaigns. Crazy deadlines, unrealistic expectations, ill-considered and even ill-advised requirements led to ever-more “inventive” technical solutions. Then, when the last-minute hack they had to cobble together failed to stand up to the traffic they never promised it would, developers were cursed and vilified.
But this wasn’t the really bad part. Software folk who found their way into agency-land either loved it, and stayed – or they didn’t, and left. For the ones who stuck around, and who felt the pain most acutely, the really bad part wasn’t the pressure or the deadlines: it was that their work wasn’t understood, so it wasn’t properly recognized.
Their work wasn’t purely science or technology; though grounded in both, it was far from the simple application of formulae or solving of equations. Developers knew that you couldn’t take a creative brief as a set of instructions and just “translate” it into software. You have to interpret it, and that takes an extra spark. A creative spark. They saw this was a fundamental part of the overall interactive creative process, and yet a parallel, creative process of its own. The naming perpetuated the misunderstanding, and so it had to change.
At the same time, people across agencies were recognizing that their existing creative model just wasn’t working out for “interactive”. Crews outside the fortress walls were doing innovative and engaging work, not only through using new and different technologies to do it (openFrameworks, Processing, robots and Arduino, computer vision & Kinect, projection mapping, the list goes on), but also by trying out different approaches and processes. Namely: the technology was the creative.
read the rest @ Wieden+Kennedy » Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists. (not that anyone @ [redacted] will care)
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greg
challenge: send this to leadership.
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Bobby
How Google’s SERP Redesign Could Affect Your Business | Inc.com
I noticed the other day that Google had redesigned the search pages. Here is a good read about how these changes will effect our clients business.
According to Google, “With the new design, there’s a bit more breathing room, and more focus on the answers you’re looking for, whether from web results or from a feature like the Knowledge Graph… we’ve been working on ways to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today.”
Sounds good–but here’s what it could mean to your business.
Read the rest here: How Google’s SERP Redesign Could Affect Your Business | Inc.com.
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HTML5 mythbusting
The big thing everybody who wants to talk about the problems with HTML5 is performance. The main problem here is that almost every single comparison misses the fact that you are comparing apples and pears (no pun intended).
Comparing an HTML5 application’s performance with a native App is comparing a tailored suit with one bought in a shop. Of course the tailored suit will fit you like a glove and looks amazing but if you ever want to sell it or hand it over to someone else you are out of luck. It will not be the same for the next person.
HTML5 mythbusting ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog.
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Bobby
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Bobby
Mobile Design Details: Hide/Show Passwords
LukeW | Mobile Design Details: Hide/Show Passwords.
I’m totally on board with this one. I think giving the user the option to show the password on mobile is key to them not giving up on logging in.
Masking passwords doesn’t even increase security, but it does cost you business due to login failures.” …and it’s worse on mobile. –Nielsen Norman Group
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50 Latest Mobile Web Design For Inspiration
50 Latest Mobile Web Design For Inspiration | Design | Graphic Design Junction.
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Trimming the Fat of a Responsive Site
So responsive not only means rethinking your content, but also the code behind the content. For the Dev’s out there this is a great example of how to optimize your code base to really make a responsive site hum. Or at least this guys experience with it.
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Bobby
The Real Problem With Apple: Skeuomorphism In iOS
Really good article about some of the “design” and “creative” issues people have with iOS. It’s something I’ve agreed with but never really saw it explained like this article does. It’s a great read. Highly recommended.
What’s skeuomorphism? If you’ve ever used an Apple product, you’ve experienced digital skeuomorphic design: calendars with faux leather-stitching, bookshelves with wood veneers, fake glass and paper and brushed chrome. Skeuomorphism is a catch-all term for when objects retain ornamental elements of past, derivative iterations–elements that are no longer necessary to the current objects’ functions.
I think Windows 8 and Android ICS are both great examples of how to move away from this design metaphor.
via The Real Problem With Apple: Skeuomorphism In iOS – Forbes.
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Job Posting
Wieden+Kennedy | Full Service Integrated Advertising Agency.
the link above points to a fun job posting. (don’t get any ideas)
I like their creativity in their search. this is a great way to weed out the candidates. On the other hand, maybe they wouldn’t need to hire someone if they focused more on the job than on these games.
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Bobby
News Feed, Engagement, and Promoted Posts: How They Work
We’ve heard questions from brands and businesses around how News Feed works; how to get distribution for Pages’ messages; and how Promoted Posts can reach more of their intended audiences.
Our goal in news feed is always to show someone the most relevant information from the things they are connected to on Facebook. We think about Page content similarly to how we think about content from friends: We want to show people the things that are most meaningful to them from their connections. A really good Page post, like a friend’s photo or status update, that gets a lot of engagement, has a better chance of being shown in news feed. In this way, we can keep news feed an engaging service where people come to get the information that is most interesting to them.
Below we try to offer even more clarity on how this all works.
read the rest: via Facebook Studio :: Blog | News Feed, Engagement, and Promoted Posts: How They Work | Latest News and Updates.
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