Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Let’s Give Clean Drinking Water to All
http://warrenwhitlock.com/2009/08/lets-give-clean-drinking-water-to-all/
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Tag cloud
A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color.Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag.
History
The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing site Flickr, created by Flickr co-founder and interaction designer Stewart Butterfield. That implementation was based on Jim Flanagan's Search Referral Zeitgeist, a visualization of Web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularized by Del.icio.us and Technorati, among others. Flickr would later apologize to the web-development community in their five-word acceptance speech for the 2006 "Best Practices" Webby Award, where they simply stated "sorry about the tag clouds."
The first published appearance of a tag cloud (or at least a weighted list) in the English language may have been as the "subconscious files" inDouglas Coupland's Microserfs (1995); a German appearance occurred at least three years earlier.
Prior to weighted list representation of tag clouds, paper maps had used the concept of weighted font size and font weights to represent relative size or importance of towns and cities.
On 24 March 2009, CNN created what they claimed was the "largest word cloud in the free world" for that night's Anderson Cooper 360°. It was a word cloud of President Obama's address to the press earlier that day.
Types
A data cloud showing the population of each of the world's countries. Color visually separates the countries, font size indicates 2007 population.
There are three main types of tag cloud applications in social software, distinguished by their meaning rather than appearance.[citation needed] In the first type, there is a tag cloud for each item whereas in the second type, we have global tag clouds where the frequencies are aggregated over all items and users.
In the first type, size represents the number of times that tag has been applied to a single item. This is useful as a means of displaying metadata about an item that has been democratically 'voted' on and where precise results are not desired. Examples of such use include Last.fm (to indicate genres attributed to bands) and LibraryThing (to indicate tags attributed to a book).
In the second, more commonly used type,[citation needed] size represents the number of items to which a tag has been applied, as a presentation of each tag's popularity. Examples of this type of tag cloud are used on the image-hosting service Flickr, blogaggregatorTechnorati and on Google search results with DeeperWeb .
In the third type, tags are used as a categorization method for content items. Tags are represented in a cloud where larger tags represent the quantity of content items in that category.
More generally, the same visual technique can be used to display non-tag data, as in a word cloud or a data cloud.
Visual appearance
Tag clouds are typically represented using inline HTML elements. The tags can appear in alphabetical order, in a random order, they can be sorted by weight, and so on. Most popular is a rectangular tag arrangement with alphabetical sorting in a sequential line-by-line layout. The decision for an optimal layout should be driven by the expected user goals.Some prefer to cluster the tags semantically so that similar tags will appear near each other. Heuristics can be used to reduce the size of the tag cloud whether or not the purpose is to cluster the tags.
Data clouds
A data cloud or cloud data is a data display which uses font size and/or color to indicate numerical values. It is similar to a tag cloud but instead of word count, displays data such as population or stock market prices.
Text clouds
A text cloud or word cloud is a visualization of word frequency in a given text as a weighted list. The technique has recently been popularly used to visualize the topical content of political speeches.
Collocate clouds
Extending the principles of a text cloud, a collocate cloud provides a more focused view of a document or corpus. Instead of summarising an entire document, the collocate cloud examines the usage of a particular word. The resulting cloud contains the words which are often used in conjunction with the search word. These collocates are formatted to show frequency (as size) as well as collocational strength (as brightness). This provides interactive ways to browse and explore language.
Perception of tag clouds
Tag clouds have been subject of investigation in several usability studies. The following summary is based on an overview of research results given by Lohmann et al.
* Tag size: Large tags attract more user attention than small tags (effect influenced by further properties, e.g., number of characters, position, neighboring tags).
* Scanning: Users scan rather than read tag clouds.
* Centering: Tags in the middle of the cloud attract more user attention than tags near the borders (effect influenced by layout).
* Position: The upper left quadrant receives more user attention than the others (Western reading habits).
* Exploration: Tag clouds provide suboptimal support when searching for specific tags (if these have not a very large font size).
From Wikipedia,
Friday, July 31, 2009
THE HAPPIEST DAY IN MY LIFE...
Today is the most happiest day in my life... I never forget the day... JULY 31.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer
Becoming a freelance web designer is a common dream among many designers, although it takes quite a bit of talent, business savvy, committment, and time. With all there is to consider when becoming self-employed, one can become overwhelmed — enough to deter themselves from trying at all.
Realizing many Smashing readers probably already have a head-start into the world of professional and freelance web design, this post is meant to act as not only a step-by-step guide, but also as a checklist for those who have already started their career. Hopefully this guide can cover all aspects of becoming a professional and freelance web designer, from business aspect and working with clients, to creating an effective portfolio and advertising one’s work.
To Becoming A Professional Web Designer
Realizing many Smashing readers probably already have a head-start into the world of professional and freelance web design, this post is meant to act as not only a step-by-step guide, but also as a checklist for those who have already started their career. Hopefully this guide can cover all aspects of becoming a professional and freelance web designer, from business aspect and working with clients, to creating an effective portfolio and advertising one’s work.
To Becoming A Professional Web Designer
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Color Scheme For Designers
Try This... It's Very Useful for Designers...
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Try This... ZOHO Chat...
Hi all...
Try This link http://chat.zoho.com
IM Chat... Live Support for Your website/blog visitors... Embed chat... Live Support And many new features are available...
Try This link http://chat.zoho.com
IM Chat... Live Support for Your website/blog visitors... Embed chat... Live Support And many new features are available...
Monday, June 15, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Truly Superb Quote
I met money one day. I said, "You are just a piece of paper."
Money smiled and said, "Of course I'm a piece of paper, but I haven't seen a dustbin yet, in my life".
Money smiled and said, "Of course I'm a piece of paper, but I haven't seen a dustbin yet, in my life".
Tips
1. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. And while you walk, smile.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did last year.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your friend with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime..
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26.. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
29. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
30. The best is yet to come.
31. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
32. Do the right thing!
33. Call your family often.
34. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
35. Each day give something good to others.
36. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Sleep for 7 hours.
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did last year.
7. Make time to practice meditation, yoga, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
11. Drink plenty of water.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
14. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your friend with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
15. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
16. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime..
17. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
18. Smile and laugh more.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Don't compare your partner with others.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
25. Forgive everyone for everything.
26.. What other people think of you is none of your business.
27. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
28. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
29. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
30. The best is yet to come.
31. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
32. Do the right thing!
33. Call your family often.
34. Your inner most is always happy. So be happy.
35. Each day give something good to others.
36. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Be a Good Developer...
* Hand-to-hand combat coding HTML/XHTML, CSS
* Strong knowledge of web standards
* Experience with Javascript and jQuery
* Solid knowledge of Flash and Actionscript (AS2 & AS3)
* Solid knowledge and understanding of browser bugs and solutions (i.e. Take down IE6!)
* Strong Adobe suite skills (primarily Photoshop and Illustrator)
* Experience in CMS environments (Wordpress, etc…)
* Communication, time management and genuine problem solving skills!
* Light programming skills – experience with PHP or other programming languages would be helpful
* Database familiarity – mySQL or SQL Server
* Experience with public API’s (Flickr, Google, Facebook ,etc…)
* Hand-to-hand combat coding HTML/XHTML, CSS
* Strong knowledge of web standards
* Experience with Javascript and jQuery
* Solid knowledge of Flash and Actionscript (AS2 & AS3)
* Solid knowledge and understanding of browser bugs and solutions (i.e. Take down IE6!)
* Strong Adobe suite skills (primarily Photoshop and Illustrator)
* Experience in CMS environments (Wordpress, etc…)
* Communication, time management and genuine problem solving skills!
* Light programming skills – experience with PHP or other programming languages would be helpful
* Database familiarity – mySQL or SQL Server
* Experience with public API’s (Flickr, Google, Facebook ,etc…)
Friday, March 20, 2009
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