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Personal Facebook Fan Pages of Celebrities

Jun 15th, 11 in Insipiration | View Comments |

Facebook is the world’s largest social network which includes more than 600 million users. There is no surprise for anyone, those are just the stats. And it is absolutely normal that this online community starts drawing together ordinary people, sure-stars and business companies. Material market players transfer more and more assets into online sphere, celebrities promote themselves within social media and all these Facebook participants struggle for profits.

From those times when South America was discovered and naive Indians were tempted with ordinary shining glass pieces (or even earlier), people have a weakness for eye candy things and juicy colors. So, those who are dying to be #1 in social networks build their brands with engaging opportunities given by Facebook.

Marketing on Facebook includes Facebook pages, groups, ads, event, applications and personal profiles. And today we’d like to go into details on personal Facebook fan pages. These custom tabs look so fashionable and alluring like they are ready to do a quick step to a podium right now. Some of these layouts are real masterpieces and have a great influence on design trends of Facebook backgrounds. Indeed, a catchy look can draw attention of Facebook users to the brand which they could otherwise never notice.

Personal Facebook fan pages do not differ very much from corporate custom layouts, but still they are more personified. They also adore screaming and bright advertisements and catchy call-to-action phrases. At the same time personal Facebook fan pages are more likely to use music files to catch the audience’s attention. In a word, there are many tips and tricks on how to make people like you on Facebook but let’s mark out some personal Facebook fan page features.

Celebrities post thousands of their photos to attract the attention of the audience and to make them be interested in a star personality but not a scene appearance only.
The other way of Facebook fan pages’ personalization is comments on the wall and conversations with the existing fans. Usually people are less interested in haughty star which doesn’t answer questions and only spams with endless tour schedules and offers to buy concert tickets. That’s why celebrities tend to seem like ordinary people – they are ready to chat and to joke.
Musical tabs are preconditions of Facebook fan pages of every singer and songwriter. Often visitors are given a few songs to listen (and videos as well) and other records are accessible for fans only. This practice is wide spread for new fans engagement.
The reason to like the very this brand page is always in the public eye. Celebrities move hell to make you follow them. They promise special discounts or freebies, exclusive access to videos which are Facebook published only and other luring things for new followers. And they really do it.
.All kinds of arrows pointed at like button. They are an additional motivation and reminder to push the button.

All starry Facebook fan pages almost give a cry for how much celebrities like themselves and how they want you to adore them. You can believe these alluring slogans or pass them off but before making a decision just stop for a while and have a good look at these personal Facebook fan pages of celebrities. And then go and try them out!

Building Tabbed Navigation using SpryTabbedPanels

Jun 3rd, 11 in Tutorial | View Comments |

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The Tabbed Navigation is the latest trend while designing a Website. If it is blog then you can notice the content titled ‘Featured Content’ or ‘Latest’ arranged in tabs. If it is a Website then there are tabs on top replacing menu items. If coded correctly the tabs give a fresh outlook to your Website, save resources, and present maximum information in less area. In addition, almost every user is familiar with the tabs and their working. Tab, ALT+Tab, and Ctrl+Tab are the most pressed keys on any keyboard on this earth. Thinking to use the tabbed navigation in your Web design then we are here to help you out. Adobe Labs provide access to its SpryTabbedPanels without any cost. Here we’ll guide you how to use the SpryTabbedPanel code to create Tabbed Navigation.

An outer div contains – list of tabs, all panels, div container to have content panels, and div tag for each panel. The SpryTabbedPanels use JavaScript to toggle between the tabs. Therefore, we’ll include the JavaScript code within the HTML tag. To modularize the code, we’ll create a separate JS file and link it through script tag inside head tag. This js file will define the functions related to the Tabbed Panel. Before closing the body tag, we’ll define a script tag to use JavaScript to make Tabbed Panel interactive. We’ll also link a style sheet in the head tag.

Adobe Labs provide the SpryTabbedPanels.js to use with the HTML code. You can scroll down to bottom to download the source files used in this article. Before that, we’ll illustrate the code of HTML and CSS files in this article. We recommend you not to change the file name of js and css files. However, you can modify the code as per your convenience.

In our case, we’ve located JS, CSS and HTML files in the same folder. Please modify the path in code if you’re placing the CSS and JS files in other location.

30 Interesting and Creative Logos

May 30th, 11 in Insipiration | View Comments |

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Designing a company logo can be one of the hardest things to get right. In many cases, that small image tucked away on a website or business card needs to convey not only the name of the company, but the entire personality of the brand too. Logos that look interesting or unusual aren’t uncommon, but logos that are interesting and creative that also capture the company’s personality are rarer.

Browsing through creative logos can also be inspirational, and this post aims to be just that. Whether the logo is serious, fun, cheeky or respectable,we’ve aimed to pick 30 logos that represent the nature of the company and what they do to help get your creative juices flowing. You may want to have a look at our previous article for some typography logos too!

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Creative Arts Created Using Cassette Tapes

May 25th, 11 in Insipiration | View Comments |

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With the rapid flow of technology and evolution where society and perspective changes are concerned, art itself has been propelled to a whole new level. Drawn portraits from centuries ago, where canvas or parchment and dyes or black ink have been used, can now be reproduced, with the same mind-numbing effect but from various different materials, some as bizarre as cassette tapes.

Yes, you heard me right, audio cassette tapes indeed. I’m sure that not many has heard of this form of recycled art where cassette tapes are the essentials but trust me, the results are astounding. Now that taking the organic route and recycling are the ‘in’ thing, art from recycled materials have got a very appealing effect to people from all walks of life. Some youngsters nowadays might not even have seen any real audio cassette tapes, but these mini rectangular-shaped discs were once the older generation’s CD’s and thumb-drives. Most of these cassette tapes no longer function and the more obvious part – who on earth still owns a cassette player anyway?

With that in mind, creative artists from all over the world figured that rather than letting these white elephants just go to waste why not make an awesome spinoff and create art of out of junk. Thanks to their innovation, drawn portraits made of audio cassette tapes have been a blast. Singers, artists and Hollywood stars became targets of interests where their portraits become one of the members of the art from recycled cassette tapes.

The production of this form of art is by no mean an easy fit especially since articulation, patience and being precise are the core essence, a slight mistake in any stage would cause significant disfiguration towards the outcome in a whole. Well, I for one am not particularly gifted where the creation of art is concerned, but I sure enjoy its beauty. Let’s bath ourselves in the pretty things which these otherwise insignificant audio cassette tapes have got to offer.

Kung Fu Cassette

The swirls and fluidity of the tapes magnifies the details and possibilities of the martial arts.
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How Using Dropbox Will Make Your Life Easier

May 20th, 11 in Tools | View Comments |

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For those of you who haven’t experienced the massive convenience and joy that is cloud computing, brace yourselves. What you read in this post may change your life. For those of you new to cloud computing, don’t worry if this sounds confusing at all. It’s very simple to implement and you’ve probably already been doing it to a certain extent.

Before applications like Dropbox, most people still did some method of cloud computing, most likely in the form of emailing themselves important documents that they would need to use on another computer. Dropbox works on this concept, adding an extreme ease of use as well as nifty additional features and creative uses.

What Is Dropbox?

Dropbox is a file hosting service that enables users to store and share files and folders over the internet with any other computer. Once account can sync with an unlimited amount of computers. The only limitation is that you can only sync one Dropbox account to your computer at a time (although there are definitely workarounds which I’ll get to soon).

Every Dropbox account starts with two free gigabytes of space. You can pay an annual fee to get more space. Dropbox also gives you ways to get more space for free, like referring new users (250 MB added for each referral) or writing a testimonial for Dropbox on your social media sites.

Horizontal Navigation Menus: Tips, Tricks and Showcases

May 11th, 11 in Insipiration | View Comments |

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It is true to say that visitors will look at your navigation menu and will immediately leave your site if you don’t have a clear and directive navigation.

There are 2 types of navigation menu:- horizontal or vertical navigation menu. Horizontal menu has became the mainstream in web design, probably due to the space limitations. This is true especially for blogs or content related websites. Although they may have vertical navigation menu at sidebar, but the primary navigation will be the horizontal menu.

We have a showcase article for navigation menu before, but we would like to focus on some tips, tricks, tutorials and some showcases of horizontal navigation menus here.

Location Of Your Navigation Menu

Let’s start with the location of your navigation menu. Where should you place your menu? There are 3 places where you can place it:-

Top of the page, above the logo or banner.
Beside your logo or banner.
Below the logo or banner.

Example: Artificial Studio

The navigation menu sits on top of the logo and content. They also use different color to represent different links and destinations.

7 Steps to the Office Environment of Your Dreams

Dec 25th, 10 in Insipiration | View Comments |

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A major part of a person’s life is spent at work and in their office, and offices are usually considered a person’s home away from home. This means that the type of environment that he or she works in will have an enormous impact on their life, job satisfaction, and stress level. There are a few basic changes that can be done in any office to make a better environment for all employees. Apply these seven tips to your own office and bear the fruits of the improved environs of your workspace.

Prepare Yourself For The After Effects of Guest Post

Dec 3rd, 10 in Tutorial | View Comments |

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It feels great once you get a confirmation that your post will be published on a Pro Blog. Hours of hard work finally getting paid off. Isn’t it a feeling of accomplishment? But wait your job is not done yet. There are things you must do even after your post has been published on a pro blog if you really want to succeed in the blogosphere. I have listed down few things in this article. What you need to do can primarily be categorized into these 3 “what to do” sections listed below:

On blog Work

There are several daily weekly and monthly chores you do on your blog. But believe me there’s more when you have lot of traffic to handle. Once your guest post is published you will get overwhelmed by the amount of traffic you get on your blog; which, if not utilized properly can mean no benefit from the guest post. Some of the things you must take care before your guest posts are published on other blogs are:

RSS subscription Setup – One main reason why people do guest bogging is to increase their own blog’s subscriber count. So once you’ve bagged a guest post on a popular blog make sure you have all the possible ways to let your visitors subscribe to RSS setup on your blog. There are many ways people can subscribe to your RSS but there is nothing like email subscription. Work on that before you get your guest post published on other blog.
Bring your best content forward – One other very good reason of guest blogging is making aware of your blog to new readers of the world. You may have been working on your blog for long time and would have got some really nice posts so far. Make sure you highlight those posts to the new visitors. There are many ways to do that but I would recommend two below:
Have a popular posts widget setup on your blog. It shows all the popular posts within your blog.
Most people like associate images with posts because pictures speak thousand words. Setup a rotating banner for posts on your blog. It helps reduce the bounce rate on your blog. One fine plugin to do that is Sponsor Slide Show. I have used it and it’s simply amazing.
Showcase your other Blog Posts – You may have worked with other bloggers and might have published some posts there as well. Its good to have your readers make aware of such work of yours. It increases your credibility in your blog community. People get to know about you more.
Write about your guest post – You have a readership. People read your content so ideally they should read whatever you write and wherever you write. It’s advisable to write about your guest post on your blog. Make your readers read what you are writing. Create a backlink to the original post on your blog with some thoughts on the article you wrote on the other blog.
Blogroll other Blogs – Make sure you have all your and your friends’ blogs linked in the Blogroll. Visitors coming to your blog would want to see what you link to. It also increases your chance to exchange link in your niche. Because they know you can be approached for that.
Social You: In the last 1-2 years social networking has become talk of the town. Every 2nd person you meet is either talking about Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. And these websites drive traffic, heavy traffic. A survey conducted by Technorati confirms that twitter and Facebook are the most used social networking site to drive traffic. So you would want to make sure you don’t left out in getting those extra fans and followers. Setup your blog with twitter and Facebook fan page with their links on your blog.
Update your Posts – There will be some articles on your blog which will be near to your heart. You’d remember them your entire life. Update them.

On Guest Blog Work

Getting a post published on a high ranking pro blog is not the end of the story. It’s the beginning. This is where you are supposed to work hard. I have certain points in my mind about that which I have listed down below.

Comment on your post – This is the most important aspect of guest blogging. Its like the holy grail of your personality development on the blogosphere. So make sure you make every effort to reply to all the comments on your guest posts.
Comment on other Authors’ Posts – Commenting on your posts is not the only thing you should be doing on your guest blog. It is advisable to interact with other authors on the blog you got your guest post published. It will build your relationship with other bloggers and increases your chance of getting more and more guest posts. People realize and appreciate your work and invite you to write on your blog. And most important thing, when they see you commenting on their post they come and comment on your guest post. It eventually increases the pageview of your guest post.

On the web Work

Socialize – As per the State of the Blogosphere 2010 50% of the top bloggers around the world use 3 sites (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) to drive traffic to their blogs/sites. Posting is a guest post should not be the end of it. People talk about your content on internet if it’s really good. So responding to them should be your primary goal to earn that credibility in blogosphere.
Forums Posts – A place where everyone can shout their mind out loud. No need to wait for anyone to approve my thoughts. If used properly forums drive immense amount of traffic to your blog. Create a thread about your guest post and discuss it on a relevant forum that you visit regularly. Most forums have a general talk section where you can create thread if the topic of your article is not relevant to the niche of the forum.
Monitor your Blog – Check the referral logs, bounce rate, overall visitors, page views/visit and time spent on site. There is a saying in corporate world. You need to measure things to control them. So start measuring them first to control the matrices on your blog.

Tokokoo Themes Giveaway

Nov 15th, 10 in Contests | View Comments |

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We are collaborating with Tokokoo giving these 6 developer licensed themes that would be perfect for your online store.

Tokokoo.com is one of the easiest way to build your online store because the Tokokoo team puts their focus best on e-commerce web design and system. Using their themes, building your online store will be such a glimpse of an eye, resulting superb output both in your store and your business. Find Tokokoo on Twitter and Facebook.

Here are their awesome themes:

AppCloud

A 960 grid system theme with sleek tones of blue, white and a bit grey. Points out the gadgets and more usability that user can obtain information they need faster and more easily.

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Personal Facebook Fan Pages of Celebrities

Building Tabbed Navigation using SpryTabbedPanels

30 Interesting and Creative Logos

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Creative Arts Created Using Cassette Tapes

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