The basics behind any user interface design is to create an interface that is quite easy for all the users to use as well as understand. However, web designers have developed a set of rules, so that the user Interface design is easily used, while still continuing to look simple. According to Rack Alley, there are a few important rules of user interface design that must be remembered.
It is important to create adaptive user interfaces, without compromising on its usability. Make sure to use a simple language which all users can easily understand. You must also keep the load down on your LA web hosting, and remove any unnecessary clutter.
Most user interfaces tend to have multiple screens or pages. Therefore, it is important to maintain consistency between all the pages and screens, while ensuring the uniqueness of its content at the same time. Another important rule to remember is to use colors and texture in such a way that the web page stands out and catches the user’s attention.
Yet another rule to remember in the designing of a webpage is to determine the size of UI objects and the amount of whitespace between each other. This is mandatory in making sure that the design looks both balanced and consistent. There is also a need to use common defaults that are native to the medium being used by users. As a result, the users do not have to face any problem while browsing on any website.
]]>Instagram (IG) has become one of the most popular social media platforms. With billions of active users every month, many influencers and brands have started to take this platform more seriously. Similar to Twitter and Facebook, IG has a unique way to identify accounts that they recognize as official and important. They do this by adding a blue checkmark, known as a verification badge, next to the name of an account.
In the past, nobody really knew how to get one of these blue checkmarks. It seemed as though only famous people and brands were receiving this official acknowledgement. There were some people who claimed to be able to get accounts verified through backdoor methods sometimes charging upwards of $2,000. Most users simply gave up the dream of having a verified account as a normal user. However, hope has since been restored now that the platform has released a new verification process.
The only way to get verified in the past was to either be famous or extremely lucky. Now that this new verification process has been released in the new update, anyone has the chance to become verified. To find this option, users must start from the homepage of their accounts. From here, click on the settings menu and scroll down. The option “Request Verification” will appear under the “Account” menu.
After clicking this button, there will be some requirements such as documents, proof of identification and more. Once all of these requirements have been submitted, users should hear back from IG within a few weeks. There are still some requirements to become verified, although the new update now allows every user to give it a try.
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The first thing that keyword research will help with is in figuring out your target audience. Do you know your customer? Some organizations go as far creating a persona’s for their customer, but miss out on potential variations to that customer. How do you find out? Careful analysis of search phrases can yield interesting information. For example, students use different search terms than a businessperson would when looking for the same item.
Interest
Now that you know your customer find out what interests them. The key to getting your target customer to your site is to serve their interests. Most people, even those looking for the same product will have different interests. Look through the keyword lists and use similar keywords to build blog posts that satisfy the needs of as many of your potential customers as possible.
Needs
Lastly, look outside of your expectations when it comes to your customer. Just because you refer to your product in one way, does not mean a customer will not use another. Look for variations of how all references to your product and category and use those variations in your content.
]]>Don’t forget, legal ethics regulators are scouring the Internet and attorneys that are not using social media properly could be facing fines and could even ruin their entire career. Certain things you’ll want to keep an eye on is how you’re utilizing your social media as well as what you’re using it for.
Avoid Gray Areas
Using social media involves using select ethical opinions and keeping things relatively mainstream. Barry K. Rothman, and other high-profile attorneys suggest to avoid using your posts as legal advertisements. Legal advertising has its limits, so try not to go too overboard when it comes to publicizing your firm. You want to be ethical, but you don’t want to be annoying during the process.
Don’t Mislead the Public
Although many legal professionals are sensitive to the restrictions they are currently facing, certain social media activities are giving rise to unanticipated ethical lapses. For example, a lawyer that is using a social media account and completes a profile will already be branded an expert or specialist on the law. Don’t portray yourself as someone that you’re not just to gain clientele. Take a look at Barry K. Rothman reviews online and you’ll see why he’s such a prominent figure in today’s entertainment industry.
]]>Google My Business
A basic requirement for any business should include a Google My Business page. Unfortunately, most businesses set up the page and only revisit the content when they want to change the basic information. However, some recent additions are exclusive the restaurant industry that every restaurant should use. Restaurants can add posts to the listing with up to 300 words and link to the following: Reserve, learn more, sign up, buy, and get offers.
Quick Links
A recent feature roll-out to Google My Pages allows businesses to add direct deep site links to their page. Every business can add these links. However, restaurants have several additional links they can add to the page: reservations, menu, and order-ahead. Every restaurant should use this free real-estate.
Menu
Google now shows restaurant menus directly in search results. While this might not drive traffic to the website, it might drive traffic directly to your restaurant. Unfortunately, Google pulls this data from third-party websites. Find out what sites Google uses to extract this data and then a) add your menu or b) update your menu.
The above tips are just a few of the many ways that restaurants can use SEO and Google My Pages to drive more traffic to the website and go through the doors.
]]>Facebook is the first of the big online publishers to block ad blockers. Any users who try to use an ad blocker on the desktop will soon realize that they do not work anymore. They enabled code now that renders these adblockers useless.
“Disruptive ads are an industry problem, and the rise of ad blockers is a strong signal that people just don’t want to see them,” Andrew Bosworth, vice president for Facebook’s ads and business platform, said in an interview. “But ad blockers are a really bad solution to that.”
The issue here is that a lot of online content is supported by those ads. Using an ad blocker is part of a furious online debate. It is true that they take away from the experience but a lot of businesses online are built on that revenue.
Some publishers like Wired, Forbes and the Times have started experimenting with anti-ad-blocking technology. Others have gone to the lengths of asking users to whitelist their sites and pointing out explicitly that the content they are reading is paid for by these ads.
It wasn’t long before Adblock plus, the most popular blocker had updated and was blocking Facebook ads again. However, Facebook responded and ads are visible again. Since ad blocking software is free, it is unlikely that they will keep up this cat and mouse game for long.
]]>The Google mobile first index is coming. It is not a question of if, more a question of when. According to snippets of information provided by Google employees, the current mobile index is a copy of the desktop version. The plan is to transition the mobile index to mobile only content and then start serving results from either based on the device. This is a great opportunity for webmasters. Here is a chance to build a content and user experience for the mobile devices.
Writing and designing for mobile devices is currently limited to responsive design. The same page is generated differently based on the resolution of the device. This is great when it comes to overcoming the smaller screen size. However, it does not take advantage of the unique properties of mobile devices. Apps already take advantage of these properties. The ability to have an exact location, type of phone etc. Now content needs to change.
Content should change according to the context. Let us look at an example of how sites can use mobile-first content to increase relevancy. The simplest example is shopping. When a user searches for a specific product and arrives at the website, the standard convention is to show the details of the product. In a mobile-first world, the page would give a short description of the product and then indicate where it can be acquired locally or nearby.
]]>Have you ever wanted to start a sports blog? Or better yet, a soccer blog focused on anything your heart desires? Now, as you already know, soccer fans are some of the most loyal fans in the entire world of sports. If you’re looking into creating a blog in hopes of a large following, these tips will help plunge you in the depths of building a successful blog.
A Brief Introduction
Now, before you get started, you’ll want to determine what type of blog you want yours to revolve around. Do you want to focus on various teams or a single team? Are you looking to create a blog that helps up-and-coming soccer players hone their skills by creating tips and tricks? It’s important to choose what type of blog yours will be and the rest will naturally fall into place.
Prepare for Frustration
When you officially launch, don’t expect a significant amount of traffic to start pouring in to your blog. This is the reality of the Internet. Thousands of people are creating blogs just like you, which forces you to take a different approach while working in conjunction with a variety of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Only then will you start developing your blog piece by piece. And most importantly, remember that creating a successful blog takes time – Rome wasn’t built in a day, right?
Create an Overview
What defines your blog? What niche is it and what’s the name that you’re going with? Are you creating a blog that discusses major events that are occuring in the world of soccer? Or, you could even be selling soccer balls with free shipping and create an e-commerce store for products that you want to sell. The possibilities are endless. Make sure that your blog is brandable and catchy at the same time, which will help out when you start to gain traction.
You probably already have a niche in mind, but what’s your focal point? It’s easy to say that you’ll write about the sport of soccer, but what do you want to focus on specifically? If you don’t have any ideas, take a look online at the hundreds of sports blogs and sites like Soccer Garage for example to get an idea of what really interests you. And, since you’re likely going to be writing on a regular basis be sure that you pick a niche that’s broad in terms of consistency. If you’re too picky about your niche, you might start running out of ideas and eventually give up due to the frustration,
]]>Redirects strike fear into the heart of any SEO consultant. Why? Because there are so many different ways to redirect and it can go wrong easily. Also, the rules governing how the redirect works changes depending on the implementation. Here are the different types of redirects:
DNS
DNS level redirecting is done for domain level changes. CDN changes, Domain sales, transfers, DNS provider changes are a few of the possible times when you would want a DNS level change. Redirects at this level are rarely harmful.
CDN
Another option for redirects is to use a service like CloudFlare page rules. Services like this increase security and protect SEO by defining a canonical version of the domain. The service works by moving the redirects from the origin (your host) to the edge (CDN provider).
Server
Server level redirects work at the web server level. For example, most WordPress installations run on top of servers like Apache. When you change the settings in WordPress, the script changes the .htaccess file. Other examples of servers are IIS or Nginx. One of the advantages of this approach is that you can use caching.
HTTP header
There are two popular types of HTTP header based redirects. The first is the Meta refresh tag. The tag simply loads another page after a specific amount of time. The other is an HTTP response redirect with the location specified.
The problems start when several different types of redirects cover different parts of the same site. Document all redirects and avoid the problems that come when adding a redirect without taking existing ones into account.
]]>For the first time since 2014, Google search outpaced social regarding referral traffic to websites. In fact, in 2017 traffic to Google search increased more than previous years. It appears that the “fake news” epidemic and the steps taken to combat the proliferation of dubious links is partially responsible for the change:
“At a high level, it’s clear that social media’s tenuous grip on being the top referral category is over. After beating out search for the last three years, it’s given back the title, driven by changes to the algorithms behind Facebook’s News Feed,”
In purely numeric terms, Google provided an average of 37% of all referral traffic. Google’s share grew by approximately 7%. The biggest loser was Facebook, with a drop of 12% of referral traffic.
Another reason for the change is the positive effect that publishers see with the AMP initiative. Both users and publishers see massive increases, sometimes as much as 100% year-over-year. Google’s push for the lightweight content standard looks to be bearing fruit, increasing traffic and revenue for themselves and the publishers.
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