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SxSWi Reflections & Website Goodies

Longster — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:38:47 +0000

Okay, so here’s my take on South by Southwest interactive (SxSWi). It was overwhelming! According to bloggers and spectactors, SxSWi was bigger than either the music or movie portions of the conference for the first time this year. They said approximately 16k people or so attended. Don’t take my word for it, just know that SxSWi in my eyes was huge!

You can imagine how difficult it was to meet new people. A lot of my time involves choosing which meetings to attend, finding a good seat, figuring out my way around, endless walking, and finding places to recharge my gadgets. Only place where people get acquainted was after the meetings either at the party or in line waiting to get in the party. Insane was the word that kept popping in my head. Or perhaps I’m just getting old. :-P

During my visit, the buzz seems to be mostly about social media, mobile marketing and location-based services such as Gowalla and Foursquare which received a lot of attention. There were a lot of new start-ups with creative new ideas. Many of them are conceptual trends which has a lot of focus on social and mobile, but trends or not the ideas were creative and unique. I was amazed to learn the thought process behind these innovative ideas. Overall, I had a good learning experience at SxSWi.

I won’t bore you any more details, instead I was asked to share all of the websites I gathered from booths, businesses trade, designers, developers, and the people I’ve met. If you’re interested in learning more about SxSW, simply google them. Enjoy!

Follow BE7A

Longster — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:55:53 +0000

We have taken the steps to add social features on our website. As communication evolves online, the social web has become the primary way to share information, stay connected and express in real time.

In today’s world of status messages, tweets and update streams, it’s not enough to provide you news, information or keep you up to date with anything just through our website. We now offer 4 different tools for you to use as a way to keep you informed.

You can follow us through one of the following social tools below:
Twitter – Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.
Facebook – Helps you connect and share with the people in your life.
Linkedin – Another professional network to keep in touch through business world.
RSS Feed – Another format for delivering information at your choice of web feed.

We hope you enjoy the experiences of keeping you informed. We look forward to continuing to evolve, educate and build relationship with readers like yourself.

Footer Position

Longster — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:00:20 +0000

One of the issues I had to deal with was the screen constraint. On a web application, I was told to fit all the information within 1024×768 simply to follow the same paradigm as windows application. I never understood why they want to keep it that way. When designing for the web, there are ways around it. For this project, I think it’s important for users to have the flexibility to maximize their real estate only in height and not by width.

I found this footer position that would adjust to your browser size and yet maintain footer at the bottom. The snippet below is an example how it’s done.

HTML Format





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    Footer Position Here

CSS Format:
html, body { height: 100%; } body { margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #fff; } #top { position: absolute; } h1, p { margin: 0; padding: 0.3em 0; } #container { min-height: 100%; margin-bottom: -36px; } * html #container { height: 100%; } #footer-spacer { height: 36px; } #footer { border-top: 1px solid #000; height: 35px; }

Pretty simple stuff. The method above is compatible with the following browser:
Firefox 1.0
Firefox 2.0
Firefox 3.0
Chrome 1.0
Safari 3.1.2
IE 6
IE 7
IE 8 beta

Works but buggy:
Opera 8.54
Opera 9.50

Here’s my own footer that I was playing with. The credit goes to electrictoolbox. Thanks to them, I was able to solve this issue at work.

Social Networking

Longster — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:54:25 +0000

With Internet now integrated into nearly all aspects of everyday business use, many business owners are recognizing the important role that social networking can play in the world of entrepreneurship.

Don’t underestimate the power of social tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yelp. Social networking can help a business gain contacts, clients, and increased public awareness. Millions of people are already using web sites every day, and those companies using them are effectively generating income, attracting new customers, and more importantly creating a community around their products/company. The potential is enormous. It’s just a matter of getting started. Shall we?

Houston Deaf Network

Longster — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:23:49 +0000

Houston Deaf Network’s unite resources, build support, educate and be heard by those who live in the Greater Houston Area. Serve as a central hub where Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Hearing Houstonians can find a variety of useful information all in one place.

Company: Houston Deaf Network – BE7A
Deliverables: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, JQUERY, WordPress
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March Promotion: 10% off any services

Longster — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:11:41 +0000

We are offering 10% off of any services from now through the end of March. Simply send us information what it is you need, and we’ll send you the price quote including the 10% off. Hurry while it lasts!

PhotoLadyProductions

Longster — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:57:55 +0000

A family operated business based in League City, Texas. PhotoLadyProductions specialize in creating made for TV DVD photo slide show presentations viewable on any DVD player.

Company: PhotoLadyProductions
Deliverables: Logo, Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, WordPress
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PsyMetricsGlobal

Longster — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:57:24 +0000

PsyMetrics Global is a performance management for sales and service organizations. Based on the research of Dr. David Barnett, PsyMetrics Global has created behavior-based assessments, innovative training, and customized tracking tools that are used around the world to improve productivity, reduce turnover, and prepare individuals for success.

Company: PsyMetrics Global
Deliverables: Photoshop, XHTML, CSS, WordPress
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Proficiency Master

Longster — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:54:02 +0000

Redesign logo brand to represent the idea of conservative yet effective results in sales and training.

Company: Proficiency Master – PsyMetricsGlobal
Deliverables: Logo, Illustrator
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Mobile Application

Longster — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:38:22 +0000

Establish the connection between your business and the world of dynamic networking. Information and data are important to have wherever people go.

Mobile web is exploding in popularity, and the trend is that it will only grow bigger and bigger. You might not see the benefits right now, but having a mobile presence is as important as having an internet presence. Industry continuously adapt and provide tools in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices.

With iPhone, WebOS, Android, Win Mobile and more, mobile devices created a whole environment for mobile applications called the App Store. There are more applications in that store, and the number of apps keeps growing every week. With everyone investing on a solid presence on the mobile web, can you really afford to be left out?