Follow the link below to access the Omnistar Affiliate podcast page:

Omnistar Affiliate Podcasts

The first thing existing users will notice about Omnistar Affiliate is the layout change on the home page. No information or areas have been removed from the previous layout, but rather the information has been reorganized into, what the company feels is, a cleaner, more intuitive layout. A video walkthrough section has also been added to the home page in order to give users the direction they need to successfully use the software.

New users will instantly be greeted with the newest technical aspect of the software, an improved Getting Started Wizard, which must be completed before navigating into the rest of the software. This wizard serves to specify required administrative settings as well as guide the user through setting up his first affiliate program. Once the user has completed the wizard, he will be able to access the rest of the software, but may return to the wizard in order to set up subsequent affiliate programs.

In addition to the redesign of the affiliate software, Omnistar Interactive is currently working on a redesign of the affiliate user section as well as applying the layout of the affiliate software to all of its products in the coming months.

The company has striven to create a more user-friendly internet home and has heavily integrated video content in the form of how-to and overview clips. The increased popularity of widescreen monitors has also played a part in the design of the site, as it exhibits a multi-column format. The increased screen space makes for a more visually-pleasing layout and also increases the amount of information contained on the active screen, eliminating the need for scrolling on many pages.

Accessibility proponents will also be pleased with the elimination of tables as layout devices. The redesigned site utilizes div pieces and other block-level elements for layout, while cascading style sheets (CSS) are employed for formatting and enhancement.
Take a look around the new site and let us know what you think!

Site Link: http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/
Page Rank: 5
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 9,591
Twitter Followers: 1,767
RSS Subscribers: 9,650
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/fuelcreativity

2. 2Experts Design

2experts Design is a blog that provides resources like graphic design, logo design, web design, advertising, branding and lots of other stuff.

Site Link: http://www.2expertsdesign.com/
Page Rank: 5
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 32,411
Twitter Followers: 725
RSS Subscribers: 619
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/2experts

3. Abduzeedo

A blog about design, for those who are looking for inspiration, with articles and tutorials.

Site Link: http://abduzeedo.com/
Page Rank: 4
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 7,394
Twitter Followers: 3,637
RSS Subscribers: 21,341
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/abduzeedo

4. GoMediaZine

A blog for the design community filled with lots of helpful tutorials and articles to educate designers on both fronts.

Site Link: http://www.gomediazine.com/
Page Rank: 6
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 6,661
Twitter Followers: 9,820
RSS Subscribers: 14,066
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/go_media

5. ProblogDesign

A blog about web design (blog design in particular!), coding, and WordPress.

Site Link: http://www.problogdesign.com/
Page Rank: 5
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 9,725
Twitter Followers: 2,087
RSS Subscribers: 4,718
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/problogdesign

6. Design You Trust

A daily design blog and community, full of new design trends, news and events, great design portfolios, young design bloods, design articles and much more.

Site Link: http://designyoutrust.com/
Page Rank: 3
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 1,186
Twitter Followers: 1,361
RSS Subscribers: 12,039
Twitter Account: http://www.twitter.com/designyoutrust

7. Crazy Leaf Design

A promotional blog which allows users to submit their news.

Site Link: http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/
Page Rank: 3
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 12,946
Twitter Followers: 518
RSS Subscribers: 2,792
Twitter Account: http://www.twitter.com/crazyleaf

8. Freelance Folder

A community who provides articles and information for all types of freelancers, entrepreneurs, work-at-home business owners, and web-workers.

Site Link: http://freelancefolder.com/
Page Rank: 3
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 4,615
Twitter Followers: 9,394
RSS Subscribers: 22,393
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/FreelanceFolder

9. Design Shards

A valuable resource for designers with design tips, inspiration and free resources.

Site Link: http://www.designshard.com/
Page Rank: 5
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 19,785
Twitter Followers: 3,240
RSS Subscribers: 3,525
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/designshard

10. Noupe

Noupe delivers stylish and dynamic news about web design, graphics, typography and lots more for designers and web-developers.

Site Link: http://www.noupe.com/
Page Rank: 3
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 557
Twitter Followers: 3,311
RSS Subscribers: 20,389
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/noupe

11. CSS Creme

A showcase of best designed websites. The community contributes tutorials and news to help people keep updated with latest developments.

Site Link: http://csscreme.com/
Page Rank: 6
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 31,723
Twitter Followers: 525
RSS Subscribers: 1,094
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/csscreme

12. Computer Luv

A platform for creative people to publish and aggregate their personal stuff.

Site Link: http://www.cpluv.com/
Page Rank: 6
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 1,550
Twitter Followers: 4,567
RSS Subscribers: 4,342
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/cpluv

13. You the Designer

A blog that features tips, inspiration, tutorials and resources in graphic design, marketing and branding, for creative professionals.

Site Link: http://www.youthedesigner.com/
Page Rank: 4
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 7,101
Twitter Followers: 1,800
RSS Subscribers: 9,655
Twitter Account: http://www.twitter.com/youthedesigner

14. Design Mag

A community-based website for web designers and developers which includes a design gallery, a blog, a design job board and a user-submitted news section.

Site Link: http://designm.ag/
Page Rank: 6
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 4,031
Twitter Followers: 2,679
RSS Subscribers: 6,314
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/designmagtweets

15. Visual Blast

Free web resources for designers and web developers.

Site Link: http://www.visual-blast.com/
Page Rank: 4
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 59,121
RSS Subscribers: 1,992

16. CSS Leak

Best design websites around the world are featured in this gallery.

Site Link: http://www.cssleak.com/
Page Rank: 5
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 48,289
RSS Subscribers: 1077

17. Divito Design

A source for quality articles, resources and tutorials for web designers and developers.

Site Link: http://divitodesign.com/
Page Rank: 3
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 22,324
Twitter Followers: 817
RSS Subscribers: 650
Twitter Account: http://www.twitter.com/divitodesign

18. QBN

A website with design industry news and discussions.

Site Link: http://www.qbn.com/
Page Rank: 6
Is link DoFollow: Yes
Traffic Rank Technorati: 20,133
Twitter Followers: 4,544
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/qbncertified

19. Instant Shift

A leading design and inspiration related community for web designers and developers daily resource and premium web design and development blog.

Site Link: http://www.instantshift.com/
Page Rank: 6
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: 4,389
Twitter Followers: 527
RSS Subscribers: 1,870
Twitter Account: http://www.twitter.com/instantshift

20. PSDTuts

Some of the best Photoshop tutorials are showcaseed in this blog.

Site Link: http://psd.tutsplus.com/
Page Rank: 6
Is link DoFollow: No
Traffic Rank Technorati: Unavailable
Twitter Followers: 1,768
RSS Subscribers: 50,753
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/psdtuts

2. Five Second Test

Identify the most prominent elements of your User Interface using Five Second Test.

3. Piwik
An open source web analytics software that provides real time reports on your website visitors, search engines and keywords they used and much more.

4. Dynamic Drive
An Online Image Optimizer.

5. Silverback
A tool to perform usability testing for designers and developers.

6. Loop11
An online tool that allows individuals to conduct unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface.

7. SiteRay
Test, Compare and Improve your websites using SiteRay

8. Google Page Speed
A Firefox/Firebug addon for webmaster and web developers to evaluate the performance of their web pages.

9. Crowd Science
An Online measurement service that builds detailed reports on demographics of your website audience.

10. Camtasia
Record, Edit and Share Onscreen activity.

11. Ethnio
Recruit reasearch participants on your own using Ethnio

12. What’s the Buzz?
Find out who is talking about a certain keyword using this keyword research tool

Post By Lewis Van Tassel
Lewis is an Education Manager for
Omnistar Email Marketing Software

Post By Lewis Van Tassel
Lewis is an Education Manager for
Omnistar Email Marketing Software

The first tool is a self-updating video widget that the FBI uses to broadcast up-to-date content about the criminals they are searching for. Users are able to include this widget on their own web pages, or within their own blogs. The content is updated automatically by the FBI.

Are you destined to be an FBI Agent, or is the analytical approach to national security more your game? Users can find out by taking the FBI’s new Facebook Quiz (located on the FBI’s Facebook Page). This quiz will ask the user a series of questions designed to help them find their best career path within the FBI.

Finally, iPhone users will find cool new updates to the already extremely popular FBI’s Most Wanted iPhone Application, one of which allows the user to geolocate the FBI office nearest their present location. The FBI’s Most Wanted iPhone application keeps users up to date on the Most Wanted list as well as issues to do with missing children and terrorist threats. The FBI stated that since its inception this application has been downloaded over 670,000 times.

Post By Lewis Van Tassel
Lewis is an Education Manager for
Omnistar Email Marketing Software

Probably the greatest change is that Foursquare has made there services available to more users, not simply by going global, but also by rewriting software to make it compatible with more operating systems. The iPhone and Droid have had exclusivity in the past, but users of the Palm Pre and Blackberry can now also take advantage of Foursquare’s many services. Foursquare has, in addition, revamped both their iPhone application as well as their webpage and both seem to load and run much more smoothly than previous versions.

With the move away from cities and onto the global stage, Foursquare had to make some changes to its badging capabilities, and has done so by way of expanding them. Badges are, of course, items that users can collect, which are received upon completion of a certain task, or after visiting a certain location. One example is the “Gym Rat” badge which a user can win after tracking so many visits to a gym. These items are quite popular with Foursquare users so it is no surprise then that Foursquare would include them in the list of services they chose to upgrade.

Foursquare also has overcome the issue of users collecting multiple badges for completing the same task. In the past, a user who visited multiple gyms would receive multiple “Newbie” badges. As Foursquare has gone global, the tracking of these activities will no longer be linked to specific cities, thus ending the issue of multiple badges. Users will still find they have to visit a certain city to get some specific badges.

As users obtain badges they rack up points. This lends itself nicely to the gaming atmosphere which surrounds this application. As part of their upgrades, Foursquare has point leader boards which will list who is in the lead (point wise) for certain activities. These leader boards will be based on distance to a certain location, i.e. within 20 mile radius of Chicago.

Finally, users who wish to add a new venue will be able to do so without the use of an address. Users will now be able to tag the location of their event using GPS coordinates. There is some concern that this change will allow for a frenzy of false or incorrect venues, but it is a necessary change given the move to a global service platform. Another issue of concern is the use of GPS tagging indoors, which does not seem to work all that well. That being said, technology is growing and adapting at such a pace that Foursquare believes its services will be able to use alternate methods (wifi triangulation) to overcome this issue.

Post By Lewis Van Tassel
Lewis is an Education Manager for
Omnistar Email Marketing Software

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