In this era of hyper globalization and hyper communication, social networking sites have entirely changed the way people communicate and conduct businesses. Today there are number of social networking websites on the web. Millions of people across the world use these networking sites on daily basis. Facebook and Google Plus are two of the most famous social networking websites whose rivalry has gain an immense popularity in recent time. Both Facebook and Google have a large following and are used by millions of people across the world. In fact, there is a constant rivalry between the two to prove their supremacy over the other. And it is their rivalry that has introduces some new trends in social media era.
Both Google and Facebook are well known worldwide and boast of users from every part of the world. The rivalry between the two has grown more intense after Google launched Google Plus. It is seen as Google’s move to grab larger share of market from Facebook. Whatever rivalry and competition may be there between these two networking giants, one thing is for sure that it has proved to be beneficial to the social networking sites.
Until back a few years ago, creating you own social network with a small budget was virtually impossible. This market was available only for large players like Facebook and MySpace, and that because the development of a social networking platform implies a vast amount of knowledge and resources.
All that changed when Boonex released Dolphin. Dolphin was an open source social networking that worked right “out of the box”. You just needed to install and configure it and that was it … you had a social network.
In recent years the mobile market experienced a boom initiated by the release of the iPhone, iOS and the “app-driven mobile experience” and that meant a new world opened for developers and entrepreneurs. The mobile social networking apps market is still its early days and that is why Boonex released Boonex mobile, a mobile social networking software.
BoonEx is the only company in the industry to offer open-source applications for both iPhone and Android that you can rebrand, customize and submit to app stores as your own. BoonEx Mobile Apps are closely integrated with Dolphin and offer a unique platform for expanding your social network reach to the mobile devices of your site’s members.
The iOS and Android apps are nearly identical in terms of looks and functionality. A great thing about both apps is that, being open-source, you can modify them, add functionality, change the design and UI, add extra modules and more.
Some of the features available in both apps are :
On the usability and reliability side, in our experience with the apps these have proven to be very strong and easy to use. The speed was good even on the 3GS model, and both performed great on the latest versions of the iOS and Android operating systems.
Website : Boonex mobile website.
If you are planning to create a website or brochure for your business, one of the most important things on your list is design. As far as websites are concerned the time to grab attention is short and gorgeous design and graphics can be a great tool in achieving this. Here are a few important website design tips to aid you in your preliminary phases of the design process.
The design of your website should be in such a manner that it stops the visitor from flipping pages without even scanning them. Color of the website has a special role in creating the required visual appeal. Different colors attract different people and you need to learn about the color psychology before choosing the colors for your website. Fonts, however, must be in black or at least in sharp contrast to the background color so that it is readable. Font size should be 12 or 14 points or reading will be an annoying experience to the visitors.
It’s common knowledge that attractive people work well in advertising images. Most marketers also know that the placement of images is influential to where a customer clicks. An aspect that’s not as well documented however, is the huge impact of where the subject in an image is looking or gesturing towards.
Recent developments in click through feedback and eye-tracking software has allowed testing on the effects of techniques like this, and we’ve seen a large impact in our own experiments which I’ll outline below.
While a user reads down a page his eyes will often follow the line-of-sight of people in the images on his screen. Images can convey a directionality in multiple ways, such as a child running toward something or the face of a woman directed towards something on-page. Since the user will often not be aware of this “psychological tug”, you can use it to direct their attention to a given point on a page.
This technique is powerful on its own, but can have a massive effect if combined with additional methods such as colour conditioning. Colour conditioning is a method for encouraging the user to look at items of the same style and colour as one he’s previously viewed. For example, after drawing a customers attention to some information contained in a specific blue box, next time there is a similar blue box on screen the users attention should be drawn to it without the need for any other encouragement.
The process itself is relatively simple, consisting of the following steps :
Decide where you want your user to travel and why. It’s pointless running a test if you don’t have a clear end goal in sight. Decide on the objective behind sending the customer there so you have an additional metric to measure, for example, “I want more clicks to go to my sign-up box on the right – with a higher final number of people completing my sign up form?”.
This stage is crucial, testing serves little purpose without an aim and clear result from “improving” that area.
Identify a target audience and select a visual aid that is suitable for them. Most companies will have a clear idea of who they need to target and what will appeal to them, so test around variations of that image set to start with.
We are excited to present you today a new addition to the CrazyLeaf brand and that is the CrazyLeaf Design Browser Theme.
The CrazyLeaf Browser Theme is available for the latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer and can be downloaded from here. The theme includes links to our Blog, Facebook Page, Twitter as well as an integrated Bing search box and a scrolling box with the latest content from our blog.
As all Firefox add-ons the theme is really easy to install : just download it, restart the browser and the changes will be automatically made.
These days Mozilla Firefox is emerging as one of the most popular consumer browsers but it is also become a developer’s best friend. Firefox add-ons and plugins make Firefox a powerful development tool instead of just a consumer web browser. For web designers/developers efficiency is paramount and any time saved by using these add-ons is gold. One of the best things about many of the Firefox add-ons is their ease of use.
Below we’ve rounded up 25 time-saving Mozilla add-ons for web designers and developers.
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