Monthly Archive for May, 2008

7 Rules of Web Page Design

Published
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Francis Green
on May 15, 2008
in Technologies
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1. Test your page on Firefox, IE and Safari

CSS and javascript behave differently on those three major web browsers. So, make sure the page look almost the same on all of them.

2. Make your page easy to read

Don’t put too much stuff on your home page, otherwise it fairly easily confuses people. Also, it potentially slow down the page loading speed.

3. Arrange the page content according to the importance of page sections

People pay more attention to the top right area of a page, followed by Top Left, and then the bottom areas. By putting appropriate content upon their importance, it will dramatically increase the ability to attract visitors and helps them to get your message much quicker.

4. Keyword is KING unless you don’t want search engines to pick up information

Don’t forget that you can always use <meta name=“keywords”>, <metaname=‘description’> and page title/url name to store the desired search terms. In that case, you don’t necessarily put all of them on the page itself. :)

5. Make as fewer HTTP requests as possible

HTTP requests occurs when loading images, css, javascript, and HTML files. Apparently, the more stuff to load, the longer it takes, and 24% visitors leave a site if it takes more than 4 second to load, especially for the home pages.

6. Don’t use more than 4 different colors if you are not an expert :)

Statistically, most people are able to handle 3 different colors on a page quite well but abit struggle facing 5+ colors situation. Also, the colors you like may not be your visitors’ favorite.

7. Validate HTML, CSS, Feed

CSS validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

XHTML validator: http://validator.w3.org/

Feed validator: http://validator.w3.org/feed/

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Platform Overview

Published
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Francis Green
on May 10, 2008
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Bizroof platform is a Couldn’t-be-easier and the worlds most innovative customer relationship management (CRM) and events scheduling system that lets you mix business with pleasure. We’re focused on discovering new ways of organizing your address book and events.

Finished Modules:

  • People are contacts in your address book. Make it easy to have an intimate knowledge of your customers’ needs, wants, and buying patterns.
  • Organizations are companies, associations, groups and other social arrangements. Everyone from an organization are in one place and providing the best picture of their collective goals.
  • Events are meetings, tasks, projects and other social activities. Almost certainly the best event tracking and event chain monitoring system. Simply and functional.
  • Users have usernames and passwords so they can log in. Share your address book, events and all other business activities with your colleagues and friends.
  • Tags connects people, organizations and events. It is flexible and easy to keep related stuff together.
  • Add-ons extend Bizroof, letting you personalize your business management experience.