Cool New Social Media Tool-ChatterBox
ChatterBox allows you to monitor Twitter conversations that matter to you.
ChatterBox is a new Social Media tool that lets you:
- Monitor Twitter keywords and handles of interest
- Interact through a centralized dashboard
- Define team-based workflows to drive efficiency
- Categorize and tag Twitter conversations
1. Setting up a ChatterBox takes only a moment. Just pick a name and define the terms you want to follow.
2. Need a team space? If so, invite other users to participate in your ChatterBox. Each ChatterBox can include a unique set of team members.3. Your ChatterBox is instantly populated with conversations matching your configured terms and handles. Tag and categorize the conversations, set status and priority, and even assign the conversation for follow-up by a specific team member.
4. Once your ChatterBox is set up, you can go ahead and refine your categories, statuses and priorities for the conversations your ChatterBox is finding. You can also create your own set of personalized views for quick access to your most important conversations and notifications through RSS.
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CSS Inspiration-15 of the Best CSS Galleries Online
CSS was first developed in 1997 for Web developers to define the look and feel of their Web sites. It was intended to allow developers to separate content from design. CSS has now become one of the most important building blocks of modern web design. Standards demand the use of CSS for formatting and styling pages-it’s lighter-weight and capable of much more intricate design methods.
CSS can be tricky-but once mastered you can let your imigination free to create awe inspiring sites that leave the older-table versions in the dust. All you need is ome inspiration. We have collected 15 of the best CSS Galleries that rank the most cutting-edge CSS sites on the web today.
1. CSS Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file.
2. CSS Illustrated is the first CSS gallery to exclusively showcase websites using illustration as the foundation of modern web design. However, this doesn’t preclude sites that may not be entirely illustrated in their overall design, but contain elements of an illustrated nature.
3. Web Designer Wall: list of 50 websites from 2008 hand-picked from Best Web Gallery.
4. Css Website is an innovative gallery of simple websites. Its purpose is to showcase designer’s work and to expand the CSS design community. We propose a classification by color and contents for a better usability.
5. CSS Elite is a CSS Gallery and Web Development Resources web site
6. CSS Vault useful site for designers, developers, programmers, managers, or just a CSS advocates.
7. Best Web Gallery is an inspirational gallery site where they collect a wide range of quality design websites.
8. CSSBEAUTY is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.
9. Divine CSS website showcases some of the world’s best designed websites (Flash & CSS) from around the world.
10. Best CSS Gallery provides its viewers a huge number of well designed CSS and flash based websites
11. CSS Lounge is a growing project focused on providing ythe best designed CSS based websites.
12. Web Creme is a clean and gallery gathering many CSS websites.
13. Stylegala is an online inspiration guide for web agencies, designers and developers who combine the powers of design, web standards and CSS.
14. CSS Heroes is a gallery of the best standards-compliant web designs which hand-pick the sites and only accept the highest-quality code and visual design.
15. CSS Princess is project with the main idea of promoting and supporting beautiful and interesting CSS sites made by women.
Creating and Branding Your Business Facebook Page
Why Use Facebook for your Business
A well developed Facebook Page can help you business popularity and recognition by attracting fans that visit your page often and share it with their Facebook friends and family.
Create your Facebook Page
1. Click the Create a Page for My Business Link
2. This is found on the bottom of any Facebook Page or this Facebook Link
3. Create your Facebook page by simply following the page’s directions:
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Once you have created your page-then make your Facebook Page work for your business by using these essential Facebook Applications:
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Blogs and Feeds
Facebook Notes: Use this application to pull in your RSS feed from your blog or another content source automatically. The Facebook Note is an important communication tool that can visible to millions of active Facebook users.
- How to Add Notes:
1. Click Notes button (on top of your Facebook Page)
2. Click Import a Blog Link
You can import posts from one external blog so that they appear along with your notes. Facebook will automatically update your notes whenever you write in your blog. Imported blog posts cannot be edited. If you import too many blog posts in a day, you could be blocked from writing or importing new notes, and this could result in your account being disabled.
3. Enter a URL below to import to your notes.
Add Twitter: Use this application to have your Tweets automatically update your business Facebook Page.
Add Blogg RSS Feed Reader: This RSS App allows you to add a personal blog, corporate blog RSS Feed or any other RSS feed to your Facebook profile for your friends to read. It’s a great way to drive traffic to your blog or website. The RSS feed doesn’t have to be your own blog and you can use the application to publish your favorite feed on your profile, say Engadget, CNET, CNN, BBC Sports or even a custom Google News Feed on your favorite topic.
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Facebook Customization
Add FBML Application: By adding FBML and HTML applications you can add more unique elements to your Facebook Page, like interactive content, clickable images and anchor text. Static FBML Application allows you to add functionality to your Facebook page by placing a box in which you can render HTML or FBML (Facebook Markup Language).
- How to Add FBML to your Facebook Page:
1. Install
2. Go to edit your page
3. Edit FBML – FBML
4. On the bottom click on “Add another FBML box”
5. Edit the new one
6. Save
7. Add tab onto page
Add Flash: This Facebook Flash application will add a box to your Page in which you can upload your own Flash Files to achieve advanced customization. It can be renamed to maintain the integrity of the page and keep the look and feel consistent with your brand.
Add Extend: With Facebook, your profile comes with fields such as Activities, Interests, and Favorite Music, but Extended Info allows you to add extra fields to your profile, such as Currently Reading, Favorite Foods, or anything you can think of.
Add Posted Item Pro: You can use Posted Items Pro to publish items (videos, photos, web site links, etc.) to your Facebook pages in the same way you publish items to your own profile. To manage a page, you must first add the Posted Items Pro app to the page and you must be an admin of the page. To edit the Posted Items Pro content displayed on your page, find the page in the list on the right and click “manage page”.
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Business and Promotions
Add Promotions: Wildfire Promotion Builder is a service outside of Facebook that enables you to easily create and manage interactive promotions (sweepstakes, contests, coupon giveaways, etc) within Facebook.
Add Define Me: Define Me allows others to anonymously list words that define you. The words are then displayed on your profile in a cloud, with the most common words appearing larger to offer an honest look at how others really view you.
Add a Digital Business Card : GLPrint Business Cards – Use creative tools and instruments to design your virtual business card through a variety of choices offered and display it on your Profile.
Add IEndorse: I Endorse is a Facebook application that allows you to collect endorsements for the purpose of building your business relationships and reputation whether you provide a product, service, or just want to have fun. There is also a section for users to browse all the business categories to help them find products and services.
Add My Business Blink Web: With the My BlinkWeb widget, you can show off your website to all of your friends, as well as all of their friends. When your friends install the My BlinkWeb widget,your website will be shown on their profile.
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Facebook Communication
Add Smart MessageCenter: Send one message to as many group members or event attendees and get back a single, organized, visual result that everyone can share or can be totally private with this Facebook Communication App. Share the results on your group or event wall or your profile. Or output them to XLS, PDF or RSS.
Add SMS-ME: Allow your Facebook friends to send text messages to your cell phone without you having to give them your cell number, they can simply send you texts from the gadget on your profile pages. Authorize the SMS-ME App, you may then add it to your wall, boxes or in a tab of its own.
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Facebook Networking
Add Linked Badge: Promote your LinkedIn account with a badge on your Facebook profile with this LinkedIn App. Just enter your LinkedIn username or full url to your LinkedIn profile and choose the style of badge.
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How to Design a Banner for your Online Advertising Campaign
Advertisers usually measure effectiveness of their banner ad performance base on click-through rate (CTR) — which describes the ratio of page views to clicks. It is expressed as the percentage of total visitors to a particular web page who actually clicked on the banner ad after viewing. The typical click-through-rate is something under 1 percent, and click-through rates significantly higher than that are very rare.
The decreasing CTR of banner ads prompted a new crop of internet ads to be born. In order to capture more visitors attention, many banner ads are now designed using flash to add multimedia elements including animation, sound, video, game, and interactivity. These interactive banner ads often outperform their static counterparts by more than 200%.
Website visitors are more likely to notice banners that have moving pictures or fun and playable. Example: if you have a small flash game embed inside a flash banner, many visitors will play that game, and be redirected to your website after they have ‘win’ or ‘lose’ the game. Although interactive banners are usually larger in terms of file sizes, the popularity of broadband Internet connection has increased its popularity as most web surfers can now see these ads a lot faster than the dial-up era.
With so many banner ads on different websites competing for viewer attention, it is important to plan your online banner ad campaign carefully, and only place banners on related website to attract the correct target group of audiences. You can consider to outsource your banner design to professional banner designers, because an interactive, professionally design banner can perform significantly better than a static Gif banner, so to increase the return of your online advertising campaign.
Before you contact an online ad design company, ensure you have all the components you need to create your own banner ad first, including the text line, images, preferred color theme and landing page for the banner to link to.
There are many advertising agencies and professional designers you can contact online to create professionally looking banners, give you access to their design and programming skills, banner templates, and also their creativity and extensive experience.
Get Your Banner Ad Online Today with Design form Trendy Geek Design!
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Banner Ads Introduction
Online banners or just ‘banner ads‘ as most people call them are in the company of the most favored and earliest forms of web advertising. The adverts which come in various shapes and size and are found all over the World Wide Web on lots of websites usually in the design of a still or animated gif graphic showing a certain business or website, similar to a television advert on a much lesser and grand scale. These types of adverts are displayed through website browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox.The banner links through to the advertisers website where more information can be found on that particular product or service.
Website banners have been around on the World Wide Web since near its conception and precede more dominant web advertising such as Google Adwords and other ‘Pay Per Click’ schemes.
The success of such marketing, apart from the overall rise of users on the Internet is helped by eye-catching and appealing graphics, titles and slogans. Some banner ads ask you to interact with the banner to get the user to click to the sponsor page.
Across the Internet there are many examples of banner ads on a continuous basis as you browse the web and can be found on popular websites such as Yahoo, Facebook and IGN.
Banner Ads are designed in lots of different sizes and shapes. Oblong, square, vertical and horizontal banners cover the Internet in sizes differing from 50 pixels to 1500 pixels and lots of combinations in between. Primarily the banner graphic were still images with images, graphic design and a catchphrase and some kind of text. More recently animated banner ads have renewed these, especially from advertisers with bigger budgets and include as many as five different ’screens’ of graphics, animation and text. Smaller companies and individual website owners do use banners however,yet they have become much less commonplace, especially on websites with high volume traffic as they are more expensive.
Lately differing types of banner ads have produced in line with new web technology and coding. This includes ‘popping-up’ banner ads that stretch over the website’s page that they are displayed on or that enlarge as the mouse cursor moves over the advertisements area. While many do not like the new concepts the ads are said to have an excellent success rate for their advertisers and will therefore remain a favorite for advertisers on the Internet.
Since the early 2000’s new types of Internet advertising have become popular, however large companies still include banner ads as part of their advertising campaign as well as the newer pay per click methods.
The cost of banner advertising depends onthe website they are shown on. As a general rule the more the host’s site’s traffic is the more the price will be to advertise your banner.
Banner graphics are in the form of jpg, png or gif files and animation is created using a Javascript with technology such as Java or Silverlight.
