Sunday, December 26, 2010

Nebula

I've managed to accumulate an impressive amount of bikinis to outfit my frequent beach trips and tropical-related travel this year. It's not like I need any more swimsuits, but have been keeping my eyes peeled for a one-piece that doesn't have much more fabric than a bikini (aka a lot of cut-outs) and this one by NZ label Cybéle pretty much fits the bill!




images via 1AM Magazine and ESA/Hubble

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Web Design It's Truly Simply

Design

Web design — a version of design for the user web interfaces or web sites. Web designers project a logic structure of web pages, think over the most convenient decisions for a content placing, and also are engaged in web pages decorating. The competent web designer should be a sign with last web technologies and possess corresponding art skills (PhotoShop, Flash, Illustrator etc).

Target Strategy of Web Development

Work with the customer begins with target strategy, — the customer states the wishes concerning visual representation and web site structure, shows examples of competitor web sites.



Web logoUsabilityDepending on target, the project manager makes the advanced technical web plan, considering a finance limit and time interval.

It's important to notice at once — design stages of web sites depend on many factors, such as: web site volume, functionality, targets, usability etc. However, there are some stages which without fail are present at planning of any project.
First of all it's necessary to develop a site logo. For this important stage I recommend to use Logo Design Contest, thus the best of the best logos will be guaranteed.



Further work begins with design creation, usually in the graphics editor (DreamWeaver, or usual HTML-editor). The designer creates one or several variants of web page, according to the technical project. Thus the design of the main page, and design of typical pages (for example is separately created: articles, news, production catalogue). Actually, the web page design represents a graphic file consisting of the smallest pictures-layers of elements of the general drawing.
Web siteThus the designer should consider restrictions of HTML standards (not to create web design which cannot be realized on the standard HTML browsers). If the web designer is unexperienced, the project manager will make offers to the New Design Contest, thus don't worry, be happy, don't trouble itself completely, divide powers!



Promo web siteFurther the web site fill with a content — texts, images, videos, files etc. Sometimes texts are made by the expert of studio, sometimes the responsible person is engaged in a content from the customer. After, HTML-files upload to the server of the provider and make the necessary options. At this stage the website is closed for visitors.



In the ending, the customer or the authorized representative look through the ready project and in case all is made according to general strategy — the project approves.



p.s. If you are interested "How it works on desingcontest.com"? Google knows all!

Web development

BOSS Orange Design Contest

Thursday, December 23, 2010

My landline is an Important Piece of Technology

Cheap phone

And yet I know that pretty much at least once during my landline line rental contract, I will hit a problem. One day I will pick up the phone and it will not greet me with its friendly purr. Then I have to use my not so cheap phone line which connects me with the world via another kind of line rental. There is no line as such, just electric stuff moving through the ether, an invisible cheap phone line. Or not so cheap. The cost of talking through the air, is much more expensive that your usual landline line rental. Yes sirree.

So trying to get my landline fixed makes me use up the free minutes allotted to me on my mobile line rental contract. I do not get these minutes back from my landline company, which is irritating. I will become frustrated as my landline company puts me through a series of automated hoops to get to the person who can help me.

It never ceases to amaze me how line rental companies, in the business of communication can have such complicated customer assistance set ups. Maybe they do not really want to talk to us. I take notice of how customer services is treating me. It gives me some idea of how much my line rental company is spending on its customer services department. Or is it reducing costs there in order to lure people in with the promise of a cheap phone line?

Did a percentage of the workforce have to go so that the company could afford to offer customers a cheap phone line? For surely some of the cost of the line rental must have to go on paying staff. And staff are the most expensive component in any company's outgoings, as we all know.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Hi-Speeded Fiber Trends

Google Fiber

Google Co. will announces the Cities which will connect to the high-speed Internet in the beginning of 2011. Thus, winners of competition become known till the end of the year.

1 Gb/sec for US it's real!

Within the limits of project the Google Fiber the corporation plans to lay broadband high-speed Internet Networks in cities of the USA. It's supposed that carrying capacity of channels will make 1 Gb/sec, thus will allow to Google to test new types of the own Internet services.
I will note, — this speed repeatedly exceeds average speed of access to the Internet in the USA. Demands acceptance from the US cities and settlements is started in February, 2010. As informed by «Tvorba webu» in total for this time Google has received more than thousand demands.
The corporation intends to monopolise the market of the high-speed Internet, but, anyhow the start date of input of high speed Internet Networks in action is not specified.

Experimental Fiber Network by Google

Information and used content by Tvorba www stranok.