Archive - Dec 17, 2009

How to Convince a Company that Social Media is the Way to Go

My previous post listed four common reasons why some businesses are hesitant to get their feet wet in social media. In order to convince a company – whether it’s one you work for or a client that you are working with – that launching a social media campaign is truly worth their time, you need to help the company’s decision makers get past these obstacles.

Top 4 Reasons Why Companies Are Scared of Social Media

Businesses that have become active in social media have quickly learned that an effective social media strategy can benefit just about every company, regardless of industry, size, products or services.

Designing Above the Fold and the Google Browser Size Tool

“Above the fold” is a concept that originated in the printed newspaper industry. Only the top half of a folded paper is visible, so editors move important content to the top of the page to entice people to buy the paper.

Principles of Design: Color

Over the past five weeks I’ve written about simple principles you can employ to improve your designs, namely Contrast, Proximity, Balance and Value. In this final part of the series we’re looking at color.

Microsoft Agrees to Browser Ballot Terms

The European Commission has dropped their anti-trust charges against Microsoft following long-winded arguments over the legality of providing Internet Explorer within Windows. Under the terms of the deal, around 100 million PCs throughout Europe will show a browser ballot screen in March 2010.

Decorate Anything

Package:
Decorate Anything
Summary:
Implement the decorator design pattern
Groups:
Design Patterns, PHP 5
Author:
Fabian Schmengler
Description:
This class implement the decorator design patterns.

IP Sniffing

Package:
IP Sniffing
Summary:
Get the location of an IP using ipinfodb.com
Groups:
Geography, Networking, PHP 5, Web services
Author:

Is Your Data Flex-able?

Data Visualization with Flex, Part III

In this final installment of his Data Visualization with Flex series, Toby builds on the work from the first two parts to take our visualization to the next level. The final product allows you to visualize how often various tech key words are used on the SitePoint forums, and how they are connected.