Monthly Archives: April 2013

How to create the best website ever?

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“Don’t worry about creating the perfect website. Just work on making it better. If we’re constantly evolving with the changing technology we’re going in the right direction.”

This idea has guided our team over the years and has encouraged us to always look for new adaptive approaches to web design.

Who knows? Maybe someday someone might build the “perfect website”. In the meantime, we will focus on progress, consistently striving for perfection, as we continue to make small but significant improvements along the way.

Now, coming to your website creation, here are some fundamental questions you should be asking yourself before getting started:

  • Why are you creating this website?
  • What audience (s) are you trying to reach?
  • What do you hope to achieve with this website?
  • What action do you want the audience to take as a result of visiting?

Designing the website can be deceptively difficult, as it involves achieving a design that is both usable and pleasing, conveys information and enhances brand equity, is technically sound and visually coherent. Let us consider some of the basic principles that will help you achieve web greatness.

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10 Top Social Media Sites

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10 Top Social Media Sites

Here is fresh top 10 social networking sites’ market share data in US. It has some interesting changes.

Moving up

Youtube has jumped to its highest level ever. Seems that people are watching more and more clips and that brings the video site to 24.15 percent market share of visits. LinkedIn is another site that has reached its highest market share of visits. I

t has grown from low 0.63% in December 2012 to a record high 0.89 percent last month. LinkedIn moved to 6th position in the top 10 overtaking Google+. April and May are the active business months that may help the business social network to grow its market share even more.

Tumblr is also at its highest market share of visits, reaching 0.42 percent in March 2013.

Moving down

Facebook has fallen to its lowest market share of visits in almost 3 years. Facebook continues to be the dominant social networking site but the loss of 3% of market share means 100 million visits.

Twitter is down, too. It has fallen to 1.72 percent of market share of visits. This is the lowest number in 12 months and the trend-line seems to point down.

Pinterest is slightly down. It has moved from 1.17% in February to 1.14% in March. Although a down this level seems to be stable for the pinning site. It is hard to say what’s behind the declining numbers if the leading social networking sites.

My guess is that one factor that brins down the numbers is the fact that usage through mobile apps is not tracked. The other factor may be that the market is saturated and people are less active when using these sites. This does not mean that they stop using social networking sites but there’s less “excitement” that translates to less frequent usage.

Instagram is back in top 10. Yahoo Answers continues to inch up. Google+ is moving sideways.

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