There are a lot of fonts out there, so many that choosing a font for your website could become an overwhelming decision. Before you concede and thoughtlessly choose an arbitrary font, you should first know how important your choice in font is to your site. Presumably, your website is providing useful content and this content [...]

Google, the Internet giant launched yet another social network, the Google+. After failures of Orkut, Wave and Buzz, Google has now come up with a new glamorous Google+ which to a common netizen is an amalgamation of the twitter and facebook. The other day I saw this picture on the Internet and in reality, Google [...]

Hyper-realistic paintings are truly an illusion. What you see seems to be a photograph but the reality is that it is simply paint with tricky shadowing. Many artists paint from a photograph but hyper-realism focuses on uncanny depth and precision that not even the camera can pick up. From Simon Hennesy to Roberto Bernardi, the [...]

The internet has enabled — and sincerely loves — a success story like Facebook. Out of a college dorm room, the internet’s most successful social media website emerged and came to dominate the online conversation. At the same time, however, the internet loves an underdog and a come-from-behind success story. That is exactly what it [...]

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the popular fairytale. They are simply hyperlinks that lead sequentially to the current page. Breadcrumbs are [...]

In this day and age we often watch SEO take a starring role in the online world. There is no denying that search engines are the biggest (potential) source of traffic to your site and you would be a fool not to embrace this, but what are some alternative ways of generating traffic? I’m going [...]

User bulletin boards, forums and chat rooms existed long before Facebook was invented, but Facebook was the first social networking platform to enable legitimate business branding, interaction and marketing to users. As business use expanded, businesses have been vacillating between creating a Facebook page or a Facebook group—two different animals in the same zoo. Each [...]

Every website that is engaged in selling products or services seeks to convert visitors into customers. The goal of the website is to persuade a visitor to do something, whether it is purchase a product or sign up for a newsletter. This conversion takes place only if the visitor likes the website, the product or [...]

Did you know that before you decide what hosting plan to choose, you also need to know the operating system of the server. Before we get into all those details first you need to know what does an operating system do and why do we need it. Every computer system needs an Operating System be [...]

Color is one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of a template designer. Color can be used to express personality, frame, highlight and differentiate different sections of a web page. Selecting optimum colors is one of the most difficult tasks while creating website templates. It is important to select the perfect chromatic palette [...]

Dropbox and Box.net are both extremely valuable online services for users looking to back up files online. This is a great resource to have when you’re working with a large amount of files. They both allow you to protect your documents and pictures under a cloud network that’s easily accessible. Although both Dropbox and Box.net [...]