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Web designers Can Pick From Various Color Combinations

Suneel — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:09:05 +0000

A website or a blog is a personal or professional commendation of a well established organization or a person or a startup with its intuitive feature. Any new website or blog needs a visual representation which is very unique and stands on its own way there by paving a way to the followers. This unique style of creating websites is a very lucrative business which needs highly qualified web developers, website designers and graphic experts who contribute in their own professional manner to build a jaw dropping portal which tells its manner subtly just with its appearance.

We are aware of the colors which are web safe and as well as jazzy with all the bling. A professional website should state its existence in a polite and as well as dignified manner which demands respect just by the look of it. Color plays an important part in building up various sections of a website. If various sections of a website are considered and a layout is planned, it may come down to the basics of number of columns and header and footer. Have a look at the image below to get to know the default layout of any website.

Such is the actual and the most common layout through which designing the actual wire frame starts. As the design evolves, the website is filled with colored fragments mainly projecting the basics of the Corporate logo and Corporate professional colors. But, it’s an uncanny behavior to put the colors which we personally like a lot. For example, if a client likes yellow, red, magenta and thick blue, it’s not the designer’s job to just accept and design a web site with these color combinations.

The designer has to priorly check whether these colors and their RGB variants are web safe. In addition to that, the designers have to also check whether the combination would give an aesthetic appearance to the website and not make the visitor run away with a sore eye.

Lets check several online applications which provide color combinations for interested people.

Kuler from Adobe

ColorCombos

ColourLovers

ColorSchemer

ColorSchemeDesigner

ContrastA

Check My Colours

ColorExplorer

Kolur

Color Hunter

These are 10 of the best color combination applications you can find online. While some provide you custom built palettes, the others offer you a choice of uploading a photo and there by getting a color combination. Use them as needed to find the web safe color combinations.

Do comment with any new application that I have missed.

Paypal Increases Fee By Double-Alternate Payments Online

Suneel — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:36:25 +0000

PayPal is an online money transactional website using which you can shop and sell goods online, from a single id. You can add a Credit or Debit card to that account and even relate your bank account to the online PayPal user id. So, using PayPal you can transact money in a safer and faster(often) manner. You dont have to share your financial information to send money. And what’s more, keep track on your online spending and selling history for quick retrieval.

PayPal earns its revenues through taking a small percentage of what the money is being sent. This percentage differs from Personal to a Premier account. The fee is zero is you are transferring money form your bank account to your paypal account. But, for any other transactions, you would be charged at the mentioned rate, which was quite nominal.

But, now in a drastic move, Paypal set up a fee of 2.9% + 30 Cents to receive ‘Goods’ and ‘Services’ if you are using Personal accounts and the world has gone crazy over the new fee structure because it has not been formally announced. The users had been officially slapped with the fee for the Personal payments being made. After several ramblings has happened and paypal was contacted, there was an official response from Charlotte Hill, PayPal PR Manager stating that

We didn’t want to make a huge formal communication out of this pricing change, because we weren’t really adding any fees, and we were hoping it would be a more useful experience for people.

Other than Paypal and if you really wanna change your online payment mode, then there are several providers which are as secure and as vital as Paypal itself.

My suggestion would be: No matter what it’s advisable to use Paypal.

I like their service and their customer support. Prompt, fast and accurate. They know what the customers’ problems are when money is considered.

Share with us if you are aware of any other online payment service providers.

Get An Expired Domain Name With High Page Rank To Increase Traffic and Make Money Online

Suneel — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:45:50 +0000

It’s every bloggers’ dream to lay hands on the high PageRank(PR) so that their efforts are recognized and there is a consistent traffic level which surprises them with comments and new subscriptions every week after week. Even though PR is mostly considered to be a Google’s Game of Dancing, webmasters always consider it to be a personal boost to their egos(even I do). PR gets affected by various reasons such as giving out more link juice to external sites and directing the readers to some sites which Google considers to be not worthy of giving directions to, too much of advertising which spikes sky high abruptly and goes down into an abyss later on.

All these factors do affect the website or blog in the long run and as PageRank of a website normally gets affected and the webmasters can look at it in every 3 month un-official PR cycle. Page Rank of a particular website/blog can be found out by downloading and installing the Google Toolbar which displays PR as a green bar(Far right in the below image).

So, the higher the PR, the higher a webmaster can expect his site/blog would earn by the ads and reviews that he is requested to write. This behaviour actually tends to make it obvious for people like us to not leave any stone unturned inorder to attain the higher PR nirvana. At times, if a webmaster is lucky enough, he can get an expired domain name with a good PR for a nominal fee at DomainPageRank and OldDomains. All a webmaster has to choose is, the right keywords to search for in their favourite niches so that they can purchase a domain name and turn them into mines.

1 Step To Improve Your Image Clarity

Suneel — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:56:53 +0000

Came across an excellent online tool, ImproveYourImages, which enhances the image clarity by optimizing the image effects so that you would not have the need to touch-up your pictures while you are sharing them.

Sometimes you would not find time to edit your images and enhance their luminosity and work on the contrast parts to beautify it. What would you do? One answer would be to Ignore posting that image and put it aside for later editing, and the second would be to post it as it is. Now, lazy heads(include me) can do all this by using this online tool which performs a check on the uploaded images and performs the required lighting so that you can share without a moment’s thought.

Check this screenshot for an example:

And yeah, You can download using the “Download Improved Image” link.

Pretty easy, isn’t it?

There are some more tools which you can try on performing the image modifications online.

1. Adobe Photoshop Online: Photoshop Express

2. Thumbnail To Poster Size, Vice-Versa

Feel free to Share with Us if you already use any online image enhancing tool.

Its Fun Selling Lemonade – Try It

Suneel — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:41:43 +0000

An absolutely alternate way to spend your free time while idling in front of an internet enabled computer. Found a great game which doesn’t require humongous resources and which does not clog your system resources. An upgraded version of this game requires nothing but the latest update of Java from Sun which can be got from their official web-site. All you need other than that is a java enabled browser like Mozilla FireFox or Internet Explorer or Opera 9 or a plethora of the recently being used browsers. Well, we have all these resources. What is this game all about? Its all about LemonadeGame. No, you can’t change the color from yellow to others. It’s the color of the Lemon guys.

Yes, The game is all about selling Lemonade. So, whats the catch? There are particular days that you are asked to sell the lemonade and the biggest catch is “You have to make the lemonade yourself”. Find out the optimal recipe, guess how much sugar is needed, how much ice is required and how many paper cups are required. So, you have to guess how many people are going to buy from your stand. And, please be careful, as you have to judge mainly depending on the kind of the day ahead. Sunny or Rainy?

After this step, choose the recipe based on the Price/Quality Control and build a perfect recipe based on the forecast. Based on the weather forecast be prepared for pricing the cup and making it taste good, because ‘customers are always right’.

Now, its selling time. You will start selling the lemonade as soon as you click ‘OK’ and if you do not wish to wait for that long as the lemonade and the stuff used gets emptied, you can even press the ‘Fast Forward’ button to fasten the game and move on to the end of the day. You can check out the returns while playing and get an idea of how much items are being used. Don’t get depressed if customers do not wish to drink for some time. They will, as the day brightens.

The above image does not depict the sales being performed, as I am not that good at making Lemonade. And the final screenshot is what you have earned.

Great, I have got a good customer satisfaction. I need to improvise.

Tell me your scores after you have played this mini-game at www.LemonadeGame.com

Share with us if you do enjoy playing this kind of small games which do not require more system resources and are easy to cope up with.