I still remembered what happened when I woke up in the morning. Worst news was full of my ears. This really happened a few months ago.
Back to a few months, not only the bank went bankruptcy, my dear affiliated associates but also were hardly hit. My fully blessed business was at the peak. And we [...]
I have been doing internet business for couple of years. Recalling back of my well learnt experience, I had to say that business online is quick easy to operate and earning is good. But back to the legal issues of my internet business, I didn’t get bothered when I started. When everything went well, hard [...]
As a small business, we always plan to save our cost. Many service businesses may have a big profit margin, but when they start, they quickly realize that they have so many phone calls every day. You just cut off your service lines for saving some ridiculous phone calls.
So how to start to save some [...]
After you build your online shop for your products, you want to get sales quick. Traditional search engine optimization is costly and time consuming. For get fast result, pay per click advertising is the way to choose.
Follow these precautions to avoid hooking up with a cyberstalker in a chat room:
We all have heard of and probably used one of the many IM applications like these (data marked with an asterisk is based on information from Lehman Brothers, comScore Media Metrix):
A blooper that has become common in recent years is using input controls—checkboxes, radio buttons, text fields, etc.—to present data users cannot change. This refers to controls that are never editable, not to ones that are temporarily inactive (grayed).
First, it uses checkboxes to mark “Required” fields. Users can’t change these checkboxes; they are only indicators. [...]
A blooper that has become common in recent years is using input controls—checkboxes, radio buttons, text fields, etc.—to present data users cannot change. This refers to controls that are never editable, not to ones that are temporarily inactive (grayed).
First, it uses checkboxes to mark “Required” fields. Users can’t change these checkboxes; they are only indicators. [...]
Normalization provides numerous benefits to a database. Some of the major benefits include the following :
Greater overall database organization
Reduction of redundant data
Data consistency within the database
A much more flexible database design
A better handle on database security
Views can be utilized as a form of security in the database. Let’s say you have a table called EMPLOYEE_TBL. The EMPLOYEE_TBL includes employee names, addresses, phone numbers, emergency contacts, department, position, and salary or hourly pay. You have some temporary help come in to write some reports; you need a report of employees‘ names, [...]
Consistency is good anyway
Consistency can certainly be misapplied in UI design, but that doesn’t mean we should abandon the concept. Just because we don’t have a formal definition of consistency doesn’t mean that the concept is useless. It clearly has value to software users, even though their ideas of what is and is not consistent [...]
The right way to design: Think outside-in
Thinking outside-in when designing a UI means making sure it makes sense to people who do not know everything you know about it. This doesn’t mean you should assume users are stupid. They probably know more than you do about the software’s supported tasks. What users don’t know is [...]
A common complaint about software applications is that they are hard to learn. Learning takes time; the more a user has to learn in order to use a product or service, the longer it will be before that user can be productive. Time is money. Furthermore, if users are not required to learn to use [...]
The human mind is very good at multitasking. We often do many tasks at once, for example, talking on the phone while beating an egg while keeping watch on our child, all while tapping a foot to a song we heard on the radio earlier this morning.
In any task domain, users will have goals ranging from common to rare. Design your application to recognize this range.
Make common results easy to achieve
If a user’s goal is predictable and common, the user shouldn’t have to do much to achieve it. Unusual goals may require more effort to achieve. Stated more formally: The amount [...]
Express the error in terms of the task
A good error message describes the problem in terms related to the task the user was trying to do. If the user has just given the command to paste an image into a document and the software encounters an error, the message should be expressed in terms of [...]
While the internet may have many business applications, most business owners will limit their use of the Internet to their company Web site.
Here are some recognizable companies whose online ventures have paid off:
Large retailers from Macy’s to Service Merchandise to Lands’ End, right down to the smallest Web-only specialty store, are publishing catalogues and making [...]
A German Internet company recently analysed the business impact of Internet banner advertising, looking at the behaviour of 500 Internet users in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden and Spain. In most cases banner advertising was perceived to have good informational value and to be an easy way to get access to the advertiser’s Web site.
When you build a Web site, you construct an island. Forget the Information Superhighway analogy. The Web isn’t a stretch of road lined with sites that everyone notices. The Web is much more like a vast ocean of information—an ocean with very few navigational tools. The success of your site depends on your ability to [...]
If Web pages are the meat and potatoes of your site, interactive applications and other Web enhancements must be the gravy. Interactive Web applications add flavor and character to your site that you could never achieve with a typical static Web page. The proper design of interactive applications requires the skills of a seasoned Web [...]
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