Turn to the online crowd to garner feedback for your web design work. And as we all know, turning to an online audience of honest constructive criticism can often times be an exercise in futility and abuse. Well that is changing!
Check out Concept Feedback which offers a location for designers to submit their work for review by the community of participating creatives. This reciprocal system works based on a number of checks and balances to keep things both fair and constructive, for all those who are putting their design work out there.
By requiring reviewers to maintain a ratio of feedback offered to concepts submitted for critique, they make sure that everyone is actively participating and not just leeching off the community for free advice without giving any back. Also, by rewarding each reviewer reputation points that are taken away for leaving negative feedback, they ensure that people are actually being constructive in their comments. Reinforcing the if you don’t have anything nice to say (or in this case, constructive), don’t say anything at all rule, in a way, they keepcreative feedback for web design work helpful not harsh and unwelcoming.
We’ve heard of HTML 5 before, but this video (45 minutes) says a lot about it. A game changer for modern browsers – the newest video done by the people at Google Developers. For any web designer, web developer or digital strategist this video is a must-watch. Keeping up with the changes that open source has delivered when it scaled into the consumer market (one of my favorites), the increasing number of developers contributing to the open source market and millions of open source users increasing over time.
Javascript, over the last 2 years has improved 100X in speed and power improvement….and we are just on the brink of what can be done with faster javascript. I am a huge fan of Adobe Flash, and have been using and creating since version 3.5, my love for flash will never die and it’s power will never fall, but HTML 5 proves some powerful browser intrinsic features that web designers need to know about that are flash-like.Flash is still the most powerful tool for rich internet applications, motion design, and high powered interactivity—But HTML 5 with the advances in javascript can do a lot more now!
HTML 4 (in the late 90′s) was a different king of HTML version, and we are in a much different point now with AJAX being adopted in 2005, javascript advances, advanced CSS social media GPS needs, video being much more available, and basic needs of images now a native part of HTML 5. Web design and web development are once again getting closer…
Some Highlights:
SVG (scaleable vector graphics)
Graphics are now intrinsic, as a part of CSS
Rounded corners, now one line of code in CSS
iPhone supports SVG
resolution independent
custom fonts
available on 95% of browsers
Canvas API
Image Tag
javascript that draws a custom image or shape
Video
no complicated objects or plugins
use a video tag similar to tag
different codec support
native part of the browser
many APIs
Classify new tags like HEADER, FOOTER, ARTICLE great for search engines
Geolocation
CRM Systems
Social Apps
Games and Augmented reality
Ads
browsers are location enabled
Google not using the keywords meta tag from your website to rank or index your site is really no surprise. Don’t be concerned about anyone lifting your “keywords” meta data from your website and using it on their web site – simply because it isn’t even used by Google to rank your web site…. This is something that most web developers, web designers and digital strategists working with SEO have known for quite some time, however we have always used the “keywords” meta data in an HTML document anyway. Now, Google simply says “NO” we do not use them… check out the video below:
Omniture, one of the biggest names in web analytics, is being acquired by Adobe, in a transaction valued at $1.8 billion.
Adobe customers are looking to us for solutions to deliver engaging experiences and more effectively monetize their content and applications online,” says Shantanu Narayen, president and CEO of Adobe. “This is a game changer for both Adobe and our customers. We will enable advertisers, media companies and e-tailers to realize the full value of their digital assets.” Adobe says the deal will enable advertisers, ad agencies, publishers, and e-tailers to achieve greater ROI from their digital investments while improving the end users’ experience.
The next generation of web analytics should be on the horizon… built for today’s ecommerce challenges. Adobe sees the acquisition as one that will significantly expand its addressable market and growth potential in the online advertising and e-commerce industries.
source: webpronews
