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Firefox, IE and Google Chrome Themes

Anum — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:18:55 +0000

You can now totally customize your web surfing experience, thanks to Brand Thunder. Brands can now reach their intended audience by using a medium, which they are using for hours every day. Using the internet is now a much easier thing to do, thanks to the custom themes that you can get.

You can obtain customized themes for use with all of the most popular platforms, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you want to see what you can do with themes, you should check out some examples online.

Firefox

Miami Heat internet browser is a good example of a theme that you can use with Firefox. The browser has the initial appearance of an ordinary fan page. The Miami Head logo as well as all of the colors used for this theme. Everything, ranging from the tabs to the buttons, follows this theme. After further inspection of the theme, you will see how convenient it can be to use themes. You can easily access a range of links, ranging from team page to the twitter accounts of the team. There is also a quick link for purchasing tickets and using the fan made forums. If you are a Heat fan, you should definitely consider checking out this theme. It makes it easy for you to interact with your passion. This is a great example of how well a theme can build brand recognition for businesses.

Internet Explorer

If you are a fan of IGN, you can now access their official theme for Internet Explorer. The features, design and colors are all styled after the IGN home page. There is also a useful side bar that gives you easy access to new stories and also reviews.

IGN can now give users the experience of using their website, no matter what site they are actually looking at. Imagine what this could do for your brand. People could access the information that is on your site, without actually visiting it.

Google Chrome and Brand Thunder are working together as partners. The themes that they make are available on the Chrome e commerce website. A very popular theme that they have brought out is the CollegeHumor site’s theme.

When you first start up your browser, you will be greeted by the CollegeHumor logo. If you visit the CollegeHumor website on a regular basis, you will love this theme. You can access the latest news, articles and stories, which are posted on the website.

Each of the above mentioned browsers have a great number of themes, which are available by using Brand Thunder. They also have a theme builder on offer, which is called BT:Engage. It is easy to make your own customized themes using this tool. If you want to offer people a better way to interact with your website, without having to actually visit it, custom themes are the way to go. Every time a user surfs the web, they will have access to the core content on your site.

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Other SEO Metrics besides Google Page Rank

Anum — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:45:06 +0000

While Google’s Page Rank metric is used most often for search engine optimization ranking, in reality, it is not very clear or helpful. It is supposed to be a way of measuring a web pages popularity, and degree of power when compared to other websites, but does it? First of all, there is no decisive way of figuring out how and why, a web page is ranked as it is. Additionally, it is assumed that a page rank of seven would mean that a website has a high ranking, but that isn’t always the way it is. There are some exceptions, actually quite a few.
To begin with, the page rank data may not be current. It can be up to 12 months old. Popularity is based on when a web page was last ranked. There is no decisive way of knowing exactly when that was. Just because a website was at the top five months ago, does not mean that it is still a true reading. Furthermore, if a web page has a high rank it does not mean it is more valuable or domineering than one that is not ranked, or has a low page rank.
Due to lack of tangible evidence, search engine optimization experts are turning to other means of measuring the metrics of a web site’s effectiveness.

• Social Media:

No matter what the page rank, there are those that believe, how popular a website is on social media, is indicative of how much people like your web site.
• Back links:

The number of other websites that link back to your web page demonstrates popularity.
• Domain Authority and Trust:

The amount of inbound links that point to a web page and the age of the domain are factors that determine how authoritative the domain is. The trust associated with a domain name demonstrates the amount of trusted sites that lead to it.
• Indexing:

If a web site is not indexed, this means Google is not aware that it exists, or that a website practiced inappropriately with search engine optimization. If a web site is indexed it is important to see if in addition to the domain URL, that other pages are indexed, as well. If they are, it is a good indication that a post on the web page will stay indexed.

• MozRank:

Is the same as Google’s Page Rank.
The following tools are a great way of measuring effectiveness of a web pages search engine optimization.
• SEOmoz Toolbar:

Is a free of charge tool bar extension that can be loaded onto Firefox or Google Chrome. It offers many search engine optimization metrics for you to use.
• Open Site Explorer:

Measures URL popularity as well as back links.
• Majestic SEO:

Provides information regarding back link history, distribution of anchor text, back links, and referring domains, etc.
There are a lot more elements than page rank that decide the success of a website search engine optimization. These other methods are more tangible and provide more in depth information.

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Building a Mobile Website

Anum — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:42:10 +0000

Mobile use has been taking a toll in recent time; in fact, the last decade has observed a striking increase in the consumption of mobile phones. It has practically become the first screen for every individual in the world now. Due to this heavy consumption, web developers were forced to think over points on how to grab this huge market. This is a very feasible and profitable market. They couldn’t have ignored the fact that people preferred mobile phones over computers and laptops and that, nations were looking forward to decreasing their data service charges just to satisfy mobile users.

Mobile development isn’t at all simple; there is a lot of complexity involved. The entire working has to be done cross-platform; the varying platforms have made it such. Unless the phones are working along browsers such as Opera Mini and , your site cannot be opened up easily and you need to make sure that you do wonders just to make it accessible by all.

Here’s how you should start working on giving your website the mobility.

Begin by embedding a stylesheet so as to adjust the CSS for mobile devices. The stylesheet detects the phone and directs the user to the mobile domain of the page. A very good example of this is when you type www.facebook.com from your mobile phone, you are immediately directed to m.facebook.com. This may seem the way out to all mobile development features but there is still a lot that stops the website from being displayed on your screen and you should be taking care of them.

Some sites have put up the option of mobile version or full version on their site. It’s up to the user if they want to take a mobile look or a full version look of the page. A very good example of this feature would be IKEA’s site.

To make it quite a forceful tool, make sure that your mobile website displays just the information you want to have displayed. Avoid embedding several columns and do not focus on the horizontal view of the phone, since that tends to add up cost. A tight layout of your content can help you save numerous pixels.

You should also try to reduce the bandwidth on which the websites open up. If your website takes too long to load then you might miss out on the opportunity of capturing the mobile audience.

Bring about other changes such as giving the option of font sizes. Some may be too large while some may be illegible; so give the people a choice to pick the one they’d like and view the website accordingly.

You could simply opt for another feature. For this, I’ll again refer to Facebook; embed in the SMS option from the website so that you’re frequently updated on your page. All that the user has to do is, set their carrier and put up their number. This enhances user experience and they can stay updated with your website whenever they want.

Mobile website is another whole world and you still haven’t capitalized on the thought then you’re missing out on a huge market.

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