The first key to making intuitive websites consists of understanding  the true goals of your enterprise. If the website’s purpose is to represent a business, think about how your online presence will truly help. Will traffic drive sales or awareness? Will you cause ripples in trending content or be a hub linking to it? There are three major goals business websites can accomplish: to brand the business, generate leads, and make direct sales online. Decide which of these approaches is most suitable considering your resources. Then, look at other websites that are similar to your ideal website. This doesn’t mean they have to be the same type of business. What is most important is whether the website is accomplishing the same goals. Now analyze how their website’s design meets those goals. Of course, you shouldn’t copy specific elements of these websites; rather, you should try to grasp the principles underlying their design decisions.

Most of these websites you find successful will have a number of traits in common. These include simplicity of navigation, consistency of navigation, and fast performance.

Website navigation should be visually simple; this is extremely crucial to making the website feel intuitive. If users feel they have to go digging around or strain their eyes to find things, they will quickly become annoyed with the site. The website should communicate in some way exactly where on the site the user is at all times. Changing the page title is a common way of doing this. On more complex sites, breadcrumb navigation can help the user find specific subdirectories easily. Too many colors in the navigation can make it difficult for one’s eyes to follow. Navigation should be consistent from page to page.

Finally, as Google’s tests have shown, web surfers respond well to performance. Fast, reliable web service helps make websites feel more intuitive. This is especially important if your website contains elements that dynamically update; if this process takes too long, the user might start to think something went wrong and become confused. Excellent web hosts that can provide that service can be found at thetop10bestwebhosting.com. This site is also a good example of the intuitive web design practices mentioned above.

Through the history of the World Wide Web, more intuitive websites have consistently won out over less intuitive websites that had similar goals. Intuitiveness is a crucial attribute of any website. Employing simple, consistent navigation, focus, and fast performance can make it happen.

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It’s not everyday that I find an interesting website online, but, today, something got my attention. One of the biggest things that guys finding girlfriend online (or girlfriends to some), and they do it by social media but they get rejected so many times looking like a pervert lol! Well, not to worry a company has made a way for you to look great online by giving you a Virtual Girlfriend.

CloudGirlfriend.com is a new website (soon to launch) that gives you a Social Network Girlfriend, the point is to have your social profile boosted by having a girlfriend. This girlfriend online would regularly post you a message thru your wall and make you look more date-able for other girls (and you can even interact with her!). Here’s how you do it:

1. Define your Perfect Girlfriend
2. They bring her to Existence
3. Connect and Interact with her publicly on your favorite Social Network
4. Enjoy a perfect Long Distance Relationship with your Perfect Girl

The most interesting part of this website is that it’s scientifically explained how it helps its users. It’s from Moslow’s needs. The point was that even though it is a virtual girlfriend is that it trains you and builds up your confidence and self-esteem. Also, the virtual girlfriend will not be a bot but an actual person and will look perfectly legit and real to other users.

I really found the idea very interesting and creative, there are a lot of people out there who would love to have this to boost their profile (just look at the number of guys on online dating websites). Also, finding girlfriend online isn’t easy for some guys and this will certainly make them look more into the society and gets other girls interested. The only down part is that it might not be free, since real people will be manning your virtual girlfriend then it might be expensive (especially if you interact a lot). But overall, I love the idea and how it can grow into this boost your profile agency. Afterall, where are other people looking at when doing background check, whether it’s new friends, potential girlfriends and even employers, it’s getting more important these days to pimp your profile and make yourself look better online.

I find this idea very interesting and very lucrative, what do you guys think?

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piZap is one of the websites that I found that makes photo editing a breeze. All you have to do is to click the start button and you’ll be taken to this page:

The best part about this photo editing website is that you can edit pictures from many different sources, one of the most important is with social network connection. So you can select photos from your Facebook and edit it via piZap and put it back.

There’s a lot of free tools available, from adding funny faces to more advanced effects and drawing tools. It’s not really for advanced users but it is definitely enough for basic to intermediate users who want just normal adjustments to their photos.

After editing your photo, you can choose to save and reshare it to any of your social profiles including email, or download it to your computer for you to store.

What’s great with this website is that it doesn’t use up as much resource so it’s perfect for netbooks and tablets. The best part is that this Photo editing website for free, so you don’t spend a thing and get pictures fixed without any softwares stored in your computer. I recommend you to try it out if you need photo editing.

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There’s no one website that offers a free website creator with free domain name, but the good news is that there are websites out there that offer a free website creator and some that offer a free domain name. So if you’re looking to make a free website and a good domain name, here’s how you can get one…

So How do you get a Free Domain Name?

There are a lot of free domain name but there are certain purchases required to get it, like getting web hosting or purchasing one of their packages. One of the closest thing to free for nothing is Co.cc, it’s not as good as a .COM or a .NET but it’s the best for the price of free. Your website will be like TechFilipino.co.cc which looks better than a subdomain like techfilipino.blogspot.com right? What you need to do is to register and automatically you’ll get 2 free domain names, and use it for your website.

How do you get a Free Website Creator?

There are a lot of websites that offer free website creator service, but what I personally recommend is Weebly. What I like about Weebly is that the free has all the features with professional themes (designs you can choose from instead of needing to decide). And the best part? No Advertising! And no limit on Hosting! A lot of free sites have either ads or a limit and then you have to pay extra after, this is completely free of those. You can just drag and drop the elements you want and doesn’t require any programming at all.

Goodluck and hope my post helps you get a free website creator with free domain name.

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Survive the Outbreak is a movie about zombies, an outbreak happens and a group of survivors reach a safehouse and need to decide what they need to do next. While Bank run is all about a guy who’s caught up with some bank secret.

– Survive the Outbreak Interactive movie –

 

What’s really cool about the movie is that every minute of video, a choice is to be made by the user on what to do. A wrong decision could kill you and restart the story or let you move on to the story. You could choose different paths by selecting thru which decisions once you do die in the story and continue where you’d want. I found it really fun and different from the usual movie, but it was only short and you pretty much can finish the story quickly (I hope it was a bit longer). I actually like the Zombie flick better, it was more simpler and was a story that was really great for interaction.

 

– Bank Run Interactive Movie –

 

You can watch and interact with these movies via these websites: Survive The Outbreak and Bank Run

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Our team at Gang Ventures have been working really hard lately, focusing on developing one website that we believe will make a difference. We’re soon going to be ready to release the website in Beta version, and the website’s called Lot.ph. Lot.ph is Philippines’ Real Estate Classified Ads website, dedicated in helping buyers, sellers, brokers, property owners to connect and get the best properties.

Lot.ph did take us a really long time to configure and finish up the project as there were some technical problems we encountered. Luckily, my team was great and they were able to resolve all problems and is almost on the final stages of releasing the first Beta version of the website.

– Full screenshot of Lot.ph (Click the image to enlarge) –

 

The difference that our website makes is that we make Philippines property listing look clean and formal. This way you’ll be able to justify why a certain Philippines property costs millions, a clean web 2.0 feel and pictures will help you sell fast. These are the features that we our website can do:

 

• Upload Multiple Pictures of you Property
• Add a Video to your listing (Will greatly help you in selling or renting your properties faster)
• Be “Top Agent” to improve your credibility and reputation
• Have a Property ID for each listing, it allows quick referencing.
• Google Map of the property
• Search properties by different criteria (e.g. buy / sell /rent, number of bedrooms etc.)
• Contact the Classified Ads Poster with a contact form integrated in each property listing.
• Click here to Check out a sample listing

So far these are the features that our website can do. I do invite everyone to try out our website to see what makes us different. You can visit our website by clicking this link: Philippines Real Estate Classified Ads Website

So what do you think?

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I’m not sure how I ended up making Women related websites, searches just led me to it. I guess a lot of the topics women search for are undeveloped as there seems to be more men in the IT industry than there are women. This is what I explored and found that it actually is a gold mine.

Websites for Women is Profitable

I noticed that women related websites that we develop end up getting really good feedback, as well as, better clicks and sales. Generally what I found with my stats is that women spent more time on my women related websites than men with men related websites. The best thing about women websites is that Bounce rate was significantly lower (around 50%) and they give me the highest CTRs in my PPC and Affiliate Ads than my other websites (more than 5%).

I’m starting to see that women related websites have earned me more and is increasing each day. This might be a good direction for me to consider in the future.

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I’ve tried going around different websites to find another Free Classifieds for WordPress but most needed so much works and tweaks that it’s not worth working on. Free Classifieds plugin for wordpress looks quite plain and to be quite honest, I don’t see how users are going to use it unless I tweak it and design it more.

– Classipress Classifieds WordPress Theme –

Classipress is the best Premium Classifieds WordPress theme

Free just doesn’t seem to cut it, Premium is the best way to go. It only costs $59 for a single license (one website) and $149 for a developers license (unlimited websites). What’s even great is that the script is ready for use, you just got to activate it, fix some settings, add your own logo and you’re good to go. I have started using it for some of my websites like Philippines Property Listings and Buy and Sell of Digital Cameras. What I like the best about it is that when I bought the developer’s license, it entitles me for a lifetime of support and updates (which they’re currently working on a version 3 of Classipress). If you’re a web developer like me, what you’ll also find is that there are so many ways you could tweak and redesign it to make it look less of a WordPress but a full blown website. I enjoy tweaking themes and it’s really been an exciting process for me.

So far I have yet to encounter a problem using Classipress in my websites, I’ve started promoting them and its getting good feedback. I recommend everyone to check it out and see for yourselves, visit their website here -> Classipress.

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I have huge respects over different clothing lines in the Philippines, they’re multimillion businesses that has a huge budget for different marketing aspects. Freeway is more than a decade old and has established its brand since 1997 and has been a popular brand ever since and has a huge following in the Philippines. What disappoints me is that for such a huge company, why didn’t they do a little bit more on online marketing?

– Freeway’s Edsa Billboard –

Freeway needs to improve their Online marketing

Looking over their website, I can see that they’ve really spent money and time for it. It’s built in flash and has a really great interactive website. However, the domain is simply a bad domain for a huge business. .NET.PH is still something that not everyone is familiar about, a .PH or a .COM.PH would be a much better pick for them. What’s even worse is what I found upon researching their domain:

Freeway.PH and Freeway.COM.PH is not owned by the company. Freeway.PH is supposedly owned by a company in Nueva Ecija under Freeway Motor Sales Corporation; While Freeway.COM.PH is owned by an individual and is currently posting a wordpress blog that has disturbing images and a complaint against a certain High way. For a huge brand like freeway, a lot of the traffic are spilling over to the .PH and .COM.PH and can really damage the brand image when Freeway.NET.PH is not visited.

What I’d recommend to Freeway

They should secure or file a UDRP (if they own the trademark under Intellectual property) to get the domains. Freeway should simply get the .PH, .COM.PH and .ORG.PH to avoid domain squatters from getting the domain and profiting from their marketing campaigns. .NET.PH is still not hugely known in the Philippines, and its best to use what most people want so that traffic won’t be wasted and their campaigns are more effective.

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When I first explored on Jobberbase, it was very difficult, the coding were very different from WordPress and the installation and setup process was totally new to me. Although it wasn’t as straight forward as WordPress, I took my time to understand and I got ComeAct to work and to my liking.

– Free Acting Job Board –

Here are some of the Acting Jobs available for Posting:

• Movie Jobs
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• Television Jobs
• Modelling Jobs
• Musician Jobs
• Filming Crew and others

Please do check out our website, and if you do have acting jobs that you’d want to post or are looking for an acting job then please feel free to use our website services for FREE. Drop us a comment here or use the contact form provided by the website if you do have questions or problems with ComeAct. Thanks!

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