? ? Everyone is talking about mobile. Some e-commerce websites are venturing into it. Mobile commerce (also known as “m-commerce”) has immense potential, exhibiting a 86% growth rate and hitting $25 billion in 2012 (set to reach $86 billion by 2016, according to eMarketer). It’s also a whole new platform, with new interaction methods and usage contexts that introduce a host of limitations and pitfalls to watch out for when designing and running an m-commerce website. With few best practices yet established, m-commerce is, to a large degree, unchartered territory when it comes to actual implementation. This is why we decided to invest the better part of a year at Baymard Institute to conduct a large-scale usability study focusing specifically on m-commerce (following the “think aloud” protocol). We set out to explore the entire mobile shopping experience, including users’ conceptual understanding of m-commerce websites and how users interact with form fields, category navigation, search, product pages, the checkout process, etc

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Users with modern browsers are increasing each day and making use of features like HTML5 audio sounds more and more logical. AudioPlayer.js is a jQuery plugin for quickly placing a HTML5-powered audio player to any web page. The player’s interface is chic ( doesn’t use any images for that), has a responsive layout and touch support . It has the major controls (play/pause, volume and duration) and weights only 4kb . Advertisements: ioDeck , a self-hosted and awesome PHP form generator. Professional XHTML Admin Template ($15 Discount With The Code: WRD.) SSLmatic – Cheap SSL Certificates (from $19.99/year)

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    Storytelling takes many forms. In the past, stories were told orally, with people telling and retelling myths, fables and even histories. As writing technology became more prevalent, we began to record our stories , and we told them in the pages of books. Now, our society is awash in different devices and technologies, and those traditions of spoken stories and printed stories are blurring. Multi-screen narratives are being told across all kinds of platforms, pages and devices, making for truly immersive experiences. We are watching them, tapping them and learning from them. They immerse us in the storyteller’s world

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    Storytelling takes many forms. In the past, stories were told orally, with people telling and retelling myths, fables and even histories. As writing technology became more prevalent, we began to record our stories , and we told them in the pages of books. Now, our society is awash in different devices and technologies, and those traditions of spoken stories and printed stories are blurring. Multi-screen narratives are being told across all kinds of platforms, pages and devices, making for truly immersive experiences. We are watching them, tapping them and learning from them.

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Advertise here via BSA Would you like a Responsive and Touch-Friendly Audio Player ? Osvaldas Valutis has built a jQuery plugin that replaces element with a little of custom HTML code. By adding some CSS you get a whole new player which looks the way you want and has the same functionality as the default player. There is no direct way to style the element. But the HTML5 DOM has methods, properties, and events for the element and thus makes it quite easily manipulable. It has been tested on the latest Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera both Mac and Windows versions. The player works well on Internet Explorer 9, 10 and gracefully degrades to mini mode on earlier versions.

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When using typography on the web, there are many things to keep in mind in order to create a page that provides clear access to the content and presents it in a legible way. Typically this can be broken down into two buckets: Readability and Legibility . Readability refers to the way in which words and blocks of type are arranged on a page. Legibility refers to how a typeface is designed and how well one individual character can be distinguished from another. For the sake of this article, I’ll talk a bit about both, suggesting some specific techniques to improve your typography. Legibility Let’s talk legibility first. It’s important to understand what makes one typeface more legible than another. When choosing a typeface, it all depends on how you plan to use it.

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IM Creator is a very easy to use and hosted website builder that allows anyone to create good-looking websites without diving into any HTML-CSS or JavaScript . There are many creative templates to choose from where all of them are optimized for search engines and looking good on mobile too. Info: They are giving away 3 lifetime subscriptions (valued $95/year) to WRD readers, details below. Once the template is picked from a well-categorized list (it is also possible to start with a blank template), the site can be edited live with drag ‘n’ drops . Inserting new galleries, slideshows, contact forms or menus is just a click away. All of them presented nicely and user-friendly. One of the most frequent jobs while creating a website, editing images are also handled within IM Creator .

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How Your Small Business Can Find Time For Social Media is a post by SEO expert Matt Nickle . For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog . The title of this article could also be “How WILL Your Small Business MAKE Time for Social Media?”, but I thought I would keep it how it is to prove a point. With social media growing exponentially and becoming more popular for businesses (and for staying in touch with your BFFs) you can’t afford not to take advantage of it as a small business owner. Here are several reasons why you need to jump on board with social media and ways to find time for it. Trust me, if you want your business to increase and your brand awareness to jump through the roof, you will make time for it. Social Media Stats First of all, I want to quickly give some facts to convince you about the growth of social media and the impact it can have on your business. Facebook – The average person spends 1 out of every 7 minutes on Facebook ( ZDNet ) Twitter – Each and every day there are at least 340 million tweets ( Twitter blog ) LinkedIn – Financial customers on LinkedIn are more affluent than Facebook users ( comScore ) Pinterest – Predominantly used by women ( All Twitter ) Google+ – Predominantly used by men ( CircleCount ) If you are a small business owner, you already understand the concept of “time=money” and may feel that there? isn’t? any room in the schedule or budget for social media.

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How Your Small Business Can Find Time For Social Media is a post by SEO expert Matt Nickle . For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog . The title of this article could also be “How WILL Your Small Business MAKE Time for Social Media?”, but I thought I would keep it how it is to prove a point. With social media growing exponentially and becoming more popular for businesses (and for staying in touch with your BFFs) you can’t afford not to take advantage of it as a small business owner. Here are several reasons why you need to jump on board with social media and ways to find time for it. Trust me, if you want your business to increase and your brand awareness to jump through the roof, you will make time for it. Social Media Stats First of all, I want to quickly give some facts to convince you about the growth of social media and the impact it can have on your business. Facebook – The average person spends 1 out of every 7 minutes on Facebook ( ZDNet ) Twitter – Each and every day there are at least 340 million tweets ( Twitter blog ) LinkedIn – Financial customers on LinkedIn are more affluent than Facebook users ( comScore ) Pinterest – Predominantly used by women ( All Twitter ) Google+ – Predominantly used by men ( CircleCount ) If you are a small business owner, you already understand the concept of “time=money” and may feel that there? isn’t? any room in the schedule or budget for social media.

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Advertise here via BSA Copyright regulations exist to ensure that the owners of intellectual property, such as images, text and other creative works, are protected should their work be used without their permission. The Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 gives the creators of literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, sound recordings, broadcasts, films and typographical arrangement of published editions, the right to control the ways in which their content may be used. Although it’s designed to protect content producers against malicious use, creative professionals such as web designers need to be careful not to breach copyright. What does the act include? Written content and articles Copying articles or content from third parties can constitute a copyright breach, even if the content is modified or adapted. The use of scrapers could also be constituted as a breach, as can placement of ‘dummy text’ that is used on another website, even if it is only used on a development server.

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