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Web Design Blog - July 11, 2008

Twitter Statistics

We all know of Twitter, both the immense success and also the unfavorable reliability press (ouch, Ruby on Rails!). The statistics behind this goldmine of data are quite impressive, but not yet facebook or myspace comparable. Currently there are nearly 2.1 million twitters, www.twitdir.com . However, finding real-time data for total tweets per day is not all that easy. I've found record that in June of 2007 there was an average of 250,000 to 275,000 tweets per day. Taking the low number here, we... read more!

Jul 11, 2008 6:11pm by john chase

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How to make music play seamlessly across html site.

Recently we have had many requests to add music to non-flash sites. Normally I discourage putting music on your website for the sheer fact that it's annoying, but that's just my opinion. Adding music to an html site and having it play seamlessly across the site was the challenge. The solution came in an ancient technology called frames. I know... It's not 1996, but frames proved to be useful in this situation. Check out the code. [html] Untitled Document [/html] Pretty simple. J... read more!

Jul 11, 2008 6:04pm by Jeff Nicholson

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Outsource in the USA - Web Developer Outsourcing

I often see companies on the fence about whether they should hire internally or outsource their website programming and maintenance tasks. I don't know if you've considered outsourcing, but it may be more cost effective if you're looking to hire several developers or a webmaster to maintain your current site. I'm not talking outsourcing overseas - but outsourcing locally, here in the good old USA. You may already know that it's tough to find out the quality of a new-hire until their on board fo... read more!

Jul 11, 2008 5:27pm by Shad Vick

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Through a Web of Emails

If you work for a firm that takes requests for work, feedback or comments online , this surely applies to you. Clients will send a quick email asking for a bug to be fixed or a question to be answered, this is alright when you have only a few clients but when you turn up the volume, using email to try and communicate can become a very big mess. Have you considered setting up a web forum or perhaps even a ticket system to handle the requests? There are many free and open source projects that you ... read more!

Jul 11, 2008 3:34pm by Mike Vandenberghe

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