Over the years our family has purchased various iPod models, and we tend to pass them down by age. Currently, this means my six year old daughter is the proud owner of a 2 GB second generation iPod Nano purchased in 2006. That was payment for her sister’s work (who was then about to enter [...]

   Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career. With the help of our panel of 16 designers, we’ll dispense advice that should help new designers get their career off to a promising start. We’ve [...]

Aa you know, a lot of visitors traditionally don’t navigate too far beyond the initial portion of your site unless there is a reason for them to continue. For example, you can place posts or links to your featured categories at the top of your site. Even though visitors may not be interested in this [...]

Sometimes, it appears as though I’ve been writing a post for hours on end. You’ve probably felt this way, especially if you write professionally all day. It is only natural to think this, and then think whether your visitors will sincerely be able to “give back” in terms of the time that was put into [...]

If you are adding an option to a system (out of the box) picklist, the value must be greater than 199,999. For custom picklist attributes, the values can start at 1. The max value allowed is Int32.MaxValue – 1 (where Int32.MaxValue = 2147483647 or 0×7FFFFFFF). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc156143.aspx

Last week we presented 8 Useful Tips To Help Your Website Convert – we discussed various rules and guidelines from marketing, such as subliminal suggestion, prevention of choice paralysis, AIDA-principle, attention guide and the Gutenberg rule. The main idea was to help designers and developers create a design that would help the site to grow [...]

Following the previous post, Writing Timeless Content, this post will cover some basics on how to gain more traffic from search engines doing little more than you are doing now.  For this post, I won’t go in-depth on how to “game” the search engines, but rather some basics on how to gain (over time) traffic [...]