Sink or Swim

I finally finished a design for a website selling incontinence products. It wasn’t easy but I’ve decided to just make it as white and clean as possible. Health-related websites are easy to design because you only need to evoke a safe and clean feeling. It also needs to be easy to use or navigate and that all important information are available at first glance.

Having said that, here’s a great collection of health industry web designs that I’ve seen online. Just to inspire you if you happen to be designing for something similar. They are not the usual white boxy types but something that’s more out of the box.

Websites selling flowers are starting to do their online marketing campaigns. If you want to check one of their site, just follow the link here. A friend of mine has started comparing packages so she can allot a budget for mom, sisters and sisters-in-law. Then she’ll have to train her husband which one he’ll have to buy by January. She’s very prepared, I must say. As for me, I’ve never been a fan of flowers but I do like giving them to friends, teachers and all the women that I’m friends with. So having said that, I might follow my friend’s suggestion and start window shopping online for good deals this coming Valentine’s Day.

Check out these shocking advertisements that I found here.

The shock factor is very effective, although a bit disturbing. And as mentioned from the blog post, viewer discretion is advised!

Google+ is Google’s way of attempting to break through the social network market primarily ruled by Facebook.

The most important feature for bloggers is the Google +1 button, which is basically giving a post your public stamp of approval. There are speculations that the Google+1 button feature in blogs and web sites will play a big role in determining page ranks in the future as liking (or clicking on the +1 button) a post on the web is similar to sharing posts in Facebook – add a comment and it gets sent to your determined circles (groups) in Google+.

If you own a blog, setting up a Google+ button in your site or on each post is easy.

*These instructions are for WordPress Blogs:
Step 1: Visit the Google Developer Website.

Step 2: Decide which button style you like.

Step 3: Login to your WP Dashboard and navigate to “Appearance > Editor.” Look for “Header (header.php)” in the right-hand menu under “Templates”. Grab the first part of the code and put it into the “header.php” just before the </head> closing tag.

Step 4: Go back and grab the second part of the code and place it wherever you would like the button to appear. For example, if you want the your Google Plus One Button to appear right below your post title, then place it in your Single Post (single.php) file just beneath the title tag.

*Make sure you copy your original theme’s code just in case you mess something up.

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Peach is a freelance writer who enjoys blogging and photography.  She is currently reading the WP Engine Review so she can share more information about it in her next article.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

You will forever inspire us, Steve Jobs. Rest in peace.

This is how much of a gossip monger I am. When I see posts about celebrities whether it’s for celebrity wedding trends, celebrity mommas who just gave birth, Hollywood couples splitting up, I read them all no matter how busy I am. And then I blog about it. That way, other gossips can read about them if they haven’t already.

This is why you’ll often see perezhilton.com, eOnline, The Hollywood Gossip on my browsing history and bookmarks. Aside from work and online shopping, this is what keeps me busy. That is – if the kids and husband don’t need me. Sometimes I pretend I’m working on my iphone but the truth is I’m just reading gossips.

Yeah. I need a diversion. Who doesn’t? Thank God mine isn’t expensive and my husband should be happy. Oh wait, I did mention online shopping right?

Trying to decide between yellow box shoes or Charles & Keith pumps is my biggest concern this morning. Not work, not breakfast, not even my kids who are sleeping soundly in the other room. I am shallow that way but we all deserve to be like that from time to time. After all, mothers are supposed to be superheroes who can do anything and everything they want to. So why not add a flaw here and there? But I digress. It’s just that I need something to wear for the wedding that I’m attending next week. All my shoes are either too outdated in style or the colors are just not perfect for the dress that I have in mind and haven’t bought yet. That’s how busy mothers are, you know. But enough with this nonsense, personal post. I need to get back to designing or else I wouldn’t have any cash to spend at all for my new clothes and shoes.

Mobile phones of the future will be able to decipher barcodes on all manner of objects. All you will need do will be to point the phone towards the barcode, and quick as a flash, the encoded information, via a video, text file or picture will appear on your mobile phone screen. This feature will be a major item when making future mobile phone deals. Many phones currently use barcode scanning in their applications, supermarket apps for example allow you to scan an item and add it to a shopping list on your phone.

Barcode Buying

Advancements in this innovation will make it possible for estate agents to put a barcode on their for sale signs outside the houses they have on the market. All a potential buyer will have to do is to stop, approach the sign, point their phone at it, and bingo, the mobile phone screen will give them all the information about the property anybody would want. It will give you the asking price, the number of bathrooms,
bedrooms and anything else the agent might think of as being of interest.

Connecting the Physical World With the Digital World

Mobile phone deals will be full of manufacturers’ claims of having the best and most appropriate way of connecting the physical world with the digital world. In Japan today, people buying hamburgers from McDonalds can get all the nutritional information about their hamburger from the barcode on the hamburger wrapper, with their mobile phones. Advertisers can keep their newspaper advertising costs down, simply by replacing the body of their ad with a barcode. The reader can check out the product or service to decide if they want more information, and then scan the barcode of the ad to have that information sent to your phone. They can also get their boarding pass for airline travel by using their mobile phones instead of having a paper ticket. What’s more you can view the latest movie trailer from a billboard simply by deciphering the barcode on the billboard with your mobile phone. read more »