A new era in web designing

Gone are the days when the web pages used to be designed for showing the information this ways or that! Now we see new web designing trends or methods are coming in front of our eyes! Whether it is the structure, use of tools, medium of display or the nature of interaction, web design has gone admirable changes to make it more acceptable and striking to users! Actually the thought behind web page designing has gone upside down – now the motto is to convey the message and gain return on investments by any means.

Anyways, here we may have a look on a few aspects that has been giving web designing ever new lease of life. In other words the designers are trying to survive against the increasing and ever changing demands from the users and the site owners. At least when people seek and find out a freelance graphic designer like me, the first thing their demand is - what is new with you to offer? Let’s see the things:

• The structural look of the web pages has gone huge change. The latest trends of web designing are driven to break all the conventions. No way are the three column structures bound to be there! Now designs are purpose oriented or simply to attract the eyes of the visitors. For example we may find out a huge header and small footer or embossed design reflecting the printed effect. All the icons and logos are bold and glossy!
• To create ever effective web designing, the designers are ever innovative to try with new design tools. They want to create designs fast, effective and prefect. And in making the designs truly perfect new design tools (Firebugs, fireworks or panic coda) have come up in use. For example slicing and dicing images to create PDF with clickable component in light weight Fireworks is just amazing.

• Now web pages are not only designed for the desktop, laptops or other computer types! Browsing webpage has entered into mobile phones. Now web pages are specially designed to fit in mobile phone browsing. Some websites even have two separate versions of websites. We find trimmed texts, images, graphics and animations are what designers aim to create mobile versions of web pages.
• Now the web designing has become interactive in true sense. With the evolvement of web 3.0 technology – the mantra of which is to interact and present what the user is looking for – designers are designing to match this technology. The 3D or animated characters, navigations are designed to let the users feel ease and at home. Even structuring the designs for "augmented reality" is cared by the designers.

The above are only the four aspects of web designing that has come up with the changing taste of the era. There are so many other things that have come up with this era and its users. But remember one thing for sure, you as the site owner, never should go for anything new that does not suit the purpose of your business. Actually you should be properly guided by the experienced and expert designers about your web designing requirements and the trend of this new era. Again you have to be initially careful when you hire website designer or a freelancer to design your site. Carefully look out for their web designing portfolio and you will understand if they are keeping up with the changing of the era or not. Hope you will select the right designer for you!

Raimuna Cabang ke-6 Kota Madiun 19-22 Januari 2011

Raimuna Cabang ke-6 Kota Madiun 19-22 Januari 2011 -  
Disaat ini...
Kita berkumpul bersama
Dalam acara.. Raimuna Cabang
Disaat ini...
Kita berkumpul bersama
Mengikuti.. Raimuna Cabang
Dengan hati gembira
Kurasakan indahnya
Bersama-sama, Penegak-Pandega...
Raimuna Cabang Kota Madiun
Raimuna Cabang Tak kan kulupakan
Raimuna Cabang selalu dihati...

Tulisan diatas adalah cuplikan dari lirik lagu Raimuna Cabang ke-6 Kota Madiun yang dilaksanakan pada tanggal 19-22 Januari 2011 di Out Bond Pendidikan Cinta Lingkungan Lereng Wilis, Dungus, Kabupaten Madiun. Selama 4 hari berkemah, saya bersama teman-teman dari Gudep 03.151-03.152 SMA Negeri 2 Madiun beserta gudep dari sekolah lain mendapat pengalaman yang tak ternilai harganya.

Kegiatan dibuka oleh Wakil Walikota Madiun, Bapak H Sugeng Rismianto, serta penancapan kapak bakti  oleh ketua sangga kerja Kak Ricky sebagai tanda dimulainya kegiatan.

Walaupun kegiatan sempat diguyur hujan, para peserta yang mayoritas penegak tetap semangat mengikuti kegiatan yang diselenggarakan oleh Sangga kerja. Mulai dari Jungle Tracking (Jeti), Water Adventure dan kegiatan yang seru lainnya.

Hari kedua sore, kegiatan sempat dihentikan dan para peserta dievakuasi ke SMPN 1 Wungu karena hujan lebat disertai angin yang mengguyur daerah sekitar madiun. Evakuasi ini dipertimbangkan karena buper berada diantara pohon-pohon besar yang ditakutkan akan tumbang. Disela-sela hujan tersebut, para pembina bersama sangga kerja mengadakan rapat membahas tentang kelanjutan dari kegiatan Raimuna ini, tentunya para peserta menginginkan kegiatan tetap dilanjutkan.

Hujan yang mengguyur buper selama 1 malam, membuat buper menjadi becek luar biasa (Meskipun tidak separah Prapastikara 2010 yang diselenggarakan oleh Gudep sekolah saya). Tetapi, disinilah letak ke-gokilan dari kegiatan perkemahan 4 hari 3 malam ini. Kami yang sudah terbiasa dengan keadaan becek, santai saja menghadapi karunia Allah SWT tsb. hehe.

Hari ketiga, buper kembali diguyur hujan. Sementara semua sibuk mengungsi, kami dari sangga putra tetap bertahan menikmati malam di tenda kami. Sambil mempersiapkan diri untuk mengikuti lomba yel-yel antar sangga. Sangat seru sekali berkumpul bersama kakak-kakak Pandu Smada.

Raimuna Cabang ke-6 Kota Madiun

Hari terakhir, kegiatan lebih dipusatkan pada pembersihan bumi perkemahan. Kemudian upacara penutupan dipimpin oleh Kepala Kwarcab Kota Madiun. Acara Raimuna Cabang  ke-6 Kota Madiun resmi ditutup dengan diangkatnya kapak bakti oleh Ketua Sangga Kerja Kak Ricky. Upacara tersebut diselingi dengan pengumuman pemenang lomba yel-yel, dan hasilnya Pandu Dewanata a.k.a Pandu Smada (SMA Negeri 2 Madiun) mendapat juara 2 untuk sangga putri, dan urutan 5 untuk sangga putra. Benar-benar pengalaman yang sangat berharga untuk kami.

Kami segenap keluarga besar generasi Satya Bima mengucapkan terima kasih kepada kakak-kakak sangga kerja atas kerja kerasnya melawan panas dan hujan demi suksesnya kegiatan Raimuna ke-6 Kota Madiun. Salam Pramuka!!!!!

Custom error page - do's and don'ts

We all know why the error pages occur.Apparently this may look a simple matter, especially if you are newbie in handling the matters of your website. Plainly speaking, error pages does matter. Particularly the most common error page is the 404 which comes in case there is any broken link, unidentified deleted page or page with a misspelled URL. Whatever the case may be, there has to be proper reply to the user query. Here is the use of a customized 404 page.

Now there may be a question how should be the look of the custom error page? You may also ask what should be there in a customized 404 page when you hire website designer to know the level of efficiency he or she has. Anyways, let us have a look on the matter.

• Never let your visitors feel irritated with junk scripts rather state them in clean and clear language that the requested page is not found. Custom error page should clearly say what the reason of the error is. The user should understand that the result against their query is not found through a simple customized 404 page.
• The custom error page has to be designed just like the other pages. It is sometimes found that the 404 pages are very dull in look and does not fit to the overall design with the site. Remember you are to show the customized 404 page in a way that user feel it no way boring or something irrelevant.

• Have you customized 404 page with only a blank message"page not found"? Make its presence relevant, put there your site map which will help the user navigate to other pages. If you can custom error page in this way, definitely the user going to stick with your site; otherwise they will never return to your site anymore. At least there should be a link to go to the sites home page.
• When you customized 404 page, have you ensured that the pages are not indexed by the search engines? Sometimes it is found that the custom error page is left to be indexed by the search engines. This creates really bad impression to the eyes of the visitors. Simply block the page with meta tag from the web crawlers to crawl.
• Custom error page with widgets that help to show a search box with which users can search anything within the site just staying on the page. It will certainly help the users to stay on your site.

However these are few dos and don’t about the custom error page. There may be many other things to show a customized 404 page to the users. Even today it is found that the pages are with an option to report the broken link. Visitors are politely requested to report through this type of custom error page. However the error page design is no issue to me. I have been working as a freelance graphic designer for last decade and no client of mine has any question about the customized 404 page design for their websites. You should equally take care of customized 404 page design issue and keep your visitors coming back to your site.

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Inilah Statistik Facebook Sepanjang Tahun 2010

Inilah Statistik Facebook Sepanjang Tahun 2010 - Facebook telah dinobatkan sebagai situs jejaring sosial paling digandrungi di tahun 2010, jauh mengalahkan MySpace yang notabene adalah musuh besar situs jejaring sosial yang didirikan Mark Zuckerberg 7 tahun lalu itu. Facebook juga membukukan rekor pengguna terbanyak yaitu lebih dari 500 juta pengguna di seluruh dunia, dengan negara pengakses terbanyak Amerika Serikat dan Indonesia.

Kali ini saya akan menuliskan Statistik Facebook Sepanjang Tahun 2010.

Langsung saja, berikut ini datanya :

Status hubungan sepanjang tahun 2010:

- kurang lebih 43.869.800 akun mengubah statusnya menjadi Single

- kurang lebih 3.025.791 akun mengubah statusnya menjadi “It’s complicated”

- kurang lebih 28.460.516 akun mengubah statusnya menjadi In a relationship

- kurang lebih 5.974.574 akun mengubah statusnya menjadi Engaged

- kurang lebih 36.774.801 akun mengubah statusnya menjadi Married.

Jika diamati, apa saja yang terjadi di dalam Facebook dalam durasi 20 menit? Berikut statistik yang tercatat:

- kurang lebih 1 juta link di-share di Facebook dalam kurun waktu 20 menit

- kurang lebih 1.323.000 foto baru di-tag (ditandai)

- kurang lebih 1.484.000 undangan acara atau event terkirim

- kurang lebih 1.587.000 posting di Wall

- kurang lebih 1.851.000 update status

- kurang lebih 1.972.000 permintaan menjadi teman (friend request) diterima

- kurang lebih 2.716.000 foto diunggah

- kurang lebih 10.208.000 komentar terkirim

- kurang lebih 4.632.000 pesan terkirim

- kurang lebih 7.657.000 meng-klik ‘Like’

Selebriti yang paling digandrungi (Most Liked Celebrities):

Lady Gaga (24.712.169 orang ‘Like this’)

Eminem (23.729.700 orang ‘Like this’)

Megan Fox (19.575.080 orang ‘Like this’)

Vin Diesel (19.425.325 orang ‘Like this’)

Rihanna (18.903.844 orang ‘Like this’)

Barack Obama (17.229.885 orang ‘Like this’)

Sumber data : BeritaUnik.net

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