Objective Sports Beijing provides high quality youth sport and activity programs. Recently they hired us to develop a special application website that would allow parents to register their children for After School Activities (ASA) in an easy-to-use fully online platform. The objective was to move from a purely paper-based approach, to a self-service online platform that would save [...]
With the rise of iPad as an ebook reader, ebook publishing and selling ebooks online can now escape the daunting costs of publishing a paperback book. With the addition of a few online services, we can also publish directly to our users digital devices, so they don’t have to download or sync their new ebook. [...]
Designing websites for specific user groups is never easy, but the key to creating a great website for your specific demographic is understanding your audience. Teens are one such specific group and it is often wrongly assumed that they: just want to be entertained online with graphics and multimedia, are supremely tech savvy, use smartphones [...]
Mobile usage in China is surging at a crazy rate! Young people in China will not be seeking to get their first desktop computer or laptop, but will looking to buy an iPhone or an Android based smartphone or tablet device. Despite Apple getting all the buzz and market prestige with their IOS devices, in [...]
Over the past few years using a carousel or accordion type slider on your homepage has been a cornerstone of website design. Let’s face it, they are an incredibly useful way to share a lot of information quickly. However, recently Nielsen’s research team have shown users can find auto-forwarding carousels to be both annoy and confuse users! In a [...]
Secrets of Developing with WordPress – Free Seminar – Beijing Register for the event here: http://www.meetup.com/wordpressbj/ Join our group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/444814645563466 Join our Linkedin Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Beijing-WordPress-Meetup-4560019?goback=%2Eanp_4560019_1348025805574_1 Three senior developers will share their secrets on building websites with WordPress. This is not for the faint hearted. If you are a website developer that builds or is interested in [...]
Because most of our clients run businesses and we here at Eggplant Digital certainly do, we have decided to use a free anti spam alternative for Akismet.
“It is proposed that WordPress 3.5 is supposed to be released on Wednesday, December 5. The scope for feature development on the new WordPress 3.5 includes: Full Retina Support – Each design element in WordPress should either be HiDPI-supported images, or is to be converted to CSS3 shapes and gradients. Improved User Experience – Developers [...]
One of the most important things to consider when developing your blog or website is how to achieve the optimal search engine optimization (SEO). I recently came across 7 tips to make your website or blog more search engine friendly: Make sure to have a sufficient amount of text on your website/blog. Search engine spiders [...]
If you have wondered what you can do to your blog to make it stand out more and be more attractive to users, have you tried using video in your blog? Many bloggers do not even consider video when making their blog, but I recently came across 5 reasons why adding a video to one’s [...]
