What does your website need to make appealling to your audience. Here is what:
1.Good BackGrounds
There are loads of backgrounds available on the internet or in your head. A good background is better than just a white page. Be careful though to choose a background that is not overpowering to the eyes and that your text is still readable.
2.Colour
You need to be as careful with colours as you are on paper because clashing colours can really make your site unpopular. If your text is hard to read or the webpage is hard to look at then the colours are not right.Try and use muted versions of colours and use shades of a certain colour throughout your website.
3.Images
Images do make your site look good but do bear in mind the fact of download time of them. Also don't overload your web page just use a few images or thumbnail images per page that link to the bigger picture.
4.Navigation
When building your website make links to other parts of your website to make it easier for your visitors. Eg: A "back to the top button" linking to the top of the page or a "home" button linking to your front page. Also try and have a menu to go to other parts of your website instead of needing to go back to the front page of your website. As well as that do not make a single page huge; split it up into simple small pages using links.
5.Information
If you are writing a document or turorial etc... make you information clear and easy to understand. The information on your website is what the viewer is wanting to see so if it is not easy to use of very clear then won't want to go on your site again. Try spliting things up into paragraphs and sections so your information can by read and taken in effectively.
6.Interactive
People will like your site if there is something to do on it. Add special little things like a quiz or a weekly vote. If you build your own forum and post important and interesting topics you could get yourself a big community to stay on your site.
7.Keep it simple
This is very important to make it easier for you and your visitors. Firstly do not try and cram everything onto 1 page but spread it out with links within your website. And don't overload your site with colours and pictures so it just looks messy. And you even need to check that you have used the correct font. Espicially on your home page do not cram it on but spread it out with links.
8.Keep it working
The most important thing about your website that it all works. If it doesn't work then you need to check everything and do not start telling everyone about it until it does. The last thing you want is loads of people coming on your website and half of it doesn't work so they never go on again. Lastly make sure it keeps working after you have started it.
Written by Jamie Horne
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Summary:
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.
1. Bad Search
Overly literal search engines reduce usability in that they're unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. Such search engines are particularly difficult for elderly users, but they hurt everybody.
A related problem is when search engines prioritize results purely on the basis of how many query terms they contain, rather than on each document's importance. Much better if your search engine calls out "best bets" at the top of the list -- especially for important queries, such as the names of your products.
Search is the user's lifeline when navigation fails. Even though advanced search can sometimes help, simple search usually works best, and search should be presented as a simple box, since that's what users are looking for.
2. PDF Files for Online Reading
Users hate coming across a PDF file while browsing, because it breaks their flow. Even simple things like printing or saving documents are difficult because standard browser commands don't work. Layouts are often optimized for a sheet of paper, which rarely matches the size of the user's browser window. Bye-bye smooth scrolling. Hello tiny fonts.
Worst of all, PDF is an undifferentiated blob of content that's hard to navigate.
PDF is great for printing and for distributing manuals and other big documents that need to be printed. Reserve it for this purpose and convert any information that needs to be browsed or read on the screen into real web pages.
3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
A good grasp of past navigation helps you understand your current location, since it's the culmination of your journey. Knowing your past and present locations in turn makes it easier to decide where to go next. Links are a key factor in this navigation process. Users can exclude links that proved fruitless in their earlier visits. Conversely, they might revisit links they found helpful in the past.
Most important, knowing which pages they've already visited frees users from unintentionally revisiting the same pages over and over again.
These benefits only accrue under one important assumption: that users can tell the difference between visited and unvisited links because the site shows them in different colors. When visited links don't change color, users exhibit more navigational disorientation in usability testing and unintentionally revisit the same pages repeatedly.
4. Non-Scannable Text
A wall of text is deadly for an interactive experience. Intimidating. Boring. Painful to read.
Write for online, not print. To draw users into the text and support scannability, use well-documented tricks:
subheads
bulleted lists
highlighted keywords
short paragraphs
the inverted pyramid
a simple writing style, and
de-fluffed language devoid of marketese
5. Fixed Font Size
CSS style sheets unfortunately give websites the power to disable a Web browser's "change font size" button and specify a fixed font size. About 95% of the time, this fixed size is tiny, reducing readability significantly for most people over the age of 40.
Respect the user's preferences and let them resize text as needed. Also, specify font sizes in relative terms -- not as an absolute number of pixels.
6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
Search is the most important way users discover websites. Search is also one of the most important ways users find their way around individual websites. The humble page title is your main tool to attract new visitors from search listings and to help your existing users to locate the specific pages that they need.
The page title is contained within the HTML <title> tag and is almost always used as the clickable headline for listings on search engine result pages (SERP). Search engines typically show the first 66 characters or so of the title, so it's truly microcontent.
Page titles are also used as the default entry in the Favorites when users bookmark a site. For your homepage, begin the with the company name, followed by a brief description of the site. Don't start with words like "The" or "Welcome to" unless you want to be alphabetized under "T" or "W."
For other pages than the homepage, start the title with a few of the most salient information-carrying words that describe the specifics of what users will find on that page. Since the page title is used as the window title in the browser, it's also used as the label for that window in the taskbar under Windows, meaning that advanced users will move between multiple windows under the guidance of the first one or two words of each page title. If all your page titles start with the same words, you have severely reduced usability for your multi-windowing users.
Taglines on homepages are a related subject: they also need to be short and quickly communicate the purpose of the site.
7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement
Selective attention is very powerful, and Web users have learned to stop paying attention to any ads that get in the way of their goal-driven navigation. (The main exception being text-only search-engine ads.)
Unfortunately, users also ignore legitimate design elements that look like prevalent forms of advertising. After all, when you ignore something, you don't study it in detail to find out what it is.
Therefore, it is best to avoid any designs that look like advertisements. The exact implications of this guideline will vary with new forms of ads; currently follow these rules:
banner blindness means that users never fixate their eyes on anything that looks like a banner ad due to shape or position on the page
animation avoidance makes users ignore areas with blinking or flashing text or other aggressive animations
pop-up purges mean that users close pop-up windoids before they have even fully rendered; sometimes with great viciousness (a sort of getting-back-at-GeoCities triumph).
8. Violating Design Conventions
Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience. Every time you release an apple over Sir Isaac Newton, it will drop on his head. That's good.
The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it. And the more the system breaks users' expectations, the more they will feel insecure. Oops, maybe if I let go of this apple, it will turn into a tomato and jump a mile into the sky.
Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience states that "users spend most of their time on other websites."
This means that they form their expectations for your site based on what's commonly done on most other sites. If you deviate, your site will be harder to use and users will leave.
9. Opening New Browser Windows
Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer's carpet. Don't pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management).
Designers open new browser windows on the theory that it keeps users on their site. But even disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user's machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it disables the Back button which is the normal way users return to previous sites. Users often don't notice that a new window has opened, especially if they are using a small monitor where the windows are maximized to fill up the screen. So a user who tries to return to the origin will be confused by a grayed out Back button.
Links that don't behave as expected undermine users' understanding of their own system. A link should be a simple hypertext reference that replaces the current page with new content. Users hate unwarranted pop-up windows. When they want the destination to appear in a new page, they can use their browser's "open in new window" command -- assuming, of course, that the link is not a piece of code that interferes with the browser’s standard behavior.
10. Not Answering Users' Questions
Users are highly goal-driven on the Web. They visit sites because there's something they want to accomplish -- maybe even buy your product. The ultimate failure of a website is to fail to provide the information users are looking for.
Sometimes the answer is simply not there and you lose the sale because users have to assume that your product or service doesn't meet their needs if you don't tell them the specifics. Other times the specifics are buried under a thick layer of marketese and bland slogans. Since users don't have time to read everything, such hidden info might almost as well not be there.
The worst example of not answering users' questions is to avoid listing the price of products and services. No B2C ecommerce site would make this mistake, but it's rife in B2B, where most "enterprise solutions" are presented so that you can't tell whether they are suited for 100 people or 100,000 people. Price is the most specific piece of info customers use to understand the nature of an offering, and not providing it makes people feel lost and reduces their understanding of a product line. We have miles of videotape of users asking "Where's the price?" while tearing their hair out.
Even B2C sites often make the associated mistake of forgetting prices in product lists, such as category pages or search results. Knowing the price is key in both situations; it lets users differentiate among products and click through to the most relevant ones.
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
Since my first attempt in 1996, I have compiled many top-10 lists of the biggest mistakes in Web design. See links to all these lists at the bottom of this article. This article presents the highlights: the very worst mistakes of Web design.
1. Bad Search
Overly literal search engines reduce usability in that they're unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. Such search engines are particularly difficult for elderly users, but they hurt everybody.
A related problem is when search engines prioritize results purely on the basis of how many query terms they contain, rather than on each document's importance. Much better if your search engine calls out "best bets" at the top of the list -- especially for important queries, such as the names of your products.
Search is the user's lifeline when navigation fails. Even though advanced search can sometimes help, simple search usually works best, and search should be presented as a simple box, since that's what users are looking for.
2. PDF Files for Online Reading
Users hate coming across a PDF file while browsing, because it breaks their flow. Even simple things like printing or saving documents are difficult because standard browser commands don't work. Layouts are often optimized for a sheet of paper, which rarely matches the size of the user's browser window. Bye-bye smooth scrolling. Hello tiny fonts.
Worst of all, PDF is an undifferentiated blob of content that's hard to navigate.
PDF is great for printing and for distributing manuals and other big documents that need to be printed. Reserve it for this purpose and convert any information that needs to be browsed or read on the screen into real web pages.
3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links
A good grasp of past navigation helps you understand your current location, since it's the culmination of your journey. Knowing your past and present locations in turn makes it easier to decide where to go next. Links are a key factor in this navigation process. Users can exclude links that proved fruitless in their earlier visits. Conversely, they might revisit links they found helpful in the past.
Most important, knowing which pages they've already visited frees users from unintentionally revisiting the same pages over and over again.
These benefits only accrue under one important assumption: that users can tell the difference between visited and unvisited links because the site shows them in different colors. When visited links don't change color, users exhibit more navigational disorientation in usability testing and unintentionally revisit the same pages repeatedly.
4. Non-Scannable Text
A wall of text is deadly for an interactive experience. Intimidating. Boring. Painful to read.
Write for online, not print. To draw users into the text and support scannability, use well-documented tricks:
5. Fixed Font Size
CSS style sheets unfortunately give websites the power to disable a Web browser's "change font size" button and specify a fixed font size. About 95% of the time, this fixed size is tiny, reducing readability significantly for most people over the age of 40.
Respect the user's preferences and let them resize text as needed. Also, specify font sizes in relative terms -- not as an absolute number of pixels.
6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility
Search is the most important way users discover websites. Search is also one of the most important ways users find their way around individual websites. The humble page title is your main tool to attract new visitors from search listings and to help your existing users to locate the specific pages that they need.
The page title is contained within the HTML <title> tag and is almost always used as the clickable headline for listings on search engine result pages (SERP). Search engines typically show the first 66 characters or so of the title, so it's truly microcontent.
Page titles are also used as the default entry in the Favorites when users bookmark a site. For your homepage, begin the with the company name, followed by a brief description of the site. Don't start with words like "The" or "Welcome to" unless you want to be alphabetized under "T" or "W."
For other pages than the homepage, start the title with a few of the most salient information-carrying words that describe the specifics of what users will find on that page. Since the page title is used as the window title in the browser, it's also used as the label for that window in the taskbar under Windows, meaning that advanced users will move between multiple windows under the guidance of the first one or two words of each page title. If all your page titles start with the same words, you have severely reduced usability for your multi-windowing users.
Taglines on homepages are a related subject: they also need to be short and quickly communicate the purpose of the site.
7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement
Selective attention is very powerful, and Web users have learned to stop paying attention to any ads that get in the way of their goal-driven navigation. (The main exception being text-only search-engine ads.)
Unfortunately, users also ignore legitimate design elements that look like prevalent forms of advertising. After all, when you ignore something, you don't study it in detail to find out what it is.
Therefore, it is best to avoid any designs that look like advertisements. The exact implications of this guideline will vary with new forms of ads; currently follow these rules:
8. Violating Design Conventions
Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience. Every time you release an apple over Sir Isaac Newton, it will drop on his head. That's good.
The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it. And the more the system breaks users' expectations, the more they will feel insecure. Oops, maybe if I let go of this apple, it will turn into a tomato and jump a mile into the sky.
Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience states that "users spend most of their time on other websites."
This means that they form their expectations for your site based on what's commonly done on most other sites. If you deviate, your site will be harder to use and users will leave.
9. Opening New Browser Windows
Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer's carpet. Don't pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management).
Designers open new browser windows on the theory that it keeps users on their site. But even disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user's machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it disables the Back button which is the normal way users return to previous sites. Users often don't notice that a new window has opened, especially if they are using a small monitor where the windows are maximized to fill up the screen. So a user who tries to return to the origin will be confused by a grayed out Back button.
Links that don't behave as expected undermine users' understanding of their own system. A link should be a simple hypertext reference that replaces the current page with new content. Users hate unwarranted pop-up windows. When they want the destination to appear in a new page, they can use their browser's "open in new window" command -- assuming, of course, that the link is not a piece of code that interferes with the browser’s standard behavior.
10. Not Answering Users' Questions
Users are highly goal-driven on the Web. They visit sites because there's something they want to accomplish -- maybe even buy your product. The ultimate failure of a website is to fail to provide the information users are looking for.
Sometimes the answer is simply not there and you lose the sale because users have to assume that your product or service doesn't meet their needs if you don't tell them the specifics. Other times the specifics are buried under a thick layer of marketese and bland slogans. Since users don't have time to read everything, such hidden info might almost as well not be there.
The worst example of not answering users' questions is to avoid listing the price of products and services. No B2C ecommerce site would make this mistake, but it's rife in B2B, where most "enterprise solutions" are presented so that you can't tell whether they are suited for 100 people or 100,000 people. Price is the most specific piece of info customers use to understand the nature of an offering, and not providing it makes people feel lost and reduces their understanding of a product line. We have miles of videotape of users asking "Where's the price?" while tearing their hair out.
Even B2C sites often make the associated mistake of forgetting prices in product lists, such as category pages or search results. Knowing the price is key in both situations; it lets users differentiate among products and click through to the most relevant ones.
Youngest web designer of the world
When children of her age are glued to the TV, eight-year-old Sreelakshmi Suresh is busy exploring web designing.The fourth standard student of Presentation High Secondary School in Kozhikode, Kerala, has proved her mettle by designing her school website, to be launched on January 15, 2007.
The Association of American Webmasters has honoured her with its official membership, a rare honour for a girl so young.
Daughter of Suresh Menon, an advocate and Viju Suresh, a schoolteacher, Sreelakshmi’s brush with the digital world began at the age of four.Initially, a little prodding was needed. But once she took off it was a flight to the glory. “After studies I used to spend hours before the terminal. Since my school did not have an official site, I took it as a challenge to design one,” explains Sreelakshmi.
For students of her school, she is a role model.
“She is an inspiration for even grown up students… our school is blessed with such a talented girl,” school headmistress Sister Roselit praises her.
See the website she designed at www.presentationhss.com.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
इन्टरनेट धूम
सूचना प्रविधिको विकासक्रमसँगै मोफसलमा पनि प्रयोगकर्ता बढेका छन् । विशेषगरी विद्यार्थी, व्यापारी, सञ्चारकर्मी तथा 'टिनएजर' हरू यसतर्फआकषिर्त भेटिएका छन् । जसमध्ये अधिकांश च्याटिङमा सीमित छन् ।
वीरगन्ज सहरमा दैनिक ५ हजारभन्दा बढी ग्राहकले साइबर प्रयोग गर्ने गरेका छन् । यहाँस्थित एक दर्जन साइबरमा बारा र पर्साका युवायुवती तथा विद्यार्थीको भीड लाग्ने गरेको छ । यहाँ नेपाल टेलिकमका अलावा वर्ल्डलिंक, मर्कन्टाइल तथा एटीसीलगायतले इन्टरनेट सेवा उपलब्ध गराएको सेन्टर प्वाइन्ट साइबरका विकासजंग राणाले बताए ।
प्रयोगकर्तामध्ये अधिकांशले आफ्ना साथीहरूसँग च्याटिङ गरेर समय कटाउने गरेको साइबरवाला बताउँछन् । 'एमबीबीएस अध्ययनको तयारीमा आएको', १२ किलोमिटर पर जीतपुर बजारबाट वीरगन्ज आएका असरफ अलीले भने- 'किताबमा नभेटिएका कुरा यहाँ खोज्छु, अनि विदेशका कलेजबारे पनि खोज्दैछु ।
परीक्षाको रिजल्ट समयमै हेर्न पाइने तथा दरखास्त फारम र कोर्सबुकमा नेभेटिएका अध्ययन सामग्रीसमेत नेटबाटै डाउनलोड गर्न मिल्ने हुँदा यसतर्फआफू आकषिर्त भएको भनाइ उनको छ ।
पत्रकारका लागि पनि उत्तिकै आकर्षस्थल बनेको छ साइबर । पत्रकार महासंघका सभापति विनोद प्याकुरेल भन्छन्- 'फोटो पत्रकारका लागि त इन्टरनेट वरदान नै सावित भएको छ । बारा र पर्सामा कार्यरत दुइ दर्जनभन्दा बढी फोटो पत्रकारले साइबरको राम्रो उपयोग गरिरहेको उनले बताए ।
झापाको दमक बजारस्थित साइबरमा पनि घन्टौं बिताउनेको संख्या अत्यधिक रहेको पाइएको छ । त्यहाँस्थित कान्तिपुर संवाददाताका अनुसार डेढ दर्जन साइबर क्याफेमा युवायुवतीको भीड नै लाग्ने गरेको छ । 'लाहुरे' को बाक्लो बस्ती रहेको यस बजारमा विदेशिएका आफन्तसँग भिडियो च्याट गरेर मख्ख पर्ने बूढाबूढीको संख्या पनि अधिक छ ।
लहानमा युवायुवतीले भने अश्लील तस्बिरको खोजीमा बढी समय बिताउने गरेको त्यहा“स्थित संवाददाताले जनाएका छन् । पाँचवटा साइबर क्याफे रहेको यस बजारमा दैनिक ५ सयभन्दा बढीले इन्टरनेट प्रयोग गरेको अनुमान साइबर- वालाहरूको छ । यहाँका केही व्यापारी भने आफ्नो कारोबारसमेत नेटमार्फ गर्न थालेका छन् । लहानका पुर्बमेयर मुन्नी साह आफू अफसेट प्रेससम्बन्धी केही नयाँ प्रविधि आएका छन् कि भनेर खोज्न बसेको बताउँछन् । लहान प्राविधिक शिक्षालयमा अध्ययनरत बाग्लुङका प्रमोद गिरी भने आफूले प्रविधिका नयाँ पाटा नेटमार्फ जान्न साइबर बसेको बताए ।
चितवनस्थित संवाददाताका अनुसार यहाँ व्यापारिक प्रयोजनका लागिसमेत नेटको सहारा लिन थालेको पाइएको छ । युवा पुस्ताले भने समुद्रपार अध्ययन उपायबारे घन्टौं खोजतलास गर्ने गरेका छन् । र् पर्यटकीय सहर पोखरामा पनि इन्टरनेट लोकप्रिय हुँदैछ । यहाँका साइबर क्याफेमा स्थानीय युवायुवतीदेखि पर्यटकसमेतको घुइँचो लाग्ने गरेको छ । यसका अलावा यहाँका साइबरले वेबसाइटमार्फ पोखराको चिनारी र यस भेगका मोडलको परिचय बनाउने काममा जुटेका छन् । 'लभ्ली पोखरा डट कम' यहाँको प्रिय वेबसाइट हो ।
Source: ekantipur.com
वीरगन्ज सहरमा दैनिक ५ हजारभन्दा बढी ग्राहकले साइबर प्रयोग गर्ने गरेका छन् । यहाँस्थित एक दर्जन साइबरमा बारा र पर्साका युवायुवती तथा विद्यार्थीको भीड लाग्ने गरेको छ । यहाँ नेपाल टेलिकमका अलावा वर्ल्डलिंक, मर्कन्टाइल तथा एटीसीलगायतले इन्टरनेट सेवा उपलब्ध गराएको सेन्टर प्वाइन्ट साइबरका विकासजंग राणाले बताए ।
प्रयोगकर्तामध्ये अधिकांशले आफ्ना साथीहरूसँग च्याटिङ गरेर समय कटाउने गरेको साइबरवाला बताउँछन् । 'एमबीबीएस अध्ययनको तयारीमा आएको', १२ किलोमिटर पर जीतपुर बजारबाट वीरगन्ज आएका असरफ अलीले भने- 'किताबमा नभेटिएका कुरा यहाँ खोज्छु, अनि विदेशका कलेजबारे पनि खोज्दैछु ।
परीक्षाको रिजल्ट समयमै हेर्न पाइने तथा दरखास्त फारम र कोर्सबुकमा नेभेटिएका अध्ययन सामग्रीसमेत नेटबाटै डाउनलोड गर्न मिल्ने हुँदा यसतर्फआफू आकषिर्त भएको भनाइ उनको छ ।
पत्रकारका लागि पनि उत्तिकै आकर्षस्थल बनेको छ साइबर । पत्रकार महासंघका सभापति विनोद प्याकुरेल भन्छन्- 'फोटो पत्रकारका लागि त इन्टरनेट वरदान नै सावित भएको छ । बारा र पर्सामा कार्यरत दुइ दर्जनभन्दा बढी फोटो पत्रकारले साइबरको राम्रो उपयोग गरिरहेको उनले बताए ।
झापाको दमक बजारस्थित साइबरमा पनि घन्टौं बिताउनेको संख्या अत्यधिक रहेको पाइएको छ । त्यहाँस्थित कान्तिपुर संवाददाताका अनुसार डेढ दर्जन साइबर क्याफेमा युवायुवतीको भीड नै लाग्ने गरेको छ । 'लाहुरे' को बाक्लो बस्ती रहेको यस बजारमा विदेशिएका आफन्तसँग भिडियो च्याट गरेर मख्ख पर्ने बूढाबूढीको संख्या पनि अधिक छ ।
लहानमा युवायुवतीले भने अश्लील तस्बिरको खोजीमा बढी समय बिताउने गरेको त्यहा“स्थित संवाददाताले जनाएका छन् । पाँचवटा साइबर क्याफे रहेको यस बजारमा दैनिक ५ सयभन्दा बढीले इन्टरनेट प्रयोग गरेको अनुमान साइबर- वालाहरूको छ । यहाँका केही व्यापारी भने आफ्नो कारोबारसमेत नेटमार्फ गर्न थालेका छन् । लहानका पुर्बमेयर मुन्नी साह आफू अफसेट प्रेससम्बन्धी केही नयाँ प्रविधि आएका छन् कि भनेर खोज्न बसेको बताउँछन् । लहान प्राविधिक शिक्षालयमा अध्ययनरत बाग्लुङका प्रमोद गिरी भने आफूले प्रविधिका नयाँ पाटा नेटमार्फ जान्न साइबर बसेको बताए ।
चितवनस्थित संवाददाताका अनुसार यहाँ व्यापारिक प्रयोजनका लागिसमेत नेटको सहारा लिन थालेको पाइएको छ । युवा पुस्ताले भने समुद्रपार अध्ययन उपायबारे घन्टौं खोजतलास गर्ने गरेका छन् । र् पर्यटकीय सहर पोखरामा पनि इन्टरनेट लोकप्रिय हुँदैछ । यहाँका साइबर क्याफेमा स्थानीय युवायुवतीदेखि पर्यटकसमेतको घुइँचो लाग्ने गरेको छ । यसका अलावा यहाँका साइबरले वेबसाइटमार्फ पोखराको चिनारी र यस भेगका मोडलको परिचय बनाउने काममा जुटेका छन् । 'लभ्ली पोखरा डट कम' यहाँको प्रिय वेबसाइट हो ।
Source: ekantipur.com
iPhone is 0ut
Apple's announcements at 9th Jan 9AM San Fransisco Steve Jobs KeyNote
1.
AppleTV - Oops Symbol(Apple) TV - See the difference :-)
2. iPhone - No - iPhone is copyrighted by Cisco - so
Symbol(Apple) iPhone - See the difference
iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
Technical Specifications
Screen size : 3.5 inches
Screen resolution : 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method : Multi-touch
Operating system :OS X
Storage : 4GB or 8GB
GSM : Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data : Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera : 2.0 megapixels
Battery : Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing
Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions : 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight : 4.8 ounces / 135 grams
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.
Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
Video
iPhone's stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display is the ultimate way to watch TV shows and movies from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls for play/pause, chapter forward/backward, and volume.
Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
Revolutionary Phone:
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
Visual Voicemail
An industry first, Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.
SMS
iPhone includes an SMS application with a predictive QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Photos
iPhone features a 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application that goes far beyond anything on a phone today. Sync photos from your PC or Mac, and you're ready to browse or email them with the flick of a finger.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
Breakthrough Internet Device
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
Mail
iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.
Google Maps
With Google Maps and iPhone's amazing Maps application, you can view maps and satellite images, or get directions and traffic information, all from iPhone's remarkable, easy-to-use touch interface.
Widgets
iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
Multi-touch
iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It's an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone's multi-touch display.
Intelligent Keyboard
iPhone's full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Wireless
iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports Cingular's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple's new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset.
Built-in Advanced Sensors
iPhone's accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.
An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display's brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.
1.
AppleTV - Oops Symbol(Apple) TV - See the difference :-)2. iPhone - No - iPhone is copyrighted by Cisco - so
Symbol(Apple) iPhone - See the differenceiPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
Technical Specifications
Screen size : 3.5 inches
Screen resolution : 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method : Multi-touch
Operating system :OS X
Storage : 4GB or 8GB
GSM : Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data : Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera : 2.0 megapixels
Battery : Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing
Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions : 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight : 4.8 ounces / 135 grams
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.
Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
Video
iPhone's stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display is the ultimate way to watch TV shows and movies from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls for play/pause, chapter forward/backward, and volume.
Music
Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is dramatically presented on the large display. And now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.
Revolutionary Phone:
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
Visual Voicemail
An industry first, Visual Voicemail allows you to go directly to any of your messages without listening to the prior messages. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.
SMS
iPhone includes an SMS application with a predictive QWERTY soft keyboard that prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Photos
iPhone features a 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application that goes far beyond anything on a phone today. Sync photos from your PC or Mac, and you're ready to browse or email them with the flick of a finger.
Receiving and making a call
With iPhone, making a call is as simple as touching a name or number. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.
Breakthrough Internet Device
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.
Google Maps
With Google Maps and iPhone's amazing Maps application, you can view maps and satellite images, or get directions and traffic information, all from iPhone's remarkable, easy-to-use touch interface.
Widgets
iPhone even has widgets: small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.
Safari Web Browser
With its advanced Safari browser, iPhone lets you see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, then easily zoom in by simply tapping on the multi-touch display with your finger.
Multi-touch
iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It's an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone's multi-touch display.
Intelligent Keyboard
iPhone's full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Wireless
iPhone uses quad-band GSM, the global standard for wireless communications. It also supports Cingular's EDGE network, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Apple's new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset.
Built-in Advanced Sensors
iPhone's accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.
An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display's brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
नेपालमा सूचना प्रविधि ह्वात्तै
काठमाडौं, पुस २४ - गुगलमा नेपाल खोज्नुभयो भने १० करोड नतिजा भेट्नुहुनेछ । केही वर्षअघिसम्म इमेलमात्रै गर्ने या अरूका साइटमा दर्शकमै सीमित हुने नेपाली इन्टरनेट प्रयोगकर्ताहरू अहिले आफैं सामग्री निर्माण र तिनको नियन्त्रण गर्छन् ।
बितेका दुई वर्षमा नेपाली प्रयोगकर्ताले इन्टरनेट एउटा मीठो धक्का दिएका छन्, जसका कारण कम्प्युटरहरूको विश्वव्यापी सञ्जालमा नेपालको प्रतिनिधित्व ह्वात्तै बढेको छ । उत्सव पोखरेल या अर्चना श्रेष्ठ कुनै पत्रिका, टीभी या रेडियोका मालिक होइनन् । यी तन्नेरी ब्लगरले कोठामै बसेर लेखेका कुरालाई दैनिक थुप्रैले पढ्छन् । 'यो ब्लगमात्रै होइन,' 'आफ्नो कुरा' शीर्षकको वेबसाइटमा उत्सव लेख्छन्- 'मेरो साथी पनि हो, जोसँग मैले आफ्ना मूर्ख कुरा र भावना साझेदारी गर्न सक्छु ।' उनले 'युनाइटेड बी ब्लग' -ब्लग डटकम डटएनपी) मा प्रकाशित गरेको 'नेपाली शान्ति प्रक्रियाका सम्भावित चुनौती' लेखले अरू ब्लगरहरूको ध्यान कतिसम्म खिच्यो भने एउटा गर्मागर्मी बहस कैयौं दिन चल्यो ।
कम्प्युटर साक्षर र इन्टरनेटमा पहुँच भएका नेपालीको संख्या बढिरहँदा अभिव्यक्ति, सूचनाको साझेदारी र द्रुत सञ्चारका क्षेत्रमा नेपालले यसअघि कहिल्यै अनुभव नगरेको रोमाञ्चकारी परिवर्तन भइरहेको छ । 'हिजो कम्प्युटरलाई छुँदा ए नचलाऊ बिग्रन्छ भन्थे,' कम्प्युटर एसोसिएसन अफ नेपाल -क्यान) का अध्यक्ष विप्लवमान सिंह भन्छन्- 'कम्प्युटरमा भाइरस लाग्ने डरमा जुत्ता खोलेर खुट्टा धोएर कोठामा पसिन्थ्यो । अहिले -सहरका) हरेक स्कुल र अफिसमा कम्प्युटर छन्, सहरका गल्लीमा साइबर क्याफेहरू छन् जहाँ मानिस भिडियो च्याट गर्छन् । समाजमा कम्प्युटर नयाँ र भयानक चिज होइन, बरु नभइनहुने साधन हो भन्ने महसुस भइरहेको छ ।' त्यही महसुसलाई बर्सेनि ऊर्जा थप्दै आएको सूचना प्रविधि मेला मंगलबार राजधानीमा सुरु हुँदैछ । 'क्यान इन्फोटेक २००७' ले सूचना, मनोरन्जन र सञ्चारलाई आफ्नो नारा बनाएको छ । इमेलमार्फत हुने सञ्चारपछि सम्भवतः मनोरन्जनकै प्रभुत्व छ इन्टरनेटमा । प्रमाण ? लेग्रो तान्दै 'आँखाभरि आँसु किन' भन्ने एउटै गीतबाट सेलिबि्रटी भएका जविकलाई खोज्नुस्, त्यो गीतको तीनवटा भिडियो युट्युव डटकममा पाउनुहुने छ भने दर्जनभन्दा बढी साइटहरूमा उक्त गीतका एमपीथ्री, गायकका पोज पोजका तस्बिर, खुलस्त अन्तर्वार्ता, जानकारीमूलक प्रोफाइलहरू पाउनुहुनेछ । कुनै समयमा सीमित ट्रेकिङ व्यवसायीहरूले विदेशी पर्यटक आकषिर्त गर्न खोल्ने अल्छिलाग्दा साइटहरूको तुलनामा अहिलेका चमकधमकयुक्त साइटले दर्शकलाई कम्प्युटरभित्रै छिरौं जस्तो पारिदिन्छन् । साइबर संसार डटकममा मोडलका तस्बिर हेर्नुभएको छ ?
प्रविधि र कम्प्युटरप्रति नेपालीहरूको आकर्षण कतिसम्म बढेको छ भन्ने नाप्न क्यान इन्फोटेकमा गए हुन्छ । 'पोहोरको भीड १२ वर्षे पनौती मेलाभन्दा
-ठूलो) थियोे,' 'फेरि क्यान इन्फोटेक' शीर्षकको आफ्नो ब्लगमा आफू मुस्कुराईरहेको तस्बिर छाप्दै अर्चना श्रेष्ठले लेखेकी छन्- 'केटाहरूको ध्यानचाहिँ स्टलका केटीहरूतिरै ।'
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बितेका दुई वर्षमा नेपाली प्रयोगकर्ताले इन्टरनेट एउटा मीठो धक्का दिएका छन्, जसका कारण कम्प्युटरहरूको विश्वव्यापी सञ्जालमा नेपालको प्रतिनिधित्व ह्वात्तै बढेको छ । उत्सव पोखरेल या अर्चना श्रेष्ठ कुनै पत्रिका, टीभी या रेडियोका मालिक होइनन् । यी तन्नेरी ब्लगरले कोठामै बसेर लेखेका कुरालाई दैनिक थुप्रैले पढ्छन् । 'यो ब्लगमात्रै होइन,' 'आफ्नो कुरा' शीर्षकको वेबसाइटमा उत्सव लेख्छन्- 'मेरो साथी पनि हो, जोसँग मैले आफ्ना मूर्ख कुरा र भावना साझेदारी गर्न सक्छु ।' उनले 'युनाइटेड बी ब्लग' -ब्लग डटकम डटएनपी) मा प्रकाशित गरेको 'नेपाली शान्ति प्रक्रियाका सम्भावित चुनौती' लेखले अरू ब्लगरहरूको ध्यान कतिसम्म खिच्यो भने एउटा गर्मागर्मी बहस कैयौं दिन चल्यो ।
कम्प्युटर साक्षर र इन्टरनेटमा पहुँच भएका नेपालीको संख्या बढिरहँदा अभिव्यक्ति, सूचनाको साझेदारी र द्रुत सञ्चारका क्षेत्रमा नेपालले यसअघि कहिल्यै अनुभव नगरेको रोमाञ्चकारी परिवर्तन भइरहेको छ । 'हिजो कम्प्युटरलाई छुँदा ए नचलाऊ बिग्रन्छ भन्थे,' कम्प्युटर एसोसिएसन अफ नेपाल -क्यान) का अध्यक्ष विप्लवमान सिंह भन्छन्- 'कम्प्युटरमा भाइरस लाग्ने डरमा जुत्ता खोलेर खुट्टा धोएर कोठामा पसिन्थ्यो । अहिले -सहरका) हरेक स्कुल र अफिसमा कम्प्युटर छन्, सहरका गल्लीमा साइबर क्याफेहरू छन् जहाँ मानिस भिडियो च्याट गर्छन् । समाजमा कम्प्युटर नयाँ र भयानक चिज होइन, बरु नभइनहुने साधन हो भन्ने महसुस भइरहेको छ ।' त्यही महसुसलाई बर्सेनि ऊर्जा थप्दै आएको सूचना प्रविधि मेला मंगलबार राजधानीमा सुरु हुँदैछ । 'क्यान इन्फोटेक २००७' ले सूचना, मनोरन्जन र सञ्चारलाई आफ्नो नारा बनाएको छ । इमेलमार्फत हुने सञ्चारपछि सम्भवतः मनोरन्जनकै प्रभुत्व छ इन्टरनेटमा । प्रमाण ? लेग्रो तान्दै 'आँखाभरि आँसु किन' भन्ने एउटै गीतबाट सेलिबि्रटी भएका जविकलाई खोज्नुस्, त्यो गीतको तीनवटा भिडियो युट्युव डटकममा पाउनुहुने छ भने दर्जनभन्दा बढी साइटहरूमा उक्त गीतका एमपीथ्री, गायकका पोज पोजका तस्बिर, खुलस्त अन्तर्वार्ता, जानकारीमूलक प्रोफाइलहरू पाउनुहुनेछ । कुनै समयमा सीमित ट्रेकिङ व्यवसायीहरूले विदेशी पर्यटक आकषिर्त गर्न खोल्ने अल्छिलाग्दा साइटहरूको तुलनामा अहिलेका चमकधमकयुक्त साइटले दर्शकलाई कम्प्युटरभित्रै छिरौं जस्तो पारिदिन्छन् । साइबर संसार डटकममा मोडलका तस्बिर हेर्नुभएको छ ?
प्रविधि र कम्प्युटरप्रति नेपालीहरूको आकर्षण कतिसम्म बढेको छ भन्ने नाप्न क्यान इन्फोटेकमा गए हुन्छ । 'पोहोरको भीड १२ वर्षे पनौती मेलाभन्दा
-ठूलो) थियोे,' 'फेरि क्यान इन्फोटेक' शीर्षकको आफ्नो ब्लगमा आफू मुस्कुराईरहेको तस्बिर छाप्दै अर्चना श्रेष्ठले लेखेकी छन्- 'केटाहरूको ध्यानचाहिँ स्टलका केटीहरूतिरै ।'
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