The coolest iPhone case caught my eyes few days back. The laser etch design makes it unique and beautiful compared to others plus you can customise your own design.

Made in Oregon with 100% bamboo to ease your eco-conscience and available in 3 bamboo colors and 7 aluminum bezel colors. For the plain version will cost you $89.99 and for artist series designs or you own custom artwork that will cost you $99.99. If you ask me the price is quite steep but I would not mind getting one cause it looks so darn cool and with customize artwork well that just awesome – at least for me.

The work is half done by machine and half by hand thus no two products are exactly the same due to the natural variations of the the material and hands of the craftsman involved. Most importantly it environmentally friendly I suppose. According to Grovemade site, they utilize sustainable materials, natural finishes and responsible packaging. In addition to that FSC certified bamboo is used when available.

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This is a quick overview about Google Analytic specifically for developers.

It might be too technical for some to even digest. Anyway here’s what you need to do. You can put either one of the scripts.

In a nutshell: Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites. (source from Wikipedia)

The Traditional Way

Replacing UA-XXXXX-X with your web property ID.

The Asynchronous Tracking Method (more info)

Replacing UA-XXXXX-X with your web property ID.

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Why create do we need to create Gmail alias in the first place.

There are good content create online and some may require you to opt in their newsletter for updates. Soon you find your email box will be clutter up. You might even forget to read those newsletter and miss out any latest information that might sparks a few ideas for your next business venture.

It is easy to track where those email coming from. When you have to create multiple Twitter account and you don’t want to create multiple GMail account instead, Gmail alias might be the best option

Benefits:
You will not need to worry about losing that important newsletter that you subscribe or you might want to look into it later and it there waiting in one of your folders.

Objectives:
Store those email newsletter in the folder ready for me to read it at anytime and access it easily.

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Les and his twin brother were born in an abandoned building in the Liberty City section of Miami. They were both adopted at the age of six weeks by Mrs. Mamie Brown, a single woman with a low income and little education, but a very big heart. Les had no formal education beyond high school, but with persistence and determination has become a popular morning DJ, completed three legislative terms, hosted the nationally syndicated Les Brown Show on TV, authored several books, and is one of the nation’s premier keynote speakers.

Les teaches how to tap your full potential and realize your dreams.

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Video tutorial on how to quickly setup the forwarding once you join an affiliate program.

I got a message from a guy from FaceBook to check this site and I thought it would be a good idea for a live review. Stinge is an online web builder and I seen similar business model base on this. The feature they included are good but it nothing new to me. Maybe the Drag ad Drip Editing might be interesting to try out.

This site will need to really differentiate itself from the rest or else it just like any other online tools out there. The feature website looks impressive but i wander how easy can a newbie built one. Of course I would not be able to know as I can’t even login to their free account which is quite sad.

My verdict, I’m not impress and they need to work on the issue on their sales page. I like the business model but it need much more to convince me or even recommend to some one.

Let me know what you folks think about it.

Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save alot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2) Start a web log (blog)

Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5) Update frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are five important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they’re not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it — volume or muting controls would work fine.