Get to know some of Santa helpers and send Christmas wishes with a Christmas Hero of your choice!
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Christmas with Joy
Get to know some of Santa helpers and send Christmas wishes with a Christmas Hero of your choice!
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Unite Gallery : Responsive jQuery Gallery Plugin
The Unite Gallery is multipurpose javascript gallery based on jquery library. It’s built with a modular technique with a lot of accent of ease of use and customization. It’s very easy to customize the gallery, changing it’s skin via css, and even writing your own theme.
Features:
- The gallery play VIDEO from: Youtube, Vimeo, HTML5, Wistia and SoundCloud (not a video but still )
- Responsive – fits to every screen with automatic ratio preserve
- Touch Enabled – Every gallery parts can be controlled by the touch on touch enabled devices
- Responsive – The gallery can fit every screen size, and can respond to a screen size change.
- Skinnable – Allow to change skin with ease in different css file without touching main gallery css.
- Zoom Effect – The gallery has unique zoom effect that could be applied within buttons, mouse wheel or pinch gesture on touch – enabled devices
- Gallery Buttons – The gallery has buttons on it, like full screen or play/pause that optimized for touch devidces access
- Keyboard controls – The gallery could be controlled by keyboard (left, right arrows)
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NoFi : Detecting offline States with HTML5
NoFi, for when there’s no WiFi. Uses the native HTML5 API to detect if a user’s internet goes offline and emits a custom offline event for your callbacks.
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The Pros and Cons of Working with Freelancers
When you want to grow your business one of the personnel options you have is to hire freelancers. Of course, it’s not only during growth when you can use the freelance workforce, there are many benefits for companies of all shapes and sizes. In fact, many companies of almost any size use the freelance workforce.
In this article I will brief you on the pros and cons of working with freelancers, as well as tips and tricks how to find them and what to look for. In a later article I will share my tips for effective communication with freelancers and I’ll share it here.
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Hydralfor
Since 1999, Hydralfor provides integrated industrial equipment solutions. Our team works upstream to help its customers to define their needs, to propose products and services adapted to their context and to provide results beyond their requirements
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florianmatthias
A minimal agency portfolio site crafted with love.
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Dream your self
The power of dreams is the core of our philosophy. Because You Can Change the World, You Have the Ability, You Have the Opportunity. Dream Yourself!
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Belle Epoque Agency
Inspired by this retro spirit, Belle Epoque creates unique digital products. Hand-crafted, custom made, passion for the web: these few words summarize the spirit of Belle Epoque.
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World Surf League
The ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) are going through a massive rebranding in 2015. Their launching soon page for the new WSL (World Surfing League) could not feature a better background video - an incredible wave breaking at Teahupoo, Tahiti. You can already see the new branding on their updated Twitter profile.
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Grouek portfolio
In the course of the past decade, Grouek has crafted digital pieces for the most renowned brands and agencies. Along the way, 2 strongs beliefs from wich we draw or vision have emerged.
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Interactive Git Tutorials
To be completely honest, I find Git to be a dry subject. But a version control system is essential to a modern dev workflow so I had to learn it. Any good VCS is fine but Git seems to be the most popular. So I went with Git.
What made learning Git easier for me were web-based interactive tutorials and online courses. They made the task more fun and engaging, which in turn made it less tempting to give up on. Plus they didn’t require me to install and configure Git on my computer, so I was able to explore and experiment right away.
Here’s a list of three free interactive tutorials that can help you learn Git. They are organized in order of difficulty, and I suggest using them sequentially from top to bottom.
Developers who use the following tutorials should be able to get their Git knowledge up to an adequate level.
1. Try Git
Try Git is an interactive tutorial that’s an excellent intro for first-time Git users. It goes over essential Git commands — the stuff you’ll likely use day-to-day — such as creating a Git repository, committing changes and working with remotes.
It’s a lightning-fast crash course designed to be completed in 15 minutes.
2. Git Real (Introduction)
Git Real is an interactive online course on Code School. It has video instructions and provides hands-on interactive challenges.
Only the first level of the Git Real course (aptly named "Introduction") is free, but the level covers the key things you’d want to know about Git. Think of this level as a more detailed overview of Git compared to Try Git.
What I like about the entire Git Real course is it’s focused on things we’ll likely use during web development.
3. Learn Git Branching
For me, the toughest Git concepts to understand are the source tree, source-tree traversal and branching. This web-based interactive Git tutorial helped me tremendously.
Learn Git Branching is divided into five parts that increase in difficulty, and each part has two to five modules in it.
Learning Tips
The following advice comes from someone who’s had to teach himself Git from scratch, up to a practical level of mastery.
Learn Git through the command line
It’s tempting to use a graphical user interface, and there’s nothing wrong with using a GUI later on to speed things up. And, as a visual person, I avoid command line interfaces as much as possible.
But learning Git through a CLI really helped me understand Git’s abstract concepts because I didn’t have any visual crutches to rely on (e.g. source tree diagrams).
Using a CLI is more challenging, and that’s a good thing because it forces us to slow down and truly absorb the material.
Also, getting comfortable with CLIs will help you later on when using other open source web components like CSS preprocessors, Node, Bower, Grunt and so forth.
Take your time
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
Most people with a programming background will be able to complete these interactive Git tutorials in a couple of days, and will have ample time to review and redo the trickier sections.
If you’re new to web development and programming, it might take longer, and you might need to read other Git tutorials outside the ones mentioned here to fill in any gaps. But I believe that’s OK because you’ll be learning a valuable skill that will save you time in the long run. Knowing how to use Git can also unlock new career opportunities, or at least give you an edge over candidates who aren’t familiar with version control systems.
Looking at learning Git as an investment in yourself is motivating.
Use Git in the real-world as soon as possible
Use Git in an ongoing dev project or the next available opportunity so you can instantly reap the rewards of your investment. Doing so will encourage you to move forward with Git, and give you the opportunity to practice the things you’ve learned.
Other things you can do right away:
- Clone an open source project from GitHub onto your computer and make modifications to it. Use branching to your advantage to keep track of changes.
- Release a small open source project on GitHub. It doesn’t have to be a full-blown web app framework or something — those will take a while to create and will thus defeat the purpose of this exercise. A simple UI component such as a navigation bar or a CSS demo are great places to start.
- Create pull requests on open source projects. It’s important to follow open source etiquette and the project’s own guidelines before doing this. To start, you can issue pull requests on my GitHub repos if you spot anything that needs to be fixed (thanks).
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jQuery Side panel slider plugin
Side panel slider plugin (jQuery) that also slides page (inspired on medium).
Features:
- slide page and panel together (inspired on medium.com)
- support multiple panels on same page
- support closing when clicking outside panel or pressing ESC.
- play well with angularJS directives (Example comming soon)
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Social-feed.js : jQuery Social Feed Plugin
A jQuery plugin that shows a user feed from the most popular social networks.
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Yellow Code – jQuery Plugin for 2-Way Data Binding
Yellow code is jQuery plugin for 2-way data binding.
- You don't have to manipulate the DOM.
- You only manipulate a model - a plain JavaScript object.
- Changes in the model are propagated to the view - defined as an HTML template.
- Changes in the view input elements are propagated back to the model.
- Dynamic view attributes: text, input value, CSS and much more.
- View can also contain loops and conditional elements.
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8 Design Trends 2015 - #Infographic
In 2014, we saw some major design trends emerge and grow throughout the year. This infographic from Coastal Creative shows us what design trends will carry over from 2014 and what trends will be brand new in 2015.
One of the biggest trends that started in 2013 and continued into 2014 was flat design. The initial emergence of flat design stuck to purely flat principles, but throughout 2014 that quickly changed. The introduction of Google's Material Design gave a name to semi-flat design that is a blend of flat simplicity and intuitive life-like design.
Other favorite continuing trends from 2014 that we will see in 2015 include strong typography and huge images. These two bring together the best of graphic design and the flexibility of the web.
It's taken long enough, but big media players have started to use the unique advantages of the web to create emotional visual experiences within long-form articles and content. What started with Snow Fall by the New York Times in 2012 has proliferated since then. Storytelling has become more intimate and visual.
Also in 2015, look out for a few new patterns. Cinemagraphs have existed for years but are predicted to grow big in 2015, as a natural evolution of the GIF craze. We'll also see Magical Realism make its way into designs as a natural part of creative projects.
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A Good Front-End Architecture
Setting up a good front-end architecture is a fundamental step to start developing a web app or a website. Good practices and coding conventions are essential, but what about the structure? How can we conceive a good architecture that is maintainable in time? But most of all, where should we start from?
When I started thinking about the problem, I realized I needed a couple of things:
- I wanted a multi-page project (a web app or website).
- I wanted my project to support different screen sizes and resolutions, in other words: I wanted it to be responsive.
- I wanted the final product to be maintainable.
- I wanted the final product to be performant.
- I wanted to reuse the same template for any future project.
The right tools
Nowadays we have a lot of cool tools that can help us in a modern front-end developing workflow. So, in facing points 1 and 2 I told myself I needed a breakpoint-based CSS architecture that could help me support different devices and desktop sizes. On the other hand, I also knew that such huge amount of CSS and files could be a bit messy (and so incompatible with point 3.), that's why I decided to start using a CSS preprocessor (which was Sass with Compass in my case).
And what about the point 4? The answer was easy: I decided to use Gruntjs. Finally, what about point 5? Even in that case, the answer was there: Yeoman, the best solution in my opinion.
Organizing the workflow
Every front-end project always includes libraries, jQuery plugins, and a lot of JavaScript and CSS files (or SCSS files in this case) for different purposes and aims. Blending all those elements means working with different technologies and putting them together means setting up a good front-end workflow. We would find ourselves having to manage a huge workflow that involves different technologies. That's why having everything organized in folders, following a pattern or a convention in order to keep things clear and neat, is really important.
We can choose to split all fundamental front-end components in macro-groups, such as the following:
- SCSS files
- scripts
- views
Can we we split them in smaller groups? Of course we can:
- SCSS
- variables
- mixins
- common parts to every layout
- single layouts
- js
- libraries (such as jquery, angularjs, gAnalytics and so on...)
- plugins (typically jquery plugins)
- controllers (I mean controllers such as angularjs controllers)
In a templating based architecture (for example using blade.php or jade with nodejs) we can also split views as follows:
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10 Web Predictions for 2014: The Results!
At the beginning of 2013 I published 10 Web Predictions for 2013. I played it safe and scored a Nostradamus-like seven out of ten. My 10 Web Predictions for 2014 were a little more adventurous -- let's see how they fared…
1. 2014 is the year of the smart phone
You may have had a iPhone since 2007 but few others did outside the tech community. Smart phones only overtook feature phone sales in mid-2013 and they've had a considerable impact in emerging markets where the PC revolution never occurred. It's long been predicted that mobile web use would eventually overtake desktops. I was initially skeptical and it's taken longer than expected, but mobile web access increased from 20% in November 2013 to 34% in November 2014. It surpassed my expectations. Cumulative score: 1 out of 1. A strong start!
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FrontKit
Responsive launching soon page for 'FrontKit' - an upcoming tool by Adrian Zumbrunnen that aims to reimagine the content creation experience and put fun back into writing on the web. Looks real promising, excited for this one.
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The mighty 'Icon Finder' have created a neat Annual Report One Pager of their (very impressive) 2014 year. They really are a great resource and it's so awesome to see how they are continuously trying to improve the service.
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Pushing Push – Have Notifications Come of Age?
A push notification is an alert that pops up on a user’s device, notifying them of something they may want to pay attention to in an app. This could be a message from another user, reminder, timely offer, or an announcement about recently added content or features.
Used wisely, push notifications are one of the best methods to drive app engagement and continued use. Leveraging push can mean the difference between someone forgetting they installed your app to keeping it used consistently.
Abusing push can have the opposite effect. Broadcast too often or send messages that lack relevance or value and you’ll turn users off, leading to uninstalls.
This guide highlights some of the recent push innovations you should be considering for your apps, presents some best practices, and closes with resources and providers to keep in mind when working with push.
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Bbox Miami
The mobile service provider Bouygues Telecom has shifted its technological gears by integrating Android into its new Bbox Miami, which means that embedded applications, Google\’s web browser, and other Web componants are all headed straight to TV s
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Quadro – One Page Responsive Theme
Quadro is a clean and Modern One Page HTML template. It is fully responsive for perfect view in smaller devices.
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Makadu Agency
A DIGITAL CREATIVE AGENCY
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Expresso Marly
Empresa de transporte coletivo rodoviário, que há mais de 50 anos trabalha para melhor servi-lo, oferecendo o que há de melhor e mais inovador no segmento de transporte rodoviário
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Native Merchant Services
Native Merchant Services provides businesses with fast, reliable, and cost-effective payment processing services.
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SantaGo – Free Christmas Template
SantaGo is another free Bootstrap Responsive HTML Christmas sales and affiliate page template built and distributed by EvenFly Team as a small Christmas gift under Creative Commons 3.0 license.
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O2O
Flexible multislides with animation
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Asgard
Html5 Css3 Responsive Design Website
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jQuery Browser Language
jQuery Browser Language is a jQuery plugin to get browser language setting. The plugin utilises a service which echoes back the HTTP request headers in JSONP.
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This Year in Hashtags
'This Year in Hashtags' is a One Pager recapping some of the most popular Hashtags shared on social media this year. The horizontal scrolling One Page website is brought to us by 'Hshtags' - a social media search engine designed specifically for hashtags.
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New Social Media Research Shows What People Expect From Brands
Are you wondering what consumers expect from brands when it comes to social media? A serious of new reports answers this very question. Consumers have strong expectations for how brands use social channels. In this article, you’ll discover findings from studies to help you determine what consumers want to see from you on social media. [...]
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Social Media Examiner - Your Guide to the Social Media Jungle
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BeoPlay H2
BeoPlay H2 combines a crisp magazine inspired design and smooth subtle interactions, for an experience that matches the style of the product.
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jQuery Responsive Tabs
This jQuery plugin provides responsive tab functionality. The tabs transform to an accordion when it reaches a CSS breakpoint.
Features:
- Tabs transform to accordion based on breakpoint
- Uses javascript / jQuery for the technical tab switching (class based)
- Uses CSS for the desktop/tablet/mobile view
- Has callback events for the tab events
- Tabs can be opened with URL hashes
- Tabs can auto rotate
- Tabs can be collapsed (optional)
- The tabs are controllable with API methods
- Cross browser compatibility (IE7+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera)
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jQuery Sticky Navigation with Smooth Effect
In this quick tutorial we’re going to use jQuery and make a simple sticky navigation. With that done, we’ll improve on our efforts by using jQuery Waypoints to make the effect smoother.
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Monday, December 29, 2014
2014: The Year In Content, Media And Digital Marketing - #infographic
Heading into 2014 we thoughts the year would be defined by the FIFA World Cup and Winter Olympics. Instead, mega-mergers, web politics, music industry disruptions and a bevy of branded media experiments brought big changes to the world of digital content, media and marketing.
This infographic, designed by Sparksheet, looks back at the biggest news events, internet trends and recurring themes that shaped the content, media and marketing world in 2014.
A key highlight:
2014: The year of events: The world enjoyed a bumper crop of sporting events this year, with the Winter Olympics and FIFA earning plenty of media attention. The Super Bowl also pulled in its largest-ever viewership. Meanwhile Ellen Degeneres broke Twitter with here celebrity-studded Oscar selfie and a breakout year for the YouTube festival DigiTour confirmed what digital natives everywhere know to be true: forget content, IRL is king.
There's more in the full graphic. Take a look:
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SitePoint PHP in 2015: Future Plans
The end of 2014 is in sight, and we’ve had a truly great year. Let’s do a yearly recap, see what we’ve done, and talk about the future – where we’re heading, how we’ll get there, and how you can help. But first, let’s welcome the new authors that have joined us these past couple […]
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8 Reasons To Pay for an Enterprise Tag Management Solution
This article was sponsored by Tealium. Thanks for supporting the sponsors who make SitePoint possible!
In a previous article about tag management, I wrote about its advantages and gave advice on the best ways to put it to use. It seems like an obvious choice to use tag management to deploy and manage the various code snippets used by services like Google Analytics, Optimizely, Criteo and many others. Your IT department will more than appreciate the time they save on implementing code, and your marketing team will love the fact they can launch new revenue-generating campaigns without the hassle of going through tons of approval stages. It’s a win-win for both sides.
In that article I also introduced Tealium, an enterprise level specialist in tag management. As you can see in the comments from that article, the first question that popped up was why people would pay for a service they could get for free from another vendor. This is a question you could ask for almost any enterprise tool, since there’s almost always at least one free alternative in the same product category. I don’t mind paying for a product (even with a free alternative around), as long as the cost is justified. What I want to see in an enterprise tag management product is vendor neutrality, robust privacy features, a strong service level agreement, an advanced feature set, and professional support. This article will cover eight essential reasons you should choose a paid or enterprise tag management product over a free alternative. Let’s take a look!
1. Robust Tag Deployment Support
For an enterprise tag management tool, widespread vendor tag support is of the utmost importance because it ensures that users can deploy their mission-critical solutions as easy as possible. This is one of the main reasons to opt for an enterprise tag management solution. In most cases, no matter how specialized the tool you wish to integrate, an enterprise product already has a current integration for it, or is flexible enough to allow for a custom-built integration. Great vendor support in tag management means a true vendor tag “marketplace”, with hundreds of tags from every popular application available for turnkey deployment via tag templates. Enterprise solutions are the only ones that can offer such a larger array of major solutions. This is in stark contrast to free tag management solutions, which often cover just a narrow band of these tags, with some only offering support for their own products.
2. Vendor Neutrality
Vendor support is one thing, vendor neutrality is even more important. Not being limited to specific technologies or products gives an enterprise tool an enormous advantage. Free tools are often focused on compatibility with the free vendor’s other products. If those products are all you’re using, a free tool might not be such a bad choice, providing you’re certain you won’t want to use tools from other best-of-breed providers in the future. But what if you do want to remain vendor-agnostic, and use tools from a number of different providers? Your best bet is to opt for an enterprise solution. With an enterprise tool, you can be assured that superior integration efforts are given to all supported tools or technologies, not just the ones offered by the free vendor. This means far more flexibility for users and increased marketing agility. This is particularly true in the tag management space, which is all about flexibility. Sure, most free tools will let you add your own custom code, but if you’re a marketer you’ll need to get developers heavily involved to deploy and test the code, costing valuable time. Vendor neutrality should be a huge priority when choosing a tag management solution. Not having it severely reduces the ability to use the applications you want to use, and the ability to deploy them as quickly as possible.
3. Dedicated Customer Support
Support can make or break a product. Without proper customer support a product is almost useless. With an advanced tool like tag management, it’s very convenient to be able to call on a support desk — or in some cases a dedicated account manager — to help you out with a particular issue. You’re not entirely lost without customer support, but in most cases this means wading through search results and forum threads to find a solution for your problem. Enterprise tools take support far more seriously, offering options like account managers, one-on-one technical and product support, user conferences or ‘universities’, in-person training and online learning communities. Now compare that to free products: how many hours have you spent trying to track down answers to your questions, relying on agency partners, or struggling on your own during an outage or critical marketing campaign launch?
4. A Service Level Agreement
A Service Level Agreement (SLA) often covers a number of things, of which uptime is the most prominent. Enterprise vendors know the value of a good SLA, making sure maximum uptime is achieved. A tight SLA shows a provider has enough confidence in its product that they can reach a nearly perfect service uptime. Free providers often don’t have any SLA in place, which means you have no recourse in case of downtime. It also doesn’t give them an incentive to aim for perfection, since it doesn’t affect their bottom line. Another major difference between an enterprise provider and a free provider is the risk that the free provider may suddenly discontinue its product. Offering a free product doesn’t always mean the provider is losing money – in most cases the free offering is subsidized by other products, advertising or with a paid version. However, when the cost of providing a free product interferes with monetization, the free product is often terminated. Even the largest companies do this if they don’t find the product viable, or simply decide to focus on their other products. While it is always possible that an enterprise company can go out of business, the likelihood that an enterprise solution will be terminated is very low, since the product sales represent the livelihood of the company. For example, just think of how many free Google tools and services have entered the Google Graveyard in the last few years.
5. Comprehensive Privacy Control Features
As privacy concerns rise everyday, so does the level of complexity required to keep track of various regulations, along with the practices it takes to comply with them. When running a popular site, your approach to privacy is almost as important as your content. Without robust privacy control features, and without clear policies in place for data collection, you’re risking high fines and even a shutdown. That’s not a risk that a serious business can afford to take. With a plethora of tags used on your site, it’s easy to lose track of which company is collecting which data about your visitors. Making even small mistakes in this area puts you at potential risk with various compliance laws around the globe (after all, you’re responsible, not the vendor). A perfect example is the “cookie law” in Europe. Imagine the difficulty involved in keeping up with this law in every European country you sell your products in. In addition, you’ll also want control of what part of your visitor data is sent to third parties. Enterprise tag solutions offer privacy extension features like a privacy preferences widget, to help with the opt-in/opt-out process. They can also offer data validation tools to monitor data leakage, and site scanning features to hunt for unmanaged tags on a site. Don’t expect much from free providers here though. They’re focused on reducing liability, keeping all risks on your end and leaving you on your own if anything goes wrong.
6. Full Mobile Support
Another thing you should expect from an enterprise tag management tool is support of mobile apps and technologies. With mobile usage always on the rise there’s an increasing number of specialized marketing tools that are being used in mobile apps. Of course each of these tools has its own set of code to be implemented, and it isn’t as easy as putting a few lines of code on a web page. Each platform, from iOS, Android, Windows to Blackberry (still popular with large enterprises), requires its own set of development libraries. Enterprise tools can cater to this via specialized SDKs, and some offer support for multiple mobile cross platform development tools, such as Unity, PhoneGap and Titanium. Free tools offer limited mobile support and or sometimes no support at all.
7. Advanced Customization and Flexibility
Free vendors don’t offer anywhere near the level of advanced customization that enterprise products provide. Some enterprise tag management services provide different methods of customization for your data and tags – all without having to write any code. For example, Tealium’s e-commerce extension allows you to automatically send consistent order completion data to all of your key digital marketing vendors. In addition, Tealium offers extensions for split segmentation, cryptographic hashing, content modification, jQuery handling, data validation and more. These customizations will save countless hours of custom programming and debugging. There are also important tags that require synchronous loading so as not to create a “flicker” on sites using A/B testing or personalization tools. Some free tag managers, such as Google, do not support synchronous tag loading so users are not able to leverage these important solutions. Enterprise tag managers also support more sophisticated tag firing rules, which help to optimize your data collection and site performance by only launching the tags when they are needed, and not haphazardly on all pages of the site.
8. Data Activation
Enterprise tag management solutions can offer complementary services like advanced segmentation and real-time audience discovery and digital data distribution platforms, allowing marketers to take action based on the insights of their data collection or segmentation and increase results using their existing applications. With tag management as a starting point, these services allow marketers to define and segment their key audiences, enrich all visitor attributes with information from multiple touch points, and then move this data in real time to their other marketing systems, such as email, retargeting and CRM vendors. The data that comes from your tag management service can go on to influence your whole marketing strategy. Data activation services like these take tag management further, providing the ability to drive action to increase results. This is in contrast to free tag management solutions, which help with managing a limited range of solutions, but don’t offer a way to put them to work in concert to deliver such services.
Conclusion
As long as there are free and enterprise products available within a specific segment of a market, people will ask whether the advantages enterprise products bring make them worth the cost. Given the considerations listed above, it’s safe to say that for serious, growing businesses, enterprise tag management solutions are essential. more than justified. Ultimately, it all depends on the functionality you need, the number of solutions you are using, the risks you’re willing to take, and the level of support you desire. An enterprise solution will help you achieve your digital marketing goals that much faster. If you’d like to read about someone else’s experience in moving from free tool to an enterprise solution.,please read this article, “Google Tag Manager Graduation Day". If you’re curious to see the difference an enterprise tag management vendor can offer first-hand, Tealium offers a free 30-day trial. You can also request a personalized demo.
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Average Page Weight Increases 15% in 2014
The HTTP Archive Report collates information from almost half a million of the web's most popular websites. The latest figures indicate that average page weight has increased by 15% in one year to reach 1,953Kb -- a little under 2Mb -- and comprises 95 individual HTTP requests. While this is smaller than the 32% increase in 2013, it remains cause for concern. The report analyzes publicly-accessible content and shopping web sites rather than complex web applications and provides a breakdown of the technologies used:
| technology | end 2013 | end 2014 | increase |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTML | 57Kb | 59Kb | +4% |
| CSS | 46Kb | 57Kb | +24% |
| JavaScript | 276Kb | 295Kb | +7% |
| Images | 1,030Kb | 1,243Kb | +21% |
| Flash | 87Kb | 76Kb | -13% |
| Other | 205Kb | 223Kb | +9% |
| Total | 1,701Kb | 1,953Kb | +15% |
These are average figures; a large proportion of pages will have greater file sizes.
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A Peek at Ruby in 2015
As 2014 comes to a close, I thought I'd take a quick look at what 2015 may offer in the land of Ruby. Much of how 2015 opens will, obviously, be based on the final words of 2014, so we'll start with some discussion of this year and try to extrapolate that into the future. Also, I am going to focus in on Ruby and Rails, more than anything else, mainly because it's what I know.
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Beauty UK Hrvatska
Beauty UK Hrvatska high quality make-up and cosmetics brand.
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KleverCase
Premium Book based eReader, Tablet & Mobile Covers, Stationery and Storage. Handmade in England.
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Black Swan
The Typo-Graphy experiment dedicated to the greatest Charlie Haden – American 2 bass player
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Affinage
Random svg animation on every slide
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Traveling the world by Air France
Do you have what it takes to be a globetrotter? “Traveling The World”, created by KRDS for Air France, offers users an immersive world tour experience using the Google Street View Technology through 157 challenges on 40 destinations and 5 contine
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The Calico Beard
The Calico Beard is a hair salon and independent mercantile in Kansas City MO.
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Black Media Group
Black Media is a professional web design and graphic design company from Hong Kong, we provide quality web design and graphic design services based on client’s requests and promptly respond to them efficiently. Our professional services range from g
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Welspun India
At Welspun, we don’t just weave the best textiles in the world. We weave innovation with people to create stories.
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Rubiko
'Rubiko' is a free One Page portfolio PSD template by Serbian interactive designer, Petar Stojakovic. The free download is based on a 1170px grid system and features 12 different sections within the long page. A lot of hard work has gone into this freebie, cheers Petar!
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Focal Point Homes
Lovely One Pager promoting 'Focal Point Homes' that features a solid responsive design that really shines on bigger screens. The hero/header background video is very well made with a great choice of relevant clips. A definite highlight is each testimonial in the slider has it's own video from the clients - this would really influence trust when deciding to use their services.
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Formato Desconocido
Responsive One Page portfolio for Argentinian visual designer, Emanuel Gómez Miranda. The video showreel has good energy which is followed by an interested portfolio layout that fills a big screen well.
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New Facebook Terms: What Marketers Need to Know
Did you know new changes are coming to Facebook as of January 1, 2015? Want to know what it all means to marketers? If you’re like most people, you won’t want to sit down and compare line-by-line to find out the exact changes. That’s why we’ve done it for you. In this article I’ll share [...]
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How to Make Your Twitter Profile Stand Out
When was the last time you looked at the words in your Twitter profile? Is your Twitter bio interesting? A little personality in your Twitter description makes you stand out from the masses and entices people to follow you. In this article you’ll discover how to share your personality to create a unique Twitter profile [...]
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Google Maps Draw Module with jQuery
Google Maps Draw Module is a useful tool for web developers who want to build web apps for drawing on maps in the front end. It is based on modern tools such as Google API v3, jQuery, Javascript, Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3.
This module provides a responsive graphical interface to users for adding markers and drawing polygons, rectangles, polylines and circles in order to create maps online. Users are able to add/edit/delete objects on Google Maps. Also users can enter title and description for all objects they create.
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Vivus.js : JS library to make Drawing Animation on SVG
Vivus is a lightweight JavaScript class (with no dependencies) that allows you to animate SVGs, giving them the appearence of being drawn. There are a variety of different animations available, as well as the option to create a custom script to draw your SVG in whatever way you like.
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echoes of tsunami
On December 26, 2004, a tsunami severely hit South and Southeast Asia. 10 years later, Action against Hunger pays tribute to the victims of the catastrophe.
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