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Quality web design
1. Quality_Web_Design : Part I
In The 21st Century With Wireless Stereo Headphones
The new and latest in technology... wireless headphones are the best new thing to come
along since sliced bread.
Are you looking for convenience and less hassle in your life? What if you wouldn't have to
depend on cords to trip you up or fool around with? Would that make you're life just a little
easier and better? If so, the time is now, and lightweight and bother free has come to the
world of the home stereo and the personal computer. The days of tangled cords and wires
is a thing of the past.
We've all been there. It's two o'clock in the morning and you can't sleep. You turn on the
television, hoping to catch something besides infomercials. A late night movie catches your
interest. Just when you are starting to be interested, you're told by someone in the house to
turn it down. The noise is keeping them awake.
Or, what about that can't miss football game when the in laws are visiting. Cordless
technology could solve this problem. You can sit on the other side of the room and still hear
the sound with your own personal surround sound.
The busy housewife with a small baby can utilize a cordless unit by listening to her favorite
music while doing chores. She doesn't have to worry the music may wake the baby. The
mobility is an added bonus. Being free to walk about while listening to the stereo can make
the chores seem less stressful and more relaxing.
Many people are now downloading their music online. The media files have to be
transferred to an audio device if you want to run upstairs to listen to them. With a wireless
head set, there is no download or transfer to worry about. As long as the file is on the
desktop personal computer, you can listen to it anywhere in the house. This is great for
someone wanting to listen to an audio file while everyone else is wanting to watch the tube.
It saves on battery life as well.
A wire free unit can also come with noise reduction. This is an added benefit when trying to
hear your favorite music when the surrounding noise is distracting. An example would be a
student studying for an exam by listening to a lecture while the rest of the dorm is in the
middle of a party. With the canceling feature, the student can still make the grade by not
being interrupted.
It may surprise you to know the cost is rather low for a good quality set. The benefits are
well worth the price, which is reasonable by anyone's standards. There are units which offer
surround sound quality, such as the Sennheiser line of Quality of headsets...RS-110, RS-
120, RS-130 and RS-140. These are not some cheap brittle noise makers or the kind of
sets you'd find in a dollar store. No, now you can take the concert hall with you into the
basement, in the back yard, or into the attic or while watching your favorite hockey game.
2. Most of the quality units on the market are light weight and extremely comfortable to wear
(like the Sennheiser, Sony and Panasonic brands). They are rechargeable and you don't
have to remember to recharge them. It's automatic! After you use them and put them on the
storage cradle for storage, is actually the recharger and recharges the headsets
automatically.
There are many styles to choose from. It is best to review the product information available
for the model you want and buy from suppliers who only sell top of the end
headphones...like the www.HeadphoneWarehouse.com Also, there are some things to keep
in mind with the bluetooth (wireless) technology. The devices you use the wireless system
with must be compatible. Bluetooth has two types.
It would be disappointing to discover your perfect audio head set will not work with your
fantastic sounding home music system or desktop personal computer. Go to a quality online
retailer for your wireless headphones and you'll be very happy with your new acquisition
and the noise you no longer hear.
Hiring a web designer to come up with the custom solution that you need can set you back
a few thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop
simple for mere pennies with a tool like Breezy Websites. See http://breezywebsites.com
for details!
QUALITY_WEB_DESIGN : End of Part I
Quality_Web_Design : Part II
In The Recommendation Age Sophisticated Filtering Engines Are Our Beacons
It wasn't too long ago we were embracing the information age. Most of us still think we are
in it. But the consequence of the information age is the overwhelming volume of information
on any given subject, product or service. We are forced to spend a great deal of time sifting
through sites, bits and bytes to [hopefully] discover what we are looking for.
Be it music, film, books or other products the sheer volume of choice makes it more difficult
to find what we want; but we are also offered an abundant picking list: This immense list has
emerged because a) production has been democratized: Never before has any single
human being anywhere been able to operate independently to bring something of value to
the world stage; be it a sound track, desktop wallpaper image, Flash cartoon, computer
programming service, or indeed, more and more, a paid commentator, and b) distribution
now takes the form of bits and bytes, meaning zero goods stock holding so companies like
3. Amazon can print books on demand and iTunes can deliver music in bytes.
These two forces create abundance in choice and transform information into saleable
products and services.
But sifting through tons of information to get to what we want is a bit like weeding the
garden. We have to look at almost every blade of grass to get all the weeds out before we
see the right result. And usually we miss a few patches.
What if we had someone helping us weed? Like a tennis umpire overlooking the landscape
and directing our attention to important areas within our focal length. Moving from
Information age to Recommendation age the collective wisdom of the crowd is the new
connoisseur. More and more people spend time writing reviews and recommendations,
creating Blogs about everything, posting comments, writing forum topics and replies and so
on and these serve as beacons for us searchers by highlighting areas of interest through a
process called filtering.
Today filters are king! They help us find what we are looking for within the overwhelming
abundance of choice. Sites like Google filter pages to bring us the most relevant to our
search term. Amazon provides recommendations and reviews along with every book on the
planet. Netflicks tracks our search patterns to filter and offer movies that closely match our
needs for titles we haven't even heard of. Ten years ago my local music store offered me
4000 titles. Today iTunes offers me over 4 million. I may have spent an hour browsing my
local music store. How many would that be online?
Filtering transcends search and browse behavior. It is amplified through word of mouth.
Sites like MySpace are huge filtering engines for new music bringing us informed
democratic choice though collective sharing. 'Linkers' build online bookmarks and the
numbers of clicks to those web sites are like endorsements, showing us where to click next.
With monstrous data crunching technology more and more sites are able to measure
consumption patterns in real time and make changes just as quickly. This is a grand shift
entering the Recommendation age.
Google Adsense filters immense volumes of keywords to bring quality ad content to any
web site. Amazon Associates are easily able to place recommendations and reviews on
their own web sites. These targeted ads and recommendations act as beacons or short cuts
to what seek in a landscape filled with abundance. With good filters diamonds can be found
anywhere.
Sites like Rhapsody, MySpace, Netflicks, and Commission Junction are the modern day
factories. The workforce has been democratized so that any individual anywhere can
produce hard or soft products and services for anyone to consume. All of these sites offer
sophisticated filtering through recommendations, reviews and statistics. Still other sites like
Digg, Reddit, Folkd, Shoutwire and Care2 are aggregators of opinion on any given topic and
filter information based on democratic consensus and democratic publishing.
Bloggers filter niche market information providing direct access to relevant data. Blog
4. comments are like fine tuners and direction finders helping us home in without reviewing
every option ourselves.
The age of information is over. We have entered the age of Recommendations. Successful
entrepreneurs would be wise to consider the new way to wow the crowd is to automate
filtering through sophisticated engines and to engage users with interactive features like
commenting, recommendations, reviews, Blogs and articles.
Hiring a web designer to come up with the custom solution that you need can set you back
a few thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop
simple for mere pennies with a tool like Breezy Websites. See http://breezywebsites.com
for details!
QUALITY_WEB_DESIGN : End of Part II
Quality_Web_Design : Part III
In The Recommendation Age Sophisticated Filtering Engines Are Our Beacons
It wasn't too long ago we were embracing the information age. Most of us still think we are
in it. But the consequence of the information age is the overwhelming volume of information
on any given subject, product or service. We are forced to spend a great deal of time sifting
through sites, bits and bytes to [hopefully] discover what we are looking for.
Be it music, film, books or other products the sheer volume of choice makes it more difficult
to find what we want; but we are also offered an abundant picking list: This immense list has
emerged because a) production has been democratized: Never before has any single
human being anywhere been able to operate independently to bring something of value to
the world stage; be it a sound track, desktop wallpaper image, Flash cartoon, computer
programming service, or indeed, more and more, a paid commentator, and b) distribution
now takes the form of bits and bytes, meaning zero goods stock holding so companies like
Amazon can print books on demand and iTunes can deliver music in bytes.
These two forces create abundance in choice and transform information into saleable
products and services.
But sifting through tons of information to get to what we want is a bit like weeding the
garden. We have to look at almost every blade of grass to get all the weeds out before we
see the right result. And usually we miss a few patches.
What if we had someone helping us weed? Like a tennis umpire overlooking the landscape
and directing our attention to important areas within our focal length. Moving from
5. Information age to Recommendation age the collective wisdom of the crowd is the new
connoisseur. More and more people spend time writing reviews and recommendations,
creating Blogs about everything, posting comments, writing forum topics and replies and so
on and these serve as beacons for us searchers by highlighting areas of interest through a
process called filtering.
Today filters are king! They help us find what we are looking for within the overwhelming
abundance of choice. Sites like Google filter pages to bring us the most relevant to our
search term. Amazon provides recommendations and reviews along with every book on the
planet. Netflicks tracks our search patterns to filter and offer movies that closely match our
needs for titles we haven't even heard of. Ten years ago my local music store offered me
4000 titles. Today iTunes offers me over 4 million. I may have spent an hour browsing my
local music store. How many would that be online?
Filtering transcends search and browse behavior. It is amplified through word of mouth.
Sites like MySpace are huge filtering engines for new music bringing us informed
democratic choice though collective sharing. 'Linkers' build online bookmarks and the
numbers of clicks to those web sites are like endorsements, showing us where to click next.
With monstrous data crunching technology more and more sites are able to measure
consumption patterns in real time and make changes just as quickly. This is a grand shift
entering the Recommendation age.
Google Adsense filters immense volumes of keywords to bring quality ad content to any
web site. Amazon Associates are easily able to place recommendations and reviews on
their own web sites. These targeted ads and recommendations act as beacons or short cuts
to what seek in a landscape filled with abundance. With good filters diamonds can be found
anywhere.
Sites like Rhapsody, MySpace, Netflicks, and Commission Junction are the modern day
factories. The workforce has been democratized so that any individual anywhere can
produce hard or soft products and services for anyone to consume. All of these sites offer
sophisticated filtering through recommendations, reviews and statistics. Still other sites like
Digg, Reddit, Folkd, Shoutwire and Care2 are aggregators of opinion on any given topic and
filter information based on democratic consensus and democratic publishing.
Bloggers filter niche market information providing direct access to relevant data. Blog
comments are like fine tuners and direction finders helping us home in without reviewing
every option ourselves.
The age of information is over. We have entered the age of Recommendations. Successful
entrepreneurs would be wise to consider the new way to wow the crowd is to automate
filtering through sophisticated engines and to engage users with interactive features like
commenting, recommendations, reviews, Blogs and articles.
Hiring a web designer to come up with the custom solution that you need can set you back
6. a few thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop
simple for mere pennies with a tool like Breezy Websites. See http://breezywebsites.com
for details!
QUALITY_WEB_DESIGN : End of Part III
7. a few thousand bucks. But you can do the whole thing yourself and make it drag and drop
simple for mere pennies with a tool like Breezy Websites. See http://breezywebsites.com
for details!
QUALITY_WEB_DESIGN : End of Part III