Flashy sites annoy users !
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June 26th, 2008
Datis Design Weblog
Designing for Communicating
I have talked about it in my previous posts a lot that use simplicity in web designing is always a good choice, users always want to get to what they want as soon as it is possible, they don’t have time for viewing extra stuff that are not useful for them…
I found an article about this problem from vnuet.com site that I think if you read yourself you will get it better :
Web content management firm SDL Tridion has released the results of its research into what elements of web site design most turn off Internet users, coming in top is pop up advertising.
Seventy-eight percents of respondents said that this type of advertising was the most frustrating web experience, complaining that ads appeared at inappropriate times and were difficult to get rid off.
SDL said that this kind of annoyance was indicative of what it called "bimbo web design", saying that sites were often "attractive, but with no substance."
“First impressions count and no company wants bimbo characteristics on its website,” said Erik Aeyelts Averink, President SDL Tridion. “All ‘fluff’ and no content drives web site users mad. Don’t push customers away and annoy them for no reason.”
Other complaints included the use of long introductions to web sites that cannot be turned off, the requirement to download new applications to view elements of a page, and a requirement to hand over a lot of personal information just to access company details.
“Companies need to ensure they aren’t alienating web users. The Internet is often the first port of call for research and a web site deserves the same time and effort spent on other marketing materials. If companies continue in this way they will lose not only customers, but reputation" added, Averink.
Source : vnuent.com
Webdesignerwall web site has collected a very nice gallery of new web site design trends in 2008, which includes pencil sketches, handwritten notes, card stocks, watercolor effects, collage art, script fonts, grungy and splatter ink backgrounds, vintage and retro styles.
Its very good source for web designers to get inspired by some of new designs around the world of web. Check this article here…
You can check the download time in your country in this site…
Mark your calendar, wrap a ribbon around your finger or write a little sticky yellow note. Download Day will start on June 17, 2008.
Santa Clara (CA) – GPU acceleration is one of the most significant trends in today hardware industry, opening the doors to an entirely new class of software. It appears that the next Photoshop will be one of the first mainstream applications that will tap into the GPU for a speed up. And, at least from what we have seen during a first demonstration, the progress is simply stunning.
We have been saying it for a while now, mainstream applications need GPU acceleration to ring in the next major evolutionary step in software development. Far too long we have been stuck in a cycle of programming that relies on increasing clock-speeds, brings acceleration with new CPUs and a slow-down with new software releases. Even if Photoshop supports multi-core CPUs, it is one of those applications that always are very time intensive to use and especially if you are a professional user and work with huge images, then you are very familiar with “The Great Wait”, which typically describes the time lost when opening a big file or when applying a filter.
But there appears to be a very effective solution on the horizon, a solution that is most likely more effective than anything else we have seen before and in our experience using Photoshop over the past 14 years. During a demonstration at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, we got a glimpse of Adobe’s "Creative Suite Next" (or CS4), code-named “Stonehenge”, which adds GPU and physics support to its existing multi-core support.
So, what can you do with general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) acceleration in Photoshop? We saw the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image on an 8-core Skulltrail system. Changes made through image zoom and through a new rotate canvas tool were applied almost instantly. Another impressive feature was the import of a 3D model into Photoshop, adding text and paint on a 3D surface and having that surface directly rendered with the 3D models’ reflection map.
There was also a quick demo of a Photoshop 3D accelerated panorama, which is one of the most time-consuming tasks within Photoshop these days. The usability provided through the acceleration capabilities is enormous and we are sure that digital artists will appreciate the ability to work inside a spherical image and fix any artifacts on-the-fly.
According to information we were given, all of these new features are part of the next-gen Photoshop, which should be a part of the “CS Next” suite. The package is expected to be released on October 1.
Source : Neowin
It seems that Firefox 3 will be ready to download soon, and their marketing community Spread Firefox wants us to help them set a world record in 24 hours for download Firefox ! Because I am a Firefox user and lover ! I want to help them to achieve this record, so I put their logo here maybe you become interested too ! So help them set a world record ! Only FireFox ! 
Adobe Systems Inc. today rolled out a beta version of its Adobe Flash Player 10 (formerly called Astro) browser plug-in, which adds features to help designers and developers create special effects and cinematic Web experiences.
The new offering adds support for custom filters and effects created using Adobe’s Pixel Bender tool kit, Adobe said. The Pixel Bender technology is used in the company’s After Effects CS3 tool, which creates motion graphics and visual effects for film and broadcast.
"We’re doing things that really change the game of what’s possible on the Internet," said Tom Barclay, senior product marketing manager of Flash Player. "The community now has the ability to upgrade the capabilities of the player and create new types of effects and cinematic experiences that are not available with any other browser plug-in."
The beta version of the player also includes native 3-D transformation and animation capabilities, an extensible rich-text layout, and graphics processing unit hardware acceleration, he added.
The new support for 3-D is "really 3-D for the rest of us," Barclay noted. "It allows people to take what they know in the 2-D world and transform it into 3-D. It’s native so the performance is very fast, and it will not result in larger file sizes."
New bit-rate streaming for video links between the Flash Player and intended future releases of Adobe’s Flash Media Server will automatically adjust video quality as bandwidth changes without having to rebuffer, the company said. "This will provide a seamless playback experience with no starting or stopping of video waiting for the stream to catch up," Barclay said.
In addition, a new text engine in Flash Player 10 allows designers and developers to have more creative control over device font attributes such as rotation and style, Adobe said. The new version also adds more text layouts, like vertical and bidirectional, which support the creation of rich Internet applications like interactive e-books and online publications in additional languages, Barclay added.
The beta version of Adobe Flash Player 10 runs on the Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. The Adobe Pixel Bender Exchange is available for beta users to create custom effects for the Flash Player, according to the company.
The general release of Flash Player 10 is expected later this year.
Source : Computerworld.com
One of the important tool for every web designer and web developer is FTP software, there are many FTP software out there, I have tested some of them but recently I have found something that I think is best !
FileZilla FTP client software is really good, its so easy to use, fast and reliable. And most importantly it is Free ! Yes its a free FTP software that you can download it for many operating systems.
Some of the program screen shots :
Main Features :
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Drag & drop support
- Configurable Speed limits
- Filename filters
- Network configuration wizard
- Remote file editing
- Keep-alive
- FTP-Proxy support
You can download it from this link. Also you can check its website.
Happy new year for all Iranians in all over the world… Wish you a good year full of happiness and successes .
Farshad
I have decided to make some space for your logo in my weblog, if you have a weblog or web site you can send me your logo in jpg or gif format with the size of 100×100 pixels to my email address.
I would like to ask those friends that send their logos for me to put my weblog link or my logo in their web site or weblog too if it is possible.
Best Regards,
Farshad
Finally Microsoft published a beta version of Internet Explorer 8, it has some new features like :
- Activities
- WebSlices
- Favorites Bar
- Automatic Crash Recovery
- Improved Phishing Filter
Lets hope this version has better rendering engine for web designers and web developers, also for other users.
You can download and test the beta version from here :
