Tap Tap Revenge 3: In App Purchase: Avatar Bling

Tap Tap Revenge 3: In App Purchase: Song

In App Purchase: Purchase Breakdowns

• They didn’t test early and often. Thus, the systems fail in the high heat of AZ and NM.
• They didn’t test in context with users. Thus, failed to know border patrols can’t use desktop UI’s while bouncing through rugged terrain.
• They didn’t ask the border patrol what they’d like from the system. Thus the system ended up tracking things besides people.
• They didn’t small scale test before implementing the full system. Thus the system costs more than anticipated to maintain.
• Boeing – the design vendor on the project – over promised, failed to understand the design context and failed to talk with the user.

• Do not auto-update Virtualbox
• Follow these instructions if you need to do a clean install

Here’s a snippet from the Yahoo Finance article.

Highly adaptive, intuitive navigation – created in conjunction with usability, visual design and information architecture specialists, the new interface was consumer tested to meet the needs of any level of online banker, from the novice statement viewer to the small business user to the experienced power payer. The new, clean interface uses the latest in Rich Internet Applications (RIA) technology and “smart windows” for easy access to important information, which reduces information overload for the consumer.

We have a pretty impressive line-up of speakers lined up – look for another update late this week as we iron out details and schedules. Currently we have confirmed Matt Mullenweg, Merlin Mann, John Hawkins, Brent Spore, and Dave Moyer from the WordCast Podcast. We’re also open to suggestions and requests so please let us know if you’re interested in speaking or have a good contact that would.

Why is the iPod Touch the only device that isn’t tied to a wireless carrier?

Outline of Topics We’ll Cover

• Wordpress Portfolio Theme
  • Concept
  • Creating Custom Meta Fields
  • Home Page jQuery Cycle Plugin and Indicating which portfolio items show
  • Portfolio List Page (thumbnails of all portfolio items)
  • Portfolio Detail Page
  • jQuery .after and math rounding for the advance button
  • Resolving “current_item” issues in the sub nav
• Design Concepts
  • Why the big images?
  • Why the #eee background?
  • De-cluttering, less it not easier
  • How target audience guides web design
• Accessibility and SEO
  • How are SEO and accessibility tied to each other?
  • Why Lists?
  • Separation of HTML (structure) and style (CSS)
  • The All In One SEO Plugin
  • The Google Keyword Tool and Copy Writing
  • Permalinks – SEO Friendly URLS in Wordpress
  • Headings
  • Miscellany
• Main Menu CSS Sprite Techniques
  • The Photoshop File
  • The jQuery
  • The Wordpress Tags
• Main Sub Menu Sliding Doors CSS Technique
  • The Photoshop File
  • The jQuery
  • The Wordpress Tags
• Side Menu CSS Sprite Technique
  • The Photoshop File
  • The jQuery
  • The Wordpress Tags
• Price Quote Request Hover Animation
• Performance, Optimization and Standards
  • PNGout
  • WP-Super Cache
  • .HTACCESS
  • YSlow
  • Disabling wpautop
• Client Login
• Testimonial jQuery Tabs
• Google Analytic Goal Tracking and the Contact Form 7 Wordpress Plugin
• How to get a A/99 Yslow score

The core technologies used on this Wordpress Portfolio Site:

• Reliable Shared Hosting
  Media Temple hosts websites. Big and Small. For years Media Temple has taken complex technology and simplified it for the everyday website owner. Their products are designed to be powerful, affordable and relevant.
• Wordpress
  WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Big sites like CNN and Ford use Wordpress. Small sites like use it too.
• jQuery
  jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
• SQLyog
  SQLyog MySQL GUI is the most powerful MySQL manager and admin tool, combining the features of MySQL Query Browser, Administrator, phpMyAdmin and various other MySQL Front Ends and MySQL GUI tools in a single intuitive interface. We may or may not dive into SQLyog. I find it much more quick and useful than MyPHPAdmin for daily MySQL tasks and maintenance. In fact, we use SQLyog daily!

WordPress Plugins Used in This Wordpress Portfolio Theme:

• All In One SEO Pack
  Essential for control of page titles and meta descriptions.
• Contact Form 7
  Remember PHP Phorm? This plugin puts it to shame. Its just sooo simple to use. We’ll cover how to capture Google analytic goals when in AJAX mode when we get to this in a later post.
• Really Simple CAPTCHA
  This plugin works in tandem with Contact Form 7
• WP-Syntax
  A simple syntax highlighter.
• WP Super Cache
  Frustrated by low Yslow scores and a slow site? We’ll take a look at WP Super Cache and some other .HTACCESS tricks to speed things up.
• WP No Category Base
  This plugin simply removes ‘/category’ from your category permalinks.
• Google XML Sitemaps
  This plugin generates a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. Nice!

GIF files are outdated, big and look bad.

That said, there may be times when you’re helping a client that uses GIF files. And sometimes they don’t have the resources to change the code (not just the HTML) to use PNG files. You can still use PNG files but name them with the “.gif” extension. This can come in handy in cases where its needed as a band aid.

The PNG file with a GIF extension will render AOK in IE6, IE7, FF3, Safari and Chrome.