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WebProWorld Members,
Looking at the history of television it's funny
to go back and look at the battle for ratings. You
can tell when each network had their heyday, and
what shows were headlinig at the time. Early-mid
90's? Forget about it, the soup nazi (Seinfeld)
kept NBC in domination.
The four major networks now have a new player to
battle in the ratings arena -- Hulu. From an online
standpoint at least. Hulu might not be utilizing
actual television signals, but they're providing
video online at an increasing rate. So much so they've
surpassed the four major networks in monthly unique
visitors.
To be fair Hulu offers a much wider offering than
any of the affiliates. You can find new episodes
of Conan O'Brien or switch gears and get caught
up on He-Man
from the 80's.
Something else the affiliates need to improve upon
is the stability of their streaming video. I'm not
sure why but it seems like whenever I've used FX
Networks to get caught up on Damages,
it's been hit or miss whether or not it funcitons.
The same can be said for episodes of Heroes I've
tried to watch on NBC.com. Hulu for the most part
has been a pillar of stability. Even on my slower
1 mb/s connection at home.
When fall kicks back around we could see these numbers
change again. As new shows come on the air with
some of them being exclusively shown on affiliate
sites, Hulu could fall back. Or perhaps the video
hosting site is creating a foothold in online video
that is on track to continually keep growing even
into the new fall lineup.
What says you? Is Hulu on its way to dominating
affiliated owned media content? Or does the topic
even matter considering that ABC, NBC, and Fox both
own equal shares of the company? And finally, since
they all three own a stake does it hurt them that
Hulu is flying by their own company sites?
The ideas presented in the WebProWorld newsletter
editor's note do not reflect the thoughts, and
ideas of the WebProWorld community.
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Graphics & Design Discussion Forum
Client Management (for Web Designers)
I've noticed that some design studios or web design companies offer private client areas, whre the clients can login and do some things. Having never actually been into any of these areas, I've always wondered what kind of information or what kind of special resources you would offer your clients in such a client area where they would have to login?
I'm considering having some kind of web-based client management system to better service my clients and be able to keep all of my web design related communications in one place instead of scattered in my email inbox among other things like personal emails.
Additionally, your client may actually be a group of people more likely than not, say for example if you're doing a job for a company where the President, VP or director of sales all want a say in the design process. Having a client management system would be a better way to centralize communications for everyone involved.
My question, for web designers, is what kinds of features would you make available to your clients in this client management system to most effectively service them. Some things that immediately come to mind is:
- Some kind of messaging system, that would work just like emails, just all consolidated in the system
- A progress bar that I can update manually to show them at what percent I believe their project is complete, with an ETA of their web site.
- Scheduled Billing system, set up to properly charge the client on their quoted invoice. (Like for example, charge 50% of the total invoice when 50% complete, then require the client to pay the rest, then make their files available in the client area once paid)
Anything else? These are just the basic things I deal with for any client via emails.
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http://www.gallery-space.net/
Ok I am in the stages of developing an online art gallery and was hoping for some feedback from the wonderful guys and gals on webproworld. The site has been in development for a couple of weeks now and still has a fair amount of work to be done on it but I wanted to get some early feedback to guide me now rather than changing later.
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Graphics & Design Discussion Forum
CSS demolished in IE5/6 (2k/XP)
Can anyone help me understand why my CSS looks crap in IE5/6 (2k/XP) but OK in IE7/8? The page looks looks fine in Mozilla-based browsers. For some reason I can't grasp, IE pushes the top login form elements off the right-side of the page. How can this be? Aaaarrrgghh!
Here are several screenshots I obtained from browsershots.org:
nexxepisode.com/nexx_landing_screenshots.jpg.
I use a separate stylesheet for non-Mozilla browsers. The stylesheet is located at:
nexxepisode.com/style_main_ie.css
All and any help will be gratefully appreciated and will result in my sending a batch of fine exotic cookies to correspondents! OK, maybe not but the sentiment is there!
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Google Discussion Forum
results for 'site:xxx'
When you enter 'site:yourwebsite' into google, are the pages that are listed on the first page at the top, seen by google as your more important pages?
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Search Engine Optimization Forum
RIP Slurp and Yahoo! Search.
I think we are finally counting down the last days of having three major search engines, as Yahoo and Microsoft have announced that Bing will be the search engine powering all of Yahoo's search sites, and Yahoo will provide the sales force for all advertisers on Bing.
Microsoft and Yahoo have already created a web site covering
details of the deal here: Choice.
Value. Innovation. - Home
So, what do you think this will do for Microsoft and Yahoo, and how will this position Bing against Google, as they consolidate their market share with that of Yahoo?
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How Complaing Could Become Costly
Have you ever complained on Twitter? Most everyone has, but one lady is being sued for doing just that. Chicago resident, Amanda Bonnen, sent a tweet to a friend in May that said in part, “…Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.”
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