Joshua Porter is offering a free chapter of his book, Designing for the Social Web. The book is geared towards web designers and developers, but this chapter has some great tips for what to put on your website or social network to entice visitors to sign up. Most importantly it shows you how to put yourself into the shoes of your visitors to understand what information they need in order to understand what your website is about and what they’ll get out of signing up. Next is understanding how the site works and how to sign up…. worth checking out.
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Need a Cheap Online Ad Management System?
If you offer advertising (or want to) on your business website or blogs, you may have been holding off because of the cost of using online ad management systems. Sure, there are “free” ad networks, but most of those don’t allow you full control over the ads that show up on your site. Google’s Ad Manager allows you to sell ads, but also to supplement those ads with ads from Google AdSense and other ad networks. TechCrunch has more information: Google Will Now Manage Your Website’s Ads, as well as Ad Operations Online: Google Ad Manager out of Beta; All AdSense Publishers Can Use It.
Quick bite – show / hide button in Rails, RJS
Sazbean is about online business strategy and we work hard to keep this blog as accessible to our readers as possible. ‘Say it with words, not code’ is one of our guiding principles which keeps us honest when covering technical topics with applied business uses. A principle, I should add, that I will be flagrantly ignoring for this post.
It isn’t always wise to hold back that urge to express our deeper technical understand of a subject we are passionate about. Instead, we have opted to create a segment called quick bites that will be short, technically focused example posts about some subject we are currently working.
I was recently building a UI for a client in Rails and found a good use for a show/hide button in the design. Show/hide buttons, as their names describe, reveal content when pressed and then hide it when pressed again. Typical example code for this using Rails and Javascript might be…
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