Yelp opened up for public shares this week and found itself 64% higher then the price it had initially opened up at, $15.00. This stock now resides at $24.58 and hopefully will see more increase as time goes on. So far this year has started with the now recovering Zynga stock and this promising Yelp stock. Soon enough the long awaited Facebook will be opened to the public.
You can view the Yelp stock here on Google Finance
Google celebrations Heinrich Rudolf Hertz’s 155th birthday today with a moving logo representing electromagnetic waves.
“It was Hertz who proved the physical existence of electromagnetic waves — experimentation that signaled the way toward developing wireless telegraph and radio. And today, Google celebrates the 155th anniversary of the German physicist’s birth with an elegant “Doodle” on its search homepage.”
Recently I found myself needing to migrate all of an account’s Tumblr posts into WordPress and knew there must be a simple tool to do this for me. I figured Tumblr might have an easy export option in their control panel but I couldn’t seem to find one so I went for a search and found a proprietary tool that will take all the account’s Tumblr posts and export it into an easy to import XML file.
Once you have the XML file you’ll want to log in to WordPress, go to Tools -> Importer then import the XML as a WordPress type.
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I’ve been a free lance web designer for five years now and as much as I enjoy waking up in the morning, eating some breakfast, turning on my computer and start working while still in my pajamas I’ve learned it’s not the best work environment or way to get projects done.
It’s relaxing, but I still have the mindset of being home and even though I’m working I have all my personal life around me. Free lancing and personal life have always been a struggle for me to keep separate. I enjoy working so much that when my day of work is supposed to be over and I should be out doing other, non-work related things, I find myself finishing up something that I could wait until tomorrow to do; especially if I’ve been at home all day working. Projects just tend to take longer too because of all the other personal interests I find myself doing while in the middle of a work project.
If you don’t have somewhere else to go to, such as an office, the least I can suggest is getting ready as if you were going to go somewhere else to work; and possible have your workstation somewhere where you don’t often go when you’re not “clocked in”. Places such as coffee shops also work much better then staying at home, and you have the chance of meeting people which ultimately has been somewhat of a challenge for me. The less I communicate with people, because of the job I have, the less I overall would like to communicate with people. Having the human interaction day-to-day as a free lancer is very important if you don’t otherwise see clients daily.
It’s easy to find yourself at the computer for hours without realizing it’s been that long, also long sessions at a computer might slow down efficiency. I’ve learned to get up at least every two hours to take a walk around the office or my house. Possibly do a quick errand or some task that gets me away from the computer for 15 minutes. This is important not only for efficiency but for what being at a computer will slowly do to our wrists, back, neck and other parts of our bodies that don’t do well with long periods of sitting.
The javascript library called jQuery is an easily usable library and easy to install onto your website. The possibilities that are possible with jQuery with ease of use is unimaginable until you get to use with it. There are a few ways of installing it onto your website and calling the library into use.
You may visit the jQuery website at http://jquery.com/ and download the library at http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery. Once downloaded you’ll upload the library onto your server and include it through Javascript.
<script type="text/javascript" src="PATH/FILENAME.js"></script>
You may use the libraries Google has put together for free which allows a user to stream it from Google with a few different URLs. You may read up about the capabilities with jQuery through Google here. You can link the jQuery plugin library from here https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.16/jquery-ui.min.js. Using javascript include you can include it into page with the following code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.16/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
Have you noticed many Facebook pages landing on a something other than the wall or information about the page; possibly a custom form, large graphic, or mini-website? It’s no surprise that it’s included within Facebook’s Page options but it’s easy to do.
If you haven’t already created a Facebook Page you can find an article on how to accomplish that on How to create a Facebook account and Facebook page.
Switch to the personal account that holds access to the Facebook Page, or if you’re already on the personal account you’re a quarter of the way there! Search for the application Static FBML 
and click Add to my Page on the left hand column. You’ll be presented with a list of your Facebook Pages that you can add this application too. Select the Facebook Page you want it on then switch to that Facebook Page.
On the right hand side click on Edit Page and you’re default page to edit settings. Go to the Apps section on the left hand column and find FBML – FBML then click Go to App. Here is the title of the FBML application as well as the content that it will hold. Fill in the two fields and Save Changes then back up your browser one page.
Go up to Manage Permissions and find Default Landing Page with the drop down list. Select the FBML page that you created and titled and Save Changes. Visit your Facebook Page now and the initial page will be your FBML page!
There are plenty of free applications on the internet that will allow you to track your traffic. If the website is without one then optimization would be such a hassle. Without knowing where your traffic is going, how long they are staying, or what they are most interested in how can you efficiently use a website as a selling tool?
When it comes to using a website as a selling tool the needs of the visitor must be met. Imagine if you were a visitor. There are certain images, links, or menu items that attract you most. Those attractive links should be a road map to what the website is trying to accomplish.
Take a look at a few applications below that allow you to realize what kind of traffic is flowing to your site.
These two online applications will provide graphs and data on traffic to your website.
The first stage is to see what kind of traffic is flowing to a website, the second stage is optimizing the website in order to efficiently create an online selling tool. Each one of these tools are very intuitive, however data is only half the battle. Interested in how a website is properly marketed?
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