Burper project
just pushed the updated version of Burper to my Github repo. btw, Burper is a site which is almost the same as Twitter. I’m planning to deploy it in the Internet but I’m having second thoughts because if the developers of Twitter knew about this site, they might file me a lawsuit. Here is a screenshot of the site:
that’s the profile page layout and it’s still on progress.
Twitter Bootstrap
I’ve got intrigued by this framework, they say that it would help your build your projects faster especially in the designing aspect. I started created a project for the response unit in our local Red Cross chapter which would hold all of their data for easy organization and documentation. I started this on the first week of April. The first module that I’ve created which is the storing of the information of the volunteers took me almost 4 days to complete provided with a PHP framework. Most of my time fell on the designing aspect and it always give me a migraine then suddenly I bumped up with the Twitter Bootstrap, I read it’s documentation and started creating the project all over again. I just started it 2 days ago and right now I’ve finished two modules (Login and Personnel module).
this is the homepage of the first project and I’m not yet using the Bootstrap (sorry, it’s kinda messy)
and here is the screenshot of the project with the use of Bootstrap
looks so neat isn’t?! :)
I recommend to all designers to use this and also to the developers which is most of the time our weakness is in the designing aspect.
Check their site at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html
Who Is Your Audience?
Understanding the type of people who visit your site is a very important task because you can use that information to enhance your site to suit them. As a result, you will gain more loyal returning visitors that come back again and again for more.
What is the age level and what kind of knowledge does your audience have? A layman might linger around a general site on gardening, but a professional botanist might turn his nose at the very same site. Similarly, a regular person will leave a site filled with astronomy abstracts but a well educated university graduate will find that site interesting.
Take your audience’s emotional state into consideration when building your site. If a very irritated visitor searches for a solution and comes across your site, you will want to make sure you offer the solution right up front and sell or promote your product to him second. In this way, the visitor will put his trust in you
for offering the solution to his problems and is more likely to buy
your product when you offer it to him after that.
When you design the layout for your site, you have to take into account the characteristics of your audience. Are they old or young people? Are they looking for trends or are they just looking for information served without any icing on the cake? For example, introducing a new, exciting game with a simple, straightforward black text against white background page will definitely turn prospects away. Make sure your design suits your site’s general theme.
Try to sprinkle colloquial language in your sites sparingly where you see fit and you will create a sense that your audience is on common ground with you. This in turn builds a trusting relationship between you and your audience, which will come in useful should you want to market a product to your audience.
Source: ricoconess
