With recent releases of the DroidX and the Apple Iphone 4, mobile device Internet functionality has evolved beyond that of a mere psuedo-web browser. Upon reviewing the DroidX.net, it is quite obvious that mobile devices will eventually become a user’s primary Internet browsing device. And it appears that the Apple Iphone fad will fade away with a mainstream graduation of the entire mobile device industry.
Droid X blogs are hearing that a lot of iPhone users are moving to Droid X. Why? The Droid X blog writes that a mobile devices most important features is the network carrier, and goes on to suggest that the Apple Iphone’s AT&T network is prone to dropping calls, for which Verizon’s reliable network is not. Now I have never owned an Iphone, so I can’t quote from personal experience. But I was just talking to a colleague today regarding a project we are collaborating on, and his phone dropped out 3 times during a 20 minute call. He has Apples AT&T network. My neighbor has an Iphone and he swears by it. His only complaint: dropped calls. I have been a Verizon Wireless user since 2002. I can have a clear conversation going up and down in an elevator. Dropped calls are a rarity on my phone.
The Droid X .net blog claims Iphone users are switching to DroidX because, “if I “wished” to make voice calls anytime anywhere I want” states DroidX.net, “if I “wished” for the next best thing that did cool things like Skype Mobile and HDMI 720P streaming, and if I “wished” for wireless tethering of 5 devices on a smartphone, you’d get a Droid X.” DroidX.net adds that you can’t do any of those on the iPhone 4.
You can check out the full article here>
After one day, we like the DroidX, so far.
In Web design, the navigation selections are commonly all the same color. However, some web design clients may request that specific navigation selections be a different color from the rest. In a static HTML web page, this is easy. But in a CMS web page this can be difficult, as cms website navigation is typically generated from a database, then formatted by a global template and stylesheet.
WordPress will often generate unique class definitions and/or id’s from which you can style specific elements. View the page source and find the specific element you want to style uniquely. If WordPress has generated a unique ID or CLASS definition, just add this definition to your style sheet with your desired unique web design stylings. Your navigation selection will reflect the unique style.
Here is a very useful and easy to use image resizing tool for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/30247
It’s an updated version of the Windows XP Powertoy, which places a right click menu that allows you to resize single or multiple images with two clicks. For web design clients who are intimidated by the complexity of Photoshop and similar image editors, this tool is perfect.
I am a 15 year Photoshop veteran, but I found this tool to be refreshingly quick and simple.
Digital cameras take some pretty good, high resolution photos. Cameras with a higher Megapixel capability can produce photos of a higher pixel resolution, and can thereby be printed at a larger dimension. However, these megapixel images are typically too large for display on a website. Web design clients who manage their own website content via a content management system, such as WordPress, often need to reduce such megapixel images prior to posting them to their website.
For example a 3 Megapixel image has a pixel dimension of 2048 x 1536. This image will print out nice, however if you try to view it on a computer screen, it will most likely exceed the viewable area or be resized to fit in the viewable area. That’s because the average computer screen has a pixel resolution of 1024 x 768. So any image larger than that size is overkill.
But the main disadvantage to high resolution images is excessive file size. A 3 megapixel image will often have a very large file size, like 2 megabytes, give or take. That’s a huge file size for one image and can significantly slow down your computer. Resizing the same photo to 1024 x 768 also reduces the file size well below 1 megabyte, which can be downloaded and viewed much faster.
Internet Explorer 6 has fallen below 5% of Internet usage. Microsoft released the IE 6 web browser in 2000, and it became functionally obsolete in 2006. The Internet Explorer 7 release added very important support for Web 2.0 standards and security protections that IE6 lacks. Most Internet users upgraded, yet for half a decade, an alarming number of people and corporations have continued to use this broken web browser.
Yahoo has an article about the imminent retirement of IE 6 at:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IE6-Falls-below-5-for-First-bw-2049028363.html?x=0
When you create a new web page in WordPress, the order for the new web page defaults to ’0′, which positions the display of it’s navigation menu at the beginning of the stack. To change the web page order:
- Open the web page in the editor.
- On the right column there is a panel titled ‘Attributes’.
- This panel includes two menus: ‘Parent’ and ‘Order’.
- The ‘Parent’ menu allows you to make the web page a child of another web page.
- The ‘Order’ menu is where you specify the numeric web page order.
- Set this to whatever you want the respective web page’s order to be.
- For example if you have five parent web pages, set each web page’s ‘Order’ numerically from 1-5 respectively.
- When adding a new web page, set the new web page’s ‘Order’ to ’6′ if you want the web page navigation menu to display after all the other web pages, and so forth.
- Another example would be that you want a new web page to display fourth in the middle of the current web pages. To accomplish this, set the new web page’s numeric order to 4, then open the web pages that were previously set as 4 and 5, and change them to 5 and 6 respectively.
