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The Future of Online Education Depends On Web Developers

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There’s a reason websites like Udemy, Master Class, and Coursera are popular learning platforms despite their imperfections: they’re user-friendly. The process of registering for a course, accessing that course, and bookmarking segments is easy. Master Class, in particular, has an extremely user-friendly interface for communicating with other course participants.

Although these platforms are intended for simple instruction, online universities can learn much from the way they work. The interface designs are modern, smooth, and intuitive. The graphics are pixel-perfect, and modules are indexed within a clickable navigation system. Compared to these learning platforms, university platforms are due for an upgrade. [Read more…]

People Gravitate Towards Colourful Banners

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There are a lot of elements in a banner. You should focus on every aspect of the banner. Regardless of your chosen text and images though, make sure the banners have a splash of colour. Studies have revealed that people gravitate more towards exhibition banners that are colourful. This makes them feel interested in finding out more information about the business.

Banners that are plain, dull and boring just drive people away. They will glance at it before they move to the next banner. If your banners are placed next to many other banners, it would be a wasted opportunity. This is true especially if you are attending big events. There are a lot of companies who are joining these events and they are also using banners and display stands. Your goal is to stand out when placed next to them. [Read more…]

Tips on Picking the Right Help Desk Solution That Works for Your Business

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Anyone who’s had to spearhead a medium to large sized business will tell you that one of the biggest reasons it stays afloat is because of an effective IT department. So many things can go wrong in a given day that could end up putting a dent in your overall productivity, but having the right kind of support structure can ensure that your business continues to run like nothing ever happened. For this type of situation, a helpdesk program is a very effective platform to use as the baseline for the entire structure of your IT department.

Will any help desk solution do?

If that were the case then life would certainly be much easier. Unfortunately, not all helpdesk software solutions were created completely equal. All of them have their pros and cons, and it’s up to you to make the decision based on what you feel is most important for your company. That said, there are some things you can watch out for to make your search for the perfect helpdesk much easier. [Read more…]

Incorporating a Digital Marketing Strategy into Your Web Design

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Web designers looking to grow their business or increase their value when working in a larger organization know the value of understanding strategy. Hard skills are important, but understanding why things are done a certain way, what’s worked in the past and why, and where things are headed in the future, can help you provide more value to clients and build your business or climb the ranks within a larger organization.

Digital marketing strategy is an important area to focus on when it comes to providing value to clients. Their interest in hiring web designers is to grow their businesses and understanding digital marketing strategies and to communicate them to your clients will help you explain why your work and ideas are important, how they benefit the client, and why they’re worth more. Here are five areas of digital marketing to introduce clients to that will prove your worth. [Read more…]

Beginner’s Guide: Developing Your Own Cryptocurrency

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The growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and the spectacular rise in their price over the past year has spurred a huge amount of interest in digital currencies and attracted more and more people to invest in this market.

There are a lot of ways to earn money with cryptocurrencies. This includes making money on the difference between cryptocurrency exchange rates, investing in Initial Coin Offering (ICO), or like many others – creating their own cryptocurrencies.

According to CoinMarketCap, a website for tracking capitalization of various cryptocurrencies, hundreds of digital cryptocurrencies are in existence nowadays of which more than eighty were listed in the previous year. Moreover, more of them, new bitcoin alternatives (altcoins), are likely to keep launching in the coming years as it is not as difficult as what you might be expecting to create your own cryptocurrency – especially that dedicated cryptocurrency creation services are out there and for someone with even the basic coding skills. [Read more…]

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