Reported by AllThingsD, Friday May 11,2012 according to a report freewheel in the first quarter of this year, the measurement of Total Video Views on the Xbox 360 console occupies the position of 28.2 percent, 27.1 percent followed by the iPad, iPhone 19.4 percent, iPod 10.1 percent and 15.2 percent of the Android platform. The survey measured only in the Professional Content of display ads, instead of video content such as Netflix and Youtube.

These data also found that most users watch videos online via the Xbox 360 console or IOS platform than Android. In addition, these data also show the Xbox 360 console users can spend more time watching than playing video games.

Even so, data from the freewheel is said to have sided weakness, because the only measure of professional content that appears in the ad, because the presence of advertising is what makes the device can live. In addition, these data also do not measure the use Netflix. On the other hand, this is not a poll or a sample, but data collected by the advertising company’s server.

Meanwhile, the news is now circulating around the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft revealed it would be integrated with the browser software, Internet Explorer 9. With these features, users can surf in cyberspace through the browser also supports Kinect gesture and voice control functionality into the side

Though template based designs are easier to adopt they do little to add to your brand value as the same template will be used by a number of businesses.Your website will have to compete not just with your immediate rivals but with hundreds of other websites from around the globe.

In such a competitive scenario an average website will not be able to survive. A good web design company will help you achieve a unique website with customized functionality to meet the needs of your business. The values of your company should be blended in the business website and make it the most potent marketing tool for your business.

Advantages of Custom Web Design

Distinctive Design- With custom web design you can do it your own way. You will be able to incorporate all the features and tools that will satisfy the needs of your business. You can develop custom applications which will help in catering to the needs of the existing customers and attracting new ones to your business. A customized business web design can make major difference to your sales and revenue.

Stay Ahead Of Others- Staying ahead of the competition in business is very important and custom web designs can help you achieve that. You can maintain your lead by making constant changes in your website. You can adopt the latest trends in the market and incorporate new ideas which will give a better experience to the customers and make them stick to you. This helps in establishing a strong bond between the customers and the business.

Be in Command- You need to be in complete command of your business website and should be able to claim rights over each and every element of your website. This is only possible with a custom web design solution. Templates pose certain barrier which will restrict your ability to re-design a website and you will either have to adopt a new template or be content with the same features. You need to constantly re-develop your website to overcome your customer’s boredom with the same design and functionality.

Hire the services of a professional web design company who has already worked on custom web design projects in the past. They should have expertise from conceptualization to delivery of the website and use the latest technology in development. You should take a look around their portfolio as this will give you a fair idea of their capabilities and help you make a wise choice. Apart from development they should also offer you good support services to help you sail through in hours of crisis.

Please send us the URL.*Please send email to Jason@oakwebworks.com when posting or sending to a listA Webmaster’s Toolkit and TricksAuthor: Jason OConnor Copyright: 2004If you own a website, operate or run a website, or you’re a webmaster, this article is for you. A successful website is created and managed by a person with an effective toolkit who knows how to use each tool.

There are a huge amount of software applications out there for people to use for creating, building, coding and running websites. Here are the ones you’ll find in my tool box. I’ve been using these for many years and have had wonderful success with each one of them.

As a bonus, I am going to include a few tricks for some of the tools that may be of interest to you. (These ‘tricks’ are for pc users only.)** Toolkit Item 1 – Dreamweaver **I have a client who owns and runs a small business website and who has been using Microsoft Frontpage since he started.

He is not a programmer or Web designer and has been very frustrated managing his website. Frontpage adds strange html code behind the scenes that takes control away from the user and often produces undesirable results. I suggested that he try Macromedia’s Dreamweaver, which is the software I have been using for many years.

It’s excellent and does exactly what you want, does not add extraneous code and makes the life of a webmaster a breeze. After playing with it for a while, my client thanked me profusely for suggesting it. Get it at http://www.macromedia.com.Dreamweaver Trick:To make a global change in your website, that is, change some specific text or html code on every page in your site, here’s what you do: In your top menu bar, choose ‘Edit’ > ‘Find and Replace…’.

In the dialog box that pops up, choose ‘Entire Local Site’ in the top dropdown box labeled ‘Find In’. This will allow you to make a global change. Also, note the other choices in the dropdown box. Using this feature will save you lots of time.Dreamweaver Trick:Did you know Dreamweaver has a ‘Check Spelling’ feature? If not, go to the top menu bar and click on ‘Text’ and then choose ‘Check Spelling’ at the bottom of the menu.

Or you could simply use your ‘Shift’ F7 keys.** Toolkit Item 2 – Photoshop **Since images on the Web are both illustrations and photos, Adobe’s Photoshop is hands-down the best choice for graphics manipulation for a webmaster. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but well worth it if you want to include awesome graphics on your website.

It allows you to create buttons, borders, shapes, symbols and of course, it allows you to change, alter, edit and improve any kind of digital photograph. Get it at http://www.adobe.com.Photoshop Trick:The Web allows two main graphics file formats,.jpg and.gif.

Therefore, any image you plan to use on your website needs to end in one of these two extensions. (The Web allows the.png extension too, but you ought to use either.jpg or.gifs only). So, whenever you plan to use a graphic on your website that you created or edited in Photoshop, you need to save it as one of these two file extensions.

And you also want your images to be optimized so they are not large causing long download times for your site visitors. Do this by going to your top menu bar and choosing ‘File’ > “Save for the Web…’. You will then be able to choose.gif or.jpg in the top right of the dialog box that opens up.

You’ll also be able to see 1, 2, or 4 versions for the same image, optimized in different ways and having different sizes for you to choose. Always use this tool in Photoshop for Web graphics.Photoshop Trick:Want to create soft, almost rounded edges on your rectangular images? Here’s what you do: In your vertical ‘Tools’ window in Photoshop, choose the top left tool called ‘Rectangular Marquee Tool’.

Then click and drag your mouse on your image to make a rectangle that is 5 to 10 pixels smaller than your actual image. Make sure that it is equidistant on all four sides. Then go to your menu bar and choose ‘Select’ > ‘Inverse’. This chooses (or selects) everything outside the rectangle you just made.

Finally, go to your menu bar and choose ‘Filter’ > ‘Blur’ > ‘Gaussian Blur’ and type 1-5 pixels in the dialog box. That’s it, and now your image will have soft edges.** Toolkit Item 3 – WS FTP **This is a great tool for moving your files back and forth from your pc to your server.

Dreamweaver has a feature that allows you to connect directly to your server to download and upload html files and images for your website. But I prefer to have more control over moving files back and forth from my local pc to my server that houses my website.

Therefore, I use WS FTP (FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol). This tool enables me to move my files with ease and with complete control. Get it at http://www.tucows.com.FTP Trick:This is more of a suggestion than a trick. To make changes in your html files, always download the latest file(s) from your website’s server down to your local machine first.

Then make your changes, edits or updates, save your work, and upload the file(s) back to your server. In other words, do your entire html editing on your local machine and upload the latest version after your editing back to your live server. Try to avoid editing files directly on your server.

This methodology will help ensure that your site visitors don’t see files ‘in progress’ or errors.** Toolkit Item 4 – WebTrends **This tool is vital for anyone wishing to conduct intelligent e-marketing campaigns and has interest in improving one’s website. It allows you to analyze your website statistics.

It tells you how many people visited your site, how they got there, where they went once they arrived and a huge amount of other critical data. Get it at http://www.webtrends.com.** Toolkit Item 5 – WebPosition Gold **If you want to know how your website is ranking in the search engines, this tool is a must have.

It allows you to set up a profile for your website asking you to enter keyword phrases and choose search engines. By running the program after you complete your profile, it will tell you where you rank for each engine for each keyword phrase. If you find that you’re not ranking well, you can make changes to your website and run the program again in a few days or weeks to determine if your rankings have improved.

Get it at http://www.webposition-gold-2.net.If you purchase these tools and learn to use them properly, you’ll have everything you need to create and manage a website. Your toolkit will be complete. I am sure there are other great tools out there, but these are the ones I use, (and I have no affiliation with any of these companies).

I’ve found them to be extremely helpful. Another webmaster ‘trick’ I use is to utilize great websites that contain excellent tips, tricks and resources for creating and managing websites. Below is a partial list of the websites I visit regularly.

Webmonkey – http://www.webmonkey.comHTML Goodies – http://www.htmlgoodies.comWorld Wide Web Consortium – http://www.w3c.orgWebmaster Directory – http://www.webdevsites.comFree HTML Validator – http://www.feedvalidator.orgWebmaster resources from Webmaster Toolkit.

- http://www.webmaster-toolkit.comWebmaster.org – http://www.webmaster.orgThe Webmaster’s Reference Library – http://www.webreference.comSitePoint : New Articles, for Web Developers and Designers – http://www.sitepoint.comWebmaster’s Color Lab – http://www.visibone.com/colorlabSiteProNews – http://www.sitepronews.comWebmaster Tool Collection – http://www.webmaster-tool-collection.com

Search engines related news.

This is one of the most closely watched topics. Webmasters watch what is happening to the search engines because on the Internet, it’s all about traffic. Nothing ever happens without traffic. You can’t get leads, registrations, and you certainly can’t get sales. And for many websites, the majority of the traffic comes from search engines. Therefore, if there is any search engine related news, webmasters will cling to its every word. It’s that important.

This traffic generation method is also commonly known as search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is a combination of internal page and external page factors that helps a website to rank well in the search engines. You can pick up some really great SEO tips just by scanning webmaster news in forums.

It is not uncommon to see webmasters visiting forums just to complain about a drop in search engine rankings. When that happens, every webmaster wants to know what went wrong. In fact, some even offer to pay others money, just so their website can regain its rankings. But the Internet is not all about the search engines. There is more.

Internet marketing news.

Many webmasters depend on Internet marketing news for the latest money making opportunities. This may be in the form of untapped traffic source, or a new way of generating traffic online. Whatever the method, the webmaster community is usually the first to hear about it.

Of course, they are also the ones to profit from these opportunities. In fact, many have made fortunes from various traffic generation methods such as buying clicks or article marketing. The best part is, webmasters learn how to conduct their online businesses for free on these forums.

Another reason why you should be concerned about internet marketing news is that you want to avoid being scammed. Some people think that they can cheat people of their hard earned money and get away with it when they trade on the internet. But usually, the law catches up with these crooks. It’s just a matter of time.

However, if you are updated on the latest internet marketing news, you will be able to avoid such unpleasant experiences altogether. Who wants to go through the hassle of being cheated of one’s hard earned money, and then having to go after some crook that may be halfway across the globe? For sure, we all have better things to do.

These are just a couple of examples on how webmaster news can benefit you. If you have benefited from the information provided by a webmaster forum, be sure to share some of your own knowledge as well. Communities thrive when everyone shares.

So join a webmaster forum, and participate actively. For all you know, you may end up profiting handsomely from an internet marketing opportunity.

Owning your own business and maintaining a web site to go with it is a great way to increase your income as well as the exposure you receive. Being able to take your business from a local market to a global one simply by having a web site and server space creates a huge advantage for business owners and large corporations alike. Having your own servers can sometimes be too expensive to be realistic and so paying for server space with a web hosting company can make it a lot easier to get your web site on the internet and your business’ name out there. Exposing your business to the billions of people who use the internet everyday will invariably increase your income on a yearly basis.