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What and Where is the Fold?
Author: Sabra
This is a question that I get asked regularly…
Q: Hi, would you kindly explain what is not above the fold?
A: Above the fold is a graphic design term that was coined from the Newspaper industry. It is the concept that the most important news or most appealing content is located at the top to entice people to go further. “Above the fold” refers to the part of a web page that is immediately visible when a visitor loads that page. This is the content of the page that can be seen without scrolling the page. The fold for 1024×768 monitor is on average 578 pixels down from the top of a webpage.
In turn, the space that is not above the fold is anything you have to scroll down to see. If there is no scrolling involved to view what you are trying to view, than that content is considered above the fold.
For more details visit: Above the fold – Wikipedia
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Tags: above the fold, graphic design, scrolling, what is | 
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Claim Your Traffic from Facebook & Digg
Author: Sabra
If you have been sharing links on sites such as Facebook and Digg, you may not be getting all of your AdSense revenue. Most times, when a user clicks a link on Facebook or Digg, they will see a framed page. Since your website then is inside of a “window” type frame, your site is not getting the actual traffic from that click, Digg and/or Facebook are.
There is a way to stop this from happening to you, and it is so very simple. Between the <head> and </head> tags of your website, one little JavaScript call is all you need to add. The code is as follows:
<script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript”>
if (top.location != self.location) top.location.replace(self.location);
</script>
This will prevent your website from being framed in the future, and will prevent any loss of traffic and or revenue from ad providers such as AdSense.
Posted in All Posts, Internet Browsing |
Tags: adsense revenue, avoid frame, digg, Facebook, increase traffic, JavaScript, page frame |
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Facebook Gets A Facelift?
Author: Sabra
Facebook made some huge changes about a year ago that truly turned their site around. Prior to these changes, Facebook was more for people that were trying to connect to old school buddies. Then it became a site for people to connect without so much of a college influence and has gained upwards of 3 million users.
Well, after everyone flocked to the new user interface on Facebook, they changed their tune again. Unlike MySpace, Facebook decided to surprise all of the users with these “Grand new changes”. When MySpace changed their user interface, they gave the users a choice to switch to the new, or to stay with the old. The users of Facebook had no warning, and no clue that everything they were used to was about to change. Usually change takes time to adjust to, whether it is a change in a life situation or it is a website that changed a bunch of stuff.
What do you think? Are they good changes? Are they changes that should be reverted? Should Facebook leave well enough alone and change it back, or should they stick to their guns? Should we trust the developers of Facebook a bit more to be actually moving toward improvements, or do you think that the management doesn’t know what the users really want?
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Tags: changes, Facebook changes, MySpace, social networking |
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