Friends for Friends Foundation is an initiative by Friends Advertising under the motto :“creative changes the world”.

“It is without doubt that the Friends For Friends Foundation will be the most important Romanian NGO helping creatives to succeed. This is what we want from it and, sooner or later, you will see this come true.

For the moment, we are launching this idea and testing various formats of it working and being self-sustainable.

If you like it, keep coming back for more ideas and info, as well as operational developments.”

THE FFFF BOARD

The Hotel industry can offer you many perspectives in creating a clean and nice website. Unfortunately if you start surfing the web, you will not find very often well designed hotel websites. Some of the top hotels in the world have websites with outdated design and usability. Below I’ve listed some examples I personally like.

1. Three Sisters Hotel - Tallin

I like this one because of the nice animations made with jquery and the clean photos, which give the hotel a very warm and welcoming feeling.

2. Sofitel Luxury Hotels

3. Hotel Vitale

4. Hotel Carlina

5. Hotel Bellagio

Although I don’t like to give negative examples, my eye cannot ignore the website of hotel NEGRESCO from one of my favorite cities: NICE. I’m reading the following message in the bottom part of the website: “Best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.01 and 800×600 resolution”. I don’t even wanna know when it was built

Anthem is the name of the great spot for Absolut Vodka created by the guys from TBWA New York!

“A group of artists comes together in locations around the world to create art pieces that spell out the philosophy of Absolut Vodka.  See something different in an ABSOLUT WORLD.”

After the amazing video from last year made by Rob Chiu the guys from Artillery have managed to maintain the high level of the trailer quality for the 2009 conference to.

Enjoy !

Nice web app for getting the local time and many other information for any destination in the world. Check it out it’s worth :D. You will get as search results, different type of informations like:weather, info from wikipedia, currency converter, headlines from newspapers, photos from FLICKR, etc …

Still there are tiny little errors, since I am located in Cluj Napoca and it points Zalau, a city 80 km far

1. Multiple site support

Clients or web companies which manage a big amount of websites, should consider this as an option. Modifying multiple websites with the same login can save you a lot of time.

2. Multiple language support

You need to think twice before choosing a CMS, if it supports multiple language. You may think you businees does not currently need multiple language, but your target audience could change, and it is bether to prepare yourself for that.

3. CMS Editors

I ran into a lot of types of editors using different types of opens sources CMS’s  like Wordpress, Joomla, Magento or Drupal. Feature I consider a Editor should have:

a. Code clean-up. When writing articles, clients often use copy-paste action from Microsoft Word or any other program. An Editor which does not do code clean up will mess up your W3C Code  Validation.

b. Editors need to be very easy customizable. It is important you can easily add or delete features from the editors menu, according to your clients needs.

c. Image insert: make sure that by inserting an image, you will have also the possibility to insert alt attributes.

4. Assets Management

Be sure the CMS can easily manage image and media files. It would be great you can easily create image galleries.

Attachements for articles is also a nice feature to have. Users should have the possibility of attaching PDF, Word, Excel files to their articles.

6. Optimization for Search Engines

A good CMS should provide: url rewriting, page title management, insertion of alt attributes to images, description for attached documents, in order to deliver a google friendly website.

7. Menu management

Very important feature for menu management is that the CMS allows you to create tree menus and you can easily add articles to menus.

8. User interaction

Today interacting with you users is very important, so it would be nice that you will be able easily to create forms, or allowing users to comment your articles.

9. Rolls and permissions

You can get into the situation when a website it’s administrated by more than one user, or you might want to restrict users acces for certain features. In order to that your CMS should support permission. Some basic user management should allow you to create: Super Administrators, Editors, Publishers or Registered users type.

You may also want to read to orriginal article by Paul Boag.

Gret video, great shoots, impressive message …

1. Domain name:

Choosing a domain name is very relevant for having a good referenced website. Keywords should be used in the process of choosing a domain name.

2. Keywords in URL:

The url of each page should contain relevant keywords. For dynamical generated pages via PHP scripting language we need to use URL REWRITING in order to display keyword in URL.

Example: an url for a product page which looks like: www.domain-name.com/product.php?id=10 can be displayed like www.domain-name.com/fruits.html

3. Keywords in title tag:

The title tag for each page should contain 10-60 characters, no special characters are allowed.

4. Keywords used in BODY:

The keywords used in the body of an html page should appear as bold, italic, or in h1, h2, h3 tags. It is important that the density of the keywords is not bigger than 20% of the total amount of words on the page. Tricks like hidding keywords by using different css techniques will not help.

Text should not appear in images or in flash files, since search engines cannot read them.

5. Keywords used in description and Meta Tag:

Google and other search engines don’t actually rely on this tags, but is important to have them complete. Not more than 200 words are allowed.

6. Keywords in alt tags:

Each image of your website should have an alt tag in which you enter a short description of you image.

7. Menu:

The menu of a web site should not be made using flash. The links should contain kewords. All internal links need to be valid.

8. Number of pages:

Search engines like big websites with lot of pages. In order to have a proper referencement you need to build it up by using as many pages as possible.

9. Website update:

The content of your website needs to be updated constantly. Search engines enjoy fresh pages.

10. Page Rank:

Try to imporve your Page Rank by increasing the number of links to you. You should publish your website on as many quality portals as possible. (ex: www.cssmania.com, www.cssremix.com, etc …)

Big SpaceShip, awarded interactive company launched an interesting project, where they gather nice flash preloaders.

Motivation - by Big SpaceShip

“Once upon a time, in a land of sputtering dial-up connections, websites took ages to load. Folks yearned for the 100% mark. But as soon as that figure arrived, the beloved (or bemeaned) preloader disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.

Until now

Pretty Loaded is an archive of preloaders that preload other preloaders… It’s a tribute to a vanishing art form amid a constantly changing digital landscape“.