I really enjoyed this!
It was also a pleasant surprise when I learned I could hit the ball again while it was in mid-air.
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It was also a pleasant surprise when I learned I could hit the ball again while it was in mid-air.
"Full writeup coming another time but mainly it doesn't pick any single word, it maintains a list of possibilities and reduces the list as little as possible with each guess."
Maybe try swapping the inputs and see if that makes a difference?
By the way, one significant issue I just noticed: if I visit your site on a phone, the name of the company is not visible anywhere near the top of the page. I see the logo has the company name, but it's tiny and not able to be read.
I have to use both Keynote and PowerPoint for work and this is one of those small things I've come to appreciate.
Speaking personally, I certainly didn't want to upload my private photos to a social network service where they could inadvertently become public.
1) Your images are too compressed. The artifacts make it look low quality, like I shouldn't trust the site. If you are selling upscale clothes, you should make sure your images reflect that. Maybe use PNG instead of JPG?
2) The logo on the top left is kind of small and doesn't really stand out (black on white). Perhaps use a different color? Also, the font you used makes it look like you made the logo yourself. I don't know if you did or not, but it doesn't match up with the upscale clothing you're selling. I know there are websites where you can make your own royalty-free logos (google "logo designer" or something), look into one of those maybe? And perhaps try to pick a more distinctive font, maybe something that isn't in a standard install of Word, so it stands out.
3) I have to scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page (had to press spacebar 4 times!) to see actual clothing you have for sale. Most people never go below the fold and would have no idea what your website sells (especially since the name doesn't immediately reflect Asian-inspired clothing). Your name doesn't have to be related to what you sell (just look at Amazon), but I need to be able to immediately figure out what stuff you do sell when I first hit your homepage, either via the logo or pictures of actual stuff for sale above the fold.
4) Related to the previous point, why are the category pictures so huge? I'm on a 13" Macbook Air and all but one of them are larger than the viewport (since you keep the header stuck at the top). I would suggest making them much, much smaller - one or two horizontal rows with 3-4 square category icons). Or cut them down to half the size they are now and move them below the Top Sellers + Featured rows.
5) Your titlebar text doesn't say anything about the site. Good place to put more information about exactly what kind of clothing you're selling (will also help with SEO). Even as simple as "Janjua Clothing - Indian designer clothing" or "Janjua Clothing | Indian clothing | Designer clothes | Affordable prices" or something like that.
6) Your site is very busy right now. If you've tried every marketing tool in the book and you still have no sales to date, perhaps it's time to consider a wholesale redesign. It looks like you're using some type of eCommerce plugin or CMS...do they have any other themes you could use? Perhaps something drastically simpler that maybe only focuses on 1-2 items in your inventory that you know sell well (based on other sites or locally in B&M stores or whatever)?
7) Take a look at other ecommerce and clothing websites and see what design stuff works for them. Rakuten, Blue Nile, Zappos, Dollar Shave Club, etc.
Again, I'm not a woman or a web designer or anything like that. Just a normal dude giving you honest feedback on my first impressions. Hope some of this helps.
EDIT: One more website I just stumbled across: http://www.buffalobottlecraft.com/#products - super simple, one high-quality picture at the top and then 8 products for sale, all shown on the homepage. This is along the lines of what I'm suggesting your website could look like. The most important thing is that this website looks trustworthy. I would feel comfortable buying something from this website. Your website doesn't do that for me yet (sorry, just being honest), so even if I were in your target market, I would hesitate before buying. A good design is invaluable in conveying trust.
The pair of high-end luxury malls sound like they could be Tyson's/Tyson's II.
I have a 12/2 package through Cox and routinely go over the 250GB cap. Other than an automated email saying I'm over the cap, nothing happens.
A year ago, I used 750GB in a month after setting up online backup on a computer. Nary a word.
http://carpeaqua.com/2013/10/27/my-ultimate-developer-and-po...
(A wonderful side-product of rarely loading images is that most newsletter-type emails are vastly easier to read.)
Heck, one of their own graphics shows the issue with the responsive cover images. The "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" article's cover image almost completely crops out the woman on the left when viewed on an iPad or iPhone, which is to my eyes the most poignant part of the image.
I absolutely adored the old Medium design. I applaud them for continuing to innovate, but this one is going to have to grow on me.
I know MediaTemple is a good company and wouldn't sell to GoDaddy without reason, so hopefully you can provide some solid justification for staying with you. The current FAQ/blog post don't address GoDaddy's toxic reputation in the tech community at all.
More details here: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/69410-please-read-....
I've been using the iPhone Plex app and sending the video to my Apple TV via AirPlay so far, but I'm really looking forward to trying this.
If enough people start using this, I wonder if Plex will just integrate it into the main Plex Server software?
More details here: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/69410-please-read-...
I've been using the iPhone Plex app and sending the video to my Apple TV via AirPlay so far, but I'm really looking forward to trying this.
If enough people start using this, I wonder if Plex will just integrate it into the main Plex Server software?
Books have traditionally been sold to wholesale at $14, then sold at retail for $28 MSRP. When Amazon started selling ebooks, they stuck with the same model - they were buying ebooks wholesale from the publishers at $14 each.
However, they proceeded to sell them to consumers at $9.99. Yes, they were losing money on every sale. Why? Because they knew this was their chance to dominate the books industry, just as iTunes had done in music. Amazon's MP3 store, despite launching with cheaper and DRM-free music, has never been able to make a serious dent in iTunes' market share. So Amazon knew there was a huge advantage in being the first to dominate the market.
Of course, as Jobs alludes to in the emails, this was unsustainable in the long term. The publishers knew that once Amazon became the dominant ebook seller, they would come back to the publishers and revise the terms of purchase. At that point, $9.99 would've become ingrained in consumers' minds and Amazon would've said they could no longer pay $14 wholesale, probably more like $7 wholesale instead.
The reason the publishers acquiesced to Jobs so quickly was because they knew 70% of $12.99/$14.99 would be better than 70% of $9.99 in the long run.
(Because of most-favored-nation clauses in the contract, publishers forced Amazon to also increase prices to $12.99+ and switch from the wholesale model to the agency model once the iPad went on sale. Amazon pulled HarperCollins books from their site briefly, hoping a groundswell of consumer backlash would force HC and Apple to revise their contract. It didn't happen and now ebooks are sold just like apps - publishers set the price and Apple/Amazon gets 30%.)
It's no secret that Pocket has improved dramatically since rebranding a year ago. And I'm sure most people who are looking for their first "read-later" app are trying Pocket (free) before buying Instapaper ($5).
Personally speaking, I bought Instapaper for myself and gifted it to a few other people over the years, but I switched to Pocket a few months ago. The continuous updates and simpler interface (those thumbnail pics are surprisingly useful) won me over, despite my hesitations about their business model.
Amazing how much they've improved "under-the-hood" while keeping the basic interface the same.
PS. If you can't tell the difference between the two, look at the dock - the only way I could figure it out is spotting the new/changed app icons (Launchpad, iTunes, etc).
(To enable something similar for every site you go to, check out the Ghostery extension for Firefox/Chrome.)
(By the way, typo on the frontpage: "Don't have an Andriod phone?")
Their "aTV Flash" product is $30 and can be added to a jailbroken Apple TV 2 (the third-gen ATV has yet to be jailbroken). It makes it easy to add weather, RSS, a browser, XBMC, Plex, and some other apps to the ATV.
Most notably, however, is their own "Media Player" app, which is a pleasantly robust media center (think XBMC if it were made specifically for the Apple TV). It handles almost any file format I throw at it without fail and is a much better experience than XBMC's own ATV app in my experience.
I can't wait for Apple to officially release the ATV SDK and really open the floodgates, but it feels like pre-March 2008 all over again (when Apple announced the iOS SDK).
Since I read one of those sites (HitFix.com, a news/reviews site), I'm actually now curious how many of its articles have been spuriously removed from Google's index thanks to incorrect takedown requests like this one.