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- Mobile’s Hot at CES: Jump on the Trend with These Useful Kits & Mock-ups
- It’s for Real: Here We Go! Guidelines on Products and Trademarks in Items
- Image Performance Tips For Authors
| Mobile’s Hot at CES: Jump on the Trend with These Useful Kits & Mock-ups Posted: 09 Jan 2014 04:56 PM PST The International CES is a global consumer electronics and consumer technology trade show that takes place every January in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’m not surprised that there’s a big focus on mobile this year—not just phones and tablets, but also car tech, smart watches and other wearable gear. Here's a handful of useful kits and mock-ups to help you take advantage of the trend. 1. iPad App Store UI This clean and minimal app UI is a complete retina ready flat iOS 7 for iPad, and is constructed of vector shapes, so it can easily be converted to any size without loss of quality. 2. 144 Modern Simple Line Icons This pack contains 144 modern simple line icons. 3. Flat UI Icon Set This icon set is perfect for user interface applications across iOS, Android, Web, Windows, and admin panels. 4. Cinemapp – Flat App Design 9 PSD files with a completely flat design. They’re easy to edit, and designed for retina displays. 5. Smart Watch Mockup This mockup allows you to quickly display your app designs on a digital iWatch screen. 6. Bitcoin Tools A suite of tools that includes a USD to Bitcoin calculator, and the ability to check the balance of a Bitcoin address. 7. Transparent Mega Menu A transparent menu. 8. Google Glasses A high quality 3D model of Google Glass. 9. Drawer Mobile Retina An HTML5/CSS3 and iWebApp mobile site template. 10. BMW i3 2012 This 3D model was accurately created on real car base. It’s qualitatively and maximally close to the original. 11. App UI Close-Up Mock-Up This app UI mock-up allows developers and app UI designers to preview their mobile apps in a professional way. 12. Mobile App | White Phone Mock-Up A mobile app mock-up made specially for the mobile app UI development, so devs can present and showcase their apps with realistic and professional previews. 13. Responsive Screen Mockup Pack This responsive screen mock-up pack allows you to quickly display your designs and layouts on a digital device showcase. 14. Mobilize – Touch Optimized Mobile Template This mobile site template has an easy-to-customize responsive layout packed with features. You'll have your new mobile site up in no time.         |
| It’s for Real: Here We Go! Guidelines on Products and Trademarks in Items Posted: 08 Jan 2014 10:03 PM PST Late last year we announced the clarifications to using products and trademarks in your items on our Marketplaces, and thank you all for your informed feedback on the forums. Based on your feedback it's clear that you’ve welcomed the guidance on these issues and that you'd like us to do more! We’ve tried our best to work in all your valuable and important feedback which has resulted in the following clarifications:
As of Tuesday 14 January 2014 our reviewers will be checking all your items based on the guidelines to using products and trademarks in your items on our Marketplaces. Don't forget also to consider this flowchart which may help you with some intellectual property considerations in your items. Thanks again for all your input and we look forward to continuing to working together to make our community a great place for you to buy and sell digital items. Header image credit: alexskopje       |
| Image Performance Tips For Authors Posted: 07 Jan 2014 08:45 PM PST In this article we’ll give you some tips to help you improve the performance of your item and profile pages. It’s a well known fact that page load time is a vital part of maximising sales online. Google says it best:
The time it takes your Marketplace item, profile and live preview pages to load can have a direct and drastic impact on your sales. Here’s how to make the impact a positive one. How Your Content Impacts Page SpeedYou can add custom HTML to some places on the Marketplaces, including your profile, item descriptions and support pages. This custom HTML can include images that you host. By far the slowest part of the Marketplaces are these self-hosted images. That’s because they’re often not optimised for the web, and are usually hosted on comparatively slow personal servers, or on free image hosting services (like Dropbox, Flickr or CloudApp). The image below shows all of the images that load on a typical Marketplace item page: The highlighted items are images hosted by the author. These can often push the page load time up by three or four seconds. How to Improve Your Item Page’s Speed1. Use Fewer ImagesThe single easiest way to speed up your item page is to simply include fewer images. Watch out for images with lots of text. Aside from adding to page load time, this content is invisible to search engines and not selectable by users. Where possible, add text content and links to the page as text or HTML rather than embedding it in an image. 2. Use An Appropriate Image FormatMany people use JPEG as their default image format, but the size and quality of your images can be improved depending on the content of the image. As a general rule:
But you should experiment with all three formats to see which gives you the best combination of quality and performance. 3. Compress and Optimise ImagesWhen you export your images from Photoshop, always use the “Save for Web” option. Once your image is exported, you can make it even smaller with an image optimisation tool. These tools are able to strip unnecessary data and compress your images even more than “Save for Web”, usually losslessly. Some tools you might like to try include:
There are more tools listed in the best image compression tools for web designers. For the Pros: Host Your Images Somewhere FastFree hosting services are usually not the fastest. If you want to stick with free image hosting, experiment with a few options to see which performs best for you. If you’re hosting your own images, talk to your provider about their best options for fast image hosting. Finally, you can use a CDN to dramatically boost the speed of your images. Tuts+ has some helpful articles to get you started:
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