Announcement: Winners of Subscriptions to New Relic | VapvaruN
We recently had a giveaway of five 1-year subscriptions to New Relic, a solid all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience down to the line of application code. Read on to learn who the lucky winners of New Relic subscriptions are.
The Winners
Below is a list of the five winners of 1-year subscriptions to New Relic.
Rich_GG
Steve Robillard
Pramod Venugopal
Crunchynow
Mario Awad
Congratulations to all the winners! The winners should have already received an email from me about their prize.
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About New Relic
New Relic is an online app that lets you monitor, troubleshoot and manage the performance of your web app, 24×7. Whether it’s written in Ruby, Java, .NET, PHP or Python, New Relic will give you X-ray vision into your app … Read More »
Google Panda: 5 Tips You Should Know | VapvaruN
It’s here. It’s inevitable. It’s called Google Panda, the latest Google’s search algorithm which aims to promote the high quality content site by dooming the rank of low quality content sites. Since its release and updates, many sites have been shown to be terribly affected by the algorithm, but the worst rumor here is, they can do almost nothing to recover the ranking and traffic.
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Although the web haven’t sought out an absolute remedy to the Panda’s update, we all know that Panda is pretty much a content quality filter. We also know a proverb saying, “Prevention is better than cure”, so in this post we are going to provide 5 essential tips to help you to prevent the judgment by Google Panda. Full detail at the jump!
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Showcase of Character & Mascot Use in Web Design | VapvaruN
Since the ‘trend’ became popular a number of years ago we’ve seen the idea of including some kind of illustrated character in a website’s design continuously reappear. A cartoon mascot can really help give a website a friendly and inviting appearance to help draw in the user. This post showcases great use of character and mascot use in web design, including old classics as well as fresh examples.
Web Design & Development Podcasts | VapvaruN
Not long ago we had a post that discussed the role that podcasts have been playing in the design field. After which we were asked for a post that focused on more web design and development related podcasts for our readers. Something of a proverbial playlist of shows that are currently helping to shape the fields from the virtual airwaves. So here we are!
We scoured the bountiful podcast offerings that the design and development community have on offer these days, and found some great shows to point our readers towards. Naturally, every one has different tastes, so we tried to assemble a nice mix of styles and show formats so that there is something that every one will find appealing in this list.
Take a look down through all of these shows and see if any of the descriptions trip your … Read More »
Freelance Designers: How to Balance Your Work Life | VapvaruN
Do you work to live or live to work? Freelance designers may have started off imagining work as being flexible since they have freedom to plan for their own schedule. However, ceaseless project demands can make one’s life end up with wear and tear. As we all know, we become emotionally disrupted when we couldn’t get enough balance between work and lives. Being a workaholic may ironically backfire and prevent you from accomplishing what you want so hard.
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For sure, we read articles or get information from the internet on how to attain a more balanced lifestyle. Yet, do we really take actions on it? Or we just go for extra mile in the work so as to hit the target? Come and read this! Below are some tips to help you to … Read More »
