Hell All…. As you might have noticed that I have removed many of the contents that I have/had posted in the past. But you can still access the same if you had the permalink. Much of the make over is to do with the way I am progressing in life I have always had the passion in me to be a writer and write a lot of stuff for other reading pleasure, that was the main idea behind starting this blog. Today I have realized that I have not been able to maintain or update this blog due to my current designation and job profile, but I have thought of an innovative idea so that I can keep this blog alive…
So keeplooking forward for innovative stuff that would be updated (hopefully on a daily basis… )
The news is that 1 in 4 Americans still aren’t registered to vote. Google wants young Americans to register to vote and contribute to decision making in their country’s future.
Google has started providing easy access to voting information and created a Google’s Voter Info Map that currently puts registration, absentee, and early voting information in one place. You can check out the mobile version too.
Here is the embedded celebrity video you don’t want to miss. Its convincing enough. Register to vote today.
A lot of celebrities gathered together in this public service announcement video like Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.
The 2008 Blogger Challenge is back and inspires the web community to help kids in high-need public schools. Bloggers will compete to raise funds for DonorsChoose.org, which lets donors select school projects to fund.
DonorsChoose.org provide students in need with resources that public schools lack. Teachers submit project proposals for materials or experiences their students need to learn and these ideas become classroom reality when concerned individuals and philanthropists choose projects to fund. Donors often receive a feedback package of student photos and thank-you notes, and a teacher impact letter.
The who’s who in the blogosphere is getting together to Help Classrooms in Need. Top bloggers have created giving pages on DonorsChoose.org listing their favorite classroom projects and are encouraging their readers to donate to those projects.
Any blogger can get started by creating a giving page. You can invite your readers to pick some of the classroom projects that will go on your giving page. Then offer to do something wacky if your readers reach a certain level of donations. Display the widget for your giving page to serve as a constant call-to-action for your readers.
Last year in October as part of Blogger challenge 2007, more than a hundred bloggers inspired their readers to give $420,000 to classroom projects on DonorsChoose.org, reaching 75,000 students from low-income communities.
Those teachers who want to raise funds for a classroom project, can register as a teacher and create a project proposal. Make a donation to help your favorite blogger win. Bloggers can join the challenge, and beat the blogging A-list by your fundraising.
For those of you who have been downloading the nightly builds or contributing code to 2.7, you’ve noticed how quickly features are being added, small layout changes are gradually being implemented, and the application is morphing before your very eyes. For the most part, the response has been extremely positive, but even the people who love 2.7 have been wondering what it’s going to end up looking like. Though 2.7 is still a work in progress, we’ve put together a set of wireframes to illustrate how we think it will all turn out, so you can take a look under the hood of the design process, so to speak.
The PDF attached to this post outlines the navigation model, header elements, and important screens such as the dashboard, the new post screen, and list screens for posts, comments, and media.
Some things to bear in mind if you’re not used to looking at wireframes:
1. These are a guide, not a dictate. Changes may be made by developers and designers as needed for technical, aesthetic and/or usability reasons. When you have a team of superfast developers like we do, sometimes wireframes can become out of date quickly. In the two hours since these wireframes were approved, for example, already there are a few things that have moved and a menu change or two. Tweaks will continue to be made over the next week or two before freeze. This is Alpha software, not Beta, and it’s not static. That’s part of what makes it exciting, that every time it’s updated there’s something new.
2. These are all black/grey/white. That’s because we have a designer hard at work on visual styles for the new admin panel, including color palette, fonts, graphic elements, etc. When we have a new look to show off, we will. For now, the wireframes are “lookless” on purpose.
3. Not every screen is wireframed. We focused on creating wireframes for those screens that are undergoing the most change. For screens retaining largely the same functionality and layout, we have not included wireframes. In some cases, we’ll be updating screens but haven’t decided how to do it yet, so those aren’t included either.
4. Some elements apply directly to wordpress.com or wordpress.org, so don’t be alarmed if you see something that doesn’t seem to apply (like multiple dashboards).
One of the things I love best about WordPress is the vibrant community full of talented developers and designers who care about the application and want it to be the best it can be. Despite the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve gotten when showing 2.7 at WordCamps and from the majority of the community, there will always be people who would prefer it to be structured another way, which is why we love plugins! The decisions that went into 2.7 were based on a combination of usability testing results from 2.5 and Crazyhorse (both including laser eye tracking, official report to be released soon, but slides from WordCamp SF available in meantime), community feedback, personal and professional opinions, and some thinking about where the next couple of versions will be going in terms of new features, so that we will have a design that scales to accommodate some the features we hope to incorporate in the future.
So, I hope you enjoy getting an inside look at how we’ve been organizing our thoughts around 2.7, and that when the community feedback starts flowing everyone remembers that we all want the same thing: the best WordPress possible.
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