#webpages

[avatarland]

[saiyanqueenreads]

I had a thought while comparing how internet is used now vs back in the 90's...

Please DON'T include any website you are specifically required to use, such as for logging into systems for your job, unless you also use it voluntarily as well.

Please DO include websites you might use for research or for homework, so long as it's your choice to use that specific site.

[mothbonezart]

Pages 21-30 of Lonely Witch Club!

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[sunderstruck]

Has the internet always been this bad to look at for people who don't have 20/20 vision, or is my eyesight getting worse?

People who need glasses, how do you cope with this if you can't move the screen closer or further from your face? Am I stuck editing the CSS for webpages myself, or is there a very popular accessibility extension I've never heard of?

[thelonesgroup]

Creating Connections with Community Pages

As brokers and agents, we are all tied to our communities and there are so many great ways to get involved too. Some of you reading this today volunteer at shelters, support boys-and-girls clubs, are part of a Rotary Group or community lodge, or maybe you care for aging pets or are a member of a local activity group. These are all great things you can do in person that build your presence within the community and expand your sphere of contacts – and help you feel good too! But how do you illustrate connections to your community to people outside of it, like to someone who is relocating from another part of your state?

One of the things that websites (and social media) do for us is expand our presence and message further than they could ever reach without them – and today I want to focus on how you can demonstrate community connections in a way that isn’t just about you, but that gives your website visitor something of value too.

The Evolution of the Community Page

Since my company has been building real estate websites for nearly two decades, I have seen a lot of changes. Back in the early aughts (2003/2004) a community page was, at its best, a brief gazetteer. A paragraph or two, half-a-dozen photos maybe. Ambitious agents would include some market stats, but there wasn’t any automation to keep them current, so they quickly became dated and for many agents it was just too much to maintain data like that.

As time went on, pages got more interesting. Companies like TrendGraphix would create tools to let agents add self-updating market charts to their websites. Social media like Instagram would emerge and give agents a way to stream current photos from their account. A website with an MLS connection could even show current local listings. It was better, but there was a lot of room for improvement.

Today, thanks to the work of IDX companies, huge data brokering services like Atom Data and Home Junction, local review sites like Yelp, Google Maps, Great Schools, artificial intelligence, and more, community pages are easier than ever to create, maintain, and can provide impressive value to website visitors.

Local Maps

This is crucial. Many people don’t have a great sense of where a place is, so whether you are detailing a county or a local neighborhood, include a map. I love interactive maps that let me zoom-in-and-out. Extra points if that map can show me where local schools, parks, and shopping areas are. This is extremely useful for buyers who want to know where they will be able to make a quick grocery stop, to identify the school their children may attend, determine commuting times and so much more. When we build websites, we always include these features!

Market Information

No modern community page is complete without up-to-date market information. Buyers and sellers both appreciate this info. It helps you, the real estate agent, start the process of setting expectations even before you have met. It helps potential referring agents from out of the area identify potential neighborhoods (and you) as viable for their moving clients. Information about recent sales, average price, and home ownership rates are a great starting point. If you want to really provide something of value, offer the option of downloading a full market report. Our websites can generate these on demand, which is a great way to capture potential leads from your website, for a quick handout to mail, or to take to a listing presentation.

Community Description

Of course, every community page should have a description. These days, a short one is just fine since we are going to include a lot more visual info, but if you are talking about a small community then a little more detail can go a long way too. If you use AI to generate your community description, don’t forget to fact check it! We like to include some statistics in our community descriptions, but you have to be careful that they don’t go stale. To keep ours fresh, we use the same data sources that automatically update our market information.

Schools

For well over a decade, we have been able to include school information with websites and without undue effort. Great Schools has made this easy, whether you go-it-alone or have a professional build your website. It’s just as relevant as it has ever been and every great community page should have it.

Demographics

Buyers want to know if a community is the right fit for them. Sellers are curious how their community has changed. For you, the agent, having a reliable source of demographics makes for endless, easy content for sharing online, and adds something to your website that most other agents just don’t have at all.

Local Businesses

Beyond supporting local businesses, which can often use all the help they can get, showcasing local stores and services really integrates you into the community. Locals love seeing their favorite spots featured. Potential clients from further away can get a taste of what is available in your area and maybe even try something out on a visit. We connect our client’s real estate websites to Yelp’s services to showcase popular dining, bars and coffee shops, shopping centers, gyms and self-care, and pet care services.

Other Details

Slideshows or connecting an Instagram stream of local photos have huge visual value. Including a connection to your MLS where visitors can browse inventory is a must – yes, it’s not what brought them to your website, but they will stay longer and search engines love it too. It’s also important to have lots of opportunities for people to connect with you. Season your community page with these opportunities so that as your visitors look around it is easy for them to reach you with a question. If you are blogging about your area, include a section on your community page of recent blog posts. I would put blogs towards the bottom to give visitors something easy to move on to after they have engaged with your community info.

Closing Thoughts

If you have been reading through this and thinking, "I have no idea how I would even start to add some of these ideas," then stop thinking and take action by giving us a call, emailing us at solutions@thelonesgroup.com or by visiting us online and scheduling a free consult. For examples of actual community pages, try here, here, or here. Your community pages are a powerful, critical part of connecting with new clients online and illustrating your local connections and knowledge.

By Denise Lones CSP, M.I.R.M., CDEI - The founding partner of The Lones Group, Denise Lones, brings nearly three decades of experience in the real estate industry. With agent/broker coaching, expertise in branding, lead generation, strategic marketing, business analysis, new home project planning, product development, Denise is nationally recognized as the source for all things real estate. With a passion for improvement, Denise has helped thousands of real estate agents, brokers, and managers build their business to unprecedented levels of success, while helping them maintain balance and quality of life.

[newstech24]

NLWeb is Microsoft's undertaking to convey extra chatbots to webpages

As a part of an effort to make constructing AI-powered chatbots on the net easier, Microsoft is launching an open undertaking known as NLWeb. Introduced at Construct 2025, NLWeb lets web sites present a “conversational interface” — i.e. a textual content area and a submission button — for his or her customers with just a few strains of code, the AI mannequin of their selection, and their very own…

[simple-logic]

#GuessTime

Test your Cloud knowledge! 🐧 Drop your guess in the comments below! 🤔

[tech-entires]

What will SearchGPT be? What should we expect?

SearchGPT will be a revolutionary AI powered search engine developed by OpenAI. It aims to provide direct and accurate answers to user queries using real time data from across the web

https://techentires.com/what-will-searchgpt-be

[growthscribe]

Now check the speed of your website on your own and get it developed!

[pigeonphd]

>first day of a class that the professor stresses is very difficult

>ask if it’s challenging material or taught poorly

>professor doesn’t understand

>pull out a diagram showing what is challenging material and what is taught poorly

>professor laughs and says “it’s a good class, sir”

>look inside

>taught poorly

[avatarland]

[erpsolutions]

Cross browser testing is the testing type that is to be used to ensure the compatibility of web application among different web browsers and platforms combination.

[kudostasolutionsllp]

How UX Design Saves Time and Money?

UX design is a path that ties a knot between the visitors and the business goals. It ensures that strategy and requirements are interconnected and set the direction for visual design and happy customers. Apart from making the customer explore the application smoothly, it also saves time and money.

Thinking why am I saying this? Read below and know how UX design saves your time and money. Moreover, also know why UX design is a critical ingredient in the digital space.

Rework is hectic:

Imagine you wanted to build a house, but now you are not happy with the final output. The amount of rework that requires finishing the whole project is so much. A UX designer is like an architect for any digital project irrespective of the industry. They set expectations and outline work for other teams and give blueprints to follow the path in order to get the desired output. Therefore, we say strategized UX designs can save much of your time and work.

Clear idea and flow

Hiring a UX designer also saves everyone time in meetings discussing requirements, because a designer can give a clear overview and prototypes to start the work that visually appealing before any code has been written. A designer can instantly crafts dummy mockups to show what the application will look like at the final stage, without having to discuss it each time, by reiterating the requirements again and again. The proficient designers have the ability to make the whole team have a final view by keeping everyone in the loop and reducing meeting times.

Specified development Cycles

Designing and development go hand in hand time because it can be done in parallel. While frontend and backend developers are busy building, planning, architecture, the designers are busy creating, iterating, and testing wireframes. By the time the design is finalized and into the picture, the developers are ready to merge the technology and platform to bring out the best output.

Fix-It Before It's Broken

A user experience designer will perform some of the strategized usability checks on the app to check the performance, either through user tests or design evaluations. This directly indicates that what doesn't work and what works even before the developers begin the development part. The UX Designers try various designs and keep the project on track and clear for all the teammates in the loop. The ability of a designer to quickly iterate on prototypes means that you can make development decisions faster and have the confidence that you're building the right app, to begin with.  

Hire a Designer

When someone fails to do the design up-front himself, developers mess it up creating an application without a head and tail. However, contrastingly sometimes those people will probably have some good ideas, but it will be more costly and time-consuming than it needs to be and result in an application that's more difficult to use and understand.

Final Touch

Therefore, it is better to build any application under the designer's guidance and support. Hope you would have got the point of how much the UX designers simplify the job of any developers. A good designer not only saves your time and money but also your energy and effort put into it.

[saywhat-politics]

National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage

(CNN) — An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

The National Parks Service webpage for the “Underground Railroad” used to lead with a quote from Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor”, a comparison on the Wayback Machine between the webpage on January 21 and March 19 shows. Both the quote and an image of Tubman have since been removed, along with several references to “enslaved” people and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

[digitalcreationsllc]

Use cURL and Wget to download network files from CLI | TechTarget

The process for viewing webpages is a matter of downloading files that a browser then interprets. From that perspective, HTTP is just another file transfer function, like FTP. If that’s true, what other tools support similar file transfers from web servers or other remote systems? The answer includes cURL and Wget. Both cURL and Wget are tools for uploading or downloading files. While many users…

[guyghoul]

Working on my website

I have been working on my website a bit at a time.

The idea is that my website is going to be a character directory and a general repository of my ideas and projects.

This was before I had a Toyhou.se account, thoug having my own website is more flexible.

I managed to make a responsive website with Skeleton and generating webpages with Lume. I might switch from Skeleton to Amazium, but both add some CSS tyling when all I actually want is the responsive grid. In fact, I am trying to style my website in a style close to Level 1,5 Teletext, which is mostly done. I still need to make borders around tables and find a way of makin gallery entry pages.

I managed to get my head around Nunjucks and YAML, which I find the best fit o my overall website project. I ended up making subtemplates based off general templates.

I would add pictures later. I find them important, but I feel that actually putting text is more important.