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Make Your Next Web Project a Success With 6 Free Tools

The first and foremost thing any company will wonder about when it comes to web project success is the return of investment. I highly recommend you to create a mobile application for your business, you can make it popular with app promotion services to attract new customers. Any company who have experience in monitoring and scheduling the projects knows that more efficient your process becomes more economical it becomes.

At the initiation of your web project you will start to notice small and big issues in the management of tasks. So make your next web project a success with 6 free tools, which are:

1. Typeform used for On-boarding:

Problem:

You have to spend awful hours rooting around in haphazard email threads to search for mission critical information.

The solution:

An initial web project survey looks like a simple task. But it can stop the craziness dead in its tracks. You have to ask the meaty question by which you have to get started. Moreover give some space to your clients so that they can riff on their requirements.

Tool Used for this:

It can simply be done with Google form but Typeform consists of many more ways to customize and its available for free. It is the first important tool for web project

2. PandaDoc for proposals:

Problem:

You are probably be sending the quotes, outlines via emails or even the signatures via fax if your clients need it. So if you require a signature to start a project there is no reason to do the whole print, sign or scan every time.

The solution:

Just start it with a formal business proposal. It is all in one outline of price, timeline, product or even the requirements. The simple solution of setting this down is to merge these all in one place which gives you a chance of organizing your thoughts and align your resources to tackle the project at hand.

Tool used for this:

PandaDoc is the best online design solution for this problem. It helps you to keep your documents secured, organized and legally binded in a beautiful way. It comes as the second important tool for web project.

3. Wireframe.cc For the Mockups:

Problem:

Mockups take some serious time. But if you are constructing look-alike files or building the actual sites for screenshots in Photoshop then it is the time for a change.

The solution:

Tools are ultimate solution for numerous problems which can perform two main mockup tasks. Firstly it makes the mockup process much faster. Secondly it can provide an excellent medium of graph representation.

Tool for the job:

Wireframe.cc is a pretty tool which is free and simple to use for this task to complete smoothly.

4. Trello For To-Do listing:

Problem:

You will be seeing To-Do lists everywhere including your Whiteboard, on the back of the envelopes or specially roaming around in old email threads with clients.

The solution:

Select a place where you will be nesting your tasks under the appropriate projects. It is as simple as that.

Tool for the job:

Trello can spellbound you with its magic if you are a lover of scrum board or post-it. It increases your productivity with its ability to drag discrete tasks between the stages of completion which syncs up perfectly with the complexities of the website project. Even you can attach files to each card and assign team members to it.

5. Import.io for researching content:

Problem:

It is much complicated to know what kind of content you will be using for the site you are building. All you can do is noting down the features and content of current website or your competitors.

The fix:

Just some popular blog posts and cursory analysis can give a quick glimpse into the topic of the stuffs presented.

The tool for the job:

No need to go through the marketing book or scrape data from the current website of your competitors. All you need is to use Import.io

6. Optimizely:

Problem:

You have got your landing page built but somehow you want to improve on perfection. Sometimes your clients have some queries and you are on your way to incorporate suggestions without sabotaging the site.

The solution:

You can perform the A/B testing process and you can get the idea how each of them performs. It is better that you set up the tests and hand your clients the keys of optimized Landing page.

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A robotic arm which can pick up food and feed a person autonomously has been developed by the University of Washington.

The Assistive Dexterous Arm (ADA) uses sensors and algorithms to identify food on a plate and works out the best way to pick it up and also feed it to the person.

Researchers hope it will assist caregivers in feeding fruit and might one day be able to feed “realistic” meals with further development.

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Photography of Bagai Family: Courtesy of Rani Bagai and the South Asian American Digital Archive

APAHM Spotlight: South Asian American Digital Archive

As part of our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) campaign, we are shedding light on some important subjects that have affected the community and continue to do so. Immigration is one of those subjects and continues to be a big topic globally. It’s imperative to keep in mind that the goal of people who migrate is most often to create a better life for their family and seek opportunities that are not available in their home countries.

Our friends at the South Asian American Digital Archive provide incredible documentation and stories about the South Asian American community. With their help, we’re going to shed a little light on one family’s immigration journey. introducing the Bagai family. The Bagai family arrived in San Francisco in 1915 after fleeing India, which was under British rule. The family consisted of Vaishno Das Bagai, Kala Bagai, and their three sons. At a time where most South Asian immigrants were men, the San Francisco Call & Post dubbed Kala the “first Hindu woman to enter the city in ten years” and referred to her nose ring as “the latest fad from India.”

The Bagai family’s goal was to settle into their new home and start fresh. Unfortunately, during a time of growing anti-Asian sentiment, they faced multiple cases of harassment, denial to their own homes, and also endured racist laws such as the Alien Land Laws which specifically prevented Asian immigrants from owning land in many of the West Coast states in the United States. What made things harder for the Bagai family was the ruling of the 1923 Supreme Court case: US vs. Bhagat Singh Thind that denied citizenship to South Asians on the grounds that they were not white. Though Vaishno Das Bagai had gained his citizenship previously, this ruling ultimately led to his denaturalization.

The lasting effect of losing his citizenship, Vaishno Bagai took his own life in 1928. In his note, he wrote, “Is life worth living in a gilded cage?” The denial of this right that had been given to him and his family is an issue that we are still seeing today where many immigrant families are finding it increasingly difficult to apply for citizenship. The process is not as easy as it looks and the red taping of the process can take up to 20 years, as it did for Kala Bagai when she and her family were finally naturalized.

Make sure to connect with SAADA to find more stories about the South Asian community. We’ll be continuing our coverage of APAHM throughout the month. Follow @action to keep up!

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WordPress 101: Getting Your Website Up and Running

Did you know that over 75 million websites are made on WordPress? That’s almost 22% of all websites around the world. The following are some of the issues which usually creep up while using WordPress and the ways in which those issues can be fixed. So, stay alert because school is in session.

Your WP Site’s Security

WordPress websites are usually attacked by hackers, or in hacker lingo, script kiddies who can creep into your WordPress websites via some common WordPress security vulnerabilities. When looking to secure your WordPress website it is best to start from the ground up.

While there are many plugins that can act as a firewall for your WP website some of them can also work by modifying your .htaccess file or restricting some access at the Apache level, before it can be processed by WordPress. Some great examples are WordFence or All in One WordPress Security.

Antispam Bee and Growmap Anti Spambot are also all great plugins to keep your site safe from hackers and spammers.

WP Site SEO

After you get the peace of mind that the hackers are at bay, you will need to concentrate on getting the SEO part of your WP website right. While the All in One SEO Pack will get you the tools you need to optimize your site you will need some specific plugins to deal with some of the most common SEO issues. One of the main ideas is being able to track your website’s visitors. For that, plugins like Clicky add a small stats indicator. You can also use Google Analytics by Yoast to keep track of how your WP site is doing on the SERPs. While Yoast has not given people problems in the past, recently some users have complained about receiving a 404 error. A way out of this problem is pretty simple. All you will have to do is open WordPress SEO plugin > Edit Files option and write in the following code.

# WordPress SEO – XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^sitemap_index.xml$ / index.php?sitemap=1 [L] RewriteRule ^([^/]+?) –sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /index.php? Sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 [L]

# END WordPress SEO – XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix

Needless to say, WP Google Analytics and Google XML Sitemaps are also two of the best ways to track WP site statistics. The tools are both easy to grasp and get a hand of even for beginners.

Best Sources for WP Themes

There’s really nothing like a stunning custom theme to set your website apart. Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades makes your life easy by doing all the heavy lifting for you. Other favorites include Customizr, OmaGue, Xodogo, and well, the WordPress themes directory where you will find all kinds of themes from full screen and slider themes to responsive themes and everything in between.

When you have the designs ready, another important step is to turn your designs into a fully-functional site. Luckily, there are professional web development services like psd2html.com, that can help you out with your WordPress implementations and settings. This is a great way to avoid hassle and save time. The workflow is very straightforward, get a free quote anytime you are ready to bring your blog to life.

Best Social Plugins

Giving the ability to your audience to bookmark and share the content of your WP site is the best thing you can do to make sure the content stays fresh and your business stays in their minds. Sociable is the leader when it comes to sharing within the WordPress space. It continues to be the fastest growing plugin for setting rating systems and for reminding your readers to spread the word. Other notable plugins like ShareThis and AddThis are also used for sharing recommended content.

Best Plugins Offering Contact Us Forms Customizations

Plugins also allow users to create their own contact forms that can give your business a professional look and simplify online communication. Fast Secure Contact Form is an easy and powerful form builder. If you don’t already have Jetpack by WordPress you should seriously consider installing it for your website. Slick Contact Form is another widget based plugin which can be used to create customizable contact us forms. It can also handle multiple forms per page to give your website a more powerful effect. Contact Form 7 is another popular plugin which has been downloaded over 16 million times by WP users. Using plugins is by far the easiest way to get the job done no matter what it may be.

Ending Note

If you put all of these in place but fail to monitor or update your WP website it will be just as bad as if you’d never done any of this to begin with. So, use these plugins and exercise constant diligence to get yourself a water sealed abracadabra kind of WordPress website which is safe for doing business or shooting up a blog.