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n4b3 · 10 months ago
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Okay so my curious ass decided to go through work search in the usa (im not from the usa) but i literally dreamed my conclusion that graphic design needs varies a lot depending on the culture/society which is cool
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seoboosterr · 3 years ago
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Architecture Visual Studio: Attract More Customers With CGI and Architectural Visualizations
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The ability of an architect to convert average viewers or admirers of his works into customers is an indicator that he not only knows his stuff but did a fantastic job of translating his skills into value-laden benefits to prospective customers. Architectural firms can attract more customers by growing a solid reputation with the proper tools and maintaining it. With the help of a Vietnam architecture visual studio, an architect can quickly grow from an architectural design guru to a marketing expert. By visualizing your proficiency in 3D, you can attract more clients and make your business a success. Satisfied clients, in turn, willingly and eagerly recommend you to their friends and relatives, as well as post reviews and recommendations of your company. 
Architectural studios and CGI Attract More Customers
Modern architects utilize architectural rendering services from the best architectural rendering companies to make 3D models for their clients that help prospective clients visualize the plans in a way not feasible using 2D drawings. These computer-generated models are also far more precise than traditional architectural drawings.
Where the architectural rendering services can deliver more than just interactive images from the 3D renders, they delve into architectural animation. This provides the visualizations with more video authenticity showing movies of a building rather than static images. When standard locational features are added, clients quickly start to see the possible connection a proposed building may have to the environment and its surrounding structures. This article focuses on ways to attract more customers, particularly with the help of the best architecture CGI studio.
Create a Dedicated Blog to Show Off Your Work
Every business needs an SEO-optimized website, and fresh, valuable content produced consistently is the hallmark of good SEO. The possibilities are limitless; there is so much information in texts and pictures that you can share on the blog. Yet, it seems that architects are only beginning to scratch the surface of what they can do with blog posts. These blog posts can hinge on the existing and future projects of the architecture firm, information about architectural design changes, and posts highlighting the firm's social responsibility or its clients. 
Add More CGI Architectural Designs to Your Portfolio
For other experts, such as accountants, a portfolio is a checklist of financial assets or simply a large, thin case for carrying their loose papers. However, an architect’s portfolio is far more critical; it does not just hold documents; it also owns and showcases the architect’s career and, in some cases, his entire life work.
The architect’s 3D renders portfolio, which includes a set of creative work collected to show potential clients, needs an impeccable standard. Best architectural visualization studios allow you and your potential clients to get incredible images of buildings from any angle and time of the day, weather or season. You can include everything in your portfolio, from the live projects completed or in progress to ideas you have for future projects.
CGI in Video
Video marketing is today’s champion when it comes to promotion. First, video attracts more attention and yields more results on social media. Video also adds a tangibility that helps the performance of less concrete products, such as architectural services. Ultimately, video is more memorable than other marketing forms.
More and more social media outlets allow embedding videos into posts and running video advertising campaigns. You can include CGI imagery in videos or even virtual tools people will appreciate watching. It’s a powerful tool for bringing traffic, gaining recognition, and attracting more customers from social media and your website.
Final Words
Architectural visualizations loaded with CGI offer support for the text and ensure viewers readily comprehend the intended message. Although the text is exact and helpful in passing relevant information to potential clients, they are quickly forgotten. Younger clients are more likely to find them unengaging or boring. Instead, you can concentrate on attracting more clients to your brand through top archviz studios, generating more awareness, and inspiring message retention. 
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suzanneshannon · 5 years ago
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Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements
Here’s the plan! We’re going to build a styled select element. Not just the outside, but the inside too. Total styling control. Plus we’re going to make it accessible. We’re not going to try to replicate everything that the browser does by default with a native <select> element. We’re going to literally use a <select> element when any assistive tech is used. But when a mouse is being used, we’ll show the styled version and make it function as a select element.
That’s what I mean by “hybrid” selects: they are both a native <select> and a styled alternate select in one design pattern.
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Custom selects (left) are often used in place of native selects (right) for aesthetics and design consistency.
Select, dropdown, navigation, menu… the name matters
While doing the research for this article, I thought about many names that get tossed around when talking about selects, the most common of which are “dropdown” and “menu.” There are two types of naming mistakes we could make: giving the same name to different things, or giving different names to the same thing. A select can suffer from both mistakes.
Before we move ahead, let me try to add clarity around using “dropdown” as a term. Here’s how I define the meaning of dropdown:
Dropdown: An interactive component that consists of a button that shows and hides a list of items, typically on mouse hover, click or tap. The list is not visible by default until the interaction starts. The list usually displays a block of content (i.e. options) on top of other content.
A lot of interfaces can look like a dropdown. But simply calling an element a “dropdown” is like using “fish” to describe an animal. What type of fish it is? A clownfish is not the same as a shark. The same goes for dropdowns.
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Like there are different types of fish in the sea, there are different types of components that we might be talking about when we toss the word “dropdown” around:
Menu: A list of commands or actions that the user can perform within the page content.
Navigation: A list of links used for navigating through a website.
Select: A form control (<select>) that displays a list of options for the user to select within a form.
Deciding what type of dropdown we’re talking about can be a foggy task. Here are some examples from around the web that match how I would classify those three different types. This is based on my research and sometimes, when I can’t find a proper answer, intuition based on my experience.
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Dropdown-land: Five scenarios where different dropdowns are used across the internet. Read the table below for a detailed description.
Diagram LabelScenarioDropdown Type1The dropdown expects a selected option to be submitted within a form context (e.g. Select Age)Select2The dropdown does not need an active option (e.g. A list of actions: copy, paste and cut)Menu3The selected option influences the content. (e.g. sorting list)Menu or Select (more about it later)4The dropdown contains links to other pages. (e.g. A “meganav” with websites links)Disclosure Navigation5The dropdown has content that is not a list. (e.g. a date picker)Something else that should not be called dropdown
Not everyone perceives and interacts with the internet in the same way. Naming user interfaces and defining design patterns is a fundamental process, though one with a lot of room for personal interpretation. All of that variation is what drives the population of dropdown-land. 
There is a dropdown type that is clearly a menu. Its usage is a hot topic in conversations about accessibility. I won’t talk much about it here, but let me just reinforce that the <menu> element is deprecated and no longer recommended. And here’s a detailed explanation about inclusive menus and menus buttons, including why ARIA menu role should not be used for site navigation.
We haven’t even touched on other elements that fall into a rather gray area that makes classifying dropdowns even murkier because of a lack of practical uses cases from the WCAG community.
Uff… that was a lot. Let’s forget about this dropdown-land mess and focus exclusively on the dropdown type that is clearly a <select> element.
Let’s talk about <select>
Styling form controls is an interesting journey. As MDN puts it, there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly. Good is stuff like <form> which is just a block-level element to style. Bad is stuff like checkboxes, which can be done but is somewhat cumbersome. <select> is definitely in ugly terrain.
A lot of articles have been written about it and, even in 2020, it’s still a challenge to create custom selects and some users still prefer the simple native ones. 
Among developers, the <select> is the most frustrating form control by far, mainly because of its lack of styling support. The UX struggle behind it is so big that we look for other alternatives. Well, I guess the first rule of <select> is similar to ARIA: avoid using it if you can.
I could finish the article right here with “Don’t use <select>, period.” But let’s face reality: a select is still our best solution in a number of circumstances. That might include scenarios where we’re working with a list that contains a lot of options, layouts that are tight on space, or simply a lack of time or budget to design and implement a great custom interactive component from scratch.
Custom <select> requirements
When we make the decision to create a custom select — even if it’s just a “simple” one — these are the requirements we generally have to work with:
There is a button that contains the current selected option.
Clicking the box toggles the visibility of the options list (also called listbox).
Clicking an option in the listbox updates the selected value. The button text changes and the listbox is closed.
Clicking outside the component closes the listbox.
The trigger contains a small triangle icon pointing downward to indicate there are options.
Something like this:
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Some of you may be thinking this works and is good to go. But wait… does it work for everyone?  Not everyone uses a mouse (or touch screen). Plus, a native <select> element comes with more features we get for free and aren’t included in those requirements, such as:
The checked option is perceivable for all users regardless of their visual abilities.
The component can interact with a keyboard in a predictable way across all browsers (e.g. using arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select, Esc to cancel, etc.).
Assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers) announce the element clearly to users, including its role, name and state.
The listbox position is adjusted. (i.e. does not get cut off of the screen).
The element respects the user’s operating system preferences (e.g high contrast, color scheme, motion, etc.).
This is where the majority of the custom selects fail in some way. Take a look at some of the major UI components libraries. I won’t mention any because the web is ephemeral, but go give it a try. You’ll likely notice that the select component in one framework behaves differently from another. 
Here are additional characteristics to watch for:
Is a listbox option immediately activated on focus when navigating with a keyboard?
Can you use Enter and/or Space to select an option?
Does the Tab key jump go to the next option in the listbox, or jump to the next form control?
What happens when you reach the last option in the listbox using arrow keys? Does it simply stay at the last item, does it go back to the first option, or worst of all, does focus move to the next form control? 
Is it possible to jump directly to the last item in the listbox using the Page Down key?
Is it possible to scroll through the listbox items if there are more than what is currently in view?
This is a small sample of the features included in a native <select> element.
Once we decide to create our own custom select, we are forcing people to use it in a certain way that may not be what they expect.
But it gets worse. Even the native <select> behaves differently across browsers and screen readers. Once we decide to create our own custom select, we are forcing people to use it in a certain way that may not be what they expect. That’s a dangerous decision and it’s in those details where the devil lives.
Building a “hybrid” select
When we build a simple custom select, we are making a trade-off without noticing it. Specifically, we sacrifice functionality to aesthetics. It should be the other way around.
What if we instead deliver a native select by default and replace it with a more aesthetically pleasing one if possible? That’s where the “hybrid” select idea comes into action. It’s “hybrid” because it consists of two selects, showing the appropriate one at the right moment:
A native select, visible and accessible by default
A custom select, hidden until it’s safe to be interacted with a mouse
Let’s start with markup. First, we’ll add a native <select> with <option> items before the custom selector for this to work. (I’ll explain why in just a bit.)
Any form control must have a descriptive label. We could use <label>, but that would focus the native select when the label is clicked. To prevent that behavior, we’ll use a <span> and connect it to the select using aria-labelledby.
Finally, we need to tell Assistive Technologies to ignore the custom select, using aria-hidden="true". That way, only the native select is announced by them, no matter what.
<span class="selectLabel" id="jobLabel">Main job role</span> <div class="selectWrapper">   <select class="selectNative js-selectNative" aria-labelledby="jobLabel">     <!-- options -->     <option></option>   </select>   <div class="selectCustom js-selectCustom" aria-hidden="true">      <!-- The beautiful custom select -->   </div> </div>
This takes us to styling, where we not only make things look pretty, but where we handle the switch from one select to the other. We need just a few new declarations to make all the magic happen.
First, both native and custom selects must have the same width and height. This ensures people don’t see major differences in the layout when a switch happens.
.selectNative, .selectCustom {   position: relative;   width: 22rem;   height: 4rem; }
There are two selects, but only one can dictate the space that holds them. The other needs to be absolutely positioned to take it out of the document flow. Let’s do that to the custom select because it’s the “replacement” that’s used only if it can be. We’ll hide it by default so it can’t be reached by anyone just yet.
.selectCustom {   position: absolute;   top: 0;   left: 0;   display: none; }
Here comes the “funny” part. We need to detect if someone is using a device where hover is part of the primary input, like a computer with a mouse. While we typically think of media queries for responsive breakpoints or checking feature support, we can use it to detect hover support too using @media query (hover :hover), which is supported by all major browsers. So, let’s use it to show the custom select only on devices that have hover:
@media (hover: hover) {   .selectCustom {     display: block;   } }
Great, but what about people who use a keyboard to navigate even in devices that have hover? What we’ll do is hide the custom select when the native select is in focus. We can reach for an adjacent Sibling combinatioron (+). When the native select is in focus, hide the custom select next to it in the DOM order. (This is why the native select should be placed before the custom one.)
@media (hover: hover) {   .selectNative:focus + .selectCustom {     display: none;   } }
That’s it! The trick to switch between both selects is done! There are other CSS ways to do it, of course, but this works nicely.
Last, we need a sprinkle of JavaScript. Let’s add some event listeners:
One for click events that trigger the custom select to open and reveal the options
One to sync both selects values. When one select value is changed, the other select value updates as well
One for basic keyboard navigation controls, like navigation with Up and Down keys, selecting options with the Enter or Space keys, and closing the select with Esc
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Usability testing
I conducted a very small usability test where I asked a few people with disabilities to try the hybrid select component. The following devices and tools were tested using the latest versions of Chrome (81), Firefox (76) and Safari (13):
Desktop device using mouse only
Desktop device using keyboard only
VoiceOver on MacOS using keyboard
NVDA on Windows using keyboard
VoiceOver on iPhone and iPad using Safari
All these tests worked as expected, but I believe this could have even more usability tests with more diverse people and tools. If you have access to other devices or tools — such as JAWS, Dragon, etc. — please tell me how the test goes.
An issue was found during testing. Specifically, the issue was with the VoiceOver setting “Mouse pointers: Moves Voice Over cursor.” If the user opens the select with a mouse, the custom select will be opened (instead of the native) and the user won’t experience the native select.
What I most like about this approach is how it uses the best of both worlds without compromising the core functionality:
Users on mobile and tablets get the native select, which generally offers a better user experience than a custom select, including performance benefits.
Keyboard users get to interact with the native select the way they would expect.
Assistive Technologies can interact with the native select like normal.
Mouse users get to interact with the enhanced custom select.
This approach provides essential native functionality for everyone without the extra huge code effort to implement all the native features.
Don’t get me wrong. This technique is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It may work for simple selects but probably won’t work for cases that involve complex interactions. In those cases, we’d need to use ARIA and JavaScript to complement the gaps and create a truly accessible custom select.
A note about selects that look like menus
Let’s take a look back at the third Dropdown-land scenario. If you recall, it’s  a dropdown that always has a checked option (e.g. sorting some content). I classified it in the gray area, as either a menu or a select. 
Here’s my line of thought: Years ago, this type of dropdown was implemented mostly using a native <select>. Nowadays, it is common to see it implemented from scratch with custom styles (accessible or not). What we end up with is a select element that looks like a menu. 
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A <select>  is a type of menu. Both have similar semantics and behavior, especially in a scenario that involves a list of options where one is always checked.  Now, let me mention the WCAG 3.2.2 On Input (Level A) criterion:
Changing the setting of any user interface component should not automatically cause a change of context unless the user has been advised of the behavior before using the component.
Let’s put this in practice. Imagine a sortable list of students. Visually, it may be obvious that sorting is immediate, but that’s not necessarily true for everyone. So, when using <select>, we risk failing the WCAG guideline because the page content changed, and ignificantly re-arranging the content of a page is considered a change of context.
To ensure the criterion success, we must warn the user about the action before they interact with the element, or include a <button> immediately after the select to confirm the change.
<label for="sortStudents">   Sort students   <!-- Warn the user about the change when a confirmation button is not present. -->   <span class="visually-hidden">(Immediate effect upon selection)</span> </label> <select id="sortStudents"> ... </select>
That said, using a <select> or building a custom menu are both good approaches when it comes to simple menus that change the page content. Just remember that your decision will dictate the amount of work required to make the component fully accessible. This is a scenario where the hybrid select approach could be used.
Final words
This whole idea started as an innocent CSS trick but, after all of this research, I was reminded once more that creating unique experiences without compromising accessibility is not an easy task.
Building truly accessible select components (or any kind of dropdown) is harder than it looks. WCAG provides excellent guidance and best practices, but without specific examples and diverse practical uses cases, the guidelines are mostly aspirational. That’s not to mention the fact that ARIA support is tepid and that native <select> elements look and behave differently across browsers.
The “hybrid” select is just another attempt to create a good looking select while getting as many native features as possible. Don’t look at this technique experiment as an excuse to downplay accessibility, but rather as an attempt to serve both worlds. If you have the resources, time and the needed skills, please do it right and make sure to test it with different users before shipping your component to the world.
P.S. Remember to use a proper name when making a “dropdown” component. 😉
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templified · 6 years ago
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The Best Single Page WordPress Themes for Business
Here’s a new collection of single page themes for amazing business websites.  They’re great for all kinds of businesses, app promotions, general brick and mortar businesses.  You get the deal.  Let’s dig in!
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If you’ve been searching for a one page theme and you’ve come across this particular page, well, that’s good, I guess?  But maybe this theme isn’t exactly what you want?  If Verko isn’t doing it for you, then you may want to look at our full one page WordPress theme collection.  That’s a great place to find exactly what you want to find.  The whole collection is full of amazing stuff, it’s got a wide range of themes, each one of them has a little bit different set of features or a different style.  The whole collection is full of fantastic themes that can work for any sort of one page theme website.  So, anyway, hopefully, you can find what you want if the Verko theme isn’t right for you.
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LightOne is a clean and bright WordPress creative theme that uses one page design, smooth parallax scrolling and big, bold images to get it’s point across.
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In fact, it’s both.
This 100% GPL license WordPress theme loads up fast, looks great on every device tested and it’s an amazing and modern website for advertising agencies, corporate Pages, creative companies, digital agencies, Freelancers and more. With a built-in blog, you can beat the bushes to attract new traffic, which is always something that creative companies need to do. You’ll certainly be providing a great looking theme that gives a great first impression to all of your visitors. If you want to showcase your creative work in a unique and fun manner, light one could be the solution you’ve been looking for.
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SCRN is a one-page, responsive portfolio theme that is ready for any sort of work. No matter what you want to promote, this mobile-friendly theme has the minimalist one page design, along with unattractive blog, that you may have been looking for. It even supports videos in portfolio sections, something that not all one page themes seem to offer some of the main features of this theme include the responsive design, and advanced theme options panel for quick customization of your sight, plenty of different visual composer blocks for adding content and helping you to move things around, and sticky navigation. That is all important when building a one-page website.
What is it that makes one page WordPress themes so popular? Well, when it comes to the various layouts that are available to you, one page themes are a little bit more simple and easy to navigate. That doesn’t mean that your website is going to be simplistic or generic. Far from it, you can have all the dynamic look and feel that a multi-page theme offers, but using just one page.
If your website is specifically usually focused, perhaps a creative agency or a digital agency, you’re going to love one page themes for building a great-looking portfolio for your content. In addition, you can use the custom post managers to help you develop any type of custom posts with ease. However, that’s not what one page themes are bad. The Collection that we have built of WordPress one page themes, it’s a great way to find multiple different layouts that provide a great starting point for building your website.
Ensuring that your site has the proper layout is critical to the success of your website. If you have settled on a one page design for your site, but you want to add or change things in the future, many of the themes in our collection offer multi-page options down the road. He’s multi-purpose themes are a great way to ensure continuing flexibility and to make it so that you don’t have to completely start over from scratch if you decide to change the look of your sight.
Throughout our entire collection, you’ll find multiple different themes that offer both one page and multi-page styles, I think that we have found most of the best themes, but there are plenty more out there and more coming around every day. We are committed to adding more fantastic games all the time, with your help, we can achieve that. If you know of a fantastic one page WordPress theme, we would love to hear about it in the comments. We will try our best to ensure that we add all of the highest quality themes that there are to offer.
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Swenson, Full Featured Bootstrap One Page Theme
With Swenson, you’re getting a wonderful, soft almost ephemeral WordPress theme that still packs a bunch that belies it’s innocent and lovely design features.  Installation is simple and set up requires no knowledge of code or web page development. This template’s construction, assembled with CSS3 and HTML5 combined with the popular Bootstrap 3 framework, allows for layout alternatives that are truly unique and fluid. The resultant websites display on any size screen and that use Swenson are entirely receptive. Both one page and multiple page websites can be built with ease.
That’s the blog demo, standard version.  We’ve gathered up a ton more personal blog themes if that’s what you’ve come here for.
Now, despite the fact that Swenson is simple and user friendly, that does not mean it lacks in features, although Swenson is simple to work with. The parallax scrolling design that is popular offers easy navigation up and down the page. Entire customization of headers enables you to take control of website visitors’ first impressions. The premium Visual Composer plug in lets you drag various blocks of widgets, content or elements into place. Slideshows and other dynamic demonstrations with eye catching animations and transitions can be assembled using the Revolution Slider plugin. All of these features and more can be deployed or customized in the Redux alternatives panel.
That’s the rundown for Swenson and I think you’ll love what you see, should this be the theme you choose for your next website.
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Honshi, WordPress Business Theme for One Page Websites
Simple and Clean, whether you want your website to offer a single page style or a multi-page book, Honshi is a themed well worth considering. This theme offers plenty of features that are similar to a lot of other creative agency or minimalist portfolio sites, one click installation to get your demo data up and running quickly, helping you achieve a solid base looked customized.
There’s also a powerful page builder that lets you do just about anything you want in terms of creating layouts for your posts and pages. In addition to that, Honshi gives you powerful admin panel that helps you create edits to the way out and look at your side, all without having to know anything about coding. There is an impressive documentation included and fantastic support as well.
This is a smooth and Sleek theme that was inspired by Nature. That’s a really neat thing, I think that as a one-page theme, that intuitive design and familiar style is going to really set it apart from the rest. Also, considering how flexible this theme is, it really doesn’t matter what type of site you are attempting to create, you will be left with a stunning and beautiful web page, no matter what the subject matter.
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Our collection of one page themes for WordPress is great for self-hosted WordPress websites that want to seem that really delivers on content presentation, without the necessity to have multiple Pages involved. Some are great for portfolios or photography websites, others for businesses. Most of them are incredible multi-purpose themes that include one click demo import and all of them, of course, I have a single page option. All you’ll need to do is replace your content and get started quickly.  There’s more to live than multi-page themes, you know what I mean?  I think one page themes like this one are trending for a reason.  People don’t have the time to wade through tons of pages, especially if the information is clearly presented in a professional and stylish way.  That’s what this collection is all about, so check it out for more great themes.
Oh yes, many of them also offer WooCommerce support, allowing you to set up a shop quickly and efficiently. We’ve gathered up nothing but the most beautiful one page themes that can be easily adapted to suit your needs. Many of the themes also include multi-page options, although that’s probably not why you’re here if you are looking for a one-page theme. Still, it’s always nice to have flexibility going forward if you should decide to add more pages to your website.
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Zero To Million: 20 Profitable Business Ideas That Can Make You A Millionaire In 2017
Considering starting a new business? Then 2017 is interestingly your year to get it started. With improved technology, new and creative business ideas popping up everywhere, there is no better time to become a millionaire than now. If you are ready to take on entrepreneurship in 2017 but don’t know where to start, here are smart and profitable business ideas that can really make you a millionaire. Young online business professional Armed with these business ideas, your next stop is to acquire the necessary skills. Skill acquisition is a route any business minded person would happily trade alone with confidence anytime, any day, irrespective of age, race, color, nationality or gender. There are so many business skills out there that are profitable but let’s consider the very best and smart 20 business skills that are most likely to make you a millionaire in 2017. Note: Most of these are online business ideas. 1. 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You can choose to specialize on technology, events, people, places or wildlife. An image taken at the right time and right place could go viral and make you famous. Monetary proceed from photography is like the ageless royalties return from patented intellectual properties. 15. Photo and Video editing This business idea will require the ability to edit images or videos to make it look extra-ordinary. With the rising popularity of Instagram, joining forces with the overwhelming possibilities of Twitter, Facebook and Google+, individuals, companies and brands all over the world need people that can edit their videos and pictures and make them look unique and highly presentable. 16. YouTube Video Making Yes, this one sounds familiar to most folks. Individuals, companies and brands need people who can create, edit, publish and perhaps manage their YouTube channels. Can you? Now if you’re good at editing professional YouTube Videos, you’re in for real business. 17. Importation Surprisingly for some people importation is actually a skill you need to learn because importing goods from other countries into Nigeria successfully is not something everybody can do. With the right knowledge and fair capital you are good to go. Even Jumia and Konga import most of their goods. 18. Coaching/Consultancy Newbies are here and there and they are really in need of an expert to advise and guide them on the right path to success. Now, if you’re an expert in one or two of the skills mentioned above, you will be paid handsomely for it. And that will make a great business opportunity for you. 19. Graphic Designing This has to do with having a good knowledge of how to use graphic packages like Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc to design things like flyers, banners, complimentary cards, invitation cards, ID cards, passport and a whole lot. I know a few friends who are doing very well with just designing stuffs for individual, organizations and companies. 20. Content Creation Many online business or bloggers struggle to consistently create high-quality content that will engage their target audiences and achieves their organizational goals. Hence outsourcing content creation is a great emerging business idea. Conclusion The beauty of the above outlined skills is that you don’t actually have to sit in a classroom and listen to one boring lecturer for 4 years. In fact, you can acquire any of these skills in the comfort of your home within the next 2-6 months without spending so much. So, which of these business ideas are you interested in? And of which are you currently taking advantage of? Any plus or minus? Have your say!
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Striking a Balance Between Native and Custom Select Elements
Here’s the plan! We’re going to build a styled select element. Not just the outside, but the inside too. Total styling control. Plus we’re going to make it accessible. We’re not going to try to replicate everything that the browser does by default with a native <select> element. We’re going to literally use a <select> element when any assistive tech is used. But when a mouse is being used, we’ll show the styled version and make it function as a select element.
That’s what I mean by “hybrid” selects: they are both a native <select> and a styled alternate select in one design pattern.
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Custom selects (left) are often used in place of native selects (right) for aesthetics and design consistency.
Select, dropdown, navigation, menu… the name matters
While doing the research for this article, I thought about many names that get tossed around when talking about selects, the most common of which are “dropdown” and “menu.” There are two types of naming mistakes we could make: giving the same name to different things, or giving different names to the same thing. A select can suffer from both mistakes.
Before we move ahead, let me try to add clarity around using “dropdown” as a term. Here’s how I define the meaning of dropdown:
Dropdown: An interactive component that consists of a button that shows and hides a list of items, typically on mouse hover, click or tap. The list is not visible by default until the interaction starts. The list usually displays a block of content (i.e. options) on top of other content.
A lot of interfaces can look like a dropdown. But simply calling an element a “dropdown” is like using “fish” to describe an animal. What type of fish it is? A clownfish is not the same as a shark. The same goes for dropdowns.
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Like there are different types of fish in the sea, there are different types of components that we might be talking about when we toss the word “dropdown” around:
Menu: A list of commands or actions that the user can perform within the page content.
Navigation: A list of links used for navigating through a website.
Select: A form control (<select>) that displays a list of options for the user to select within a form.
Deciding what type of dropdown we’re talking about can be a foggy task. Here are some examples from around the web that match how I would classify those three different types. This is based on my research and sometimes, when I can’t find a proper answer, intuition based on my experience.
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Dropdown-land: Five scenarios where different dropdowns are used across the internet. Read the table below for a detailed description.
Diagram LabelScenarioDropdown Type1The dropdown expects a selected option to be submitted within a form context (e.g. Select Age)Select2The dropdown does not need an active option (e.g. A list of actions: copy, paste and cut)Menu3The selected option influences the content. (e.g. sorting list)Menu or Select (more about it later)4The dropdown contains links to other pages. (e.g. A “meganav” with websites links)Disclosure Navigation5The dropdown has content that is not a list. (e.g. a date picker)Something else that should not be called dropdown
Not everyone perceives and interacts with the internet in the same way. Naming user interfaces and defining design patterns is a fundamental process, though one with a lot of room for personal interpretation. All of that variation is what drives the population of dropdown-land. 
There is a dropdown type that is clearly a menu. Its usage is a hot topic in conversations about accessibility. I won’t talk much about it here, but let me just reinforce that the <menu> element is deprecated and no longer recommended. And here’s a detailed explanation about inclusive menus and menus buttons, including why ARIA menu role should not be used for site navigation.
We haven’t even touched on other elements that fall into a rather gray area that makes classifying dropdowns even murkier because of a lack of practical uses cases from the WCAG community.
Uff… that was a lot. Let’s forget about this dropdown-land mess and focus exclusively on the dropdown type that is clearly a <select> element.
Let’s talk about <select>
Styling form controls is an interesting journey. As MDN puts it, there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly. Good is stuff like <form> which is just a block-level element to style. Bad is stuff like checkboxes, which can be done but is somewhat cumbersome. <select> is definitely in ugly terrain.
A lot of articles have been written about it and, even in 2020, it’s still a challenge to create custom selects and some users still prefer the simple native ones. 
Among developers, the <select> is the most frustrating form control by far, mainly because of its lack of styling support. The UX struggle behind it is so big that we look for other alternatives. Well, I guess the first rule of <select> is similar to ARIA: avoid using it if you can.
I could finish the article right here with “Don’t use <select>, period.” But let’s face reality: a select is still our best solution in a number of circumstances. That might include scenarios where we’re working with a list that contains a lot of options, layouts that are tight on space, or simply a lack of time or budget to design and implement a great custom interactive component from scratch.
Custom <select> requirements
When we make the decision to create a custom select — even if it’s just a “simple” one — these are the requirements we generally have to work with:
There is a button that contains the current selected option.
Clicking the box toggles the visibility of the options list (also called listbox).
Clicking an option in the listbox updates the selected value. The button text changes and the listbox is closed.
Clicking outside the component closes the listbox.
The trigger contains a small triangle icon pointing downward to indicate there are options.
Something like this:
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Some of you may be thinking this works and is good to go. But wait… does it work for everyone?  Not everyone uses a mouse (or touch screen). Plus, a native <select> element comes with more features we get for free and aren’t included in those requirements, such as:
The checked option is perceivable for all users regardless of their visual abilities.
The component can interact with a keyboard in a predictable way across all browsers (e.g. using arrow keys to navigate, Enter to select, Esc to cancel, etc.).
Assistive technologies (e.g. screen readers) announce the element clearly to users, including its role, name and state.
The listbox position is adjusted. (i.e. does not get cut off of the screen).
The element respects the user’s operating system preferences (e.g high contrast, color scheme, motion, etc.).
This is where the majority of the custom selects fail in some way. Take a look at some of the major UI components libraries. I won’t mention any because the web is ephemeral, but go give it a try. You’ll likely notice that the select component in one framework behaves differently from another. 
Here are additional characteristics to watch for:
Is a listbox option immediately activated on focus when navigating with a keyboard?
Can you use Enter and/or Space to select an option?
Does the Tab key jump go to the next option in the listbox, or jump to the next form control?
What happens when you reach the last option in the listbox using arrow keys? Does it simply stay at the last item, does it go back to the first option, or worst of all, does focus move to the next form control? 
Is it possible to jump directly to the last item in the listbox using the Page Down key?
Is it possible to scroll through the listbox items if there are more than what is currently in view?
This is a small sample of the features included in a native <select> element.
Once we decide to create our own custom select, we are forcing people to use it in a certain way that may not be what they expect.
But it gets worse. Even the native <select> behaves differently across browsers and screen readers. Once we decide to create our own custom select, we are forcing people to use it in a certain way that may not be what they expect. That’s a dangerous decision and it’s in those details where the devil lives.
Building a “hybrid” select
When we build a simple custom select, we are making a trade-off without noticing it. Specifically, we sacrifice functionality to aesthetics. It should be the other way around.
What if we instead deliver a native select by default and replace it with a more aesthetically pleasing one if possible? That’s where the “hybrid” select idea comes into action. It’s “hybrid” because it consists of two selects, showing the appropriate one at the right moment:
A native select, visible and accessible by default
A custom select, hidden until it’s safe to be interacted with a mouse
Let’s start with markup. First, we’ll add a native <select> with <option> items before the custom selector for this to work. (I’ll explain why in just a bit.)
Any form control must have a descriptive label. We could use <label>, but that would focus the native select when the label is clicked. To prevent that behavior, we’ll use a <span> and connect it to the select using aria-labelledby.
Finally, we need to tell Assistive Technologies to ignore the custom select, using aria-hidden="true". That way, only the native select is announced by them, no matter what.
<span class="selectLabel" id="jobLabel">Main job role</span> <div class="selectWrapper">   <select class="selectNative js-selectNative" aria-labelledby="jobLabel">     <!-- options -->     <option></option>   </select>   <div class="selectCustom js-selectCustom" aria-hidden="true">      <!-- The beautiful custom select -->   </div> </div>
This takes us to styling, where we not only make things look pretty, but where we handle the switch from one select to the other. We need just a few new declarations to make all the magic happen.
First, both native and custom selects must have the same width and height. This ensures people don’t see major differences in the layout when a switch happens.
.selectNative, .selectCustom {   position: relative;   width: 22rem;   height: 4rem; }
There are two selects, but only one can dictate the space that holds them. The other needs to be absolutely positioned to take it out of the document flow. Let’s do that to the custom select because it’s the “replacement” that’s used only if it can be. We’ll hide it by default so it can’t be reached by anyone just yet.
.selectCustom {   position: absolute;   top: 0;   left: 0;   display: none; }
Here comes the “funny” part. We need to detect if someone is using a device where hover is part of the primary input, like a computer with a mouse. While we typically think of media queries for responsive breakpoints or checking feature support, we can use it to detect hover support too using @media query (hover :hover), which is supported by all major browsers. So, let’s use it to show the custom select only on devices that have hover:
@media (hover: hover) {   .selectCustom {     display: block;   } }
Great, but what about people who use a keyboard to navigate even in devices that have hover? What we’ll do is hide the custom select when the native select is in focus. We can reach for an adjacent Sibling combinatioron (+). When the native select is in focus, hide the custom select next to it in the DOM order. (This is why the native select should be placed before the custom one.)
@media (hover: hover) {   .selectNative:focus + .selectCustom {     display: none;   } }
That’s it! The trick to switch between both selects is done! There are other CSS ways to do it, of course, but this works nicely.
Last, we need a sprinkle of JavaScript. Let’s add some event listeners:
One for click events that trigger the custom select to open and reveal the options
One to sync both selects values. When one select value is changed, the other select value updates as well
One for basic keyboard navigation controls, like navigation with Up and Down keys, selecting options with the Enter or Space keys, and closing the select with Esc
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Usability testing
I conducted a very small usability test where I asked a few people with disabilities to try the hybrid select component. The following devices and tools were tested using the latest versions of Chrome (81), Firefox (76) and Safari (13):
Desktop device using mouse only
Desktop device using keyboard only
VoiceOver on MacOS using keyboard
NVDA on Windows using keyboard
VoiceOver on iPhone and iPad using Safari
All these tests worked as expected, but I believe this could have even more usability tests with more diverse people and tools. If you have access to other devices or tools — such as JAWS, Dragon, etc. — please tell me how the test goes.
An issue was found during testing. Specifically, the issue was with the VoiceOver setting “Mouse pointers: Moves Voice Over cursor.” If the user opens the select with a mouse, the custom select will be opened (instead of the native) and the user won’t experience the native select.
What I most like about this approach is how it uses the best of both worlds without compromising the core functionality:
Users on mobile and tablets get the native select, which generally offers a better user experience than a custom select, including performance benefits.
Keyboard users get to interact with the native select the way they would expect.
Assistive Technologies can interact with the native select like normal.
Mouse users get to interact with the enhanced custom select.
This approach provides essential native functionality for everyone without the extra huge code effort to implement all the native features.
Don’t get me wrong. This technique is not a one-size-fits-all solution. It may work for simple selects but probably won’t work for cases that involve complex interactions. In those cases, we’d need to use ARIA and JavaScript to complement the gaps and create a truly accessible custom select.
A note about selects that look like menus
Let’s take a look back at the third Dropdown-land scenario. If you recall, it’s  a dropdown that always has a checked option (e.g. sorting some content). I classified it in the gray area, as either a menu or a select. 
Here’s my line of thought: Years ago, this type of dropdown was implemented mostly using a native <select>. Nowadays, it is common to see it implemented from scratch with custom styles (accessible or not). What we end up with is a select element that looks like a menu. 
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A <select>  is a type of menu. Both have similar semantics and behavior, especially in a scenario that involves a list of options where one is always checked.  Now, let me mention the WCAG 3.2.2 On Input (Level A) criterion:
Changing the setting of any user interface component should not automatically cause a change of context unless the user has been advised of the behavior before using the component.
Let’s put this in practice. Imagine a sortable list of students. Visually, it may be obvious that sorting is immediate, but that’s not necessarily true for everyone. So, when using <select>, we risk failing the WCAG guideline because the page content changed, and ignificantly re-arranging the content of a page is considered a change of context.
To ensure the criterion success, we must warn the user about the action before they interact with the element, or include a <button> immediately after the select to confirm the change.
<label for="sortStudents">   Sort students   <!-- Warn the user about the change when a confirmation button is not present. -->   <span class="visually-hidden">(Immediate effect upon selection)</span> </label> <select id="sortStudents"> ... </select>
That said, using a <select> or building a custom menu are both good approaches when it comes to simple menus that change the page content. Just remember that your decision will dictate the amount of work required to make the component fully accessible. This is a scenario where the hybrid select approach could be used.
Final words
This whole idea started as an innocent CSS trick but, after all of this research, I was reminded once more that creating unique experiences without compromising accessibility is not an easy task.
Building truly accessible select components (or any kind of dropdown) is harder than it looks. WCAG provides excellent guidance and best practices, but without specific examples and diverse practical uses cases, the guidelines are mostly aspirational. That’s not to mention the fact that ARIA support is tepid and that native <select> elements look and behave differently across browsers.
The “hybrid” select is just another attempt to create a good looking select while getting as many native features as possible. Don’t look at this technique experiment as an excuse to downplay accessibility, but rather as an attempt to serve both worlds. If you have the resources, time and the needed skills, please do it right and make sure to test it with different users before shipping your component to the world.
P.S. Remember to use a proper name when making a “dropdown” component. 😉
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The Best Single Page WordPress Themes for Business
Here’s a new collection of single page themes for amazing business websites.  They’re great for all kinds of businesses, app promotions, general brick and mortar businesses.  You get the deal.  Let’s dig in!
Verko, One Page WordPress Applications Theme
This theme is called Verko, it’s a one-page WordPress theme that’s great for app launches, software promotion or anything else that only requires one page to tell the entire story of what it is your website is all about. At times, themes are little too intricate and detailed, not all websites truly require a multi-page theme, that’s where like Virgo comes in. This is a WordPress theme that focuses on marketing your products and services, it’s got landing page templates and it really helps you encourage all users to take the next step to contacting your business. That’s what a call to action is all about. You can use a photo or video to achieve this, Verko is suitable for just about any type of business or creative agency that wants Maximum Impact in delivering their message to potential customers. The steam was created with a minimalist, modern design, it offers masterful slider presentation and visual composer to help ensure incredible flexibility and a great user experience.
If you’ve been searching for a one page theme and you’ve come across this particular page, well, that’s good, I guess?  But maybe this theme isn’t exactly what you want?  If Verko isn’t doing it for you, then you may want to look at our full one page WordPress theme collection.  That’s a great place to find exactly what you want to find.  The whole collection is full of amazing stuff, it’s got a wide range of themes, each one of them has a little bit different set of features or a different style.  The whole collection is full of fantastic themes that can work for any sort of one page theme website.  So, anyway, hopefully, you can find what you want if the Verko theme isn’t right for you.
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LightOne, Clean, Modern One Page Parallax WordPress Theme
LightOne is a clean and bright WordPress creative theme that uses one page design, smooth parallax scrolling and big, bold images to get it’s point across.
LightOne is a well-designed one page Parallax WordPress theme that is great for digital creative companies that want to establish a great-looking website or rebrand an old, dated site. By using the power of visual composer and bootstrap, this user-friendly WordPress theme allows you to really wow your clients, and establish new business at the same time.
Let’s have a look at the great looking at home page style of the LightOne WordPress template.
You may wonder if the themes name is a reference to the light and bright, airy and minimal style of this template, or whether or not it’s referring to the lightweight code.
In fact, it’s both.
This 100% GPL license WordPress theme loads up fast, looks great on every device tested and it’s an amazing and modern website for advertising agencies, corporate Pages, creative companies, digital agencies, Freelancers and more. With a built-in blog, you can beat the bushes to attract new traffic, which is always something that creative companies need to do. You’ll certainly be providing a great looking theme that gives a great first impression to all of your visitors. If you want to showcase your creative work in a unique and fun manner, light one could be the solution you’ve been looking for.
If you’d like to see a more extensive selection of one page themes, why not have a look at our collection? We have assembled quite a group of single page templates, each one of them better than the last. That’s not to say we put the best one last, you might find that the first one is the best. I could keep going on and on and flattering about which one page theme is better than the other, but honestly, that’s all about your personal taste and the needs of your company. Anyway, I will be back with more one page templates soon, so see you later.
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SCRN, One Page Parallax WordPress Theme
SCRN is a one-page, responsive portfolio theme that is ready for any sort of work. No matter what you want to promote, this mobile-friendly theme has the minimalist one page design, along with unattractive blog, that you may have been looking for. It even supports videos in portfolio sections, something that not all one page themes seem to offer some of the main features of this theme include the responsive design, and advanced theme options panel for quick customization of your sight, plenty of different visual composer blocks for adding content and helping you to move things around, and sticky navigation. That is all important when building a one-page website.
What is it that makes one page WordPress themes so popular? Well, when it comes to the various layouts that are available to you, one page themes are a little bit more simple and easy to navigate. That doesn’t mean that your website is going to be simplistic or generic. Far from it, you can have all the dynamic look and feel that a multi-page theme offers, but using just one page.
If your website is specifically usually focused, perhaps a creative agency or a digital agency, you’re going to love one page themes for building a great-looking portfolio for your content. In addition, you can use the custom post managers to help you develop any type of custom posts with ease. However, that’s not what one page themes are bad. The Collection that we have built of WordPress one page themes, it’s a great way to find multiple different layouts that provide a great starting point for building your website.
Ensuring that your site has the proper layout is critical to the success of your website. If you have settled on a one page design for your site, but you want to add or change things in the future, many of the themes in our collection offer multi-page options down the road. He’s multi-purpose themes are a great way to ensure continuing flexibility and to make it so that you don’t have to completely start over from scratch if you decide to change the look of your sight.
Throughout our entire collection, you’ll find multiple different themes that offer both one page and multi-page styles, I think that we have found most of the best themes, but there are plenty more out there and more coming around every day. We are committed to adding more fantastic games all the time, with your help, we can achieve that. If you know of a fantastic one page WordPress theme, we would love to hear about it in the comments. We will try our best to ensure that we add all of the highest quality themes that there are to offer.
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Swenson, Full Featured Bootstrap One Page Theme
With Swenson, you’re getting a wonderful, soft almost ephemeral WordPress theme that still packs a bunch that belies it’s innocent and lovely design features.  Installation is simple and set up requires no knowledge of code or web page development. This template’s construction, assembled with CSS3 and HTML5 combined with the popular Bootstrap 3 framework, allows for layout alternatives that are truly unique and fluid. The resultant websites display on any size screen and that use Swenson are entirely receptive. Both one page and multiple page websites can be built with ease.
That’s the blog demo, standard version.  We’ve gathered up a ton more personal blog themes if that’s what you’ve come here for.
Now, despite the fact that Swenson is simple and user friendly, that does not mean it lacks in features, although Swenson is simple to work with. The parallax scrolling design that is popular offers easy navigation up and down the page. Entire customization of headers enables you to take control of website visitors’ first impressions. The premium Visual Composer plug in lets you drag various blocks of widgets, content or elements into place. Slideshows and other dynamic demonstrations with eye catching animations and transitions can be assembled using the Revolution Slider plugin. All of these features and more can be deployed or customized in the Redux alternatives panel.
That’s the rundown for Swenson and I think you’ll love what you see, should this be the theme you choose for your next website.
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Honshi, WordPress Business Theme for One Page Websites
Simple and Clean, whether you want your website to offer a single page style or a multi-page book, Honshi is a themed well worth considering. This theme offers plenty of features that are similar to a lot of other creative agency or minimalist portfolio sites, one click installation to get your demo data up and running quickly, helping you achieve a solid base looked customized.
There’s also a powerful page builder that lets you do just about anything you want in terms of creating layouts for your posts and pages. In addition to that, Honshi gives you powerful admin panel that helps you create edits to the way out and look at your side, all without having to know anything about coding. There is an impressive documentation included and fantastic support as well.
This is a smooth and Sleek theme that was inspired by Nature. That’s a really neat thing, I think that as a one-page theme, that intuitive design and familiar style is going to really set it apart from the rest. Also, considering how flexible this theme is, it really doesn’t matter what type of site you are attempting to create, you will be left with a stunning and beautiful web page, no matter what the subject matter.
If you’re searching for even more options for building the best one page WordPress theme that you possibly can, you’re going to want to have a look at our full collection of themes. Businesses and websites that don’t have a gigantic amount of content, sometimes a one-page name is all you need. You can create a very interactive user experience that delivers your content first and foremost.
Our collection of one page themes for WordPress is great for self-hosted WordPress websites that want to seem that really delivers on content presentation, without the necessity to have multiple Pages involved. Some are great for portfolios or photography websites, others for businesses. Most of them are incredible multi-purpose themes that include one click demo import and all of them, of course, I have a single page option. All you’ll need to do is replace your content and get started quickly.  There’s more to live than multi-page themes, you know what I mean?  I think one page themes like this one are trending for a reason.  People don’t have the time to wade through tons of pages, especially if the information is clearly presented in a professional and stylish way.  That’s what this collection is all about, so check it out for more great themes.
Oh yes, many of them also offer WooCommerce support, allowing you to set up a shop quickly and efficiently. We’ve gathered up nothing but the most beautiful one page themes that can be easily adapted to suit your needs. Many of the themes also include multi-page options, although that’s probably not why you’re here if you are looking for a one-page theme. Still, it’s always nice to have flexibility going forward if you should decide to add more pages to your website.
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