Flashy HTML5 Website Without Coding or Plug-Ins by SagarGanatra

 

Feast your eyes on the future of the Internet — beautiful websites built with HTML5. The newest version of HTML effectively catapults words and graphics into another dimension without plug-ins or the annoying lag time. Wix.com is making sure everyone — not just developers and fancy web designers — can get in on the action.
HTML5 is the updated version of the online code used to build websites. The newer version of this code allows websites to integrate multimedia — videos, pictures, graphics and words (that not stagnate) — into its mainframe. CSS3 is the markup language that programmers can lay on top of the HTML to make websites even more visually appealing (think: accessories to make websites extra fancy).
Recent examples of the magic of HTML5 include two interactive music experiences. Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown and OK Go x Pilobulos’ All Is Not Lost. Both were built with the Google Chrome team to showcase the advanced web technologies allowing people to see a new virtual world.
Wix.com says there’s no need to be a world-class web designer to use HTML5. The company unveiled a free HTML5 website builder with plenty of easy-to-use templates on Monday. The six-year-old company already has over 20 million free and premium users building flash websites using the myriad of DIY templates.
“With the HTML5 launch Wix users will have an even greater freedom to create ultra-modern and user-friendly websites that best cater to their needs,” Omer Shai, VP of marketing at Wix, told SRG

Wix built the new series of templates for people with small businesses, designers, photographers and corporations that want to take their web presence to the next level. There’s absolutely no need for code. Individuals can simply drag and drop different website features and type in words where needed.

HTML5 features will optimize integrating video, open up font/typography options, make galleries more optimal for viewing and introduce an element of interactivity. Best of all, HTML5-based websites are supposed by most new devices.
This all means the web experience will be faster, cleaner and make galleries and videos more fluid. Social media and search optimization are also improved features of these new templates.
“HTML5 provides new technological capabilities and solutions for products that don’t support Flash,” Shai said. “The majority of browsers support HTML5 now and it’s market share is growing very quickly, the popularity of mobile web browsing is on a constant rise and HTML5 is compatible across the web.”

With Wix’s HTML5 builder individuals can build small business web pages (see here) and personal portfolios (like this one).
Have you considered exploring HTML5 options for your business or personal portfolio? Tell us in the comment what you think about these new templates.

Google Says Google+ Enhanced Ads Are Up to 10% More Effective

As Facebook has proved, the social graph can be a valuable marketing tool. Google’s new social network, it seems, is no exception — the company says ads incorporating Google+ social data have seen an uptick in engagement.
Google Vice President for Engineering Vic Gundotra told the New York Times Tuesday that advertisements on Google sites with “social annotations,” such as thumbnails that indicates someone you’re connected to once clicked a +1 button on an ad, have experienced a 5% to 10% increase in click-through rates.
‘We have been in this business for a long time,” Gundotra said, “and there are very few things that give you a 5 to 10 percent increase on ad engagement.”
This sort of social recommendation is a proven boon to online advertising. After Facebook introduced new features to Sponsored Stories, which highlight Friends’ connections with marketers on each other’s profiles, Nielsen tracked 79 marketing campaigns over six months in order to determine the new format’s effect compared to ads on the platform that don’t include such information.
Ads that told users their friends had liked or interacted with a brand page saw a 55% rise in ad recall.

Gundotra pointed out to the Times one advantage Google has over Facebook in the social advertising arena. Google’s ads, socially annotated or otherwise, are delivered to users when they search for something directly.
What do I do when I’m looking to buy sunglasses? I Google “sunglasses.” That’s a great time to hit me with a sunglasses ad.
Meanwhile, on Facebook, such messages are delivered to me without this information about my intentions. Facebook knows what I like in general, but it would have a hard time pinpointing the exact moment at which I’m in the market for a new pair of shades.
But Google’s 5% to 10% uptick, while impressive, is not the biggest we’ve ever seen. When Facebook announced its “sponsored stories” feature, one study found the format had a 46% higher click-through rate than other ads offered by the site. Granted, the site’s click-through rate was never relatively stellar, but it makes sense that its strategy of implicit social recommendations immediately paid off: It has more than 500 million users who, in the U.S. at least, spend an average of 8 hours per month on its site.
Google+, meanwhile, has yet to prove that it has taken off as a social network. On Tuesday, the company revealed that 50 million people with Google+ profiles use “Google-Plus enhanced products” such as YouTube and Google Search. But that doesn’t say anything about how many people are spending time on the social network itself.
The company does, evidently, have enough active users of its social features to cause a bump in ad engagement. But when users say they spend an average of 3.3 minutes on Google+ itself in the month of January compared to 7.5 hours on Facebook, as they did in a recent Comscore report, it seems there’s potential for a much greater increase.

Most Popular Visited viewed Websites list by SagarGanatra

The following list of the Most Popular Websites was updated on Monday, March 26th 2012...

1.		Google.com	www.google.com
2.		Facebook.com	www.facebook.com
3.		Youtube.com	www.youtube.com
4.		Yahoo.com	www.yahoo.com
5.		Baidu.com	www.baidu.com
6.		Wikipedia.org	www.wikipedia.org
7.		Live.com	www.live.com
8.		Blogspot.com	www.blogspot.com
9.		Qq.com	www.qq.com
10.		Twitter.com	www.twitter.com
11.		Amazon.com	www.amazon.com
12.		Linkedin.com	www.linkedin.com
13.		Google.co.in	www.google.co.in
14.		Taobao.com	www.taobao.com
15.		Yahoo.co.jp	www.yahoo.co.jp
16.		Sina.com.cn	www.sina.com.cn
17.		Msn.com	www.msn.com
18.		Wordpress.com	www.wordpress.com
19.		Google.com.hk	www.google.com.hk
20.		Google.de	www.google.de
21.		Ebay.com	www.ebay.com
22.		Google.co.jp	www.google.co.jp
23.		Yandex.ru	www.yandex.ru
24.		Google.co.uk	www.google.co.uk
25.		Weibo.com	www.weibo.com
26.		Google.fr	www.google.fr
27.		163.com	www.163.com
28.		Bing.com	www.bing.com
29.		Googleusercontent.com	www.googleusercontent.com
30.		T.co	www.t.co
31.		Microsoft.com	www.microsoft.com
32.		Apple.com	www.apple.com
33.		Mail.ru	www.mail.ru
34.		Google.com.br	www.google.com.br
35.		Paypal.com	www.paypal.com
36.		Soso.com	www.soso.com
37.		Google.it	www.google.it
38.		Tumblr.com	www.tumblr.com
39.		Google.es	www.google.es
40.		Google.ru	www.google.ru
41.		Vk.com	www.vk.com
42.		Imdb.com	www.imdb.com
43.		Sohu.com	www.sohu.com
44.		Pinterest.com	www.pinterest.com
45.		Craigslist.org	www.craigslist.org
46.		Blogger.com	www.blogger.com
47.		Babylon.com	www.babylon.com
48.		Go.com	www.go.com
49.		Fc2.com	www.fc2.com
50.		Flickr.com	www.flickr.com