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How to Add Anticipation to Your ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 01:40 AM PST

In order to promote anything new, advertising companies always start the entire procedure with an interesting teaser. It can range from a poster teaser, a brochure teaser or a print ad teaser. If you are a movie buff, you would understand what is being talked about here. For any new upcoming movie, you get to see the teaser first to develop an interest of the viewer. For instance a booklet printing company, would want to do more than just mention an upcoming site. They’d want to provide details on sizes and paper quality of the booklets used. And they should reference their printing process as well. Same goes for launching a website for your business. Before launching your website, you should get a teaser page designed to attract your target audience beforehand. Launching the entire website is not a good idea. I have personally seen a lot of well designed 'coming soon' pages and this is definitely a great way to keep people keen about your website. Instead of buying a domain right before launching the website, you should buy domain in advance and invest some money in create a teaser of your website. If you manage to bring an interesting teaser of your website, your visitors will definitely wait anxiously for the website launch and this way you will get a good amount of traffic right on the launching day of your website.

Always remember that an upcoming should be really visually appealing and attractive to keep your target audience hooked till the launch of the website. There is no point on having a coming soon page if it is not really effective. So, while designing a coming soon web page you should be really careful. It should contain all the elements of a teaser so that it can serve the purpose other your investment will be a total waste. In this article we will be mentioning a few tips to build a useful 'Coming Soon' page.

The main purpose of such pages is to grab the attention of your visitors and these pages should be attractive enough to be remembered. While you are working at it make sure your teaser page have all the elements to be memorable, viral, desirable and should open a lot of new doors for you. Here is what you should do to create a useful Coming Soon page:

Creating a Mysterious Element

If you are still confused about having or not having a teaser page, stop being it. There are no two questions about having a teaser page because the answer will always be Yes as it is very important. It does not matter what kind of product you are marketing, a teaser page will always prove to have very positive and beneficial results for your product.

As quoted earlier, you will always get to see a teaser for a movie first and the some other advertisement. This marketing technique is to make people eager and create an atmosphere of anticipation. Whenever we see an interesting teaser of a movie, don't we look forward to the movie with much eagerness? Yes, we do. Same goes for your website. An interesting teaser will create an element of mystery and people will desperately wait for the launch of your website to find out all details about it. In teaser, you can provide a few chunks of information and leave the rest to the imagination of the user. As said earlier, you should start doing this at least two months before the proper launch if you want people to really look forward to your product.

You must have seen this practice from the video games producers as well. They simply announce the next version of the game a few months before the actual release and within those months they continue to give bits of information related to the game to create the hype. If you do the same for your website, people will not only memorize the launching date, they will so look forward to it as well.

The teaser definitely plays a very important role in giving the much deserved attention to your website. So one thing should be clear in your head while designing a website that you definitely need to have a teaser so while you are designing a website, make sure you are working on marketing techniques at the same time to get more and more visitors on the launch of your website.

Teaser Keeps a Designer Motivated

Working on the same website for months can get boring at times for developers and designers. Obviously, this can affect the motivation level as well of the people working on the project. The constant updates on teaser page can be a good way to keep the developers and designers motivated. Since teaser page will need constant updates on and off, designer and developers will always remember the launch date as well and they will work hard on achieving the deadline.

A teaser helps you in keeping yourself in line. While you are working on a website, you work on collecting different sort of data as well. This data collection can prove to be really beneficial for your website. Obviously, when you will see so many people interested in your website and looking forward to the launch of the website, you would want to work hard to reach up to their expectations as letting them down is not an option here. People's expectation will keep you motivated and you would work really hard to deliver the best and even better from the promised one.

An Unforgettable Identity

When you are designing the teaser, make sure you design it in a way that it has unforgettable impact on the visitor. Your teaser should be so strong that it should compel the visitor to come back to your page to find out more about your website every now and then. Styling of the page and colors is very important however, the thing that should stand out the most in your teaser is your company's logo.

Your website might not look the same as your teaser but your brand logo will look the same throughout so this is exactly what needs to be memorable. Even with so many changes in the website and teaser, people will still be able to relate to your website with the help of logo. So make sure you design a teaser with a powerful impact so that it keeps on bringing back the visitors for more.

Data Collection

Since it is a teaser page, it cannot contain a lot of stuff. But, it can definitely help you in collecting data of the visitors. You should always ask for the information from the users they are comfortable giving away. Asking for phone numbers or address is not a very good idea. Since peoples are comfortable with giving away email addresses, you can collect the data of email addresses and use it later on. Your teaser page should ask for email address so that users can be notified with upcoming events related to the website.

Give Visitors a Reason

As a favor, you can always offer visitors something nice in return. Depending on your website and product you can always have some offer for visitors who are submitting their personal information on your website.

A Mysterious Message

A catchy, mysterious message will make people come back on your website. Always try to have a very powerful tagline on your teaser page. It does not have to be long but even a simple short sentence can do wonders for you if it is a powerful one.

Conclusion

Go viral, use something special and do whatever you can to create a great teaser page. Do not rush in creating a teaser page. Since it is important, you should take your time and design a great Coming Soon page. You need to stay in the heads of the visitors so teaser page should be designed carefully.

Now Upgrade your HTC Rezound With Android 4.0.3 ICS [How-To]

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 04:41 AM PST

Google has developed itself from mere search engine to a multiple services provider tech giant. It has a rang of interesting and useful products and services. Google has the operating system Android which is running in lots of devices, smartphones and tablets in this regard HTC is also a well-know mobile company and has lots of wonderful products in which Android operating system is running. The renowned HTC names includes recently launched HTC one, HTC Vivid, HTC Wildfire etc.

HTC Rezound has earned quite a good repute among HTC products as it has all the features that make it ‘must have’ smartphone. Following is the video that outlines this product’s features. Furthermore, I am writing step-by-step guide to install Android 4.0.3 ICS (ice cream sandwich) for your HTC Rezound.

But before you get started I'd like to make you clear about the main guide lines and your requirements so, before you get started make sure that you have managed your back-up data because the below steps can damage your valued data which is present in your HTC Rezound. On the other hand you also need to install the drivers for this purpose you can download it from here or here. For this purpose you need at least 70 % charged battery because it's important for this purpose.

Installation Steps

Step 1

After download the file from here copy the Ineffabilis Deus ROM file to the root of your phone's external storage.

Step 2

After that Copy "boot.img" into the same folder where adb.exe and fastboot.exe are located on your computer. (This is usually the Tools or Platform-Tools folder inside the Android SDK installation folder.)

Step 3

Turn off the phone. And Reboot the phone into recovery mode. In recovery mode, create a backup of your existing (and functioning) ROM. You can do this from Backup & Restore > Backup.

Step 4

Wipe all your phone data:

Choose Wipe data/factory reset from the menu and confirm the operation.
Choose Wipe cache partition from the menu and confirm the operation.
Choose Advanced > Wipe Dalvik cache and confirm the operation.+

Step 5

Now return to the main recovery menu. And Choose Install zip from sdcard, and then Choose zip from SD card.

Step 6

Select the Ineffabilis Deus ROM file that you copied to your phone. Confirm that you want to start installation.

Step 7

You need to Reboot your phone. And Go to Settings > Applications > Development and enable USB debugging.

Step 8

After that connect your phone to your computer using a USB cable and open a command prompt on your PC.

Step 9

Change the working directory to the directory where you copied "boot.img" (i.e., in the same folder where adb.exe is located).

Step 10

Use ADB to reboot your phone into bootloader mode.

Step 11

Do this by typing (without the quotes) "adb reboot bootloader" at the command prompt.

Step 12

Place your phone in fastboot mode by pressing the Power button.

Step 13

Flash "boot.img" onto your phone by typing this command (without the quotes) at the command prompt: "fastboot flash boot boot.img"

Step 14

After the image has been flashed, reboot your phone with the command "fastboot reboot" (without the quotes).

Step 15

After that wait for your phone to reboot and load the new OS completely.

Step 16

Now Update the Superuser app immediately after the phone has completely rebooted.

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Become Aware About the Basic Guidelines of Adobe Flash

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 07:12 AM PST

As flash designer me always create targeted 2D animations because nowadays things going to be more modern and less coded, flash helps for create rich and interactive UI (user interface) which would be impossible otherwise. In this first week day I was exploring topic to create something special for my website audience, so finally arrange "Become Aware About the Basic Guidelines of Adobe Flash" in this below list we have some advance Adobe Flash Tutorials as well because as we need during develop flash interface we should expert about some necessary elements and techniques which have in this professional flash tutorials roundup.

I hope this list will be helping for all adobe flash lovers and newbies, these of all can improve your design skills and progress the quality of your animations.

Realistic Rippling Water Animation in Flash

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic water rippling effect on a static image using masking in Flash.

Learn How to Create Horizontal Image Transition Effect in Flash

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a horizontal blind image transition effect effect which will slowly reveal your picture from top to bottom in horizontal stripes. Each strip will also have a color filter applied to it.

Pong ~Part 1~ Setting up the Project

The first thing to do is to create a new Flash project (make sure your select the action script 3 version) and name it something like "Pong Tutorial".

Peeling Sticker Effect in Flash

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a paste effect or peeling sticker effect animation using masking in Flash.

How to Make Video Gallery for Website

In this flash video gallery tutorial, we will mainly shows you how to make video gallery for website using Ncesoft flash gallery creator.

Kawasaki Photo Effect

Today, I'm going to show you how to create cool Kawasaki photo effect. You don’t have to use action script code to make this lesson. This lesson is so easy for create so let’s start!

Blur GoldFish Photo Effect

In this flash lesson, You will learn how to create blur goldfish photo effect using some special flash tips and tricks. You don’t have to use action script code to make this lesson. Let’s go!

Inception Photo Animation

In this flash lesson, You will learn how to create very cool Inception photo animation. You don’t have to use action script code to make this lesson. You can also use this photo animation as some flash banner or for some presentation. Using this lesson.

Advanced Animation of an Image in Flash

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an advanced animation of a static image in Flash. The source file can be downloaded at the end of the tutorial.

Learn How to Create a Flash & XML Photo Gallery

This tutorial will teach you how to create an XML powered photo gallery in Flash. You will learn about Flash & XML, how to load photos in Flash and finally how to create an awesome gallery with a 3D effect and scrolling thumbnails.

Background in flash

Last week I was working on a project that needed a Flash animation, nothing really complicated.

Create Flash XML Gallery and XML Slideshow

This tutorial is mainly about how to make flash XML gallery and XML slideshow with simple steps. First you should know something about XML knowledge. If you don’t know much about XML, please try an easy-to-use flash slideshow software to help you. It needs no xml skills and can make XML flash slideshow or photo gallery for website instantly and easily.

Create Flash Logo Intro With Color Tinting Animation

In this lesson we introduce you a simple way how to use color tinting animation. It lets you change the color of the object based on 3 phases, the At Start, the Idle and the At Stop.

Make a Photo Slideshow for Graduation Slideshow

This is a tutorial guides you to make a graduation slideshow and share online with friends and family using iPixSoft Flash Slideshow Creator which is an very easy to use and powerful slideshow software.

Create Flash Animation With Various Orbit Loop Effect

Making loop effect is not difficult any more and you don’t have to have any flash experience to make it. We’ll show you how to do so in this tutorial.

Flash AS3 Tutorial: Simple Calendar

Second edition of our tutorial will then implement scrolling through months and years (forward and backward) and in final edition we will add a simple event on certain days. It will give you an opportunity to build a basic calendar with a lot of possibilities for further development.

Drawing a Car in Flash Par01

Using the paint bucket tool -Using the Gradient transform tool.

Drawing a Car in Flash Par02

Create Flash Animation With Blur Effect

Today we will present a tutorial about how to add a Blur effect into a logo presentation.

How to make a simple spot the difference flash game.

This tutorial is for anyone who suddenly woke up one morning and thought I want to make a flash game!. I decided to build a spot the difference game after being on a night out and playing £1 a try at this simply made sport the difference game. I know this game isn’t perfect but its basically a simple tutorial to get your familiar with flash and gaming.

Flash AS3 Tutorial: Flaming Mouse Trail

In this tutorial we will make a Mouse Trailer in the shape of a burning flame. We will use Actionscript 3 and the popular tweening engine, Tweenlite. Custom designed Mouse trails are pretty popular these days even though some might find them annoying. But they will fit perfectly in some Flash games and applications.

Michael Jackson Dance Effect

In this tutorial we will go through the process of making cool Michael Jackson dance effect. You don’t have to use action script code to make this lesson. Let’s go!

The Easter Bunny Photo Effect

Easter is coming. Using this thoroughly explained, detailed flash lesson, I will explain to You how to create the easter bunny photo effect. You don’t have to use action script code to make this lesson. Let’s start!

Create an Advanced Image Gallery in Flash CS5

In this tutorial we will learn how to make an Flash Image Gallery using Action Script 2.0 with Smooth Transitions and Description for your images. This will be an Advanced Flash Gallery, but very easy to create it. Video Tutorial is also available.

Create an Animated Car Banner using Flash CS5

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an animated banner using Flash CS5. You will learn how to create a car moving on a road with its tires spinning. You can also download the free .fla file of the banner animation.

Reading Google Maps API in Flash AS3

The use of google maps in flash AS3 is simple and straightforward. First go to Google Maps API for Flash and download the zip file. Now extract the files and copy flash component file under lib directory to where you have flash installed (under component dir).

Manipulate Visual Effects With the ColorMatrixFilter and ConvolutionFilter

The ColorMatrixFilter and ConvolutionFilter can be used to visually transform your Flash objects. In this article, I'll show you how easy they are to manipulate, using a cool tool I built for simple experimentation.

How to mask a photo in Flash mx

Learn how to mask photo in flash.

How to Make a Flash Slide Show Screen Saver

Want to make Slide Show Screen Saver for Windows to display a series of images and (optionally) play background music? In this slide show screen saver tutorial, you will see how to make a slide show screen saver step by step. It is very easy to make it by screen saver software called Flash ScreenSaver Maker.