Create Different Shapes using CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. Styles define how to display HTML elements. Style sheets are a very powerful tool for the Web site developer. They give you the chance to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your pages, while giving you much more control over the layout and design than straight HTML.
I am going to show you how to create different shapes in CSS
Simple shapes-
Square:

.square {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: red; }

Circle

.circle {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: red;
-moz-border-radius: 50px;
-webkit-border-radius: 50px;
border-radius: 50px; }

Triangle:

.triangle-up {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 50px solid transparent;
border-right: 50px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 100px solid red; }

Complex Shapes-

Star

.star-six {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 50px solid transparent;
border-right: 50px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 100px solid red;
position: relative; }

.star-six:after {
width: 0;
height: 0;
border-left: 50px solid transparent;
border-right: 50px solid transparent;
border-top: 100px solid red;
position: absolute;
content: "";
top: 30px;
left: -50px; }

Finally The Smiley Face Using CSS :

Create following divs on Page

<div class="smileyface">
<p class="eyes lefteye"></p>
<p class="eyes righteye"></p>
<div class="smile">
<div class="corner"></div>
<div class="corner right"></div>
</div>
</div>

Create following styles in Style Tag


div.smileyface {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
position: relative;
border-radius: 150px;
-webkit-border-radius: 150px;
-moz-border-radius: 150px;
display: block;
background: #ffe632;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#fffe8d), to(#f6d23e));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fffe8d, #f6d23e);
box-shadow: inset 0px -14px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, .3), 0px 2px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px -14px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, .3), 0px 2px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6);
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0px -14px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, .3), 0px 2px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, .6);
behavior:url(CSS/Corner.htc);/*Gives Corner shapes in IE */
}

p.eyes {
width: 50px;
height: 80px;
background: #222;
border-radius: 100px/160px;
-webkit-border-radius: 100px 160px;
-moz-border-radius: 100px/160px;
position: absolute;
top: 40px;
box-shadow: 0 2px 0 rgba(255,255,255, 0.8);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 0 rgba(255,255,255, 0.8);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 0 rgba(255,255,255, 0.8);
behavior:url(CSS/Corner.htc);/*Gives Corner shapes in IE */ }

p.eyes.lefteye {
left: 75px;
}

p.eyes.righteye {
right: 75px;
behavior:url(CSS/Corner.htc);/*Gives Corner shapes in IE */ }

div.smile {
width: 200px;
height: 70px;
border: 10px solid #222;
border-top: 0;
background: rgba(0,0,0,0);
-moz-border-radius: 0 0 120px 120px / 0 0 90px 90px;
-webkit-border-radius: 0 0 120px 120px 0 0 90px 90px;
border-radius: 0 0 120px 120px / 0 0 90px 90px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 50px;
left: 38px;
box-shadow: 0 2px 0 rgba(255,255,255, 0.8);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 0 rgba(255,255,255, 0.8);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 0 rgba(255,255,255, 0.8);
behavior:url(CSS/Corner.htc);/*Gives Corner shapes in IE */ }

div.corner {
width: 10px;
height: 30px;
background: #222;
border-radius: 100px/160px;
-webkit-border-radius: 100px 160px;
-moz-border-radius: 100px/160px;
position: absolute;
top: -12px;
-webkit-transform: rotate(65deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(65deg);
left: -12px;
behavior:url(CSS/Corner.htc);/*Gives Corner shapes in IE */ }

div.corner.right {
left: 202px;
-webkit-transform: rotate(-65deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(-65deg);
behavior:url(CSS/Corner.htc);/*Gives Corner shapes in IE */
}

Google +

Google has just unveiled Google+, its ambitious answer to Facebook.
It seems Google is eager to make a big impact in the social media sector as in the mail, search, photo and document storage domains.
The Google+ project is the company’s social initiative that brings friend streams, group video chat and group texting to Google’s millions of users.
On Google Plus there are only four silos (Home, Photos, Profile, Circles) to click on. Here one cannot find games nor Farmville! It is simple and in Google’s fashion with lot of white space. The ‘Stream' is the equivalent of FB's scroll newsfeed, and there are similar options — to share, edit, host photos and videos, and delete them.
Unlike Facebook, Google Plus allow people to share things with you even if you're not following them. Thus, you'll want to check your Incoming feed now and then to see whether you're missing out on anything interesting from someone you don't follow.
Use the Your Circles option while sharing. Google Plus's Circles system is great for letting you use your Plus account to set barriers between the various groups of people you want to share things with. If most of what you share on Google Plus isn't especially privacy-sensitive, however, use the Your Circles sharing option to automatically share items with all of your circles and avoid the trouble of clicking each individual circle.

Google+ is a bold and dramatic attempt at social front. There’s a reason why Google calls this a “project” rather than a “product” — they don’t want people to think of this as the final product, but as a constantly-evolving entity.
At the moment, Google+ cannot compete with the king of social, but Google doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to take on Mark Zuckerberg’s giant quite yet.

Database Management

Database Marketing: 10 questions to answer before you choose a list of contacts for your marketing campaign
You have a well versed marketing campaign ready, backed by internal-external research and surveys. You can’t wait to execute your marketing plan and create brand awareness of your product or services. All that you are waiting for is a database of contacts who will be interested. Now this is where the famous quote applies; ‘The money is in your list’.
You know that the money is in your list. As a marketer, you may, undoubtedly be aware of database selection and its effect on your marketing campaign. This is why B2B experts stress on finding the right prospects for your marketing campaign. The success of your marketing campaign depends on 3 things: (a)Focus (b)Quality (c)Price
But before you narrow down on these things, as a marketer, you must answer some questions. These 10 questions will help you determine the type of a contact database that you will require to support your campaign and will help you build it:

1) Who is my Target Group?
2) What is the frequency of communication and number of times I will communicate with prospects?
3) What is my key objective? Brand awareness, selling services or products, Social Media, PR?
4) Will I be using multi-channel communication for the campaign?
5) Will I require customized communication for each prospect?
6) Do I want to track the prospects’ response pattern?
7) Do I want to measure results and improve responses of the recipients personally and not with a tool?
8) Do I want a long-term relationship with the prospects or is it just for this particular marketing campaign?
9) Am I okay with letting a third party tool or agency do my measurement and prospect behavior study?
10) Am I ready to invest in long-term lead generation plans or am I happy with existing relationship?

Social Media Marketing

“Average worldwide annual paper consumption is 48 kg per person with North America accounting for over 1/3.” - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Paper and energy consumption is ever increasing with the population rising by the minute. With every business, NGO, consultant and even consumers stressing on green alternatives, we decided to examine an existing albeit underrated solution; Digital Marketing. Digital Marketing or Internet Marketing for eco-sustenance is a marketing strategy that reduces dependence upon eco-hazardous marketing and exploitation of scarce valuable energy resources. All of this occurs without making an extra effort to promote the eco-friendly advantages of it.
Internet Marketing or integrated social media solutions could replace:
- Visiting cards, promotional brochures and pamphlets with QR codes
- Newspapers, newsletters, magazines with blogs
- Books, publication material with ebook readers, iPads, Kindles etc
- Printed resumes with LinkedIn profiles
- Billboards and banners with Facebook, Website, Google Ads, pop-up widgets
These are just few of the replacements or alternatives. Digital Marketing is widespread and all the users are gathered at one place, ‘the internet’, where marketers don’t have to run around searching for their consumers. With digital marketing taking precedence over most other traditional marketing platforms, every company investing in social media is taking a green turn; knowingly or unknowingly.
With Digital Marketing, you are:
- Saving space
- Lessening the load on energy consumption
- Reducing carbon-footprints by making online purchases
- Cutting back on your traveling expenses and fuel consumption
- Reducing sound pollution
With digital marketing, you’ve stepped into a world of eco-friendly choices. To contribute to the ‘World Environment Day’ this year, all you have to do is go back to the basics; namely, take the public transport, check your taps for leakage, hug a tree and remember to not print this article, subscribe instead. Pat yourself on the back for being an active part of this ‘Eco-friendly Digital Marketing Revolution’.

Email Marketing

Top 10 ways to make your Email Marketing Campaign effective and valuable

Most people don’t fancy opening emails with sales pitches and special offers inside because 9/10 times they don’t find it much of their interest. They are barely eager to get the next email from the same vendor. Yet many companies use their email newsletter to barrage their customers and prospects with offers and promotions.
If you’re selling complex B2B products with repeated offers and promotions on a regular basis without considering the contact’s requirement, you’re more likely to get a very high “always ignore” rate. That’s the proportion of subscribers who got sick of your email offers long ago, but don’t want to bother to open one and scroll down and find the fine print to unsubscribe. This can be reversed if your campaign has content that people will look forward to.
Stop sending offers. Resist the urge to add a promotion to every missive. Remember that the call to action does not need to be ‘buy now’ or ‘try now’. The idea is to send your contacts something valuable which may add value to your brand, spread knowledge and ensure anticipation from the client’s end. Your contacts are more likely to open the next email you send them.
Here are 10 ideas of valuable things to send to your list and make your campaign more effective.
1) Short Webinar (15-20 minute) by one or more of your clients about how they solved a problem your other customers are likely to face.
2) Your own webinars that inform about a common topics of interest to your audience (Hint: your product is NOT a common topic of interest)
3) Invitation and discount to attend an event where you will be present.
4) Summary of big takeaways from a conference that someone in your organization attended 3rd party articles that are relevant to your prospects
5) White papers (your own or 3rd parties) that actually inform rather than advertise
6) Video interview with one of your executives sharing their ideas, views, insights (but NOT promoting your company)
7) Blog entries by your executives, employees, or 3rd parties that are relevant to your audiences
8) Explanation of something happening in the market and about which there may be confusion
9) New ideas or best practices gleaned from your customers and other internal and external subject matter experts.
10) There are countless others, of course. We would like to hear from you about more.

4G Technology

Hey guyz…as we have already put a step forward in to high speed generation called 3G.

Which made us experince a faster way to communicate to the world? Now we don’t have to see the “Loading  ...” text while we open a web page.

But still there’s no word “END” to any technology. So what’s next..let ‘s know  about the next Generation called The “4^th Generation”.

What is 4G?

4G is short for Fourth (4th) Generation Technology. 4G Technology is basically the extension in the 3G technology with more bandwidth and services offers in the 3G. But at this time nobody exactly knows the true 4G definition. Some people say that 4G technology is the future technologies that are mostly in their maturity period. The expectation for the 4G technology is basically the high quality audio/video streaming over end to end Internet Protocol. If the Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia sub-system movement achieves what it going to do, nothing of this possibly will matter. WiMAX or mobile structural design will become progressively more translucent, and therefore the acceptance of several architectures by a particular network operator ever more common.

Some features of 4G : -

• A nominal data rate of 100 Mbit/s while the client physically moves at high speeds relative to the station, and 1 Gbit/s while client and station are in relatively fixed positions as defined by the ITU-R
• A data rate of at least 100 Mbit/s between any two points in the world
• Smooth handoff across heterogeneous network
• Seamless connectivity and global roaming across multiple networks
• High quality of service for next generation multimedia support (real time audio, high speed data, HDTV video content, mobile TV, etc.)
• Interoperability with existing wireless standards
• An all IP, packet switched network
• IP-based femtocells (home nodes connected to fixed Internet broadband infrastructure)

Nanotechnology

Hey Readers..this is first time I tried to write something on a “blog“..as I always thought writing something related to science is not my cup of tea..:) Still I dared to write this blog on “Nanotechnology” which is expected to be a boom in tech era...hope you’d  like it ;)

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter on the nanoscale. A nanometer is a very small measure of length- it is one billionth of a meter, a length so small that only three or four atoms lined up in a row would be a nanometer. So, nanotechnology involves designing and building materials and devices where the basic structure of the material or device is specified on the scale of one or a few nanometers. Ultimately, nanotechnology will mean materials and devices in which every atom is assigned a place, and having every atom in the right place will be essential for the functioning of the device. Another way of thinking about the ultimate form of nanotechnology is that it will be based upon molecular machinery - machines made by having every atom in a designed place and performing a designed function. These molecular machines will be capable of making other molecular machines and other products in which the atomic structure is precisely arranged to make the desired product. These molecular machines that will be able to assemble atoms into complex structures have been termed "assemblers." Such assemblers will be able to build just about anything that exists or can be designed, anything that is compatible with the basic laws of physics. This includes being able to make copies of themselves, so eventually we have an entire manufacturing economy based upon molecular manufacturing, where the capital base of the economy could double in minutes instead of years, thus creating immense wealth. The kinds of products that could be built will range from microscopic, very powerful computers to super strong materials ten times as strong as steel, but much lighter, to food or other biological tissue.

All these products would be very inexpensive because the molecular machines that built them will basically take atoms from garbage or dirt, and energy from sunshine, and rearrange those atoms into useful products, just like trees and crops take dirt, water and sunshine and rearrange the atoms into wood and food. Right now the only molecular machines that exist are those inside living cells. Right now mother nature and evolution are the only true nanotechnologists. In effect it is nature itself that we would like to mimic. This is how biology and genetics can become relative to nanotechnology. As a matter of fact there are many disciplines (like defence,biotechnology,Engineering sciences etc.) that are constructive to the goal of nanotech, which is why there is no nano degree at this point in time.

Nanotechnology could be used within our own minds. Nanocomputers could be placed in our bodies to augment our own brains. Nano-theorists have estimated that the entire contents of the Library of Congress could be stored in a nanocomputer the size of a human cell, and that another nanocomputer the size of a human cell could have the same raw computing power as the whole human brain. In the beginning such computers could interface with the person through computer screens that were part of their skin, or by projecting images on their eyelids. Eventually they might interface directly with the brain so you could communicate with these computers merely by thought. It would then be practical for any person to carry with them or to easily access all of human knowledge, and to think with the computing power of millions of present day human brains. Also for good or ill it would be possible to attain whatever mood you wanted instantly. Since we will understand the action of all the brain chemicals that effect mood, and all of the drugs that some people use to change moods, we will be able to command our nanomachines inside our bodies to produce whatever brain chemicals or drugs we want, whenever we want them. So it should be possible to switch to altered states of consciousness and then back again at will.