Cover Creating for Your Timeline Need Not Require Lessons in Graphic Design

Even though Facebook covers have been around for just over a year, may people have been put off by the prospect of having to learn how to acquire graphic design skills in order to make their own Facebook covers.

Make FB Cover

Instead, many people have opted for the comfortable alternatives of using their second choices of digital photography or snatching a timeline cover off the internet.

15 Funny Facebook Timeline Covers

Easy Way to Make a Facebook Cover

As a replacement for your second choice methods to create a Facebook cover, there are a number of free websites that facilitate in the process of making your own timeline cover.

One such free Facebook cover maker is an application called ‘Make a Cover’ its purpose is to guide you through the process of making your own timeline artwork with relative ease.

The technique that this cover maker uses is to piece together a series of layers to create a patchwork collage of selected items. In essence you the user select a series of clothing layers and facial features in order to compose the Facebook cover that you want.

Despite the fact that you are limited in the amount of layers for your Facebook cover, this is still an interesting as well as perhaps useful way in which to make your own cover.

What Are The Advantages Of Using a Cover Maker?

• Speed –

 We live in a world where what we want, we want it now. In a world of instant access and ability, particularly on the internet we don’t particularly want to wait long periods or have to put a lot of effort into something like a Facebook cover that is fairly rudimentary.

• Skills Gap – 

The Make a Cover app bridges a skills gap between learning how to digitally create your own Facebook cover art work and having someone else create if for you, in some ways your input is illusionary – however the end result is that you’ve clicked a few choices and made up your own Facebook cover.

• Distinctive –

 Though all covers made by this cover maker for Facebook have a common theme – the character used within the cover, given the hundreds of possible combinations that this cover app permits your artwork will prove to be fairly unique.

• Sense of Achievement –

 Even though to a large extent you are just sticking together others art work, there is a sense of achievement like you would find from piecing together a collage from making your own timeline cover for Facebook in this maker fashion.

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Cross Browser Testing – Make your Web content User and Browser Friendly

Your website may be facing problem while running on the various web browsers. You may be aware of this or may not be aware of this. Manual Cross browser testing is very time consuming. The testing agency should have all the web browsers and across platforms to test the compatibility of your web content. To maintain consistency in appearance and graphics they have to test on each and every browser. They have to spend a lot of time in debugging and then testing. This turns out to be a cumbersome and tedious job. 

Cross Browser Testing – Make your Web content User and Browser Friendly

Why there is Need for Checking Compatibility

1. Your website may be “Gaming Zone” website and it requires Plug-ins, Direct X and various add-ons. Different browsers do not have the same plug-ins and add-ons and this is the major reason your web content will have problem in downloading or running on different browsers.

2. You may be having e-learning, video loading, Product related website and different websites are written in varied languages. The various web browsers may not support all the languages so your web content may experience visual and execution errors. Codes may differ for the different web browser and thus it may cause inconvenience to the user.

Benefits of Cross Browser Testing

You can tune your web content according to different web browsers and it will increase the traffic on your web content because users then will not switch over to your competitors websites. Of course your profit share and web content publicity will increase. Your web content will become user friendly and will become famous among them.

Cross Browser Testing Tools

A plenty of websites are available on which you can test the appearance and downloading speed of your website. Some features of these tools are mentioned below:-

1. Different tools have different testing time as well as varied execution process. You need to be patient until the results are displayed. 

2. The number of browsers covered by each tool is also different. Some may cover up to 100 different browsers whereas other test the compatibility with only widely used browsers such as Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari etc. 

3. Different testing tools have different subscription monthly or yearly plans. Some may offer month-by-month subscription whereas other straight away goes for yearly plans. Free testing is also available but it would be having less features and services. It is normally suggested to go for the premium ones. You may encounter some initial expenditure but you will realize the returns on your investment later. 

4. Usually the “Screenshot” mode is employed by all the testing tools to give you an accurate idea of graphics, appearance, bars and buttons.


5. Some famous testing tools are browsers, Adobe Browser lab, Browser Shots, Browser seal and Litmus. All these have different characteristics as mentioned above.


While selecting the right testing tool you should keep some points in mind. Firstly, figure out the problem. Try to know the reason why your website is facing cross browser problems and what the best solution is for this. Then you may consult your web content developers and designers regarding the best possible solution for this. You can ask your friends, family and peers concerning your problem. Online directories and yellow pages can be looked at. Finally deciding the best solution you may head to the right testing tool, which will guide you through the testing process.

Cross browser testing has become the most widely used testing technique these days because of the number of advantages attached to this system. Making your web content compatible with the various web browsers will help your venture or enterprise flourish and multiply.

Author Bio

Nelson has been actively performing testing of various web and desktop applications. He has shared his in-depth knowledge about cross browser testing through his tutorials and articles which are also published online.

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Top 10 Must have Google Chrome add-ons for developers

Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers today. Even I am also a big fan of it for keeping in mind the features it provides and the variety of extensions or more commonly the add-ons for making the development and designing job much simpler than before.

Some of these extensions worked even better than expected results. Here I am posting a list of top 10 Google Chrome add-ons for developers that worked great for me.

1--> Pendule

Pendule

Pendule is one of the most wanted chrome add-on for developers and is very much similar to the web developer tool of Firefox. It is best to work with forms, style-sheets, Html, images and have a vast collection of some really good developing tools for picking color, ruler etc.

2--> MeasureIt

MeasureIt

This is basically similar to the very famous Mozilla Firefox add-on MeasureIt, which is now made available for Chrome users also for measurement purposes.

It allows you to sketch a ruler across a web-page so as to measure the factors like height, width and alignment of the elements present on the webpage.

3--> Snippy

Snippy

Snippy is a wonderful add-on for chrome users for taking the snippets of almost any webpage and lets you save them for future use. Also it has strong integration with Google Docs facilitating you to upload and save those snippets to Google Docs. It would really make it much easier for you to save whatever you like on web and can use it anytime from anywhere from your Google Docs account.

4--> Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer 

Speed Tracer, as the name suggests is a powerful and helpful Chrome extension for developers to keep a check on the performance of the web applications they use. It discovers the issues caused by CSS style elements, DOM event management, JavaScript parsing & execution etc. This tool would also help you fix the issue related to the speed of the web pages.

5--> Firebug Lite

Firebug

At first instance, Firebug Lite seems an alternative to the Firebug but it’s somewhat different. It offers the visual representation feature just like Firebug for DOM and HTML elements etc. Along with this, it also adds some more features to the list such as live editing of Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, keeping a check on HTML elements and a lot more.

6--> Picnik

Picnik

Picnik is a very well known image editing service for editing the photos. Most of the users especially designers and developers use Picnik very frequently. To make uploading and editing photos easy to Picnic, Chrome has made available this add-on. You can simply take a snapshot of any webpage while surfing the web and can perform editing on these snapshots immediately. It supports many image formats like gif, jpg, png, tiff, bmp etc.

7--> Resolution Test

Resolution Test

Resolution Test is a tool for Chrome users to test the website pages against a number of diverse screen resolutions. Although the tool contains a list of pre-defined and most commonly used screen resolutions but its customization feature let you customize the resolution as per your requirements. Also you can turn on the Google Browser Size using this great Chrome extension.

8--> PHP Code Editor

PHP Code Editor

This plug-in is one of the best extensions in Chrome add-ons list. It offers you the web interface that can be used for editing your code.

The best part of this plug-in is that you can now work on your project from anywhere in the world using any computer.

9--> Csscan

Csscan

Csscan is a true friend for most of the developers who are using Chrome, as it really simplifies their task by offering the overview of all CSS properties and attributes of the elements on which you would focus the mouse. So if anytime you need to look into the properties of an element with this tool, simply place your mouse over that element.

10--> Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper is an add-on basically designed for developers and designers to allow them picking any color from across the web. It can really make web designing very easy by letting you use any color without need to create the custom color manually for the same.



This is just a glimpse of the wide array of Google Chrome extensions but the list contains the names which personally proved a boon for me in many different ways. As I already said, I am a big fan of Chrome developers add-ons and I am sure you would also believe it after using these extensions.

Author bio : 

Saif is web designer at Web Design Company in Austin. Get a quote about web design from us now !

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How To Set Up A Wireless Network In Windows 8

Are you are working on windows 8 and you have got stucked in making a wireless network to share internet or any document you want? In this post I am going to tell you how to setup a wireless network in windows 8 in your system. If you want the freedom to work anywhere in your house, you need a wireless network. Wireless internet has become the standard and over the past two decades has proved to be indispensable in the world of wireless internet sharing. What a wireless network does is provide data and internet sharing within the range of the router. In windows previous versions like vista, Window 7 it was pretty much easier to set up a wireless network by simple hitting some icons and giving some essential detail but in the latest version i.e. window 8 the task is comparatively tough. So you need a step by step tutorial to make a wireless network. There are few things you need to know to set up the wireless network so that you share stuffs with other computers. You need to have following two conditions satisfied to do this task-




1--> First, you must have a wireless network adapter. Almost every computer nowadays have this component.

2--> Second you need a wireless router. Yes, this thing connects to your broadband modem.

Once you have the above two conditions satisfied, you are ready to set up a wireless network in your windows 8 operating system. Here are sequences of steps you need to follow in order to set up a wireless network.

1--> Connect your network cable from the port to the internet port in your laptop/PC. This internet port looks something like this-

Internet Port

It is generally on the back of many laptops but may be on the left or right side of your laptop.

2--> Once the network cable is connected to your system, switch to the start screen and hit File Explorer.

->Click Network, now you would see a window like below-

Network Window

3--> Now, double click the router icon.

4--> Enter username and password.

5--> Click OK

6--> In the next step you have to tell the window about various things like "the type of internet 

connection", "the network name","The wireless security options" and the admin password and that’s it. You are done. You just created a wireless network for windows 8. Cheers!!!

CONNECTING TO THE WIRELESS CONNECTION

1--> Hit Windows + I to open setting window.

2--> Click the wireless network icon.

3--> Click the wireless network. Click the network you've created earlier.

Network

4--> Click connect.

Network Connect

5--> Enter the password you have set when you created the network.

Network

6--> Click "turn on file sharing and" and connect to devices.

File Sharing

And hurrah!!! You just created a wireless network in windows 8. So that was a quick guide to help you all to set up the wireless network.

Still have problems ?? Ask us…drop Your comments below….

About The Author-

Author bio: Eric Blair writes about computer networking and fiber optic technologies used when making Cisco GLC-T transceivers.

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Boost your Android phone’s life – Tips to enhance the longevity of your phone

Do you own an Android smartphone? If answered yes, you must be acknowledging the fact that everything is good about it except its battery performance. Well, you might be relieved to know that not only you, every Android mobile phone user face this battery problem in their Android smartphones. There are even many Android phone users who feel that a nightly recharge is sufficient for their phone to work perfectly throughout the next day but unfortunately this is also not enough sometimes. 

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Important Precautions to save a wet phone after it gets drowned

Before the start of this valuable post, I would like to ask a few questions to my readers: Have you ever dropped your cell phone in water tub or mug by mistake? Or has your phone ever taken the washing machine bath? Have you lost your phone due to your mistake by dropping it in machine, toilet, sink or any other water container?

If yes, then you shall read this post very carefully as we have shared the precautions to save phone after it is dropped in water. If no, then also, you are recommended to read this post, as the accidents can happen any time.

Important Precautions to save a wet phone after it gets drowned

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