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hanging-on-by-a-clawclip · 1 year

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How to Start a Blog: A Satire

Hi, over the past week and a half I’ve been on a blog kick, or rather a “I want to start a blog because I have no creative outlet” kick. What I learned is that designing a blog, or any website for that matter, is incredibly difficult and very frustrating. So, I have taken it upon myself to make a how to guide on creating a blog. It’ll be fun, c'mon let’s go!

Step 1: Realize you want to start a blog even though you’ve never shown that much interest in writing because all you’ve ever written were school essays, but you convince yourself you did good on those essays, hence why you should start a blog. (extra points if you realize this on your way home from the beach)

Step 2: Decide on a blog platform! There are numerous websites where you can house your blog, the trick is picking one. Wix is good, if you want your blog header to look deformed on mobile even though it looks *perfect* on desktop. Another popular site is WordPress, unless you have a degree in designing websites, you’re basically screwed. Or maybe I just wasn’t blessed with the website design genes in my family. Thanks mom. Weebly is that one you had to make a power point on in your 7th grade English class and since then it’s just left a bad taste in your mouth. There’s several others but I think whoever coded them watched The Social Network one time and decided they wanted to be the new Mark Zuckerberg. Anyways, step 3 anybody?

Step 3: Time to pick a theme *insert random aesthetic emojis here because my HP laptop has the worst emojis I have EVER seen* Depending on what you want to focus your blog on will be the deciding factor on your theme. Are you a gamer? Choose a color palette that has lots of purples, blues, and neon colors. But are you narrowing it down to a certain video game? Use the games colors in your blog. A beauty blog you say? Pink, white, and lots of light colors, possibly some pastels if you’re feeling spontaneous.

Step 4: The time has come to decide between designing your blog from scratch OR picking a premade template that looks awesome but when you try to edit it to match your theme it looks worse than if you had started from scratch.

Step 5: Put all the decisions you made to work! Now absolutely forget about everything except your theme because all you will focus on for days is making the header look like God hand crafted it himself. You will fail many times but that’s okay, just get back up on the horse and convince yourself to come back to it later. Work on the layout, how is the home page going to look? What pictures do you want to use? Do you need to go find aesthetic stuff of Pinterest to make your blog look better because the only pictures good enough to be online are your graduation pictures and the pictures of your dog that your mom sends you to combat your anxiety, I mean pet pictures are cute yes put them on the blog, in fact make it a blog ABOUT your pet. I guarantee more people will read it if you do that. Can we go to step 6 now please?

Step 6: This step is personally my least favorite and takes the longest. You will bounce between steps 2, 3, 4, and 5 because you aren’t satisfied with anything you have created so far :)

Step 7: Complain about it to your friend in which she asks you, “Is it worth it?” and you respond with the truth that its probably not worth it but you need a creative outlet and have convinced yourself that you aren’t good at anything else.

Step 8: You’re tired aren’t you? That’s okay, let’s take a break. How was your day? Did you do anything fun? Oh you didn’t leave your house because you’ve been trying to make a blog all day. Yeah that happens, but that’s why we’re taking a break now! Go drink some water, eat a sandwich, don’t get on social media though, you’ll never come back to read the rest of my how to guide.

Step 9: You have finally handcrafted something that kind of looks like a blog, this is the part where you realize you set your design expectations too high and you’re actually really liking the simple, minimalistic vibe that you’ve somehow created. Now step 9 is making your domain name, which is the URL people will go to when they want to visit your blog. Coming up with a domain name is like making a new password. Everything you think of has already been used. The issue is you can’t make Ilovetaylorswift123! your domain name... (for clarification that is not my real password, I made that up in like three seconds.) This step is a two parter because I’m feeling chaotic today. As you are getting frustrated about not being able to come up with a good domain name, you realize that the blog platform you used that said you’d get a free domain name, is only half true because somehow, someway, you will be paying for this gosh darn blog- both with money and your sanity.

Step 10: Congratulations, you’ve made it, here’s your trophy in the form of what was supposed to be my first blog post but after claiming that I will in fact not be paying their absurd prices, I came to my early high school second home- Tumblr. One blog platform I didn’t mention in step 2 was Tumblr and there’s a reason for that. It’s not necessarily a traditional platform for a blog and readers have to have an account with Tumblr so when you share the link to your friends, a cute little box pops up that says “Ah, now. You need clearance for that.” and asks them to make an account. Which makes sense because Tumblr IS a social media platform so no hate to them for that.

In conclusion, (because like I said, I have convinced myself I was very good at school essays) making a blog is hard and not for the faint of heart. You’ll need a solid plan, knowledge on how to use the blog platform you’ve chosen, and money for the domain name. But if you’re like me and don’t have any of those, that’s okay! Because there will always be somewhere for you to share your writings, your passions, and your truths.

Have a good day, friends <3

#how to blog #sarcasm #tumblr #writers on tumblr #writing

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doshmanziari · 2 years

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Here’s a little trip down one candlelit memory lane. While revisiting the campus of a university I attended for a semester, my girlfriend and I stopped by a cafe. As I looked at the interior, I remembered that, years ago, I’d spent time here on several weeknights fastidiously editing Wikipedia pages for the Castlevania series. Wikipedia had existed then for a few years beforehand, but most of these pages were in their infancy, or had yet to be made. This meant that one had the opportunity to set the tone and content for each, and also potentially be the only person, or one of few people, working on them (look at the edit history for Harmony of Dissonance’s page and you will see that in September, 2005 I, under the username Diplocephalus, was pretty much the sole editor for strings of days).

Wikipedia’s standards were generally not as strict then, either: what you might see on a given page for a piece of media is rather what you might now see on, say, a series-dedicated wiki -- digital reams of writing focusing on very visibly fan-authored minutiae. Such wikis presumably developed as this minutiae was deemed by Wikipedia’s editors to be exactly that, and irrelevant, or at worst antithetical, to some ideal of objectivity, and mass-deleted.

This leads me to this post’s first four images, comparing Symphony of the Night’s early Wikipedia page to its current wiki page, and the same for Harmony of Dissonance. This comparison is amusing to me because the Wikipedia text of each was authored by myself -- meaning that it has survived elsewhere. But I doubt that whoever transplanted it knew or cared who’d authored it. It’s amusing, too, to see how I wrote about videogames and their environments seventeen years ago. There are a number of curious grammatical quirks as well, such as the quotation marks around titles... or the capitalization of “spikes.” Why I did these things, I know not.

The last two images are of a defunct Castlevania website, the Chapel of Resonance, the making and substantiating of which I was intimately involved with. I’m not sure how many people who follow this blog were ever aware of this site. It went live in either 2006 or 2007, and was specifically a response to the Castlevania Dungeon, made and and maintained by Kurt Kalata, probably most well known now as the maker of Hardcore Gaming 101. The Dungeon by then was fairly old, maybe a little less than a decade’s age, and I and some others who met on the Dungeon’s forum felt that the writing had begun to suffer from a disinterested obligation on the part of Kurt, who I believe was also less interested in the bishounen leanings of producer Koji Igarashi’s then-contemporary titles.

I could go more into all of this, and maybe one day I will, but for now I wanted to leave readers with a couple of screenshots from the Chapel of Resonance: one from its main page, which looks a little different from how it originally appeared (and obviously, charmingly, had no aspirations about “presentable” web design), and another from a section of Harmony of Dissonance’s page, devoted to its environments. In the case of the latter, I believe that it was co-authored by myself and the site’s maker, who went by The Successor. Writing such material was always my favorite part of crafting a game’s page, both because places interest me more than people in videogames and because they were opportunities to focus on details or qualities which perhaps had never been remarked upon before.

#Castlevania #videogame history #internet history

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parlerenfleurs · 8 months

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Hi!

I'm the anon with the Xue Yang&Wei Wuxian ask from a while ago.

Thank you for answering. I am a big Wei Wuxian fan too and I don't like it when he is misunderstood on purpose,to raise up the moral quality of other characters.

But about screenshotting. You've opened my mind!!

So,to me,screenshotting is the worst that you can do. Take someone's words out of context and criticize without ever interacting with the person. Rude anon asks are way above that,in terms of ethics. And angry reblogs would be preferable,instead.

BUT. apparently this is normal practice? So I really want to know now,is it a me thing or a cultural thing?

If you are also from the US I guess it would be a cultural thing. But if you are not,then it could be strictly a me thing,possibly?👀🤯🥸

(about finding your post: it was just in one of the common tags,so it was easy to find)

Well, for starters, no country/culture is a monolith, so don't worry about that anon, but no I'm not from the US, I'm French.

I have no idea if it's a me-thing, but I suspect I've been on the internet longer than you, and it's very simply that I value my tranquillity above drama. What I can tell you is that if you do want to talk about what someone said but you disagree with, if you put their name with it, then it's rude because it paints a target on their back while they may never know where it came from and don't have a chance to respond, or simply block. That's where the angry anons can come from.

On the other hand, cropping out the name is considered the polite and decent thing to do, yes. Same principle as making your own post instead of derailing someone else's.

We can never all agree and sometimes it's cathartic to just... Have a good laugh/sarcasm-fest about something we read that someone said.

But life is too short to care about a few words taken out of context if none of the angry feelings are making their way to me, you know? Social media is largely designed to maximise engagement, and to do that it chiefly exploits anger. It's profitable for sites if users get angry and just... respond.

Anger is paralyzing in the long term, very bad for the body and the brain, and reacting without thought is how useless drama happens. Especially if it's about a fictional character! There are more worthwhile causes to put energy into.

That's why I largely don't follow mdzs blogs. There is too much drama, and I just want to enjoy a good book that brings me joy. An angry reblog would not bring me joy. It would be useless to both parties AND put drama on people's dash. But venting about some words might be a relief, and it has nothing to do with me because they had the decency not to come and bother me about their opinion, that is irreconcilable with mine, so I don't care.

I would advise you to reconsider why you feel it's more ethical to confront someone than to just have your own emotion in your own personal space. When you think about it, this is the difference between shit-talking something you overheard with your friends and going in a stranger's face to start a fight. Which is more ethical? Which is a better use of one's energy and time? Of course a constant state of criticism is toxic and disagreeable, but the baseline is not to make it someone else's problem.

Seems to me you feel like your words, written thoughts, are a part of you, and thus if they are "taken" in this way, and you don't know what they become or how people react to them, then you lose then and thus a part of yourself. Your ego feels threatened, and I mean that in the most neutral way. We all have an ego that feels threatened all the time. The key is to recognise when it's a real threat to our well-being, or just an eternal immature, attention-seeking part of your psyche with irrational views about how the world functions. You'll have an easier time in life, and on the internet, if you take a page out of Budfhism's philosophy, and detach your sense of self from such fickle things as words.

Yes, words have power, and that's why I vastly prefer not to receive angry anons or reblogs, but words are not "me". So it doesn't matter what someone says about them, with no name attached, in my back.

People will react to your existence and your actions. We all can't help doing that. Commenting on a stranger's appearance/behaviour in public, out of earshot, is okay - loudly telling them what you think about it is not. (Talking about harmless behaviour here, of course you can speak up if someone does something dangerous or rude.) Creating a blog dedicated to making fun of an appearance/behaviour with faces or names displayed is even worse.

In this metaphor, what these people did was the first option, and you're saying that you would find it the moral thing to do to do the second one instead, while I'm just happy they didn't do the third.

People will always react, and as long as they don't make their reaction to you your problem, and you don't in return, then the world is a kinder place.

#Bloom answers #of course the superior course of action is to block and think of something else #but I think that might be a bit much to ask of people who deem it important to defend a character like Xue Yang lol #But we all act less than ideally from time to time it's okay

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on-the-pechka · 3 years

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The Internet is Great, You’re The Problem

“That’s the internet for ya”, “The internet is like X”, “The internet is so Y”... When did the internet become sentient? “You shouldn’t start your day by going on the internet”. Huh? I thought the internet could be anything? I’M CHEESED!

Would starting your day by searching google for cool frog pictures be bad for you? No right? So I have to assume that the internet people despise is only a small fraction of what there is, and you deliberately choose to use it every time.

The internet is like going outside

I think it’s good to start your day by going outside, but what if “going outside” meant walking around the worst part of town and picking fights with homeless people? You would still be going outside, but all the positive effects of that would be lost after getting your ass beat by multiple hobos. That’s the internet too. Every time you open social media you’re making a choice to go find hobos. Just like in real life, if you try to fight them you will probably lose and watching them fight each other is not much better. Wouldn’t you rather go for a nice walk in the park instead? Maybe you’ll stop by the library and happen to witness a conversation between two great philosophers. They’re not famous and didn’t publish any books but you can tell that you’re witnessing two great minds interact. That’s what it’s like to go on MyAnimeList.net, more on that later.

Specialized sites and forums are LINDY.

Social media platforms are designed to host every kind of content, by millions of different people, and still provide a unified experience. That’s not inherently a bad idea, but if all you see is social media, you are missing a lot. An instagram meme page will never be as funny as a website specifically dedicated to memes. Most memes you see today originate from 9gag, iFunny, and Reddit (specialized subreddits). A cooking tutorial from social media will never deliver the quality that an individual cooking blog can. If you follow a single person’s cooking blog, you come to understand their taste, the ingredients they like to use, and the equipment they have on hand. Following a recipe blog is like learning to cook from someone you know, a tiktok tutorial doesn’t even come close. You can find social media pages dedicated to anime, but it’s ultimately surface level. MyAnimeList looks exactly the same as it did in 2010, and true thinkers reside here. One of my favourite features on MyAnimeList is the ability to comment on a user’s profile:

I use a specialized site for looking at pictures of cars, as well as car forums. I use a specialized site for logging, reviewing, and discussing anime. I use a specialized site to look at unique cars that are up for sale. I only use youtube to watch my subscriptions. I use a specialized site for streaming anime. I use a specialized site for reading manga. I use a specialized site for logging, reviewing, and discussing books. I use a specialized site for logging, reviewing, and discussing kino. I subscribed to newsletters that I want to read and made my email a place I enjoy being. I must say, it feels pretty good. My mood is never ruined by going online because I when I go online I choose to go where I WANT to go, not where it takes me. There is a specialized website for anything you might like, and you would be surprised to find out that tons of people do still use them. When you go online it is completely up to you what year it’s gonna be. You can torture yourself with infinite scrolling and AI suggested ads, or you can go feed your neopet and spin the wheel of monotony until your eyeballs fall out. You’re in control, the internet is just the ground you walk on.

“I prefer a world where people live, no matter how tainted with sin it is”

Everything always comes back to Evangelion. Using social media is like getting nutrients through a feeding tube, after a while eating all sorts of different foods with varying textures and tastes seems daunting, but I think it’s worth it. Reject the sterile, unhuman social media enviroment. Embrace the flawed, unique, specialized world wide web. The internet is a fun place to be, all is right with the world.

INSTAGRAM NOT LINDY ❌

MYANIMELIST VERY LINDY ✅

#internet #drake #cheese #hobo #homelessness #kino #lindy #newsletter #anime #myanimelist #evangelion #neon genesis evangelion #sigma grindset #internet culture #internet history #worldwideweb #myspace #normal

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sleepingpatterns · 4 years

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“Should I use InDesign to lay out my books?” - A Passionate Guide

Ok, if you are like me, you recently stumbled upon @armoredsuperheavy‘s brilliant blog about bookbinding and fanfiction, and now you are excited to throw yourself head-first into bookbinding.

This also means that you are about to invest a fair amount of time into figuring out how exactly to lay out books. What you end up getting comfortable with will most likely be what you end up using long term, so it is worthwhile giving it some thought. The question really comes down to this: who's name will you be cursing for the foreseeable future? Adobe? Or Microsoft?

Full disclosure: I only started using InDesign because I was forced to. I worked as an editor at a newspaper, and that was what we used. The beginning was hell. I won’t sugar coat it, it sucks. In the end it was worth it. Once you figure it out, InDesign’s potential far outstrips Microsoft Word (in my opinion).

That encouragement means very little when you open this treacherous program for the first time and see THIS:

“What?! I will literally give you $100 if you guess what all the buttons on the left are for. How the fuck do I make the margins disappear!?”

So, if using InDesign means figuring out what at least one third of the tools on the left are for, lets talk pros and cons.

Let’s get the cons out of the way.

It is expensive. Adobe is not fucking around. This puppy costs 20 bucks a month (Canadian) to RENT. If this is out of your price range, do you still have options? Yes. Do they range in legality? Also yes. I think I could potentially get in trouble for telling you to find your friendly neighborhood torrenting site and steal this software. I will say, outright, that no one should steal software ever. Got it? I would be very upset if someone were to message me for specifics. As you naturally wish to be law-abiding, there is also the quasi-legal option of repeating the 14-day free trial. My friend works at a professional print studio in Russia, and this is the tactic they use: every 14 days they uninstall all of the software from all of the computers, and reinstall it with a new trial. Every 14 days! At a professional operation! My friend hates working there.

It is not initially intuitive. I’ve covered this, but it bears repeating because it is a serious hurdle. Keep in mind, that with time, InDesign becomes more helpful than other software. Now when I use Word I find myself reaching for keyboard shortcuts automatically, and feeling bereft at the lack of my favorite tools. Nonetheless, expect a time commitment up front learning how to harness this glorious and confusing computer program.

It can run kinda slowly, depending on your computer. Up until two months ago, I had the world’s most precarious laptop. I bought it for $200 in 2015. It once took half an hour to restart. Inexplicably, when it got stressed, it would switch to Spanish. It was literally and figuratively falling apart. And yet, it ran InDesign. Granted, it worked slowly. If I asked it to process too many images at once it would panic (again with the Spanish), but for the most part, it worked. If you have a slow computer and are patient, then InDesign will probably work fine on your computer. If you are not willing to suffer, stick to Word.

You will also need Photoshop (sometimes). Part of what makes InDesign glorious is that it is professional software that is designed specifically to work with print and anything text-heavy. I love that about it. It even manages to do some handy things with images! But, inevitably, you will need to learn some Photoshop to punch up your graphics. I have, admittedly, only learned the bare minimum Photoshop in order to feed my InDesign addiction. It was a pain in the butt. For example, inexplicably, Adobe has not standardized keyboard shortcuts across the suite. As with InDesign, now that I’ve learned the tricks, I adore it. But you should go into this knowing that with Adobe, the fun never ends.

Printing signatures is the WORST. Adobe, please explain to me, in front of God and everyone, why the hell you would make this software specifically for laying out books etc. and not include a method of printing signatures?! I’m livid. This is absolutely where Word wins the day. It is almost worth using Word just to print the signatures so nicely and easily. I’m not kidding. Me—a person who has used InDesign professionally—almost wanted to switch software entirely just because of this. Hands down, InDesign’s biggest goof. Despite this crime against bookbinders everywhere, you have options. You can export your design to a PDF and literally print each signature separately (I am fucking livid) or you can complain enough to your friends that they offer to buy you a lovely program called BookletCreator for your birthday. It costs $20 bucks USD and it was worth every penny. However, Adobe, FOR THE AMOUNT THAT YOU CHARGE FOR YOUR PROGRAM, I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE ANY ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE IN ORDER TO PRINT MY BOOK. Did I mention that I am livid?!

But InDesign must be worth something, right?! Otherwise why would I be writing a long post encouraging people to use it? Let’s talk pros:

The horsepower on this baby will blow your mind. Forget what I just said about printing signatures; imagine using software that was literally made for this. You wanna do a thing? InDesign has got you. Are you a perfectionist? This software was designed by people as pedantic and obsessive as yourself. It gets you. Dream it, google how to do it, and InDesign will deliver. This is really the main reason to use InDesign; it is the professional standard for a reason.

There are so SO many resources available to help you learn. Almost everything I’ve learned about InDesign I learned from Google or YouTube. Honestly, if you have a question, I promise that other people have already asked and answered it. The advantage is that because this software is specifically for laying out books, there is lots of information available specifically about how to do what you want to do. (This may also be true for Word, but I’ll be honest, I only used Word for a book layout once, so I can’t say for certain either way.)

Once you figure it out, InDesign will give you back hours of your life. Things like master page spreads, clipping paths, tint, the eyedropper tool, and the one-hundred-percent adjustable text are just... lifesavers. My experience with Word is limited, so my frustration using it was probably due to my own ineptitude, but honestly, when putting together my thesis, the tears I cried trying to get page numbers to format correctly were some of the most bitter text-related tears I have ever shed. I can take care of the whole operation in InDesign in a matter of minutes. Hours. Of. My. Life. Saved.

This is an actual marketable skill. Ok, bear with me here. I have used InDesign for every single job I have had since I worked at the newspaper. That includes working as a bookkeeper and a kindergarten teacher. Hell, I even made my resume to get those jobs in InDesign. There is no job that I forsee in my future that doesn’t include some form of text-based design. Even when my work has absolutely nothing to do with layout (see: kindergarten teacher) I still found some way to use it. My previous boss was actually so thrilled about my InDesign skills that she had me run a 101 seminar for the other employees. (Did any of them end up using it? I suspect not. Did they look at me strangely for being so enthusiastic about design software? Absolutely.) I’ve even managed to use InDesign to branch out from freelance editing to take on design projects as well. In short: if you learn how to use InDesign, put in on your resume. You will be surprised at how much mileage you get out of it.

With Adobe, the fun never ends. I know I joked about it before, but really, I love seeing what this program has in store for me next. For example, thanks to bookbinding, I discovered that InDesign will do a lot of things that I had previously assumed were the domain of Word, such as spell check. I literally stumbled onto a measuring tool today that I wish existed irl to help me glue my covers together. Part of the beauty of this software being so intricate is that there is always something new you can do. I love learning how to harness a new feature, and then watch my design improve over time. Using this program you really get the feeling that the sky is the limit. Look, just the fact that I’ve now resorted to saccharine platitudes about computer software tells you that InDesign is remarkable. Considering that this program has made me suffer so significantly, I have either seen the face of God, or I have Stockholm syndrome. Take your pick.

TL;DR, at long last:

How complicated would you like to go? Either way, for bookbinding you’ve got to learn to use software in a new way.

Do you just want to get your book laid out reliably with little fuss? Word is for you! Are you interested in delving into the details? Do you have the patience of a saint? Try InDesign!

Both work. Both are good. But you can pry InDesign from my cold dead hands because I adore it.

#Honestly #No shame towards Word or anyone that uses it seriously #Like I said I have little experience actually using it for laying out books #But InDesign is very good.#Bookbinding #fic #fic binding #If people want I can start putting together tutorials about how to do all of this stuff #And all of y'all can learn from my mistakes and hopefully learn faster than I did.#Аня есть что нибудь здесь про тебя #заметишь?#InDesign

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lovebuzz-indiandatingapp · 3 years

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Online Dating: Top 5 Ways to Initiate a Conversation

It is difficult to create a perfect opening message. Anything more exciting than “Hey” or "How's it going?" is an accomplishment.

Getting the conversation started isn't even the hardest part anymore - keeping it going is. It can be difficult to initiate a conversation with a total stranger, especially if you are not used to such encounters, or if you consider yourself to be quiet or introverted.

Asking the right questions and saying the right things will determine whether a relationship will lead to an in-person date. Consequently, we designed a little survey to determine which phases of conversation made people want to talk further.

In a survey, members of Lovebuzz, an up-and-coming free online dating site, were asked — “What was the pick line that got you talking?”

Quite varied responses poured in from all around. Here are the top 5 responses:

1. A professional connection -

Users of online dating apps noted that one conversation that always worked in their favour was showing an interest in the job. Let someone know if you think their career is noteworthy! Maybe they're a Youtuber, or a blogger, or even an NGO volunteer. Whatever the case may be, appreciating someone is a good way to initiate communication. There are better chances of getting a reply to such a message.

Client’s reference:

i) “Hey Priya, Fashion Designer! How cool is that job? What inspired you to pursue design?”

ii) “Author Siddharth! That's quite a profession! Developing characters and writing stories must be fun, right? As a bookworm, I love reading new stories. Let’s connect?”

iii) “What's up, petroleum engineer? I have to admit that I am quite intrigued! Well! Smriti here! Developer who wants to know everything about everything. So, what do Petroleum Engineers do?”

2. Appreciate Creative Bio -

Based on our survey, complementing a bio was the second-most frequently observed conversation leading to some starter. People spend a lot of time crafting a bio that speaks well of them and looks impressive. Recognizing their efforts on bio is often effective, always! It not only shows your interest in the person but also gives you a reason to take a lead without sounding desperate.

Client’s reference:

i) Bio - Workaholic by day, party animal by night! Response -

Your description of yourself has been so well expressed in just a few words! I'm blown away! About me- I am a man of few words, who loves to work smart and party wild. Let’s connect?”

ii) Bio - 3 things I can't live without — bike, dog, travel.

“Hey! I think we have a lot in common! Besides being a boho gal, I'm a Retriever mom. However, my love is not limited to a particular breed of dog. We should talk. I think we might click!”

3. Keeping up with Humour -

Girls love humour. Six out of ten girls say humour is their major turn-on. You can send someone a hilarious opening line, but if someone's profile made you laugh, tell them! All the more reason for you to strike up a conversation.

It is interesting to note that according to statistics, someone with humour is more likely to respond to you regardless of your looks or bio.

A funny opening line gets noticed easily and makes the best impression. Despite this, we ranked it third since not everyone is a quick wit. In light of this, rough humour might trigger a spam report or block. Be careful!

Client’s reference:

i) A guy in his geek glass Avtaar on the Lovebuzz stole my heart with this - “They say a good opening line is vital to initiate a conversation. Despite wanting to speak to you, I don't have the strongest opening line. Here’s my opening line, please consider ____________________. ;) P.S. I will always have something to say when I have nothing to say!”

ii) “

4. Dig deeper -

Check out the profile in detail and see if there is anything that interests you or you have in common. A deeper look at your profile will not only help you understand compatibility with the other person but also offer you plenty of conversation starters. A bio limit leads to people adding more information to their profiles, from place check-ins to hobbies and interests.

Thanks to lovebuzz, compatibility isn't a concern. A great feature of the Lovebuzz dating app is the 5-question daily compatibility test that gives you the best matches in advance. Thus, suggest the people on your profile who share your interests. Therefore, many topics are common.

Client’s reference:

1) "I noticed the collection of series you have watched. Wow! Do you have a favourite series?”

ii) “Wow, I’ve never been bungee jumping before, must be a wild experience?”

iii) “Ironman Triathlon! Now that is something I want to do. I am a marathon runner. Would love to hear about your triathlon experience!”

5. Pop a question -

Several Lovebuzz members said they fall for the profile picture but the bio does not have enough information to start a conversation, while the other profile information is hidden. In such cases, this is the best response to give, received by some of our Lovebuzz App users that quickly got them a response.

Client’s reference:

i) “I love watching. What does your ideal movie night look like? Chick Flick vs. Rom-Com; Popcorn vs. Nachos; Theater vs. Couch.”

ii) Foodie friend here! If you could eat only one meal again for the rest of your life, what would it be?"

Since we have spoken about the top 5 conversation starter that does the trick, we would also like to share some outdated messages that are serious turn-offs, as per various Lovebuzz users!

1. As much as we all love a compliment on our looks or profile picture, starting a conversation with a compliment on a profile picture feels too outdated and lazy to some. While there are a few who also appreciate it. Yet try to avoid these cheesy lines that make you look, wannabe.

“Hey you, pretty eyes.”

“Hi, You have the best smile in the world. Want to connect?”

“Hey! You look like someone I know. Let’s chat?”

2. Too simple messages that look effortless are total turn-oof and gets zero response whatsoever.

“Hey there!”

“Hey, wazzup?”

“Hi, Let’s talk!”

To know more of these conversation phase turn-offs, visit the lovebuzz blog and read —

9 Worst Conversation Phase Turn Offs During Online Dating

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So, HAPPY DATING with Lovebuzz!

#onlinedating #onlinedatingapp

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I’d go so far as to say that the nomination probably saved the site, in fact. For those who need a little background: despite being a small voluntary project the site was nominated for the 2014 Publication of the Year award by Stonewall, the UK’s largest LGBT charity, just nine months after its inception. This was a landmark step in Stonewall’s positive new direction on bi issues. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time Stonewall had specifically nominated a specifically bi publication or organisation for an award. At this point my co-founder, who was taking care of the business side of things, had recently jumped ship and I was seriously considering packing the whole thing in. I won’t lie, I was astonished to read the email.

I’d worked on a publication which won the award under my editorship a few years previously. Unlike Biscuit, however, g3 magazine – at the time one of the two leading print mags for lesbian and bi women in the UK – had an estimated readership of 140,000, had been going for eight years and boasted full-time paid office staff and regular paid freelancers. Biscuit, by contrast, was being dragged along by one weary unpaid editor and a bunch of unpaid writers who understandably, for the most part, couldn’t commit to regularly submitting work.

Little Biscuit’s enormous competition for the award consisted of Buzzfeed, Attitude.co.uk, iNewspaper and Property Week. We didn’t win – that accolade went to iNewspaper – but the nomination was nevertheless, as I say, a huge catalyst to continue with the site. I launched a crowdfunder, which finished way off target. I sold one ad space, for two months. Then nothing. I attempted in vain to recruit a sales manager but nobody wanted to work on commission. Some wonderful writers came and went. There were periods of tumbleweed when I frantically had to fill the site with my own writing, thereby completely defeating the object of providing a platform for a wide range of bi voices.

The Stonewall Award nomination persuaded me to keep going with the site

The departure of the webmaster was another blow. Thankfully by this point I had a co-editor on board – the amazing Libby – so I was persuaded to stick with it. And here we are now. I don’t actually know where the next article is coming from. That’s not a good feeling. But, apart from for Biscuit, I try not to write for free anymore myself, so I understand exactly why that is. As a freelance journo trying to make a living I’ve had to be strict with myself about that. I regularly post on the “Stop Working For Free” Facebook group and often feel a pang of misplaced guilt because I ask my writers to write for free, even though I’m working on the site for free myself, and losing valuable time I could be spending on looking for paid work.

Biscuit hasn’t exactly been a stranger to controversy, in addition to its financial and staffing issues. Its original tagline – “for girls who like girls and boys” – was considered cis-centric by some, leading to accusations that the site had some kind of trans/genderqueer*-phobic agenda. Which was amusing, as at the height of this a) we’d just had two articles about non-binary issues published and b) I was actually engaged to a genderqueer partner, a fact they were clearly unaware of. Now the site is under fire from various pansexual activists who object to the term “bisexual”. To clarify – “girl and boys” was supposed to imply a spectrum and, no, we don’t think “bi” applies only to an attraction to binary folk. The site aims the main part of its content at female-spectrum readers attracted to more than one gender because this group does have specific needs. But there is something here for EVERYONE bisexual. Anyway, it’s a shame all of this gossip was relayed secondhand, and the people in question didn’t think to confront me about it (which at least the pan activists have bothered to do). We damage our community immeasurably with these kinds of Chinese whispers.

Biscuit ed Libby, being amazing

Whilst trying to keep the site afloat, I’ve also been building on the work I started right back when I edited g3, and trying to improve bi visibility in other media outlets. I’ve recently had articles published by Cosmopolitan, SheWired, The F-Word, GayStar News and Women Make Waves and I’m constantly emailing other sites which I’ve not yet written for with bi pitches. Unfortunately, although I am over the moon to be writing for mainstream outlets such as Cosmo about bi issues, it’s been an uphill struggle trying to persuade some editors out there that they have more readers to whom bi-interest stories apply than they might think. It’s an incredibly exhausting and frustrating process.

Libby and I are doing our best with Biscuit. I can’t guarantee that I would be doing anything at all with it if Libby hadn’t arrived on the scene, so once again I would like to mention how fabulous she is. But we desperately need more writers. We need some help with site design and tech issues. We need a hand with the business and sales side of things. We can’t do it without you. And if you know any rich bisexual heiresses who read Biscuit, please do send them our way. 😉

Grant Denkinson’s story

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Grant speaks on a panel chaired by Biscuit’s Lottie at a Bi Visibility Day event

So first of all, explain a little about the activism you’re involved/have been involved in.  

“I’ve been involved with bisexual community organising for a bit over 20 years. Some has been within community: writing for and editing our national newsletter, organising events for bisexuals and helping others with their events by running workshop sessions or offering services such as 1st aid. I’ve spoken to the media about bisexuality and organised bi contingents at LGBT Pride events (sometimes just me in a bi T-shirt!). I’ve helped organise and participated in bi activist weekends and trainings. I’ve help train professionals about bisexuality. I’ve also piped up about bisexuality a lot when organising within wider LGBT and gender and sexuality and relationship diversity umbrellas. I’ve been a supportive bi person on-line and in person for other bi folks. I’ve been out and visibly bi for some time. I’ve helped fund bi activists to meet, publish and travel. I’ve funded advertising for bi events. I’ve set up companies and charities for or including bi people. I’ve personally supported other bi activists.”

 What made you get involved?

“ In some ways I was looking for a way to be outside the norm and to make a difference and coming out as bi gave me something to push against. I’ve been less down on myself when feeling attacked. I’ve also found the bi community very welcoming and where I can be myself and so wanted to organise with friends and to give others a similar experience. There weren’t too many others already doing everything better than I could.”

How do you feel about the state of bi activism worldwide (esp UK and USA) at the moment?

“There have been great changes for same-sex attracted people legally and socially and these have happened quickly. Bi people have been involved with making that happen and benefit from it. We can also be hidden by gay advances or actively erased. We still have bi people not knowing many or any other local bi people, not seeing other bisexuals in the mainstream or LGT worlds and not knowing or being able to access community things with other bis. We are little represented in books or the media and people don’t know about the books and zines and magazines already available. The internet has made it easy to find like-minded people but also limited privacy and I think is really fragmented and siloed. It is hard to find bisexuals who aren’t women actors, harmful or fucked up men or women in pornography designed for straight men. We have persistent and high quality bi events but they are sparse and small.”

What’s causing you to feel disillusioned?

“I’m fed up of bi things just not happening if I don’t do them. Not everything should be in my style and voice and I shouldn’t be doing it all. I and other activists campaign for bi people to be more OK and don’t take care of ourselves enough while doing so. People are so convinced we don’t exist they don’t bother with a simple search that would find us. We have little resources while having some of the worst outcomes of any group. I don’t want to spend my entire life being the one person who reminds people about bisexuals, including our so-called allies. I’m not impressed with the problem resolution skills in our communities and while we talk about being welcoming I’m not sure we’re very effective at it. I’m fed up with mouthing the very basics and never getting into depth about bi lives and being one who supports but who is not supported. I’m all for lowering barriers but at a certain point if people don’t actively want to do bi community volunteering it won’t happen. Some people are great critics but build little.”

What do you want to say to other activists about this?

“Why are we doing this personally? I’m not sure we know. How long will we hope rather than do? Honestly, are there so few who care? Alternatively should we stop the trying to do bi stuff and either do some self-analysis, be happy to accept being what we are now as a community, chill out and just let stuff happen or give up and go and do something else instead.”

Patrick Richards-Fink’s story

085d4de So first of all, explain a little about the activism you’re involved/have been involved in.

“Mostly internet – I am a Label Warrior, a theorist and educator. Here’s how I described it on my blog: “One of the reasons that I am a bisexual activist rather than a more general queer activist is because I see every day people just like me being told they don’t belong. It doesn’t mean I don’t work on the basic issues that we all struggle against — homophobia, heterosexism, classism, out-of-control oligarchy, racism, misogyny, this list in in no particular order and is by no means comprehensive. But I have found that I can be most effective if I focus, work towards understanding the deep issues that drive the problems that affect people who identify the same way that I have ever since I started to understand who I am. I find that I’m not a community organizer type of activist or a storm the capitol with a petition in one hand and a bullhorn in the other activist — I’m much better at poring over studies and writing long wall-o’-text articles and occasionally presenting what I’ve gleaned to groups of students until my voice is so hoarse that I can barely do more than croak.” So internet, and when I was still in school, a lot of on-campus stuff. Now I’m moving into a new phase where my activism is more subtle – I’m working as a therapist, and so my social justice lens informs my treatment, especially of bi and trans people.”

What made you get involved?

“I can’t not be.”

How do you feel about the state of bi activism worldwide (esp UK and USA) at the moment?

“I feel like we made a couple strides, and every time that happens the attacks renewed. I hionestly think the constant attempts to divide the bisexual community into ‘good pansexuals’ and ‘bad bisexuals’ and ‘holy no-labels’ is the thing that’s most likely to screw us.”

What’s causing you to feel disillusioned?  

“It is literally everywhere I turn – colleges redefining bisexuality on their LGBT Center pages, news articles quoting how ‘Bi=2 and pan=all therefore pan=better’, everybloodywhere I turn I see it every day. The word bi is being taken out of the names of organisations now, by the next group of up-and-comers who haven’t bothered to learn their history and understand that if you erase our past, you take away our present. Celebrities come out as No Label, wtf is that. Don’t they make kids read 1984 anymore? It’s gotten to the point now that even seeing the word pansexual in print triggers me. I’m reaching the point now that if someone really wants to be offended when all I am trying to do is welcome them on board, then I don’t have time for it.”

What do you want to say to other activists about this?

“Stay strong, and don’t give them a goddamned inch. I honestly think that the bi organizations – even, truth be told, the one I am with – are enabling this level of bullshit by attempting to be conciliatory, saying things that end up reinforcing the idea that bi and pan are separate communities. We try to be too careful not to offend anyone. Like the thing about Freddie Mercury. Gay people say ‘He was gay.’ Bi people say ‘Um, begging your pardon, good sirs and madams and gentlefolk of other genders, but Freddie was bi.’ And they respond ‘DON’T GIVE HIM A LABEL HE DIDN’T CLAIM WAAHHH WAAHHH!’ And yet… Freddie Mercury never used the label ‘gay’, but it’s OK when they do it. And he WAS bisexual by any measure you want to use. But we back down. And 2.5% of the bisexual population decides pansexual is a better word, and instead of educating them, we add ‘pan’ to our organisation names and descriptions. Now, this is clearly a dissenting view – I will always be part of a united front where my organization is concerned. But everyone knows how I feel, and I think it’s totally valid to be loyal and in dissent at the same time. Not exactly a typically American viewpoint, but everyone says I’d be a lot more at home in Britain than I am here anyway.”

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Hidden in Plain Sight (3)- Tom Holland X Reader

A/N: This story is fun to write, but school is taking over little by little so sorry if this gets delayed more than I mean for it to be! Enjoy Chapter Three!

Word Count: 2165

Warnings: Swearing? Maybe? To be honest I can’t remember if I swore or not but knowing me I probably did. But there is mention of a killer moth so if that’s as trigger as it was when it was flying around my room then I’ll mention it here.

You had the absolute worst day. You were hoping it was going to be a good day since you had put on one of your favorite outfits to wear to work. But as soon as you got to work, everything turned into a shit show. A project you thought was finished didn’t save the last days edits, your boss got on you for something that was your coworker’s responsibility, and someone ate your lunch, which you’re not entirely sure how that happened, but it did. Add to it you have the start of what you think is a migraine, the last thing you want to do is anything work related, but because you’re behind on the project that is due tomorrow, you’ll probably be up all night working on it before going in tomorrow to continue working on it at the office. So heating up some soup to eat while you work, you decide to scroll through Tumblr while you wait for it to heat up.

The news of Spider-Man, and therefore Tom Holland, staying in the MCU still hasn’t died down, which let’s be honest why should it? It’s fantastic news. Out of all the Spider-Mans, Tom’s portrayal of it is your favorite and you would be so sad to see him taken from Marvel just because Sony, Marvel and Disney couldn’t come to an agreement on things. It’s only been a couple days since it was announced, but you wouldn’t be surprised if this was talked about for weeks at least. You reblog a couple of photos, adding some of your usual hashtags. Honestly, you want to be distracted by asks, but you know that the likelihood that people will respond is low, plus you shouldn’t let yourself be distracted by Tumblr when you have the project due tomorrow.

Hating seeing notifications, you click on the second icon from the right on the bottom of your screen. You clear off the notifications from reblogs and likes but notices your app is still showing a notification, on the messages side. It’s probably just from one of your friends. You flip over to the other screen and see a message from none other than Tomholland2013, who you’ve been messaging on and off over the past couple of days, ever since you sent him that edit.

You haven’t been super active on tumblr lately. Everything ok?x

Been super busy at work lol. Big deadlines coming up.

You don’t expect to get a message back since you figured from your messages where he mentioned he was in the early hours of the day while you were only in the late afternoon, that he was probably asleep since you got home later from work than you had planned. So you set your phone aside as you pull the broccoli cheddar soup from the microwave. However, you’re pleasantly surprised to see a message waiting for you when you pick your phone back up to head back to your computer to keep working.

Ah, big deadlines. What kind of work do you do, if you don’t mind me asking?x

Hm, this new tumblr friend of yours is awake even though it’s probably the middle of the night for him?

I don’t mind. I work in graphic design. Isn’t it the middle of the night for you?

It would be if I was at home. I travel a lot for work. I’m currently in New York, so it’s only 9pm.x

But it definitely feels like I should be asleep. I’ve only been in New York for a few days and my mind is still on London time.x

What kind of work do you do?

You set your phone down and boot your computer back up. You know you have shadows to deal with and layers to add back before even getting to the stuff you were meaning to get on today. This project was going to be the death of you.

Tom stares at the message. How does he respond to that? He can’t very well tell you he’s an actor. That blows all of this. He likes being able to be open with you and the moment that it comes out that he is actually Tom Holland, well you might not be open with him. Could he tell you he works in the movie field without having to admit who he is? Could he play it off that he’s still a fanboy, because he will be a marvel fanboy until the day he dies, without blowing this whole thing up? There’s just something about you and being able to connect with someone who has no idea who he is that is different.

Even on your blog today, you shared things from months ago and still reacted like it was your first time seeing them. Your whole blog just radiated positivity, even though your messages sounded like you had a lot on your plate outside of the internet world. He wants to be able to know you without the pressure of having to be, well, him. But you’re not asking him to spill everything about who he is. Just a snip-it.

Film production. Getting ready to head off to a new project actually.x

Must be fun to travel for it. Anywhere fun?

Cleveland actually. Haven’t been there before, so maybe I’ll find something fun to do outside of the project while I’m there.x

Maybe you’ll run into Tom. He’s supposed to be there shooting a project I think. Especially if you’re also in the film industry, you’d already have more of a way into things than say I would lol

I don’t know if I’ll have that much time off to look for him.x

Well if you happen to run into him in said little time off, tell him there’s probably half a million if not more tumblr users willing to marry him, should he be in need of a wife, husband, or nonbianary pal.

Would you happen to be one of those said half a million?x

He shouldn’t have sent it. You have been pretty good about responding, but after sending that message, he hasn’t heard from you in over twenty-four hours and he’s beside himself. You also haven’t posted on your blog. Which makes him think you’re avoiding him on the site all together, which is even worse. The flight to Cleveland, wouldn’t have been half bad if he wasn’t worried the whole time about what you might have been sending while his phone was on airplane mode. And of course the one time he would have paid any amount for on flight wi-fi, it was down and no one could use it.

As soon as the plane lands, he’s flipping the switch to connect his phone again. He needs to see if you’ve messaged back. He’s ignoring all the other notifications that pop up, looking for only on apps notifications. And while you haven’t posted again, you have messaged back. Which makes him suddenly feel like he can breathe again.

I’m not the one who took Tom’s name on here. I feel like you might propose to Tom before I even have a chance to meet him IRL.

I don’t think I’m Tom’s type.X

And what do you think Tom’s type is?

And it takes everything to not just describe you. It wouldn’t be hard. He had spent a lot of time deep diving through your blog. He had looked through your #me tab on your blog. It was filled with everything from selfies to posts about things you had done. And you were the kind of person that he was into. It wasn’t an only physical attraction thing. It was the things that you found important enough to post about. The little things about your day that you shared about. But instead of typing back you, Tom decides to type something different.

I think he would be into someone down to earth. Someone who is into sharing time with friends and family equally and someone who has a great sense of humor. Oh and they would HAVE to love Tessa. That would be a must.x

Wow you’ve thought a lot about this.

Do you disagree?x

Surprisingly no. But I thought you’d say something more… I don’t know physical I guess.

Why’s that?x

I don’t know. I just did.

What do you think he’d be into?x

He can’t help but ask. He wants to know what you think he’s like. There’s enough speculation out there about what he’s like, but for some reason, knowing what you think about him, it means something to him.

I would say, similar to you- family, friends and Tessa would definitely be at the top. Sense of humor would be important. I also feel like with there being so much he can’t talk about to the public, having someone he can trust with stuff would be important. I also think trust would be important so that he has a space he can just be himself too. 🤷‍♀️

Pretty spot on. All of those are important to him. He wants to ask if those things are all important to you, but asking that would come off weird, so he takes a different approach.

Honestly if I wasn’t such a div when I was making accounts I would have just made a Tessa fan blog. I’m a bigger fan of her than of Tom. x

SO TRUE. How can you not be?! She’s the purest thing in this world (sorry to Tom) and every time he shares more of her with us I melt a little.

Paddy had sent him that picture of Tessa this morning, maybe sharing it would brighten everyone’s days. Especially knowing that you were such a fan of her too. Adding the picture to his Instagram story, with a quick caption of missing this sweet girl, he quickly uploads it.

APPARENTLY TOM CAN READ OUR THOUGHTS?!

What do you mean?x

Cute Tessa content just uploaded to his Insta story. Apparently he’s away from her and missing her 😭

She’s just too pure for this world x

I needed that right now.

Something wrong?x

Work project might kill me.

It’s due by the end of the day, but photoshop keeps crashing and I might scream.

I’m sorry love x

I’m restarting my computer for the third time today and it’s not even noon yet.

You know he’s English so the love thing shouldn’t throw you. Plus he’s a boy on the internet. But for some reason, it feels like something more. So instead of saying anything about it, you just keep messaging like nothing happened. A small part of you is hoping that by not mentioning it though, it might happen again.

Tom spends the rest of the day messaging you when he can. He knows you’re working on a project that has a deadline, so he doesn’t expect you to be at his beck and call. But when he gets a notification at almost eleven o’clock at night his time from your blog, he hopes it’s one of your personal posts to make him laugh. He isn’t let down.

THERE WAS A MOTH FLYING AROUND MY ROOM AND NOW I CAN’T FIND IT IM GOING TO DIE. IF IT EATS ME YOU ALL KNOW WHO THE MURDER IS

#me #killer moth #save me #if i die i leave everything to tom

He can’t help but send you an ask about it.

Tomholland2013 asked: You know moths don’t eat people right?x

Y/T/B: You didn’t see how big this one was. This one was definitely of the people eating variety with how big it was. And now it’s hiding in my room waiting for me to close my eyes and then it will sneak up on me, kill me, and devour me whole. 🖕

Tom laughs at your reply before sending another ask. Sure he could do this in your message thread, but he’s betting the asks are helping distract you from the moth.

Tomholland2013 asked: That’s a quiet defensive response from someone who is going to be eaten. If you want me to come save you from a killer moth, maybe be a bit nicer.x

Y/T/B: If you will race over here, find this moth, and release it into the wild so that it can’t kill me in my sleep I will make you as many Tom edits as it takes in gratitude. 👏😘Just come save me please. I swear I can hear him laughing in the distance.

Tomholland2013 asked: If he’s laughing in the distance, I’ll be over to take care of him. No one gets to disrespect my favorite blog and get away with it.x

Y/T/B: Thanks darling. I really, really appreciate it. Now I must be off to hunt this moth, before he hunts me.

Tags: @serendipitous-amor @im-still-tryin-to-find-it @tomfiction4 @im-deeply-shallow

#tom holland #tom holland x reader #tom holland imagine #tom holland x you #tom holland fan fic #tom holland fanfic #tom holland fan fiction #tom holland fanfiction #imanativeofswlondondahling #hidden in plain sight

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Understanding Consumer Psychology: The Key to Making a Web Design That Wins

Have you come across dubious pop-up ads and notifications while browsing websites? How many times has that happened? Plenty, we guess.

Back when businesses had just started out with online marketing, frauds and flashy emails became quite common. Internet users would be continuously flooded with exasperating and aggressive ads that didn’t make any sense at all.

And do you know what the worst part about all this was? These apparently senseless and infuriating ads actually worked! Users would click on these dubious pop-ups expecting to win a free iPhone, millions of dollars, and so on.

But today, things have changed entirely. People have become smarter than ever. Even though users are still flooded with such in-your-face ads, they are no longer naive enough to even think for a moment that somebody wants to give them a million dollars or the latest iPhone out of the blue.

Why? Well, to begin with, gone are the days when aggressive ads, shallow marketing, and poor web design were a thing. In addition to this, nowadays, user engagement is all about human-centered user interface and user experience design while minimizing the spam as much as possible.

Today, what you need to do is design your website in a way that strikes the right chord with your target audience, and for that, you have to appeal to their best emotions. Wondering how exactly you would do this? It’s quite simple, actually – by using the right web design elements like font, content, typography, colors, graphics, etc., depending on the fundamentals of consumer psychology.

While the majority of website design companies know how web designing psychology works, building a site that wins requires much more than just understanding the fundamentals of how visuals and colors work.

We wouldn’t deny the fact that human brains are incredibly complex, and it is indeed challenging to impress the average consumer. But with just a little bit of practice, you can fine-tune your website to distinguish yourself from the crowd genuinely.

In this blog, we will look at how web design psychology can help you enhance your user experience.

WHAT IS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WEB DESIGN?

Before we start discussing how you should use consumer psychology, let us first talk about what psychology is and why it plays a vital role in website design.

In simple words, psychology refers to the study of how the human mind works. Since our thoughts and minds control almost everything we do, it only seems logical for us to first understand consumer psychology so that we can develop powerful branding strategies and website design.

In order to understand the fundamental part psychology plays in a user-friendly web design, take this into account:

The limbic system is responsible for our memories and the way we react to positive experiences. Now, if you could help the users associate with your site on a positive note, there are better chances of them revisiting your website and recommending it to their peers as well.

The neocortex is the part of the human brain which is responsible for ‘thinking,’ and this is the one component of web design psychology that designers feel the most comfortable with. Why? Because it is the most logical part of our brain that craves loads of information that makes sense. Therefore, incorporating lots of useful and informative content within your site could be an excellent way to appeal to the users’ neocortex.

The way we think and process information is known as cognition. Nevertheless, making the audience think and like your content simultaneously is neither easy nor cheap. What the average user expects is an easy but pleasant experience from your website or app. Grasping how cognition helps can actually go a long way into building an engaging web design and boosting conversions.

Well, now that you know how web design psychology works, let’s discuss some ways you can channel the power of psychology to build a web design that wins!

MINIMIZE STRESS ON COGNITION

Today most people have limited patience levels and increasingly reduced attention spans. Hence, minimizing cognitive stress sounds like a brilliant idea because the average user can’t handle too much information all at once.

Plus, if you are considering delivering a positive user experience, you need to ensure that your UI and UX design are intuitive, simple, and easy to grasp.

For starters, you can explore pre-existing schemas and mental models. From the typical search button to sign in and checkout processes, these could be anything. Incorporate forms that your site visitors can fill out quickly and ensure that all the components on your web page are in rational groupings.

The majority of people scan things rather than reading them online, so it only sounds logical to include super simple banners, headings, and keywords.

If you are thinking about building a persuasive eCommerce web design, ensure that your site visitors fulfill their goal of purchasing products via a smooth process. There are a couple of things you can do to enhance your overall user experience, such as streamlining your search bar, minimizing the number of primary categories, and modifying the look of your input field.

INCLUDE SOCIAL PROOF

As human beings, we all love things that we can personally relate to. We are all hardwired to think what other people like might be beneficial to us too. What could justify this better than reviews and star ratings? Whole organizations have expanded their businesses based on social validation (for example, reviews and ratings on IMDb, food reviews on Zomato, etc.).

Social proof has emerged as a crucial marketing tool that significant companies take advantage of in their website design as well as customer support. Now and again, we succumb to these biases and wind up purchasing products we were not even planning to buy in the first place.

You can include social proof on your website using images, reviews, star ratings, and customer testimonials to convey how consumers loved your products or services. Doing so will help you motivate your site visitors and potential customers to take the desired action or engage with your brand further.

TYPOGRAPHY AND FONT PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE

Just the way colors matter a big deal when it comes to engaging your site visitors, so do typography and font. Both are closely connected to our emotions and can evoke various feelings.

There is a wide range of fonts and styles available for you to pick from – based on the type of emotion you want to elicit when users interact with your website, you can select the one that aptly reflects your brand voice and ethos.

For example, specific fonts such as Sans Serif fonts seem sophisticated, elegant, and classic. In contrast, the Irvin typeface used in The New Yorker emits serious yet innovative, artistic vibes.

WRAPPING IT UP

By now, you must have got a pretty good idea of how psychology matters in web design and how you can utilize it to build a web design that wins. All you need to do is take care of these points while designing your website to make sure it attracts and engages your target audience in the best way possible. Whether you have a web designer in your organization or are hiring a freelancer to do it for you, make sure they pay attention to these details to create a web design that actually works for your brand.

Hariom Balhara is an inventive person who has been doing intensive research in particular topics and writing blogs and articles for E Global Soft Solutions. E Global Soft Solutions is a Digital Marketing, SEO, SMO, PPC and Web Development company that comes with massive experiences. We specialize in digital marketing, Web Designing and development, graphic design, and a lot more.

SOURCE : Consumer Psychology

#Consumer Psychology #Web Design #website #uiux design #website designing #E Global Soft Solutions #digital marketing #eglobalsoftsolutions

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sparklymiraclepolice · 3 years

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A Quick Guide on How To Make Money Online

Regardless of what others may think, there is money to be made online. There are numerous business models to work for and work from and your earnings will only be limited by the work you put in. This quick guide will present methods on how to make money online and help you determine which is the best option for you.

Let's start.

1. Freelance jobs

There are thousands of online businesses today that are eager to hire skilled and talented individuals. People that know how to design, write, program, code and teach are often what they look for. A talented and skilled person in these fields can easily find work online. Most of the time businesses offer project-based, part-time, and full-time work.

PROS:

It is easy to find work and there are hundreds of job opportunities to choose from. You also have the freedom to work whenever and wherever you want as long as you finish the job assigned to you.

Your earnings are determined by the quality of time and hard work you put in. Unlike, in most but not all, office jobs that salaries and wages are fixed.

CONS:

You are working for an online boss. You have to answer to someone. If you're not a fan of working for someone then this might not be for you.

Another con is the isolation. You're office boss might be the worst person you had but you could bear it because of your friends. Now eliminate the friends and leave the boss in. Sounds a little sad, right?

2. Creating an Authority Site or Niche Site

First and foremost, let's differentiate the two:

Authority sites are websites that have proven their expertise in the world wide web. This means that many reputable people on the internet have deemed it to be the "go-to" website because of their service or product.

Niche sites on the other hand are websites that contain and talk about only one specific niche, one specific topic throughout the blog.

Where is Earning Money online fit in all of this? How to make money online creating a website is by monetizing it.

a. Monetizing it using Google AdSense

Many people have made thousands of dollars with Google AdSense. However, it's really hard to get approved by Google. Your website should need around 16-25 quality articles to get approved. Though getting approved isn't a guarantee of making money. Your site visitors should also click the ads by Google. If ads are utilized and placed well, you can earn a significant amount of money.

b. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is promoting other people's products and services on your site. You are basically promoting their products and you get a commission if a site visitor buys your product.

c. Membership website

You create a website that is full of content and quality products that are only exclusive to members. A person may only be able to get the full access to your website is to pay you a membership fee (which you will set). This is a good business model because it is recurring (members pay their fee monthly) and it'll generate income long after you finish the website.

PROS:

You can create recurring passive income for yourself and you can live a lifestyle you've always wanted. The sky is the limit when talking about the potential earnings in creating Authority sites and Niche sites. It's because the earnings will only be limited to the time, effort, connections, and investments you put in the website(s) you have. The more blood, sweat and tears you put on the websites, the more successful the website will be. Certainly, more success = more money.

CONS:

A lot of research, promotion, money and time should be invested in creating an Authority site or Niche site. You will also hit a learning curve since you need to learn many things, such as online language jargons, methods and techniques, copyright, online legal matters and many more.

3. Selling Your Own Product\Service

"The people that really make the BIG MONEY are the Creators and the Sellers of the product(s). Everyone in between is working for them."

-Anonymous

Nothing beats being the "source" of a quality product. It might be an Ebook, Podcast, Magic Toolbox, Furniture, T-Shirt and etc. As long as you are confident that what you are selling is the BEST, then sell the heck out of it online!

Create a way for people to find your product -- either create a website or put it on sale on a website. Start off from there and slowly build your business.

PROS:

When your product takes off, you'll have what every person wants -- Passive Income.

You will be accessible online 24/7 and you are open 24/7. The earnings will be determined on how valuable and useful the product is. If you consider it the best product then the money will come.

CONS:

Promoting the product will be a struggle; especially if you don't have a website or connections online.

Learn More : https://bit.ly/3pSJ531

#make money online #earn money online #sucess #affiliate marketing #passive income #big money #online income #success online business

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latin-dr-robotnik · 4 years

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You know, since I started this blog and my other Spanish blog I always thought my opinions were maybe a little too strongly biased towards Sonic, even when talking about many other gaming franchises...

But hooooo boy this video is something else.

But it’s fine. This is the sort of video I would expect for the 30th anniversary next year, but having it today is nice as well. I don’t know if I would get as defensive as some of the moments of this video (specially that 20-minute long introduction), but I get it. S3K is also my favorite Sonic game, and one of my favs of all time. I played this at such an early age that -without ever thinking too much about it- this has set a standard for all things gaming for me (and I finally realize why I said what I said in this post about judging videogames harshly for their music, it’s because these games showed me so much more). It ain’t just nostalgia, it’s brilliant game design and a benchmark of how ambitious this franchise could get when it gets its shit together. I too felt sad every time Sonic 2 got all the praise while S3K was forgotten and talked only because lock-on or because MJ worked a bit on its music. I did get mad at IGN for a while for their utter disrespect to a franchise that, despite receiving fatal blows that would kill any other game franchise not only once, but twice, still lives to tell the story to this very day. But not that much anymore.

Sonic is special, very special. Just before finding this video I was wondering about why the 2D Sonic games were harder to get into (I have no plans to translate that into a Tumblr post, so it will stay in Spanish, sorry not sorry), and parts of this video not only explain that very same point, but also reach similar conclusions as I did. Being more than your traditional platformer is what sets Sonic apart, and this is a point brought on the video but not on my part, but the experimentation part of this franchise is also a very big atractive point, regardless of the result. We Sonic fans tend to complain about lack of consistency in the games, yet we still love 3D Blast, Black Knight, Unleashed, Heroes, Battle, Spinball and more. Sonic, as a character and as a franchise, never settles for less, for better or worse. That’s why is a bigger sin to have a boring Sonic game rather than an utterly broken one, and why games like Forces can be much more heartbreaking than '06.

But, even if I consider S3K this golden standard for all things Sonic and most things gaming, I have to disagree when the video asks us to refer to this very game when someone says “Sonic was never good”. I don’t need to pull out a 26-year old Sonic game -my fav in the series- to say this “was” a good franchise, because it still is. We are just coming out from one of the most successful movie adaptations of a videogame ever; we have lots of animations -official and fanmade- made out of pure love and respect from this franchise. We have some of the greatest videogame soundtracks of any videogame franchise period. We have 27+ years of varied TV series that tackled topics ranging from wacky and silly fun to serious story developments. We still have the record for the longest running comic series based on a videogame, even though said comic has been dead for some years now. We have one of the best and worst fandoms of all at the same time, filled with well-known infamous personalities, and some of the best, most talented writers and artists I’ve seen and even had the pleasure to talk to and share a laugh or an idea. We have one of the strongest fangame and reverse engineering communities out there, to the point some fans have proven to have the professional skill and love for the franchise to create one of the best official Sonic games of the past decade, while many others use their knowledge to kickstart their own indie careers in the industry. And best of all, we have one of the most iconic fictional characters of all time, even people that haven’t ever touched a Sonic game in their lives know what a “Sonic” is.

If anything, we Sonic fans tend to undersell the value of this franchise, and while I can and will keep on referring to this game when the “best game” discussion pops up, I don’t really have to look that far back to find signs of Sonic’s greatness.

Even at its worst, this franchise keeps on chuggin’ along. (And there’s a reason why it keeps on going where other competitors have simply vanished from existence or been recently brought back for a quick nostalgia-check.)

On a different note, every time the Sonic fandom is brought up and how “Sonic fans keep fighting at each other when it would be better to leave our differences and join all together”, I can’t stop myself from thinking about this place, the Tumblr Sonic fandom, a place that can get a little bit tarnished due to the overall reputation of the site (it’s a constant love-hate relationship, I admit.) The place where we disagree from time to time but don’t really go nuclear on each other (at least not that often lol); the place where posts like this one pop up all the time, some with an astonishing amount of research and understanding of all the aspects of this franchise; the place where most people I’ve known (and even myself) said it’s “the best corner of the fandom.” And for that I raise my drink to all of you, thank you for sharing this passion together.

(Now, can we get Nick to look at this place? :P)

“There’s a moment when you realize you’re playing your favorite game”

You know when I realized that? As soon as I found the very first giant ring on Angel Island Act 1.

#sonic the hedgehog #i haven't got this emotional for the franchise in a while #i guess i just burned through my 30th anniversary speech #oh well something else will come to mind by that point #specially if we get more and more good news from now on

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carbonatedjem · 4 years

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Hey ho folks and people who have a disgust for the word Folks, it's me again displaying my extreme obsession with an Old Anime/Manga! Why? Well becauese it's the most important day of the year! The 19th anniversary of Bo-bobo's start in Shonen Jump is today, and as the person who dedicated tan entire month to drawing nothing but Art for this series, I'd be personally ashamed of myself if I didn't do anything to celebrate it! I've said it time and time again in casual convo or other posts of mine, but Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo has been for many years now, my favorite Anime, Manga, and piece of media in General, consistently, not once under any threat of Challenge. Even One Piece, another manga that I and many others hold in high regards still plays second fiddle to it in terms of my all time favorite Manga. From it's humor, the parody, the great character design which (with some exceptions) sticks with my memory like a lethal adhesive. I just find so many things to love about this Series everytime I think about it, and even in recent years I've come to appreciate it even further thanks to some of the peeps I met on my Tumblr, giving me a whole new outlook on the series, showing me that even today there's so much left in the world to be speculated or built upon. Hell, when I was a kid, and deep into my teens I thought Heppokomaru (Gasser for all ya'll Dub Watchers, good times right?) was the worst character among the OG Cast, one meta blog later and some conversing with cool peeps and I can't see him as anything other than a greatly put together character, albeit a bit underused in the OG Series (I still can't speak for Shinsetsu, one day I'll read it properly but I'm really lazy y'know) This series built parts of me from when I was just a dumb kid watching Toonami every saturday night at my Grandpa's house while eating pizza from the local pizza joint. My sense of Humor, arguably my artstyle and character design, my strong preference for a diverse power system in shonen, god knows what else it probably influenced, but I ain't a psychoanalysis type so I can't confirm anything further on that subject. I'd reccommend it to literally anyone, the manga features more Blood if that's a deciding factors into what version you'd want to partake in, but the whole experience is just a great time, and popping in one of the DVD's (Soon to be Blurays once I have a bit more scratch to spend freely) always puts a smile on my face. I know Yoshio Sawai (Creator of the series) hasn't made a series since like, 2009 according to some sites? But if at anypoint he makes something new, I will not be able to rest till I see it, hell I'm still looking to hopefully see the rest of his works like the Odd Slice of Life(?) Series Fuwari Don Patch. Fingers Crossed that maybe one day soon the series will finally get some more time in the Spotlight! Happy Birthday to my Favorite Thing ever

#Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo #bo7 #Beauty #Suzu #Heppokomaru #Don Patch #jelly jiggler #torpedo girl #Dengakuman #Softon #Hatenko #Fanart

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webdeveloper82965 · 3 years

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Why is a Good Web Improvement Company

The world associated with web development continues to very much misunderstood. Get even heard most people call it your "dark art". When you need help transforming your ideas and patterns into a high quality site or web use, how do you know whom you can trust to complete this?

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The purpose of this article is to provide certain key points on what tends to make a good web improvement company, and will make it easier to understand the kind of problems you should be asking enhancement companies.

This is planning to be a very opinionated post and people make no i'm sorry for it. If you take issue with anything were certainly open to looking at it further.

At this moment to get on with the blog post. Below are the key zones we are going to be investigating, and what you should come to be looking for in a world-wide-web development company.

In a position to do both front-end and back-end progress Don't specialise in a single back-end technology Ought to follow best practices Know-how about marketing strategies neighboring the projects Spends time in research together with development Has a difficult testing process, like automated tests Bendable to change Use origin control

Able to undertake both front-end and additionally back-end development Most people don't subscribe to perception of developers that do front-end development and builders that do back-end advancement. That's the equivalent associated with a plumber exactly who only fits conduits and leaves that fitting of the bathrooms, showers, sinks in addition to toilets to a different inividual.

We agree there's an easy separation between template designers and web designers, there could completely different thought process happening there, but the split between front-end along with back-end is just drastically wrong. To be a good web site developer you need to understand the whole development cycle and then to be able to get involved in the mission from start to end. There is also much to become learnt from the using the varying technological know-how, but we'll seriously to that.

Don't are experts in one back-end know-how There are a number of superior back-end technologies which might be appropriate for web improvement including Ruby concerning Rails, ASP. World wide web and PHP (and others). They all have got their strengths together with weaknesses and not the first perfect. A good world wide web development company ought to be flexible in which solutions they use, to be able to use the most appropriate a for their clients' requirements.

The key reason we have used up time learning various technologies is to capable to pick and choose the parts we like. Progressively the developers mixed up in League have been allowed to take the good areas each technology and additionally formulate a number of guidelines and use them upon all platforms.

Will need to follow best practices The crucial to being a fantastic web developer is simply not the technologies for you to use, but the recommendations that you follow. For the reason that technologies come in addition to go in our amazingly quickly moving industry people best practices will remain, or even at least evolve. For a developer if you have a great grounding then you can proceed with the times along with technologies fairly simply.

So what are those best practices that we are generally talking about. Below are many of the key ones everyone follow.

Writing semantic HTML Follow online standards for all the front end coding Programmed testing of each of those front-end and back-end code Use of a good MVC framework

Knowledge of marketing strategies bordering the projects We now have heard this problem many times that web designers don't think about the web marketing strategy of a project. This really generally because coders don't care. Effectively they should. How can they will advise clients together with think about helping customers produce the right choice, if they aren't taking into consideration the "bigger picture" (sorry, we know it's a horrid phrase, we'll travel wash our lip area out now). In case your developer blindly will the work, they are possibly not offering the client an email finder service, they are just being meat puppet.

A very important question a beautiful can ask is normally "Why? ". Make time to understand the buyer's requirements fully, and additionally advise them, in fact the client doesn't have an understanding of the ins and outs from web development, you are doing. Make the enhancement cycle a a couple way conversation.

Spends time in research in addition to development As it's common knowledge the web industry can be described as very fast moving marketplace. Things come along with go in the blink of an eye. A great web development corporation gives it's designers allocated time per week to look at new movements and technologies. Granted some of these trends together with technologies are departed ends, but you will not likely know unless you seek out them.

If you want to realize if a web progress company knows in that respect there stuff, simply correctly . what their creators have been looking into most recently. You don't have to understand everything you could are told, be aware them down although and look them through to the internet to understand in case the company are looking at innovative trends or not really.

R&D is probably the essential time each week for any developer. If builders don't evolve, this solutions they construct will become stagnate and additionally dated very quickly. Being a client do you want some sort of out of date solution when you even start?

Provides a rigorous testing system, including automated checks Too often we have noticed the client is the tester for a project. In the event that this is happening, after that, to put it bluntly, the development provider don't understand your project sufficiently, they are just "banging out" code.

A fantastic web development business should be writing programmed tests (integration trials, unit-tests etc) for a lot of their code, either front-end and back-end. On a simple tier, tests help coders to concentrate on your code they are authoring at that specified time, they also guide developers to write a lot more concise code. A lot more concise code implies the code foundation is easier to understand in addition to cheaper to maintain.

Your major benefit of some sort of test suite to somewhat of a client is that whenever changes are made to a code in the task there can be a lot more self-assurance in the fact that that change, or brand-new code, hasn't cracked anything else.

We are not necessarily saying automated assessment is the silver round of web advancement, and tests are just effective if they usually are written well, they certainly should be section of any web developers toolset.

Automated tests will not be the only important aspect with testing. The web improvement company should also employ a level of human examining as well, and this is obviously something clients has to be involved in. User tales are key to this fact process. As part of the enhancement process, clients must work with the web progress company to put together Visitor stories, so that many parties involved know the way users will connect to the site or app and the results of some of those interactions.

Flexible to convert We've all over heard developers complaining precisely how their clients' switch the requirements of a job midway thought some project. Developers have to stop complaining with this, it happens so that you can us all and it's for no reason going to change. A superb web development supplier should have processes into position to cope with change. For everybody who is a client, ask the way in which change requests can be handled.

Web developers ought to work to small release cycles, ideally 1 - 14. The worst item that can happen to your project is of the fact that developers get the shorter, start the work thereafter 2 months after they announce it is actually finished, only for the lawsuit pursuer to say "This is not what I required! ". By lifetime short release fertility cycles, clients can be needed at all stages. Right at the end of each release the litigant should review this project so far along with submit any improve requests.

Use base control Our previous recommendation is a attractive obvious and uncomplicated one, to most persons, but we nonetheless speak to developers which don't use any variety of source control. This approach seems more prevalent along with freelancers as they do not see the need while they are the only types working on the area code. If that's how they view it, then they are omitted the point.

References Web design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_design

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