The rules are pretty simple: there are five rows (sometimes only four) to destroy (blue, green, yellow, orange, and red) at the top of the screen. Use your mouse or the left and right arrow keys to control the blue bar at the bottom of the screen...
Tip: Put a post-it note up to your screen at what should be "above the fold" for your site's screen size if on that sized screen (not your screen), if you have more ad space than that post-it note beware, you may have too much.
Keep in mind that there shouldn't just three or four general sizes you're creating pages for – soon the market will be flooded with different types of screen sizes, whether it's in your rearview mirror in your car, or in your refrigerator in your...
Dimensions might include day of the week, device, screen size or landing page URL. Dimensions are in green and metrics are in blue. If you don't know much about these yet or how to use them, read on. What are Advanced Segments?
The first was a mock screen of a traditional "10 blue links" search. A screen shows the familiar Facebook blue bar header, turned into a search box. Rumors of a Facebook search product have been debated and discussed for a long time.
The search box at the top of the screen suggests topics as you type. The ultimate goal was to remove the traditional "10 blue links" experience from search, replacing it with "a more fun, tablet-appropriate .image-rich layout.
Close anything you have given the right to get your attention anywhere on your screen. The nightlight has been replaced by warm blue glows of new emails and tweets. I was late getting it completed, which is pretty ironic given the subject is...
Simultaneously, monetizing mobile search seems to threaten the quality of the explicit search experience itself because the lack of screen estate means that organic results are pushed further down the page in favor of ads.
Slowly, the chocolate cake is “eaten” away and the candles are compiled at the bottom of the screen, and what’s left is a tray spelling out Google’s letters in the usual combo of colors: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red.
Snap, however, adds a feature, snapping the search result tiles to the left side of the screen. When a search tile is tapped, Internet Explorer opens the page to the right, across the remaining screen area.
For fun (actually part of a class we were teaching), my Vitruvian Way colleague Joel McDonald ran a 4-way ad headline split test on the broad match keyword “men’s jeans” that cost a total of $19.14 and took just over 24 hours (see the screen shot...
Tip: before you buy images, do a rough test with a screen-capturing tool by cropping the image similar to how you would in the ad to see if it will work for your purposes. Truly, just about any color that contrasts Facebook’s blue, white, and grey...
However, if you throw a gutter ball, Google’s search engine will appear on screen and offer some personalized searches related to bad bowling, such as “how to bowl better” and “bowling tips”, with ample links to Google’s video sharing site and the...
When faced with the home screen of Google.com, a lot of users still are compelled to enter a URL as a keyword input – and those are generally counted as one-word keywords. We can deconstruct these trends until we’re blue in the face, but in all...
Snowflakes will fall from the top of your screen and slowly cover Google’s search results (prominently featuring links to YouTube videos of the famous song “Let it Snow”) in a light coating of snow. But don’t worry if you get caught in a complete...
Here’s a screen captures from Google Maps before and after the indoor maps option for both Mall of America… If your GPS is on, the familiar blue dot will show your location for easy navigation within the building.
In an effort to reclaim more screen real estate, Google is trading in the black navigation bar and Google+ sharing tools it introduced five months ago in favor of a less cluttered looking "Google Bar.
At the top of the screen, “Art Clokey’s 90th Birthday” links to the search results page for Clokey. Next up, in the blue ball or the second Google “G,” lies the overprotective Goo, Prickle’s comrade, described by Clokey as a “very gooey, blue...
Facebook has been testing this out all week, with different users reporting seeing the bar locked at the top of the screen while scrolling at different times. Frequent visitors now see Recent News at the top, with a blue tag in the top left corner...
Namely, you could browse costs to different destinations, without having to perform a dozen searches that load a dozen interstitial loading screen pages. One of the neat features is that if you collect airmiles from a particular provider or network...
