Make Screenshots of entire web pages in JPEG, PNG or PDF

Posted by on January 18, 2012 No comments

Convert pages to sites in JPEG or PNG file: PDF


Sometimes happen to have the need to make a screenshot of an entire web page, and many programs, pressing “print screen” of Windows limiting to this son, because they make a “photo” only what is visible on the computer screen. To avoid this hassle there is a great online application URLCaptname:, it is usable for free and without registration, saves entire pages as image or PDF.


The URLCapt operation is extremely simple: just enter the URL of the page to which you want to get a Screenshot, select the maximum width of the image that you’ll get and the output format: JPEG, PNG or PDF.


After doing as described previously and booted the conversion process, you will see a bar on which after a short loading will appear download button to download the result of the operation on our computer. Always download toolbar you will find the URL to share the file generated.


Like many other web based applications URLCapt has buttons for the rapid sharing of results generated on Facebook. the file obtained from the program can also be printed directly.


URLCapt is especially useful when you need to keep a page of a website to read later or store it. Comfortable the ability to save in PDF, thanks to this option, you can create small ebook to read off-line maybe also on mobile devices like tablet or Smartphones.


 

Web Design is right to develop and/or use template?

Posted by on January 12, 2012 No comments

There are those who say that are the bane of the market perceives them as a threat to their profession and creative capacity, there is also those who say that only geeks can take them into consideration because they are synonymous with little preparation and a lot of superficiality.


What we’re talking about Templates and offered in stock ready in many marketplaces that can be found today on the Web.


But how are really things? We try to figure it out together through this my personal analysis so that I can share with you my opinion on the topic.


Let’s start with understanding who the end-user of these templates. Because, as we shall see, this is not always geeks who have not studied and don’t know how often they can resort to: use a template even professionals who perform this work for years.


Surely anyone who does not and will never make use of templates, are the major brands or big companies which already have their own brand, their own image and a line of communication and when you bring your own online business are turning to professionals who are able to realizzargli a customized project based on the uniqueness of their brand.


The template in most cases is purchased by four different users ben specifications:

Who poses as a Web Designer: is the most dangerous because it does not have the slightest idea of what does the word “web design”, does not know anything about code, you can only install the CMS (WordPress, Joomla or other) and configure it. If the customer asks you simply move the logo from side to side of the topic, enter in the balloon. S most absurd excuses ever to support the thesis that the site unfortunately you can’t change.Who makes for himself: belongs to this category the user while not doing the job of web designer manages to juggle the customization – albeit very limited – a template, so the website for yourself or for your own business without investing large digits.The novice Web Designer: have taken this route recently and is still not fully able to accomplish alone a web project in its entirety, then relies on a template so that its knowledge may already have a base on which to make modifications and customizations.Industry professionals: when submitting a customer that has a low budget, the trader can do only two things, or reject the work or propose a cost-effective, as it could be just buying and using a template. It is important and correct that the customer is made aware of the approach adopted and which could find around other websites similar to his because it is a purchased product in stock.

There are those who argue that the sale of stock in these cheap template removing work for web designers.


As we see from the analysis just made the “template” is most often addressed to a customer who has a very low budget and which would be far-fetched to propose an ad hoc solution.


As I said a while ago, the type of customers who claim the creation of a website at three hundred or four hundred euros is absolutely to be avoided. And this already could suffice to say that the sale of these template there takes work. Indeed, probably frees us from a slice of customers that most of the time ago only lose time and patience to poor web designers.


I’ll tell you more. Have you ever tried to look at the scenario just described under another optics?


Four groups the users of the template (who poses as a web designer, who makes for himself, the novice web designers and industry professionals) are nothing more than another “Group of potential customers” still larger than the single ultimate purchaser we’re used to.


At this point, if we look at the situation from another point of view, the template for sale in stock rather than take off work become – paradoxically as claimed by someone – a possible source of work and income.


So the professional as well as work with final customers may choose to develop even template for sale in stock. And when on average every template put on sale begins to yield something like ten thousand euro, then begins to think that no, selling in the stock of these just being him not template removing work:)


 


 


 


 

The new YIW: usable, accessible, responsive

Posted by on January 5, 2012 No comments

Four restyling in two years … a nice average, right? Moreover, you know, everything on the web is abuzz, an evolution continues in which everything up to six months ago was more than good suddenly becomes obsolete and somehow lacking in efficacy.


Improve our blog so as to make it usable and engaging as possible and keep it in step with the times and the new trends is a challenge we set ourselves ever since we decided to base this community and to share articles and resources with you.


Therefore, it is with some pride that we present the fall/winter 2011 version of Your Inspiration: Web a usable layout, clean and above all responsive.


But we see the changes and innovations of the new YIW: are not excessive, because ultimately they were a few things that needed to be fixed, but overall we are confident that the improvement is pretty self explanatory:)


It was a pain but it was worth it: the new layout of Your Inspiration Web is completely ‘ responsive ‘, for which the content – both those textual images – fit depending on the device with which the site is navigated.


It seemed essential to facilitate the consultation of our articles for all those who connect through devices such as iPhone, iPad and similar. Now, whatever your video resolution, you won’t have any problem viewing the content.try for yourself! :)


Given that the clique of freelance (or hopefuls) reading our blog is growing rapidly, it seemed pretty add the freelance category between the categories of the post from the menu. We meticulously filed all articles that can be somehow useful to freelance, so as to facilitate consultation thereof.


To highlight the content in the sidebar so effective and clean we inserted the tab. The first shows featured articles (a function that already had) and the articles most commented: we have a lot of articles that have generated the reflections and debates really interesting and it seemed useful to put them in the foreground.


In the second tab we have included the recent comments and recent posts included in the forum: the forum of YIW is like a cheerful crowd where people share ideas, tips or simply chatting between a project and each other. Thanks to this tab you’ll always see what are the latest topics, who talks about what to say and maybe your:)


Now the list of free resources issued by YIW is updated: a look at everything you have given in these two and a half years, you never know, you may be escaped something!


 


 

How to plan a project or an idea that we have in mind?

Posted by on December 29, 2011 No comments

For a freelance web designer is very important to be able to work and pursue personal projects. This activity can serve both to improve the vocational own, experimenting with new methods of work that otherwise might not apply in everyday work, both in an attempt to create something which can give him a form of gain direct or indirect.


Many web designers are “geeks” (in a good way of term) and really wants to do, increasingly seeking to carve out the time between a job and the other to bring forward their own personal projects.


Personal projects I can be of any type, from the most simple and immediate things to those more complex and articulated: you go from simple realization of your site/blog to develop real web applications able to handle such a marketplace for the sale of digital products and services.


Comes in your mind a beautiful idea that might give you what you have always wanted: Fame and prosperity for the rest of your life. Wondering how come no one has yet and thought and goes off in a rage to begin the project before anyone can cheat you the idea.


And so without thinking twice, after a few hours are already there, all caught, that first down throw lines of code.


How many times you happened to start just so the work on a project that you wanted to accomplish and realize only after several months of hard work that, in fact, the project in question was not very feasible for those who had the resources available?


I do not mean a failure due to inefficiency or lack of validity of the project in question, characteristics that should be evaluated. What I mean is just the impossibility of completing the project because the way you’ve realized that something is too big for you. Maybe there are different aspects (bureaucratic, fiscal, commercial, legal, technical, etc) which had not even thought that you are able to handle.


You have idea of how much is that time wasted uselessly in a project which, if well planned, would have understood that it was not achievable before even start?


The feasibility of a project is one of the first things to analyze when you want to accomplish an idea.


There are cases where it may go well, when a project created almost for game and without any kind of planning, spreads in a viral way and maybe finds himself to be the first social network in the world’s most used, Facebook docet.


But these are more unique than rare cases, one that goes so other novecentonovantanove fail.


So before we start losing time in development of a project that we might not be feasible, we must sit down and analyze well the idea that we want to achieve.


The most important points to consider are the following:

What are the individual tasks to be performed to complete the project?How many and which figures/will need resources?How long it will carry out each task?What costs will face?

Analyzing in detail the answers to these questions we will have an idea a bit clearer on the feasibility of the project.


In addition to this, in the case of an entrepreneurial idea, should be also assessed the validity of the initiative. How?


For example, using a tool like the Business Plan, which allows you to analyze in detail the many variables which may depend on the success or failure of the initiative:

the technical features that will have the product/service; the technologies/equipment needed; the type of market you intend to serve; the image you want to give the company, market research and competitive analysis, promotional policies that you intend to activate; price policies; the capital necessary to start and run enterprises; the bureaucracy to be completed;

To avoid wasting our time – which nowadays becomes increasingly valuable – is essential to plan in detail every project on which we want to work.


You can make mistakes and fail even planning meticulously to perform every action, but at least nothing was left to chance.