Articles Written by Linda Goin
Here are 74 open source VoIP applications tucked into categories that you can use “as is” or change to fit your specific needs. They are categorized by SIP, H.323, IAX, and RTP protocols and include clients, libraries, gatekeepers, and any other open source resource available for those specific protocols plus PBX and IVR platforms.
So you’ve bought into VoIP, but your voice still sounds like it’s at the end of a long string and a tin can. It doesn’t have to be that way–here is a resource full of tips and mods that can help you improve your VoIP experience.
This article is a comprehensive history of Google’s VoIP plans and products, including Google Talk and the secretive dark fiber purchases. The author delves deeply into possible integration strategies that will allow Google to better compete with Microsoft in the application space.
When a viewer approaches a professional business on the web, he or she usually expects a professional site complete with colour schemes and links that work and pages that seem to belong together.
While most of these design issues, like colour, direction (as in navigation), and website design continuity seem mundane and of little concern for most designers (we CAN use templates to produce design continuity, after all…), it seems that not everyone keeps their eyes on the ball.
In this article Linda Goin takes a quick trip through some academic related web sites and, unlike previous web site analyses (Learn Through Better Deconstruction I and Learn Through Better Deconstruction II: Testing and Training Your “Designer’s Eye”), highlights the not so good as well as the not too shoddy. Linda even finds time to deliver a fashion tip, and point out that elements of the images we use can, maybe unconsciously, indicate the ethos of our organisation.
We all know that colour is important, because we respond to colours, including their shades and tints, and colour saturation. Since we use a minimum of two different colours in our sites (one for background, one for text), what colours do we choose? How do we make numerous colours work together? This week, we’ll look at a few colour schemes used by graphic artists, fine artists, and interior designers that will help us decide which colours to use for our specific products and services.
The colour schemes that work well together are called “Harmonies”, and today’s tutorial looks at how you can use three different types, monochromatic, analogous and complementary harmonies, to create a visually pleasing colour scheme for your site.
Last week we looked at Real World Music and how they used colour to link their business subsidiaries together throughout their web site. This week we’ll examine colour perception. Perception, in this case, is how we see colour, how we respond to that colour, and why some colours are better for some contexts than others. We learn which feelings are evoked by which colours, how those translate internationally, and by examining the international McDonald’s web sites, the Gay Pride Rainbow Flag and Homeland Security Advisory System, we see how different colour schemes work.
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