Building websites
Several times I found an amazing template which sadly was not ready for WordPress, or I had the best design, but just in my head. ¿My options? Forget about it, to learn to program, or take advantage of the technology to build an impressive website. Our magical solution? A WordPress theme called Divi. On their website, you will find a great preview of its flexibility. Also, great documentation that will help you to build almost any website without coding. Is anyone still skeptical? Then checks a couple of my own examples, so you can see you how powerful it is: First scenario: Adapting a free template for WordPress. In my case, I didn’t have the photoshop typical template, like the ones you can find in dribbble. I had a bootstrap template, like the ones I told you before, but It needed to be transformed into a WordPress page in order to improve webpage SEO: Original My adaptation As you can see, the imitation is not perfect, but for 15 minutes of work without programming, the results are unbeatable. Second scenario: You have the vision of how a website should be. I was in this scenario with Walkwithpath, a really promising London healthcare company where I am involved. This theme allowed me to create a really personalized design in a little amount of time. Exactly what you need when you want to focus on the important: the product and the promotional...
Building websites
At the beginning of 2016 I bought a Construct 2 game template to make a marketing proposal. Even with my little experience, I can tell that construct 2 is a great platform for developers. However, publishing the games can be hard and expensive for a casual developer like me. This tutorial will try to explain how to export and test the game in a more painless way than the ones proposed on the official website of the project. 1. First, we need to get the html5 version of the game Please be aware that we don’t want the version with a frame around. Frames help to adapt the game resolution in desktop browsers. However, that is not our final platform. Open your Contruct 2, select export as ¨Html5 website¨ and later do not select to add a frame to the game, or it will look awful inside the phone. If you bought a template as I did, and already include it, you can just enter in the ¨html5¨ folder and then on folder ¨Game¨. That is the game without a frame. 2. Upload and configure it: Now that you have the html5 game, we need to upload the game to Monaca and configure it. 2.1 Upload the project To avoid problems I advise you to use Chrome. First, we register in monoca.io and we create a project using the ¨minimum template¨ that Monaca provides. This is important because our project needs the file ¨config.xml¨ that the project provides. We need to upload the game files into the folder ¨www¨. You can delete the rest of the files in the...
Management
Abstract: This 2015 article shows how I tested and optimized a marketing campaign. The focus of the campaign is a website. However, several general ideas were discussed: Google search is not a good resource when you are looking for truly modern and outstanding solutions. Feedly is a great resource to find valuable information. Human center approach tools like Design Thinking are always useful even if they can just be partially implemented. Introduction: I was thrilled. It was the first time I was working through the full cycle of product creation, and it was my own project. It was a mobile application, in fact, it was just an HTML5 website with a complete app feel; scroll and swipe gestures, nice buttons, etc. But it was my crazy project, and it had to have an amazing landing website. By that time I didn’t know much about landing page creation and google never was helpful when I was looking for truly modern and outstanding solutions. Therefore, as I usually do in these situations, I went to Feedly, and I reviewed my design blog subscription. I was looking for best practices and maybe some examples, but there it was, an almost perfect landing page for my app. Now I had a website template, following the best practices of the time (responsive, html5). Therefore, It didn’t pass much time until I had a preview version of the page. Another search through my trusted bloggers to find the perfect icons, some photoshop edition for the images, and some extra time redacting the texts following of course the Simon Sinek recommendations. Test and optimize: Test the technological factors of a website it is easy if you know the right...
