Luxury is a statement and symbol of one's status. That's what everyone dreams of. That's how every one wants to live. Luxury in everything, car, dress, mobiles, gadgets etc. And the Home one lives. Your luxurious things should match your home. If you have a luxurious house and the interiors, nothing can match the respect and dignity it gets you. How would you know what are the trends in home decor?
Trendir.com is a site that fulfils your needs. The site claims that it is an online magazine about high-end home decor products and trends. The site truly lives to its claim. This site has the latest information on the high-end designs and trends of almost all the categories of home decor. You
can know the latest designs in faucets, Kitchen furnishings, Beds, Television Stands,
furniture, architecture, fireplaces, flooring, cabinets etc. Just name the category, you have the latest trends on this site.
The site opens faster but the images load a little slower as the pages are long and contain many high resolution photographs. The page is divided into entries and each page accommodates 15 entries. The link for the next 15 entries is placed both in the top and bottom of the page. It looks like a three colum blog. Below the header are links for some of the site's archives. Below the archives are Google Ads. Below the Google Ads is the description of the site. The left and right columns of the site have advertisements. The right column contains the Categories of Home Decor. If you want to know the latest trends of furniture, click that link. The categories are many and almost no category has been left out. Kitchen furnishings, lighting, showers, indoor water falls, are some of the categories that are extensively reported.
The Product is briefly described, explained along with price. The Photograph of the product is also placed to know how the product looks. I must say these pictures are the key for the site. You are attracted somuch to some designs that you will visit the site again and again to see if any new product has arrived. Along with the description, you can know who is selling the product, a link is also provided to the seller's website.
The site is a good source to know the latest trends in home decor and I am sure you will decide what you want for your home.
The draw back of the site is that you will have to endlessly scroll down to read the content. This happens because of the three-column template of the site and the number of entries per page. The width of the middle column where the sites content is written is less and the text goes down the page. Each page contains 15 entries but I strongly felt that it should be restricted to not more than 10 entries which will lessen the strain of scrolling.
The site has RSS feeds to enable you stay in touch with the trends from your browser.
If you are a building a luxurious house or a freak of home decor, this site is one of the best ones out there for you.
The site wins more on the content rather than the usability.
I give Moderate thumbs up to the site.
Click here to visit the site: www.trendir.com
Marketing is a hot topic now a days. Everybody wants to learn it and master it. OK. What is the best site to learn marketing?
I am going to tell you about one site which is one of the best in Marketing Resources on the Internet. It teaches you right from the root level - what is marketing? - to - Becoming a successful marketer.
Knowthis.com is a very good marketing resource site with wonderful tutorials for both a beginner as well as an expert. The tutorials teach you basics of marketing, how to plan your marketing to targetted customers, Internet marketing, choosing the best product to market, promoting your product etc.
The site opens pretty faster. The opening page is divided into three columns: The left pane has the Categories of turorials for quick access. This pane is always available in other pages also for quick jumping to other topics. The centre pane has links to Principles of Marketing Tutorials and the right pane has Marketing Stories collected from leading publications and Internet News sites. You can search for a topic through a google search box which is above these three panes. On the to
p right hand side of the page is the link for Virtual Library.
When you click a link in the Principles of Marketing, it takes you to the turorial page. The language of the tutorials is very lucid. The tutorials are divided into chapters. There is a link box of various chapters for quick access.
The right pane has google ads. The site is a non-profit site but recently they inserted google ads to meet the costs of hosting. The site has job search too, with which you can search for marketing jobs online.
The site has exhaustive material on choosing a product, Pricing, Distribution, Advertising, Planning and Strategy to promote your product etc. which will surely refine your marketing skills.
The Editor of the site is Paul Christ, Professor of Marketing and Director MBA of WestChester University. He is doing a great job through this site for marketing enthusiasts. Knowthis.com claims to be referred by hundreds of universities and colleges.
The site has a blog and is updated almost every week with site news. RSS feeds are available if you want to keep in touch with the site.
This site, no doubt, is one of the best marketing resource sites on internet. I give it a big thumbs up.
Click here to visit the site : www.knowthis.com
MyLot is the Best Paid to post site i have found on the internet. You get roughly 1 cent per post and a little more for starting a discussion. This site has a population of more than 115000. You can share your views on the topics others have started and you can even upload photos also. You are paid for the uploaded photos also. Pages load faster with interspersing ads. Very prompt in payments too.
pls click the link to visit the site.
myLot User Profile
Infoplease.com is perhaps the largest reference site one the web. This site has
many sections like, Almanacs, Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Atlas, etc.
Every effort is made to keep the information up to date. The site loads pretty fast.
The site does not look thoroughly professional and no chance has been left for
earning with ads on the pages, though it doesnt disturb navigation and use of the
site but at times you are compelled to scroll down too much.
The header has a search box to search the entire site or a particular section. Two
links on the header 'Sitemap' and 'FAQ' are not working. The menu bar on the top
and menu pad on the left are very handy to shift from one section to another. The
sections are very neatly arranged enabling easy access and search.
Every page displays links for related content on the site and some sponsored links. ( I just said
no chance was left to make money through ads ! ). Every page displays Tag
Cloud in a small box, Info please tools, Career Center and College Center. I was
pleased very much to find that The College Center box has links for searching for
free scholarships which will be helpful for poor students.
The site some games like sudoku, crossword etc for adults too.
The Information on the site is authentic, accurate and reliable : After all, this site is
owned by Pearson Education, which also owns big things like Financial Times
Group and Penguin Group.
The site has an encyclopedia too. Whatever information you need, you will
find it. The search works just like a commercial search engine. It displays the no.
of results, links to the content of the site for the search term. If you misspell a word,
it even suggests the right term. The site works in a professional way.
If you have school going kids, book mark it !
But remember, this site is no competition to Wikipedia.com. Wiki has extremely
vast information - that is due to contributors worldwide. Infoplease seems to be
not stretching boundless.
Though this site is not a giant like Wiki, yet, this site is clearly a winner.
Click here to visit the site : www.Infoplease.com
I have been very busy with a training program in my office. I was working literally
round the clock in my office and had to look after my pregnant wife too... Life is at
times too busy.
Lets continue with our web site discussion.
Now a days Open Source Projects are the hottest on the web. These Projects are
offering the users superior softwares and applications for free when compared to
the applications you can buy from software giants. Well, every one knows that
there are open source projects but where do you find them?
The answer is Bearbottoms1.com !
This is perhaps one of the best sites I found for Freeware Links. The site is simple to look at. Loads very fast. No graphics on the page. Naviation is nothing but scrolling down the page. The links are dividied into different sections like New Program Selections, Security, Education & Fun, Parental Control, Office, Anti Virus, File Management, Web Development, Audio & Video Applications, Graphic Editors like GIF Animators, System Utilities etc. Just name the kind of program and you have it on the page.. for FREE. No need to Pay or Buy. The Admin has marked the best programs with a 'paw' (paw of a bear). I was surprised to find so many best programs on the site. When you click on a link, it takes you to the home page or download page of the software. The sites are loading pretty fast. I clicked not less than ten links. The downloads are fast: of course they are not hosted at this site. I downloaded 3D Architecture software Sweet Home 3D. It was 23MB and came down to my desktop pretty fast.
This is a site that every body will love to bookmark and visit whenever they need a
software. I am sure you will find every kind of software for free here.
I give it a thumbs up ... a big thumbs up to this site. Coz this site places all the free
software links.
Click here to visit the site: http://www.bearbottoms1.com/
A dictionary explains the meaning only verbally and with examples. But at times you need diagrams to understand the words, their inflections, derivatives and its etymology in a more effective way. There are many online dictionaries that do the job in the traditional way. Visit Visuwords.com which explains words in a graphical manner and in a better way.
This site consists of only one page. The header has a search bar. Enter the word you want to look up or click 'Random' to see a randomly chosen word. It is displayed in neuranet model. This graphic is displayed b
elow the header. The graphic is a flash animation. You can see the tree grow more and more depending upon the word and its inflections. Nouns are displayed in blue circle, verbs are displayed in green circle. Derivations are indicated with grey dotted line connecting the root word. Place your cursor on the circles to see the definition and at times, a sentence for example. The legend is given right below the graphical area. You can enlarge and decrease the graphical area with your scroll button on the mouse. You can pawn the graphic by clicking and holding the left mouse button whichever way you want. See my screenshot. When I searched for the word 'web' the graphic looked like this. You can enlarge the graphic to the full width of your screen.
The interface of the site is simple, coz you dont need many options except looking up the dictionary. The inflections cannot be understood easily based upon their coloured cicles, lines and dotted lines. You need to master the legend. But its not hard to memorize them. The colors are easy to remember.
The site uses Princeton University's WordNet, an opensource dictionary built by University students and language researchers.
The positive thing is that the site is free to use and its a good site for people who are not native english speakers.
I give it a big thumbs up to the site. :-)
Click here to visit the site : http://www.visuwords.com/
A good speech can change your mind to achieve big things. It can renew your energy to fight life, fight for your country, it can even make you stick to your ideals. Many people need them when they are low in spirits or need more inspiration and force to boost their morale. Those great speeches need to be preserved.
American rhetoric is a website which has a large speech bank of American speeches of twentieth century. The opening page is pleasing with the blue background. You can see snippets of some 
sections available at the website like Online Speech Bank, Top 100 speeches etc. The Navigation Pad is on the left side. But the font size could be larger.
The website has a large database of speeches in its Speech Bank. The speeches are indexed in alphabetical order of the name of the orator. The Speech Bank page has a section devoted to Iraq War Speeches. It also features Recent additions and Special Events. All the speeches have an mp3 format for download and transcribed text. Video in Windows Media is also available for some speeches. The audio can be heard online too.
The Top 100 Speeches Section has links by Rank of speech, by Decade and by Women Orators. Many of the speeches are available for download in .pdf format also. But unfortunately, the navigation pad is not available on the Index page and the page of speech. You have to open it in a new window or press Back on the tool bar of the browser to continue navigation.
The website has a good collection of movie speeches, Figures in Sound - the speeches are good in sound to hear with alliteration, rhyme and rhythm, Christian Rhetorics, Rhetoric of 9-11. The site also has a section for Scholars which has links to web sites of communication associations and journals. It has a quiz for scholars too.
American Rhetoric is a useful website for listening and downloading some very great american speeches. The biggest flaw is the font size of the Navigation Pad. The font can be a little bigger. My eyes got strained to read the font. The site loading is a little slow, may be due to the template design and colors. Its a neat three column template.
As for usefulness of this website, I give it a thumbs up.
Click here to visit the website : www.americanrhetoric.com
