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After a holiday or a break, a lot of companies consider getting a new web design or upgrading their existing website design. In the past you could contact a web design company, list your requirements and then they would design and build your website. The website would be tested on all desktop browsers and checked how it would look on different computer screens.
Changing trends.
In the last 12 -18 months, trends are starting to change. More and more people are using their smart phone devices like Android and iPhone to view website. Tablets like the iPads and smart TV s are replacing the home computer. Traffic reports show that 30% of traffic to a website is from mobile devices. The issue for companies considering a website now is how it will look on a mobile device, an iPad or a TV.
If a company goes with a traditional design, it might look fine on a computer, but on a mobile device like an iPhone, it may look too small and the customer will have to pinch and zoom on each page, or on a TV screen, it might look stretched. One obvious solution is to build an app for each device, but this would mean an app for the iPhone and another for the android devices, but then there are the blackberry devices and the Window 8 mobile devices!
This is where Web Design Galway can help. When we design a website we are catering for all devices using a technique called Responsive Web Design or RWD .
So what is RWD ?
Basically RWD uses \”media queries\” which is part of the CSS3 specification, to identify the device that the customer is using to visit the website. Once the device has been identified, the design can be reshaped and resized using grid layouts and flexible images to best suit the screen. So whether the customer is using a small, medium or large screen, the customer will see the same website, best customised to suit the device they are viewing from.
Try it out for yourself, using the browser that you are viewing this article on, try making the browser window smaller. You will see the images and content column will start to shrink, and then the sidebar will disappear. Now try viewing the article again using your mobile device, same content but the layout has changed so you can easily view the information and navigate the site.
To the future
With the constant growth in mobile devices, tablets and Smart TV, the traditional desktop system is no-longer the only device that a website will be viewed from. As a company, you need a web design that will cater for all customers, display your business information in the simplest form for your customer to understand. If your customer needs to zoom in to see your phone number of email address, then that is not ideal. By displaying the information in a layout that suits your customer s media device, it will encourage your visitors to stay on the website. Second, as stated earlier, with the growing number of device platforms and sizes, you can save on development costs by not having to design separate web designs for each specific device.
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Friday, January 4, 2013
Recently, Wikinews spent time with with Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketballer Shelley Chaplin.
((Wikinews)) Interview with Shelley Chaplin. First of all, what position do you play?
((WN)) Right. And whenever I go to see the basketball in Canberra, we pass by a glass case. In the case is a guernsey with number twelve on it, and a big sign that says that this was the guernsey worn by Shelley Chaplin…
((WN)) It’s signed by the rest of the team, if you look — press your nose to the glass and look really close. How did that come to be there?
((WN)) Oh okay.
((WN)) I think it’s been there for longer than that.
((WN)) So they’ll return that to you?
((WN)) How did you get into playing wheelchair basketball?
((WN)) And you’re a three point player?
((WN)) I’d never seen the game before. My first experience of it was when the Gliders came out on the court for that first game [in London], and I was really taken with the sport from the word go. It has a sort of grace that normal basketball lacks. But otherwise it’s very similar.
((WN)) People in the press gallery were saying “I’ve just got to get out in a chair and…”
((WN)) So how did you get to go to Illinois?
((WN)) You won the bronze medal there?
((WN)) Silver in Athens, bronze in Beijing.
((WN)) Which lead to what we ran on the front page of Wikipedia.
((WN)) That’s why I rang up up and asked for your birth place. Somebody raised an objection, and said maybe she was born in the US.
((WN)) I thought that was pretty spectacular, because there’s not a lot of athletes in any sport that have done that [been All-American without being American].
((WN)) How did your team go while you were there?
((WN)) For five years from 2004 to 2009?
((WN)) Wow!
((WN)) So you said you played for a club here in Melbourne as well?
((WN)) Wow!
((WN)) That’s a pretty amazing record.
((WN)) And then of course there’s the Gliders as well. You’ve got the gold… no wait…
((WN)) I was sure you’d be saying “I’ve already got the silver and the bronze. Give me the gold!”
((WN)) Well, the team’s pretty much the same one as in Athens isn’t it?
((WN)) What I noticed was when I looked over the statistics of basketball over the time you’ve been playing, the scores have been going up.
((WN)) So you are a full time athlete?
((WN)) So you got a grant from the government?
((WN)) That’s pretty intense though. Have you taken a break since then?
((WN)) Like what?
((WN)) Oh okay.
((WN)) Wow!
((WN)) When is that?
((WN)) Are you still with the basketball? Are you going to continue with that?
((WN)) So I might be able to catch you guys again there.
((WN)) It must have been disappointing in London — Let me put it like this: I’m watching the game, and it’s “oh no, they’re losing” but you don’t look like you’re losing. You look like you’re having the time of your life.
((WN)) Did you see how many people were there was?
((WN)) I was staring up at the top and I could not see the top rows. They were completely in darkness.
((WN)) The silver’s pretty good!
((WN)) It’s just that the Gliders have never won. They’ve never won the World Championship, they’ve never won at the Paralympics.
((WN)) Yeah.
((WN)) Really good.
((WN)) You played pretty well.
((WN)) The whole team needed to find something and lift, because like… we interviewed one of your team mates, and she we can’t expect to win if we’re shooting 39 per cent. Then of course you went ahead and won two games shooting 39 per cent, which sort of made a bit of a liar out of her…
((WN)) The defence was where you won those games. You blocked them off. Particularly Mexico, they couldn’t… Canada was even better. You kept on forcing turnovers, forcing timeouts. That was the defensive game, was the way you won it.
((WN)) But Germany had a good defensive game as well. It must have been good, playing on your birthday.
((WN)) So how do you compare London with Beijing and Athens?
((WN)) We have a lot of statistics on the response to it. Unfortunately, being in London I couldn’t see the TV coverage.
((WN)) Apparently there was extra requests for the Gliders. So more people wanted to see you.
((WN)) Yes.
((WN)) It seems be be getting bigger with each set of games.
((WN)) I’ve got figures from Google. London is twice as big.
((WN)) Some of the things you were doing. The three point shot from a chair.
((WN)) And the speed at which you moved at times, in excess of what someone without a chair could do. It’s just a fabulous sport.
((WN)) Are you’re definitely up for Rio as well?
((WN)) Well I look forward to seeing you there. Thanks very much!
Thursday, April 6, 2006
The Frugalware Development Team describes Frugalware as a general purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users who are not afraid of text mode. Frugalware also plans to offer a live CD with desktop options, to be developed by one of its teams. A live CD enables running the Linux software on most compatible Intel and AMD chipset architectures, without having to partition a drive.
A freelance journalist writing for Wikinews interviewed the founder of Frugalware Linux, Miklós Vajna.
Wikinews: Frugalware is a slack distribution at present. Are there plans for developing binary package management platforms of it?
Miklós Vajna: Our package manager is called pacman, and its primary purpose is to install binary packages. If you want to install packages from source, you can use our “repoman” tool.
Wikinews: What are your visions for the future of Frugalware, do you plan to globally distribute it as a product, and would you consider allowing a major corporation to sponsor your efforts?
Miklós Vajna: The second. Frugalware is free, but maintaining it needs hardware, mirrors, money. We got several donations already (build servers), and we continuously need them. If a corporation want to sponsor us, I think that is totally O.K. 🙂
Wikinews: What is Arch Linux in relationship to your project? And how do their efforts fit into your game plan?
Miklós Vajna: The common [thing] in Arch Linux and Frugalware is the package manager. (To be strict: nothing else.) Developing our package manager is a common effort. If anyone [is] interested in its development, he/she can subscribe to the pacman development mailing list.
Wikinews: I’ve successfully installed Frugalware, OpenSUSE, and WinXP on the same box. Do you see a lot of people doing this sort of thing in the future?
Miklós Vajna: We support having more than one operating system on a single machine — though this matters only in case Frugalware is the last installed operating system. We do not have any statistics about what operating systems do other people use besides Frugalware, if they have more than one.
Wikinews: Is it possible that PearPC and Frugalware may have a relationship to distribute the PearPC Emulator with Frugalware in the future?
Miklós Vajna: It is already available [1].
Wikinews: What kinds of software might you include with further editions of Frugalware? Is Muse part of the base package for electronic musicians, or will you have those sorts of things?
Miklós Vajna: No [2]. It is not available at the moment. You can request a package by filing a feature request to our Bug Tracking System, at [3].
Wikinews: Is the autoupdating feature of Frugalware unique to Frugalware and perhaps a keystone to future developments?
Miklós Vajna: I have never tried other autoupdating features. What one can see is that upgrading even from the previous stable release — which means installing 6 months of update at once — requires only a few tricks, and these are documented. So it works as it should, and we always pay attention not to break this great feature.
Wikinews: What can new users of Frugalware do to test and relay infotmation back to the developers through the correct channels?
Miklós Vajna: We have released stable versions two times a year. There are testing releases every two months. If one would like to help us, then download these releases, test them, and if something is broken, then file a bug report to the BTS (mentioned above already).
Frugalware has new X Windows video drivers that provide a major speed improvement over available patches for previous editions of Linux. Alex Smith has been working on them as a developer.
In addition, the PearPC emulator mentioned above, which comes with the package manager, may, with proper tuning and installation of a legal copy of Mac OSX, enable many Intel and AMD Frugalware users to use the Apple OS on their desktops. Alex Smith is also a contact person for the PearPC project, which can also be found in irc://irc.freenode.net and at http://www.pearpc.net.
The official release time of the latest edition frugalware-0.4 was Mar 30 07:42:21. The developers can be reached for comment through IRC at #frugalware in the irc.freenode.net network.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Over the past week, diplomatic actions have averted — or, at least delayed — military strikes on Syria by the United States. Wikinews sought input from a range of international experts on the situation; and, the tensions caused by Russia’s support for the al-Assad regime despite its apparent use of chemical weapons.
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Tensions in the country increased dramatically, late August when it was reported between 100 and 1,300 people were killed in an alleged chemical attack. Many of those killed appeared to be children, with some of the pictures and video coming out of the country showing — according to witnesses — those who died from apparent suffocation; some foaming at the mouth, others having convulsions.
Amongst Syria’s few remaining allies, Iran, China, and Russia continue to oppose calls for military intervention. In an effort to provide a better-understanding of the reasoning behind their ongoing support, the following people were posed a range of questions.
By Lawrence Reaves
Yes, you can send your shirts out to be laundered and ironed. But you should also know how to take care of them on your own. If Mom didn’t teach you, here are the basics on what every man should know when it comes to ironing.
Before you begin, get the right tools in order. You wouldn’t, or shouldn’t, start taking your car engine apart without the necessary tools. Don’t try that with ironing either. You need a good iron, a hard surface on which to iron, preferably an ironing board, and it’s good to have some spray starch.
The first thing you want to do is read the clothing tag before you start. This will tell you if the garment can be ironed as well as the proper heat setting. Generally cotton or linen garments need a higher setting, cotton blends or wool need a medium setting and silk or synthetic garments need a low setting. Ignoring this advice will likely end up in ruining your clothes. If you’re ironing corduroy steam them first to loosen up the wrinkles before you iron.
Spray starch will help your clothes to feel crisp and look better. It will also cut down on your ironing time considerably. Lay the garment on the ironing board and spray the starch from at least a foot away.
To be thorough, it’s best to iron both the inside and outside of your clothes. Iron the inside first. Stretch the clothing firmly across the ironing board.
For your shirts, start with the collar, move the iron up and down smoothly over the entire area. Next do the cuffs and the sleeves. Make sure you follow the natural creases of the shirt. After the sleeves iron around each buttonhole, then move to the front of the shirt.
Now on to the pants. Start with the waistband and slowly move your way down to the cuff or hem. Place the pants parallel on the ironing board. Slowly move the iron up and down until you’ve gone over all the wrinkle areas. Be sure to follow the natural lines and creases of the garment.
Hang up your ironed clothing immediately. Otherwise, when it comes time to wear them, you’ll have to do this all over again. For shirts, button the top and middle buttons so that it will hang correctly and preserve the shape.
You should make sure that your clothes are clean and in their best shape before you begin to iron. Ironing a dirty shirt could permanently set stains into the fabric.
Wash your clothing with a good quality detergent and fabric softener. This will help keep the fabric in good condition for a longer period of time. Even if you can’t get to the ironing right away, get your clothes out of the dryer and fold or hang them as soon as the drying cycle stops. In the long run, this will save you time and grief when ironing.
Keep in mind these important safety tips.
Never leave a hot iron unattended. It could tip over and burn something or someone. In the worst case scenario, it could start a fire. Unplug it and make sure it’s cooled down before you leave it.
Always unplug your iron before filling it with water.
When ironing delicate clothing you can place a cloth or towel between the garment and the iron. You’ll especially want to do this for thinks like linen or nylon.
Items such as suits or silk shirts really do require a trip to the dry cleaners. It will be worth it.
Don’t be afraid to take on your own ironing. Whether you need it just in cases where you don’t have time to get to the cleaners or whether you just want to save money, it’s a skill every man should have.
About the Author: Lawrence Reaves is a free lance writer with knowledge of household products including irons. For more information about how to find a good iron visit
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Monday, July 6, 2020
A number of Muslim-majority countries around the world implement Shari’a — commonly known as Islamic law — and have laws against apostasy and blasphemy. Numerous times, over the years, people have been sentenced to death penalty for renouncing Islam. Back in 2018, a Pakistani journalism student Mashal Khan was killed by a mob lynch after he was accused of blasphemy. At times there have been protests against the restrictions on free speech in Islam.
Other than the restriction of free speech, many Muslim majority countries have declared homosexuality as a capital crime, and observe a strict dress code for women. Iran has banned a number of female chess players for not wearing a hij?b. An Iranian woman was sentenced 20 years for removing hij?b while protesting the strict dress code.
Wikinews had gotten in touch with Tanzanian-born ex-Muslim Zara Kay to discuss the struggles an ex-Muslim woman faces, as well as her organisation: Faithless Hijabi. Faithess Hijabi is an organisation which helps other ex-Muslim women by sharing their stories and experiences. Its Facebook page has over 7000 likes, and Zara Kay, who identifies herself as an antithiest, had prefiously helped a Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed escape to Canada.
The following is the interview with Zara Kay that took place last year.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Her Excellency, Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of Australia is set to travel to Kuwait to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of the liberation of the country from Iraqi rule. This comes as terrorist threats and civil unrest begin to spread throughout the region.
In a tour that is set to conclude on February 27th, Ms Bryce will be representing Australia at several ceremonies marking 20 years since the first Gulf War and 50 years since Kuwait gained independence from the United Kingdom. In addition, she will visit The Australian College of Kuwait and other locations of national interest including sites of Australian wheat imports.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs released a statement claiming “Terrorists have demonstrated intent to conduct attacks in Kuwait against a range of targets, including United States military and identifiably Western targets such as hotels, restaurants and symbols and buildings associated with the Kuwaiti government.”
The visit occurs in conjunction with the news of anti-government protests igniting across the Middle East including Kuwait. Despite this, the Governor-General’s secretary told a Senate committee that the trip shall proceed.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Yesterday, NASA announced their spacecraft Juno has reached Jupiter orbit. It was launched almost five years ago to investigate the largest planet of the Solar System, especially its past.
Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, said, “Independence Day always is something to celebrate, but today we can add to America’s birthday another reason to cheer — Juno is at Jupiter”. He also added the spacecraft would help study the evolution of the Solar System and explore Jupiter’s radiation belts.
NASA spent US$1.1 billion for Juno. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reported Juno was confirmed in Jupiter’s orbit at 0353 UTC. Including the camera, the probe has nine scientific instruments. Juno has covered 2.7 billion kilometres (1.7 billion miles) to reach Jupiter.
NASA said non-essential equipment was turned off for the approach. They expect photos in some days. The first orbital revolution period is 53 days. Juno is expected to orbit the planet 37 times keeping an altitude of 5000 kilometres (3100 miles) above the Jovian clouds and then fall into the planet in 2018.
NASA’s Galileo, launched in 1989, found evidence of saline water on Jovian satellites Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
The electronics have been encased in titanium to protect them from high-energy radiation.