Why Usability is Important?
On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to
use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what
users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a
website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here? There's no such thing as a user reading a website manual or otherwise spending much time trying to figure out an interface. There are plenty of other websites available; leaving is the first line of defense when users encounter a difficulty.
The first law of e-commerce is that if users cannot find the product, they cannot buy it
either.
For intranets, usability is a matter of employee productivity. Time users waste being lost
on your intranet or pondering difficult instructions is money you waste by paying them to
be at work without getting work done.
For internal design projects, think of doubling usability as cutting training budgets in
half and doubling the number of transactions employees perform per hour. For external
designs, think of doubling sales, doubling the number of registered users or customer
leads, or doubling whatever other desired goal motivated your design project. More from
Jakob Neilson's Useit.com
What is DNS Propagation?
There is a system that keeps track of all assigned internet address and domain names, and defines their point of connection to the Internet Backbone.
The ''Backbone'' is the main trunk lines that carry Internet traffic across the country, and around the world. Each backbone machine has a copy of a master set of tables, which direct traffic for a particular network to a specific backbone carrier, and from there down the chain of service providers until it reaches your network.
It is the task of your ISP to advertise to the backbone sites that they are the point of connection (and thus the path inward) for your site. This is known as propagation.
Once CA*net or the InterNIC announces that your domain name has been registered (or transferred, if applicable), it usually takes about 72-hours before it is active. All internet providers must update their records (DNS tables) to reflect new site locations.
'Ride Somewhere Meaningful'
This epic adventure takes you far beyond the personal accomplishments of distance cycling; your journey brings joy to thousands of children caught in the fight against cancer.
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Tour For Kids takes care of logistics so you’re free to relish your ride along carefully selected scenic roads that wind across beautiful cottage country. Each day you chose between two personal distance challenges, 100km and +200km. There’s plenty of aid and boundless encouragement to see you to the end, however, the shuttle wagon is never far away if you decide to join others for a lift to camp.
Please Pledge!
The mission of Tour For Kids is to raise funds for three extraordinary camps that allow children with cancer to share laughter and build friendships with other brave kids from across Canada. In just 3 years, Tour For Kids participants have helped raise $1.7 million!
Every dollar pledged goes straight to the camps, enabling them to enrich the lives of thousands of campers. If a cyclist calls upon you or your organization to donate,
please give generously
We often get asked what "Inorbital" means - well as you may have already guessed it's a combination of 2 words, In and Orbital. We were really drawn to these two words as individually they represent core terms of who we are, what we do, and how well we do them. The "in" is used in many words in our industry i.e. internet, integration, interactive but is also used for countless adjectives like; innovative, invigorating, interesting and the list goes on. All of these ideas combined are the reason why it was obvious to append the in to orbital. The word orbital or orbit was chosen because it really represents the infinite possibilities of what the internet is and the shear vastness of its capability and influence...there's the "in" word again.
After all this creative ingenuity, and 2 years operating as Orbital Web Development, it just made perfect sense to name our practice Inorbital --> to influence the internet in the right direction through innovative interactive web presence.
Professionally crafted award-winning web development with user objectives driving the design. The freshest principles as they apply to a clean, clear and successful web experience. This combined with our ultra-strong programming skills has positioned us to deliver your web presence at the highest level using the latest web 2.0 standards.
WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST THIS FALL!
Thank you for your continued support! If you have any suggestions, tips, or other comments please e-mail them to us at:
integrate@inorbital.com
20 Maud Street, Suite 203 M5V 2M5 416.408.0837 / 1.877.891.6804
www.inorbital.com
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What is Domain Name
Propagation
Charitable Affiliations
"Tour for Kids with Cancer"
Origin of "Inorbital"
Since our last issue we've
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