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Background music on web site

klalex — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:33:21 +0000

Just curious do you like to hear music when you open a web site? Some clients I work with still asking me to place background music on their site. It can create some atmosphere when you open site, I agree. But what if people do not like it? It’s possible that users that come to the site are listening music in media player. Then it creates a crazy mix and first second you even do not understand what’s going on. Especially if you are surfing not one website at once. And many people do it. So I really concerned is it usable to set background music and whether it will attract visitors or just make them do not return back again.

If you decided to place background music you should place Pause/Play buttons at least to give visitors control over the playing.

Really like this saying

klalex — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:31:40 +0000

“Everything in the world is now real time. So when a certain type of shoe isn’t selling at your corner shop, it’s not six months before the guy in China finds out. It’s almost instantaneous, thanks to my software.”

by Vivek Ranadive, founder and CEO of Tibco

Leaving Wildbit

klalex — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:06:18 +0000

This week I left Wildbit team. It was really difficult decision for me because it’s just a perfect company – the best one I’ve worked in! I’ve made lots of friends there and it was nice to work with everybody. Goodbye, guys!

I decided to concentrate more on my own company. That’s what I was thinking about last years. Actually I’m not going to develop my own projects. At least for right now. I do not feel strong enough yet. But making business as outsourcing/consulting company can help me to get necessary experience. And it’s just another side of application development process which I want to be involved as a professional.

Back to PHP! Nice to switch from one platform to another one, from one language to another. Of course there is pros and cons in every framework, library etc. But get back in touch with something you’re familiar with is always nice. As you probably already got my company is going to be specialized in PHP/MySQL development.