Media Growl Blog

Before one should start a detailed web design, a wireframe is needed. Wireframes define a website’s content, layout and functionality. Of course, before one could make a wireframe, a sitemap should have been defined first. (more…)

I just tried the Facebook app of Century Tuna, a popular canned tuna brand in the Philippines. I was actually impressed that they have invested in digital marketing by launching an application in Facebook. However, they could have considered by making the game more social. (more…)

There are a lot of e-commerce solutions available online. Some of them will either require you to host your content on their server, while some would require you to pay the license fee. Of course, if you would like to bring down the cost there are free e-Commerce solutions that you can use. (more…)

Forms need to be fool-proof. How do we do that? Below are some tips that will improve the user experience of your website:

1. Less is Better
Less fields are better. User gets annoyed when they fill out a lot of information. Collect information that you need. For instance, you do not have to put an age field if you already have a birthdate field since age can be computed. (more…)

Searching for good domain names can be a hassle especially if you are just relying on the search tool of various web space providers. It can take a lot of work typing the domain name you have thought of one at a time. Media Growl strongly recommends Bust a Name. (more…)

Media Growl now uses Project Pier as its project management and collaboration tool. At Media Growl, we value project management so that we could assure the clients on-time and quality delivery. In addition, we value communication because one element to a successful project is timely communication. (more…)

Today is the 10th System Administrator Appreciation Day. This is celebrated every last Friday of July. Information Technology has been the backbone of a lot of businesses and your system administrators are the ones making sure that your IT won’t fail by making sure that networks and your hardware are A-OK!

I actually like the new implementation of the channel design in YouTube because of the fresher look and because of the better user experience. It gives the user the option to switch to Player View and to Grid View (which will show your recent video uploads and newly added videos to your Favorites). Migrating to the new channel design might kill your present branding though. It’s advisable to be prepared with your background image and color scheme to use so that you could adapt your branding to the new channel design.

As of this date, the complete example for type-ahead AJAX is in the Facebook Developers forum. You might want to check that out instead of the example posted in the Facebook Developers Wiki. It seems that the code there isn’t complete and would not give FBJS/AJAX noobs a full understanding on how to do it.

I just checked out the top new features of Adobe Photoshop. These are the new features that I’m impressed with:

• Masks Panel
• Content-Aware Scaling
• Smoother Panning and Zooming and Fluid Canvas Rotation

And if you find these features to suit your needs, you don’t need to upgrade your hardware. Just make sure that you have 2GB of hard disk space for Mac and 1GB of hard disk space for Windows. Recommended RAM is still 1GB for Mac and 1GB for Windows. But if you’re running Vista and if you have 1GB RAM, maybe you should upgrade to 2GB RAM just to be sure.