Was kann man bei einem Auto besser machen, das bereits viele seiner Besitzer glücklich gemacht hat?

Wenn ich mir den neuen HONDA Civic anschaue, so wurde das sportliche Design seines Vorgängers nur behutsam weiterentwickelt, aber doch deutlich aufgefrischt. 

Von vorne spricht der neue Civic die Formensprache seiner Marken-Kollegen und nimmt mit der farblich abgehobenen Kühlergrill-Spange die Design-Elemente des Hybriden Insight auf. 

Am Heck wird auch der neue Civic zu einem mutigen Golf-Gegner. Mit seiner in LED-Technik 3 Dimensional geformten Rückleuchten, gestaltet er seinen Heckabschluß und teilt die Heckklappe in eine viel Laderaum schaffende obere Hälfte und einen aerodynamisch geformten unteren Teil. 

Besonders fallen in der Seitenansicht die kräftig gezeichneten Schultern auf. Mit schwungvollen Radhäusern betont der neue Civic in seinem äußeren seinen Anspruch: Sport & Komfort unter einen Hut, respektive in nur einem Auto zu vereinen. 

HONDA bringt auch den neuen CIVIC in 3 Ausstattungslinien. So kann man den Civic als "Executive", "Sport" oder "Comfort" ordern. Alle 3 Ausstattungslinien können zum Start des neuen Civic in 9 attraktiven Farben bestellt werden. Mir persönlich gefällt neben dem sportlichen weiß, vor allem das an Mocca erinnenerde "Urban Titanium Pearl". 

Wer das außergewöhnliche Design des neuen Civic mit einer besonderen Farbe unterstützen will, der sollte sich im Online-Konfigurator http://www.honda-civic.de/microsite/honda.php mal die Farbe "Yellow Topaz Metallic" anschauen. 

Ich kann vermutlich nur schwer alles beschreiben, was die HONDA Techniker im neuen Civic umgesetzt haben, aber zum Glück gibt es noch einen Youtube Kanal

Wie seht Ihr das? Hat sich der neue Civic so richtig in Schale geworfen? Und gefällt er euch so gut wie mir? Schreibt mir Eure Meinungen einfach unten in den Kommentarbereich. 

Schreibt mir doch auch dazu, ob ihr bereits den Vorgänger des neuen Civic gefahren seit, oder was ihr im Augenblick für ein Auto fahrt.

 

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Alles nicht richtig zufriedenstellend.

Hier bietet “Tableizer” eine Lösung an. Einfach den Inhalt der Calc, Exel oder Spreadsheets per Copy&Paste einfügen und als Ergebnis bekommt man einen HTML Code der im Anschluss im eigenen Blog einfach eingefügt werden kann.

Hier zu Tableizer .. 

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In this post we are glad to present to you yet another freebie: the Website ROI Calculator, a free Google Spreadsheet created by Anders Hoff specifically for Smashing Magazine and our readers. Of course, the tool is absolutely free to use in private as well as commercial projects.

Is your website doing the job you are paying for it to do? The Website ROI Calculator (ROI being “return on investment”) can get you started with setting goals and following them up in order to make the most of your website. The calculator can be used throughout the website’s lifespan, from planning to termination. Update the figures in the calculator at set intervals in order to see how your website or campaign is doing, and take action depending on the results.

Download The Calculator

The Website ROI Calculator is a free Google Spreadsheet that contains:

• 1 overview sheet,
• 3 sample calculator sheets for different types of websites,
• 3 template calculator sheets.

To edit the data, first make a copy (you need to be signed in at a Google account in order to do this). Then, either edit the data in one of the sample calculator sheets or duplicate the template and rename it appropriately.

Using The Calculator Sheet

When beginning a project, duplicate the template sheet and start entering data about your website.

At each evaluation point, archive the current data before changing anything. This way, you can see what effect a measure that was introduced at a particular time may have had. Create a separate Google Spreadsheet (named something like “Website ROI Archive”), and use the “Duplicate” function in the tab at the bottom of the sheet to copy the current version to the archive. Relabel the sheet so that you know what period it applies to (for example, “Website ROI Jan – Jun 2011”).

At each evaluation point, we suggest that you make a back-up copy of the current data by copying the calculator sheet to a separate Google Spreadsheet (from the menu in the tab at the bottom). Then, at each evaluation point for the duration of the website, you can copy the calculator sheet and update the figures in the new sheet.

Goals

• Figures updated
  Date of when the current data was extracted and entered into the calculator.
• Name
  Name of the person who updated the sheet.
• Currency
  Currency of figures for expenditures and revenues in the sheet.
• ROI goal, percent
  Set the goal of the return on your investment. A 0% ROI means that 100% of your expenses are returned (i.e. you did not lose any money). Normally, the goal is set at the start and is not changed at subsequent review points.
• ROI goal, days
  Set the number of (maximum) days to achieve your percentage-based ROI goal. If you have to run a campaign for a very long time to reach your ROI goal, then you may want to consider stopping the campaign and allocating your resources to more profitable opportunities. Normally, the goal is set at the start and is not changed at subsequent review points.

Statistics

• Site launch date
  The date when the website or campaign launched.
• Site ran for
  The number of days that the website or campaign has run since the launch date.
• # of visitors
  The unique number of visitors since the launch date. You will have to get the actual numbers from your Web statistics package (such as Google Analytics). During the planning stage, you may want to enter fictitious numbers here to see how many visitors your website will need in order to get a reasonable ROI.
• Net # of visitors
  These numbers will be more realistic if you subtract the visitors from your development partners and from your own organization. Your statistics package should have support for doing this.
• Page views
  The number of pages that visitors have viewed. Again, this number will be found in your statistics package.
• Average page views
  To keep it simple, the average number of page views is automatically calculated by dividing the number of page views by the total number of visitors.

Development and Operating Costs

Add in the costs of developing and operating the website. The sample sheets show examples of different types of development and operating costs.

Marketing Costs

Make a list of marketing costs. If your marketing activities are for channels other than the website, then allocate a portion of the total marketing costs to the website. The sample sheets show examples of different types of marketing costs.

Calls to Action and Revenue

List the actions that users can take on the website that are of value to you. In the calculator, you will find a separate sheet with a sample list of calls to actions.

You can select calls to action from the drop-down list in the “Calls to action” section of the calculator sheet, or enter a call to action directly in one of the cells. Regardless, we recommend that you collate all of the calls to action in the “Calls to action” sheet.

The value of each call to action will be specific to your organization. Estimate a value, and then enter it in the “Value” column.

ROI Summary

In the ROI summary section, you will see how your website is doing, calculated using the current figures that you have entered in the sheet.

• ROI
  This shows how your website is doing so far and what the ROI would be if you terminated the website today.
• ROI, percent
  The ROI as a percentage of your investments (i.e. costs).
• Break even after
  The number of days (from launch) before the costs are recovered (i.e. before the ROI equals 0).
• Will reach ROI goal of (ROI goal, percent) after
  The number of days (from launch) before the ROI goal is reached.
• Prognosis, ROI
  The expected final ROI if the current rate of traffic and activity on the website continues.

The “Overview” sheet also shows the ROI prognosis for projects that are running (the ROI goal in days has not exceeded). Once the ROI goal in days has passed, the ROI will then be displayed as actual ROI, not a prognosis.

Measures to Increase ROI

When you review the ROI for your website at a point in time, you may find that performance is not as good as you had hoped. You may need to make adjustments or even terminate the website or campaign. Make sure to specify who is responsible for putting in place a particular measure, and then prioritize the measures and suggest concrete solutions.

Using the Website ROI Overview Sheet

Once you have entered all of the data about a website, you will need to activate the project by selecting “Active” in the status field on the Overview page. When the website is terminated, you can deactivate the project in the same place. You can also suspend projects by selecting “Pause.”

If you have more than one website, you can get a quick view of how they’re doing on the “Overview” sheet, and you can write comments to elaborate on individual results and measures.

If the project is active, the ROI prognosis will be displayed. If the project has ended, the resulting ROI will be displayed. The prognosis for how many days it would take to achieve the ROI goal is also shown.

How the ROI Prognosis Is Calculated

The ROI prognosis calculation is linear, meaning that the traffic and activity on the website will be assumed to continue at the same rate for the duration of the project as it has up to when the current data was entered. However, traffic and activity could fluctuate; for example, a campaign could see a spurt of activity early on and then level off, while some websites have seasonal fluctuations. This is not factored into this simplified ROI prognosis calculation.

Behind the Calculator

The intention of the calculator is to help project managers, designers and developers start thinking about and planning for revenue as early as possible in a website’s lifecycle. By planning and setting goals, we are better able to evaluate how we work. If a website is costing a lot of money and eating up a lot of resources, then terminating the project and spending the resources elsewhere might be best.

Please share you feedback so that I can continue to improve the calculator.

(al)

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Werde zu einem “muuver”. Eine neue Idee macht die Runde. Anstelle des üblichen Like Buttons bietet “muuver” den like/dislike Button für alles an. Nicht nur für Webseiten, Statusmeldungen, Restaurants ect.,  sondern auch für Meinungen, Orte, Bilder ect. Soweit nichts neues. Der Gedanke hinter “muuver” ist die Vernetzung derer, die die gleichen “Dinge”, Orte ect mögen oder nicht mögen. Denn, so der Gedanke von “muuver” wenn sich viele mit gleichen Interessen zusammenschliesen, dann können diese Menschen Ihre Welt verändern. Getreu dem Motto, gemeinsam sind wir stark. Ich denke ich bin dabei.

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Es lassen sich mit dieser Suche Zusammenhänge zu den Hash-Tags herausfinden und man findet Hash-Tags heraus, die zu einem speziellen Thema eventuell ebenso zu beachten sind. In meinen Augen, ein nützliches Twitter-Tool.

  

Whether you’re using WordPress as a CMS, a blog or somewhere between the two, as a portfolio site, making sure your site runs quickly is absolutely paramount in this day and age. This article and screencast combo takes you through how to use a variety of tips, tricks and techniques in order to make your WordPress powered site load faster.

Contents

• Introduction
• Premium Themes Vs Custom Themes
• Optimising Images
• The 30%, 30kb Rule
• Using CSS Sprites
• Removing Database Heavy Plugins
• Caching Plugins Compared
• Setting Up W3 Total Cache
• Using a CDN
• Setting Up WordPress To Utilise A CDN
• Wrapping Up

Introduction

Since last year, page load speed has been included in Google’s ranking algorithm. Thus, it’s become absolutely vital that your site, regardless of its usage, loads as fast as possible.

The first thing we’re going to do is test load speeds to see what point we’re starting from. I’ve taken two sites — my fairly heavily optimised WPShout and my friend Marco’s blog, which runs a normal premium theme from ThemeForest.

We’ll be using a tool called Pingdom throughout this article in order to test the speed of our site.

To start with, we’ll compare the two sites — the fairly heavily optimised WPShout and Marco’s blog, a normal WordPress blog running a premium theme.

• Clearly, WPShout loads far faster than Marco’s blog and there are a number of reasons for this:
• Fewer files: WPShout loads with only a handful of CSS, Javascript and image files whereas Marco’s blog has a lot of CSS, Javascript and then a load more images added on top. We’ll cover optimising images later
• Faster files: WPShout is using a Content Delivery Network, or CDN in order to deliver the files faster. More on this, later.
• Cached files: you’ll note that images don’t show up as being downloaded again. This is because files which aren’t changed regularly are stored locally and so don’t need to be downloaded again. We get to caching later.
• Custom theme: WPShout runs a custom theme, whereas Marco’s blog runs an out-the-box premium theme. The pros and cons of each method are weighed up in the next section.

Premium Themes vs. Custom Themes

It’s obvious, but I’ll say it regardless: an out-the-box theme, free or paid, won’t get anywhere near the performance of a well made custom theme. Even premium themes from some of the largest marketplaces have horrendous performance.

However, help is at hand!

We can using something called a caching plugin in order to save a copy of your site and then show that when people visit, thus circumnavigating the problem of out-the-box themes using up a lot of resources.

Imagine you had a written document and wanted to give copies to everyone who visited. At the moment, you have to write it all out by hand, but if you use a photocopier, you just need to do the work once and give out copies!

A caching plugin is like the photocopier — it loads the page once and then distributes copies of the page to visitors, meaning the page loads faster as visitors don’t have to wait for the server to load the page — or for you to write out the document.

There are a number of caching plugins available and we’ll visit them later.

Optimising Images

• Images are likely to be the single biggest factor that slow down your site so are well worth taking the time to optimise!

If you’re running a blog or magazine style layout, unoptimised images are likely to be your downfall. A couple of years ago when I used my first WordPress powered magazine theme, I remember being astounded at how slowly the site loaded. The culprit, of course, was having huge file sizes for images.

The following screencast runs through ways of optimising your images.

The 30%, 30kb Rule

I use something we’ll call the 30%, 30kb rule. Images should be at 30% quality and/or no more than 30kb large. Whilst images containing text might need to be larger, as a general rule it works well in keeping file sizes down. Of course, you also need to make sure images are no wider than your post’s content area.

Using CSS Sprites

• CSS Sprites let you combine what would have otherwise been multiple images — and multiple downloads — into a single file.

We can also use image sprites in order to combine multiple images into a single file. Chris Coyier has an excellent post on CSS-Tricks explaining “what they are, why they’re cool and how to use them”.

The graphic above shows the image that forms the CSS Sprite for WPShout. The top row is icons and social media buttons and the two rows below are the logo and hover state for the logo which show up on the coloured background on the site (I’ve added in a background here but on the site the sprite is a transparent PNG). Instead of five files at 100kb, I’ve got one file at just under 20kb. The savings are obvious so there’s no reason not to try out sprites on your site.

A great tool for quickly making a sprite is “SpriteMe”, a bookmarklet you can just click and it does all the work for you! This is a great way of avoiding getting stuck into CSS if you’re not too confident with them.

Further Image Optimisation

You can go further with your image optimisation, though. Yahoo has a service called “Smush.it” which takes your images and optimises them, keeping the same quality but lowering the filesize.

It would be a pain to individually optimise each image so thankfully there’s an excellent free plugin called “WP Smush.it” which automatically runs all your images through Smush.it when you add them to a post or page.

Remove Database Heavy Plugins

• Lots of plugins dosn’t necessarily mean your blog will load slowly, but one may lead to the other.
• Plugins which make lots of database queries aren’t a problem if you use a caching plugin.

It’s a common myth that having lots of plugins = your site loads slowly. One doesn’t necessarily imply the other, but often the two are linked, hence the myth.

It is true, though, that having a lot of plugins can both be a security risk and just a pain when upgrading to new versions of WordPress (you’ll have to check they’re all compatible with the latest version). It’s easy to get carried away installing plugins that do jobs you think you might need, but it’s considered good practice to keep the number below ten.

Jeff Starr ran a very interesting poll on Digging into WordPress a couple of years ago which is still relevant today. Just about two thirds of respondents used up to ten plugins, with only ten percent using more than twenty. Those who used a lot of plugins ran with the argument that their plugins didn’t hinder their site’s performance so using them was fine. Whilst this is true in the majority of cases, this isn’t necessarily always true.

The first plugins to reconsider using are ones which add Javascript. Load your homepage and then view source. In the section, look for Javascript and see if you can find any plugins. If you can, it’s time to reconsider whether you really need that plugin as it’s adding to the load time of every single page.

However, the big culprits are plugins which use the database a lot. Joost De Valk has a post, explaining how you can use the Debug Queries plugin in order to work out which plugins are causing your server a lot of work. In Joost’s case, it was the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin that was causing the problems. I’m using the same plugin on WPShout but decided to keep it as it’s so powerful and so any performance lost can be justified by extra user experience gained. Speed shouldn’t be the only factor you consider when deciding whether to keep plugins or not.

There is hope, though. You can create a cache using a caching plugin in order to save a copy of your page — and thus database queries.

Caching Plugins Compared

And now for the big one: caching plugins! These will give you by far the biggest performance boost but there are lots of plugins to choose from so it’s vital some time is spent comparing the performance of each on your site.

Whilst there are a good number of plugins available, there are a couple of main ones:

• W3 Total Cache
• WP-Cache
• WP Super Cache
• Hyper Cache
• DB Cache

I switched to W3 Total Cache from WP Super Cache about a year ago after testing out various options and it’s been absolutely fantastic. That said, it’s not necessarily fastest on your site so it’s important you try out a couple and compare the results. Tutorial9 has a really good post comparing the different plugins available, but I must stress it varies from site to site which ones work best. However, I’ve found W3 Total Cache to be consistently fast on various set-ups so we’ll explore how to use it here.

Setting Up W3 Total Cache

Installing such a complicated plugin is surprisingly easy. Total Cache installs like most other plugins — under the plugins tab, do a search for W3 Total Cache and it’ll show up as the first result. Click “install now” and then activate the plugin.

However, the plugin isn’t set up yet! You’ll see a new tab on your admin bar “Performance”. Open this up.

Total Cache does some impressive detective work and gives you some recommend settings. It’s now just a case of going through all the settings, activating each one and seeing what performance boost each option gives you. Some may decrease performance so it’s vital you test.

Total Cache has some excellent documentation built in — select the various options under the Help tab. The FAQ is brilliant at going through more or less every single question you could possible have and answering it clearly.

However, there may be some extra set up required. You might get some messages popping up at the top of the page telling you you need to add some code to a file called .htaccess. .htaccess is a file which allows you to locally configure your Apache settings, and thus is impressively powerful. To access it you’ll need to log into your site’s FTP and then navigate to the root. If you then can’t see it, show hidden files.

Download it (again, show hidden files), make a copy as a backup and then load it in your text editor. Add the lines of code to the bottom of the file, upload again and you’re done! Make sure you try loading your site immediately to check it still works. If it doesn’t, check you’ve copied all the code exactly and you haven’t deleted any other code in the file.

And you’re done! Total Cache is set up!

Using a CDN

“A CDN can increase a website’s performance by serving items from the closest possible location to the visitor.

For example, let’s say that you have a web server in Los Angeles. A visitor from the United Kingdom wouldn’t get the best possible performance, because images and other content would go through many “hops” and a lot of distance to get across the USA and the Atlantic Ocean.

With CDN, those items would be served from a location much closer to the visitor, e.g., Amsterdam. The web server would still provide the pages, but images and other larger items would be served from the CDN.”

Mark Bailey, WPCDN

Essentially, a CDN, or content delivery network, takes all your static files you’ve got on your site (CSS, Javascript and images etc) and lets visitors download them as fast as possible by serving the files on servers as close to them as possible.

CDNs used to be for the elite, but in the last 18 months have become available to the masses and are now something I thoroughly recommend to anyone and everyone. The first thing you need to do is to find a CDN provider!
CDNs to consider

I use WPCDN on my sites and I’ve been very pleased with it, but by no means are they the only CDN providers! There are a fair few, but these are ones I’ve been personally recommended by others or use myself:

• Akamai
• Free CDN (this is, obviously, free, but I’ve had no experience with it; you may very well get what you pay for)
• Google! You can let Google host your jQuery/Javascript libraries for you on their CDN
• MaxCDN
• WPCDN

It’s certainly worth looking and shopping around to get the best deal, and most importantly, test out various provider’s speeds!

Once you’ve chosen a provider, setting it up is blissfully easy.

Setting Up WordPress to Run a CDN

If, as I suggested, you’re running W3 Total Cache, setting up your site to utilise a CDN is really easy. Go to the CDN tab and then tick the boxes you want and simply fill out the Configuration section with details provided by your CDN provider.

If you’re not running W3 Total Cache, a plugin such as My CDN will also do the trick.

Wrapping Up

Hopefully this article has been valuable in giving you some tips on how to run your WordPress site faster. I can’t stress enough how important a fast loading site is in this day and age. If your site hasn’t loaded within three seconds, a good chunk of your search engine traffic will have left and gone onto the next search result. Not only will having a faster site get you more visitors, but it’ll also help you rank higher as Google now takes site speed into account in its search algorithm.

(rb)

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BImage Studio is a free image editor that allows users to edit various types of images and photographs. This free image editing software is handy for users that like to use drag and drop functions on a computer. This makes image editing very intuitive, and makes it a good free photo editor too..

ImageForge

ImageForge provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more..