web development

Import hotmail, outlook contacts with Javascript using Windows Live Contact API

In this tutorial I will show you a practical example of web development: how to import hotmail, outlook, live contacts to your web project, using a client-side method (javascript).

The response data will come in javascript, but you can easily pass it to php with an ajax function.

Note: If you don’t have a  live.com account (oulook, hotmail, live), you can create it here : https://www.live.com

Considerations On Effective and Optimal Landing Page Optimization – Curated News (9)

Why is landing page optimization important?

Getting organic traffic, which seems to be the largest driver of revenue in most sectors, according to Search Engine Watch (this is true also for our online marketing and SEO projects) is just a part of the optimization strategy.

Import Google contacts with PHP or Javascript using Google Contacts API and OAUTH 2.0

Inviting friends to a web application is a key factor to gain more users and traffic.

In this article we will try to give a practical, step by step web development example on how you can easily import google contacts to your web application, because even if google offers an api documentation, it’s always hard to find an example that is not out-dated,  that fits in your app without having headaches and losing precious time.

This tutorial will offer examples for Server Side application (php) but also for Client Side application (javascript). We will use OAUTH 2.0 authentication and Google Contacts API version 3.0.

Awesome Free Tools & Paid Tools for your Business – Curated News (4)

Tools matter a lot when we talk about projects in online marketing, web design and web development. Either we talk about tools as plugins, websites, editors, software programes, apps, I guess we all use at least one tool. Tools are important because they can help us achieve our goals.

On the other hand, tools cannot replace your knowledge, experience or skills and we always welcome (new) tools to help us do our best work. Put in 2 words, these tools can enhance your efectiveness and efficiency and they are used with a specific purpose. Tools can help you solve different problems instead of just guessing which these problems are (think at the tools that reveal certain test hypothesis in A/B user testing)

That’s why we would like to present you a curated list of tools that we use, like and think might help you as well in your online projects. Hopefully, they will help you achieve the goals for your business.

Online Marketing, Web Design, Web Development – Worldwide conferences May-August 2015

Conferences in Online Marketing, Web Design, Web Development, which we recommend you to folllow in the next months (May-August). Here you can see the list of previous events we followed and that took place from January-April. If you haven’t read them already, here are the keynotes of the events from February. Take a look at a little recap from the conferences that took place in March (the ones from April will come soon).