Floating Hints

Technically, I have no idea what they’re called exactly. However, I do recognize them as floating hints and probably tooltips. If you haven’t seen what they look like, then you probably haven’t visited Edrei’s Footsteps in the Mirror blog.

What I like about these things is they are a great help for those who are too worried of clicking on some links. There have been surveys done where a user asks, if I clicked or submitted my information then how am I suppose to know where would it go? In comes the solution..DOM tooltips.

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Planet MY (Malaysia) Review

In the local scene today there are a number of emerging networks, aggregators, blogs and ever growing number of authors who are aiming to steal the limelight from the more popular. Nowadays if you’d like to have a popular face in the tech section of the newspapers, just start a blog and make sure you spam them to visit your weblog.

Nah, just kidding. You might be able to pull it off but I’m not supporting it. The best method for these authors who want their websites to reach an average of 100,000 views or unique visits per day need to invest their time in alternate methods. Such as submitting and joining to aggregators or networks that constitute to Web 2.0 – supposedly people empowered.

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