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Comité de sélection Femmes Entrepreneures : lancement de la seconde édition !

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Après le succès de la première promotion, Le Village by CA Paris, Microsoft France et SAP  lancent aujourd’hui un nouvel appel à candidatures auprès des femmes entrepreneures.  
Cet appel est ouvert jusqu’au 7 février 2021 

Paris, le 11 janvier 2021 – Le Village by CA Paris, accélérateur de startups qui accompagne les grands groupes/ETI vers le futur de leurs industries, lance un appel à candidatures pour sa seconde édition du comité de sélection dédié aux femmes entrepreneures en partenariat avec Microsoft France via son programme Microsoft for Startups et SAP via son programme SAP.iO No Boundaries. Cet appel est soutenu par plusieurs réseaux féminins :  Professional Women’s Network Paris, #JamaisSansElles, Willa, et d’autres se joindront encore à l’initiative.

La promotion 2019 avait permis d’accélérer des entreprises telles que FinWedge, Les Petits Prödiges ou encore Pandobac.

Un appel à candidatures du 11 janvier au 7 février 2021

L’appel à candidatures débute ce jour et se terminera le 7 février 2021 à minuit. Par la suite, une quinzaine de startups seront pré-selectionnées puis invitées à pitcher devant un comité de sélection composé d’une trentaine de grandes entreprises. Par la suite, une Pitch Party sera organisée au Village by CA Paris, afin de présenter les startups lauréates devant des investisseurs et potentiels clients. Cet appel à candidatures s’adresse à toute entreprise à caractère innovant de moins de 3 ans portée par au moins une femme dont le produit ou la solution est finalisée ou en début de commercialisation.

Un programme d’accompagnement global à la clé

Les startups lauréates intégreront le Village by CA Paris pendant 2 ans (moyennant un loyer) et bénéficieront de programmes complémentaires offerts par Microsoft et SAP.

L’intégration au Village by CA parisien comprend des mises en relation d’affaires ciblées avec des entreprises privées et des acteurs publics, deux ans d’hébergement, un accompagnement personnalisé par l’équipe du Village et des experts (juridiques, comptables, RH…), des Masterclass, des conférences d’entrepreneurs à succès, une mise à disposition d’espaces communs, un accès à la réservation d’espaces événementiels, de la visibilité sur les réseaux du Village et une assistance administrative.

Programme Microsoft 

Microsoft intègre les startups au cœur de sa proposition de valeur et leur propose un accompagnement adapté à leurs besoins à travers le programme Microsoft for Startups. Son objectif est d’aider les startups à grandir, créer et étendre leur réseau en les accompagnant dans une démarche de partenariat.

Ce programme accorde jusqu’à 120 000 dollars de crédits cloud Azure, un accompagnement technique, de la visibilité, mais aussi et surtout l’opportunité d’un véritable partenariat avec Microsoft pour profiter de son écosystème et ainsi toucher de nouveaux clients et de nouveaux marchés. Il s’agit pour Microsoft de mettre la puissance de son écosystème de partenaires et de clients au service du développement des startups.

Plus d’informations sur le programme Microsoft for Startups Microsoft for Startups en France | Microsoft experiences

Programme SAP 

SAP a lancé SAP.iO en 2017 pour aider les startups innovantes internes et externes à SAP à développer de nouveaux produits, trouver des clients et à impacter le marché. Cette activité du Groupe s’est déployée progressivement en France au travers d’un Fonds d’investissement (SAP.iO Fund) et d’un accélérateur de startups externes (SAP.iO Foundry Paris) et d’un incubateur de startups internes (SAP.iO Venture).

En février 2019, SAP lançait SAP.iO No Boundaries pour financer et accompagner plus de 200 startups dirigées par des femmes et issues de la diversité au cours des 5 prochaines années. Via ce programme et son partenariat avec Village by CA Paris, SAP s’engage à accompagner les startuppeuses durant leur 2 ans d’accélération au Village by CA Paris et à leur faire bénéficier de son expérience dans l’accélération de jeunes pousses au travers d’actions : de coaching individuel et collectif, de travail sur les business plans ainsi que la mise en place de Masterclasses sur des thématiques variées.

Retour sur la première année d’accélération de la promotion Femmes Entrepreneures 2019

13 startups avaient été sélectionnées pour faire partie de la promotion 2019, dont Adaptia, Les Petits Prödiges, Effency, Pandobac ou encore Levia. En un an, plusieurs d’entre elles ont augmenté leur chiffre d’affaires et recruté leurs premiers collaborateurs. Elles ont été mises en relation avec des mentors, des experts ou des investisseurs et ont pu rencontrer les collaborateurs de SAP et Microsoft.

Une volonté d’aider les femmes à entreprendre 

« Après le succès de la première édition l’année en 2020, nous sommes très heureux de lancer un nouveau comité de sélection dédié aux femmes entrepreneures avec nos partenaires Microsoft et SAP, soutenus à nouveau par les réseaux féminins. Ce comité de sélection s’inscrit dans la charte SISTA que Le Village by CA Paris a signé en octobre dernier pour plus de mixité dans les structures d’accompagnement de startups. »  déclare Fabrice Marsella, directeur du Village by CA Paris.

« Engagé depuis de nombreuses années en faveur de la féminisation du secteur du numérique, en 2021 Microsoft multiplie les actions pour promouvoir l’entrepreneuriat féminin au service d’une innovation durable. Après la création de notre prix partenaires Microsoft pour les entrepreneures rôles modèles qui aura lieu en juin, nous sommes fiers de nous associer à nouveau aux côtés de nos partenaires Village by CA Paris et SAP.IO pour la seconde édition de « Femmes Entrepreneures ». Grâce au programme Microsoft for Startups, ces entrepreneures bénéficieront d’un accompagnement sur mesure et de la puissance de notre écosystème pour se développer sur le marché. », commente Agnès Van De Walle, Directrice de l’entité Partenaires et Startups de Microsoft France.

 « SAP a à cœur de soutenir l’entreprenariat divers et inclusif, notamment au travers de son initiative SAP.iO No Boundaries. Il est de notre responsabilité d’encourager et de soutenir ceux et celles qui ont un accès plus compliqué aux financement, aux réseaux.  C’est pour cette raison que nous avons décidé de soutenir pour la 2ème année l’initiative Village by CA ‘Promotion Femmes Entrepreneures’, explique Sébastien Gibier, Directeur SAP.iO Foundry Paris.

Les dates clés à retenir :

  • 7 février 2021 : clôture de l’appel à candidatures
  • 5 mars : comité de sélection
  • Date à venir : Pitch Party de présentation des startups lauréates

Lien pour candidater : cliquez ici  

A propos du Village by CA

Fondé par le Crédit Agricole en 2014, le Village by CA est un écosystème créateur de valeur et un accélérateur de startups qui soutient des projets à fort potentiel. Le premier Village a vu le jour à Paris en 2014 et le réseau compte désormais 36 Villages partout en France (Lille, Bordeaux, Orléans, Caen, St-Brieuc, Nantes, Paris, Lyon, Toulouse…) au Luxembourg et en Italie à Milan. Le Village dispose de relais dans des villes majeures dans le monde (Londres, New York, Moscou, Shanghai, Séoul, Tokyo, Singapour…) afin d’aider les startups dans leur développement à l’international. Situé au cœur des régions, les startups de chaque Village by CA évoluent dans un écosystème d’innovation fort d’une multitude de partenaires privés et publics.

A propos de Microsoft 

Leader des plateformes et des services de productivité, Microsoft donne à chaque individu et chaque organisation les moyens de réaliser ses ambitions, dans un monde fondé sur le Cloud et la mobilité. Au cœur de l’écosystème numérique français depuis plus de 30 ans, Microsoft France, présidée par Carlo Purassanta depuis septembre 2017, rassemble plus de 1 600 collaborateurs au sein de son Campus d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, sous le signe de l’ouverture, de la créativité et de la collaboration. Avec un tissu de plus de 10 500 partenaires business, technologiques, acteurs du secteur public, chercheurs ou start-ups, acteur responsable, Microsoft France s’engage en faveur de l’égalité des chances et de l’éducation au numérique aux côtés des associations sur l’ensemble du territoire.

A propos de SAP

La stratégie de SAP vise à aider chaque organisation à fonctionner en “entreprise intelligente”. En tant que leader du marché des logiciels d’application d’entreprise, nous aidons les entreprises de toutes tailles et de tous secteurs à opérer au mieux : 77 % des transactions commerciales mondiales entrent en contact avec un système SAP®. Nos technologies de Machine Learning, d’Internet des objets (IoT) et d’analytique avancées aident nos clients à transformer leurs activités en “entreprises intelligentes”. SAP permet aux personnes et aux organisations d’avoir une vision approfondie de leur business et favorise la collaboration afin qu’elles puissent garder une longueur d’avance sur leurs concurrents. Nous simplifions la technologie afin que les entreprises puissent utiliser nos logiciels comme elles le souhaitent – sans interruption. Notre suite d’applications et de services de bout en bout permet aux clients privés et publics de 25 secteurs d’activité dans le monde de fonctionner de manière rentable, de s’adapter en permanence et de faire la différence. Avec son réseau mondial de clients, partenaires, employés et leaders d’opinion, SAP aide le monde à mieux fonctionner et à améliorer la vie de chacun. Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site www.sap.com .

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4 Predictions for the Web in 2021

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The start of the year is always a good time to reassess priorities and consider new approaches, but 2021 is more of a reset than we expected this time last year. 2020 is unlikely to go down in anyone’s autobiography as the best year of their life, but it has done something positive: it’s prepared the ground for rapid change in the next 12 months.

More than any other year in our lifetimes, 2021 is set to be revolutionary, with emerging trends that will last well into the new decade. Here’s what we think you can look forward to around the next corner.

1. The End of Minimalism

Minimalism has been the de facto approach to web design for the last decade because it works.

But design reflects the zeitgeist. Where minimalism once felt clean and fresh, it’s starting to feel dull and uninspired. There have been a few false-starts breaking out of the long-term trend, but thanks to the pandemic, 2021 will be the year minimalism finally folds — at least for a while.

Prior to coronavirus-mandated lockdowns worldwide, there were already signs of a more vibrant, more decorative, more joyful approach to design. Simple typefaces have been replaced with more decorative examples — faces that use ink-traps to fake 3D effects are surprisingly popular.

trends are cyclical, and the wheel always turns

One of the biggest aspects of this blossoming trend is the move away from Material Design-style flat color not just to gradients but to multi-color gradients and even animated gradients. Even Apple, the last bastion of the clean white-box approach, jumped on the gradient bandwagon with its Big Sur branding.

One of the few things COVID-19 hasn’t slowed is the adoption of new web technology, and CSS, in particular, has had some major developments in the last year. CSS Grid is now a practical technology, and our ability to code standards-compliant designs that aren’t dependent on hierarchical boxes is greatly enhanced.

After more than a year of pretty grim news for most people, much of the world will be vaccinated over the next twelve months, and life will rapidly return to normal. The last global crisis on this scale was the 1918 influenza pandemic, and it led directly to the decade known as the Roaring Twenties.

Minimalism was already dipping in popularity — trends are cyclical, and the wheel always turns — but lockdown, or perhaps more precisely the end of lockdown, is the catalyst for significant change.

2. The Decline of WordPress

In Autumn 2020, something entirely unexpected happened: The W3C announced the platform its new web presence would be built on, and WordPress — the previous choice of the web’s steering committee — didn’t even make the list of finalists.

Due to accessibility concerns, the W3C development team opted to migrate away from WordPress to Craft CMS. The decision was met with a mixture of glee and outrage. But whether you agree with the decision or not, it’s hard to see it as anything other than yet another symptom of WordPress’ decline.

WordPress faces a triple threat: there are web builders that do an adequate job for low-end web projects; there are newer rivals like Craft that outperform WordPress as a CMS; there’s a growing interest in alternate approaches, like Jamstack.

So will it all be over for WordPress in 2021? Not even close. There are myriad reasons WordPress will continue to be the choice of designers and developers for years to come. Tens of thousands of professionals worldwide have invested their whole careers in WordPress; there are millions of themes, plugins, templates, and build processes that are tightly woven into the WordPress ecosystem. What’s more, there are millions of sites with substantial content archives powered by WordPress [WebDesignerDepot is one such site].

WordPress reportedly powers approximately 37% of the web, and it will still be the dominant CMS in 2022. But it’s unlikely to grow beyond that 37%, and by 2030 its market share will be in rapid contraction.

2020 was the high-tide mark for WordPress

But for all its faults — and it’s undeniable that WordPress is full of faults — WordPress is the best of the web; it has given a voice to millions of people, launched countless careers, and empowered entrepreneurship worldwide.

2020 was the high-tide mark for WordPress, but it’s not an extinction-level event — even the much-maligned Flash, which was killed dead in a matter of months by the first generation iPhone, limped on until a few weeks ago.

WordPress will have to find a niche and accept a smaller market share; in doing so, it will address the single biggest complaint that anyone has about WordPress: that it’s trying to do too much.

WordPress is one of the great success stories of the web. In a decade, it may have to settle for powering just 10% of the web — a level of failure most of its rivals can only dream of.

3. The Digital Currency Explosion

2021 is undoubtedly the year that cryptocurrency goes mainstream. In 2020 Bitcoin grew by almost 400%; currently valued at around $35k, conservative predictions for a December 2021 valuation are $100k, with five-year predictions as high as $1m. And Bitcoin isn’t the only cryptocurrency; the value of developer-friendly Ether has jumped by more than 50% in the first few weeks of 2021.

In the US, the incoming Biden administration is preparing a multi-trillion dollar relief package, which many believe young Americans will invest in cryptocurrency. Perhaps more importantly, large investment banks are now pumping hundreds of millions in digital currencies. PayPal and Visa are both in the advanced stages of adopting blockchain technology.

The biggest threat to the new digital economy is the volatility of cryptocurrency. You cannot price services in XRP if XRP’s dollar price could crash at any time — as it did a few weeks ago.

And so there are two routes in which this trend will unfold for ecommerce. Either pricing will remain in dollars, and the equivalent price in various cryptocurrencies will be calculated in real-time. Or, transactions will make use of stablecoins like Tether that are tied to the value of the US dollar.

Cryptocurrency is the latest gold-rush, and whether you think it’s the chance of a lifetime or yet another Ponzi scheme, it will become increasingly high-profile in ecommerce throughout 2021.

4. No More Video Calls and also More Video Calls

2020 was the year of Zoom. Its growth from bit-player to overtaking Skype is a material lesson for entrepreneurs that every obstacle is an opportunity.

every obstacle is an opportunity

Over the last year, we’ve discovered two things: meetings are more creative in person, and office costs are significantly reduced when staff work remotely.

There’s going to be a shift in the business landscape this year. Remote working will continue to be normal for years to come as businesses enjoy rent savings. Video calls will still be common for quick update meetings. But expect to travel to physical meeting places periodically for in-depth strategic planning.

Expect to see major cities with deserted office buildings and a rapid expansion of co-working spaces, especially those with meeting spaces — if WeWork can hold on a little longer, there may be light at the end of the tunnel.

As a web professional, you’re in a unique position to thrive in the new business world, even more so if you’re a freelancer. Remember, if you’re working onsite, be mindful of your physical health, and if you’re working remotely, be mindful of your mental health.

What Do You Think?

No one saw 2020 coming. Sometimes world events are outwith our control, and we have to hang on and hope it gets better. It’s been a tough 12 months, and the truth is we’re not through it yet.

But the 2020 coronavirus pandemic is the first pandemic in human history that we’ve had the technology to shorten.

2021 offers the opportunity for enormous change. Will designers look for new, more decorative approaches? Will we replace our technology stack? Will you be billing clients in Ether this year? Will you suffer the misery of a packed evening commute ever again?

 

 

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How CentOS Became 2020’s Final Victim

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If you were paying close attention to your IT department around the 8th of December, you might have heard some quiet sobbing and the occasional wail of, “Why? Why?! WHY?!” Now, it was the year 2020, so this might have seemed normal to you, but it’s actually something of a problem that could affect your business: CentOS is pretty much dead.

For the non-total-nerds among us, here’s the skinny: CentOS is a Linux-based operating system, typically used on servers. CentOS has been incredibly popular, and quite a few businesses run on it. But now, that’s changing.

CentOS is a Linux-based operating system, typically used on servers…But now, that’s changing

CentOS used to be released in thoroughly tested versions, the latest being CentOS 8. CentOS 8 was released in September of 2019 and was supposed to be supported for ten years. Now, it’s been decided that CentOS will no longer have versioned releases, opting for a rolling-release style of updates. That means there’ll be one version that constantly gets new software.

That’s cool in theory, but it means the operating system will be less stable overall. Essentially, it’s going to be used as a development branch of / testing ground for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is no longer its own OS. If you have CentOS-based servers, you should migrate to another OS sooner rather than later.

And I just got my own CentOS-based VPS set up the way I wanted it.

Wait, What Does Red Hat Have To Do With This?

Here’s the short, short version of the history of CentOS: Red Hat (an OS developer) has two Linux distributions of its own and has had for a long time. There’s the free and community-focused Fedora and the business-focused highly expensive Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AKA RHEL).

Funny story: RHEL, despite its expensive licenses, is still mostly made from open source code, which anyone can access and use. And it’s a good OS, particularly for people who like stability.

In 2004, some smart people took all the open-source parts of RHEL and made a brand new, nearly identical operating system with it: the Community Enterprise Operating System, or CentOS. Basically, people could download and use an enterprise-level server OS for free. All the documentation for RHEL was compatible, and you could get support from the community.

It was the perfect alternative for anyone who didn’t have the budget for expensive software licenses.

In 2014, Red Hat offered to partner with the CentOS community. The idea was basically this: “It’s pretty much the same software. If our company and your community work together, both our products will be better! We make our money from enterprise customers, anyway.”

Most importantly, with Red Hat doing a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of updates and support, the CentOS community could focus on growing in other ways.

Red Hat pinky swore [citation needed] that they were in this for the long haul, and CentOS did continue to flourish. You know, until 2020.

Well, So Much For Pinky Swearing

Red Hat must have eventually decided that having a popular free version of its own enterprise software and managing it themselves no less — wasn’t that good for business. So they all but shut the project down.

Well, technically, they just changed how it operated. Instead of producing tested, production-ready versions, CentOS is merely a testing ground for RHEL. It is no longer, in my opinion, a good option for anyone who wants to run a stable server.

Current and Future CentOS Alternatives

So if you jumped on the CentOS 8 bandwagon, what should you put on your physical and virtual servers now? Well, you’ve got options.

Debian / Ubuntu

For those who don’t mind going to a very different kind of Linux, Debian has been the picture of OS stability and sysadmin-friendliness for a long time. If you want more frequent software updates, the Debian-based Ubuntu Server is popular and pretty good.

Oracle Linux

Yes, that Oracle has a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution of its own. But it’s not a clone, exactly. I mean, this is Oracle. It’s set up to use their tools and ecosystem, so I hope you like Oracle products. But hey, the OS itself is free!

ClearOS

ClearOS is another RHEL-compatible OS that’s mostly doing its own thing, though I’m not entirely sure what that thing is. Does the company have some deal with Hewlett-Packard? Anyway, they do have a free community edition and paid editions for home and business use.

The CloudLinux RHEL Fork

This is an upcoming release from the makers of CloudLinuxOS. It looks like they intend to load the new RHEL-based OS with some of their own tools, such as reboot-less server update tech. The first release is intended to be a more or less drop-in replacement for CentOS 8.

Rocky Linux

So the community that made and loved CentOS in the first place is, to say the least, ticked. They are so ticked that Greg Kurtzer (a co-founder of CentOS) has decided to do it all over again by making Rocky Linux and keep it in the community this time.

Again, the goal is to make a re-build of RHEL, a drop-in replacement for CentOS (at least for now). Eventually, the goal is to migrate from CentOS to Rocky Linux as easy as using a single, one-line command. The ETA for initial release isn’t quite set in stone, but I can personally vouch for how hard the community is working.

[See, full disclosure here… after writing this article, I joined the Rocky Linux documentation team.]

So Yeah, You Have Options

Some are out now, and others will be soon. Again, CentOS 8 will be supported until the end of 2021. CentOS 7, weirdly, will be supported until June 2024.

Migration shouldn’t be too complicated. Still, a pain in the rear that we have to do this at all, though.

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How to Choose a Bare Metal Server From OVHcloud

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There are dozens of factors that influence the UX of your site, app, or game. Most of them are beyond your control; user connection speed, end-system resources, even browser technology is all out of your hands. So when you do have the opportunity to influence your project’s infrastructure, you should seize it.

The world’s fastest muscle car can’t perform at its best when traffic is gridlocked bumper to bumper; likewise, the most finely tuned website can’t meet its potential running on shared hosting.

If you want your website, application, or service to run quickly and securely, maximizing both UX and SEO, then you need to look at the bare metal servers from OVHcloud.

Bare Metal Performance

Bare metal (or dedicated) servers aren’t uncommon. Still, most hosts only offer a single type of server, expecting small startups to pay for resources at the same rate as global giants, which can make dedicated hosting prohibitively expensive.

OVHcloud is different; it offers a range of bare metal server products optimized for a wide variety of challenges. That means small startups can invest in fast, easily scalable solutions that meet the most demanding security requirements without breaking the bank.

Whatever your aims, there’s a different OVHcloud solution configured for you:

OVHcloud Rise

Rise is the perfect option for a website, or web app hosting. With its low entry-cost, Intel-powered performance, bundled DDoS protection, and simplified administration, Rise is the natural choice for your first step into bare metal servers.

OVHcloud Advance

To meet SMEs’ need for reliable infrastructure to run mission-critical applications, OVHcloud configured Advance. From in-house CRMs to web-facing SaaS products, Advance is a solid foundation upon which to build your business.

OVHcloud Storage

Storage is ideal for storing large amounts of data securely. Hosting data on standard servers is a colossal waste of resources; with OVHcloud’s Storage product you can host up to 504TB and seamlessly access it via a performance-tuned server.

OVHcloud Infrastructure

For large companies with thousands of employees, global non-profits, colleges, and even local governments, OVHcloud Infrastructure offers scalability and flexibility beyond the average dedicated server.

OVHcloud High-End

For web apps that are leveraging cutting edge technology like machine learning and big data, OVHcloud’s High-End product is a no-compromise custom solution, the humdinger of bare metal servers, with every conceivable option available.

OVHcloud Game

If you’re developing video games, then lightning-quick, reliable streaming servers are essential. OVHcloud’s Game product delivers the type of speed your customers demand, with massive performance gains over comparable bare metal servers.

How to Choose a Bare Metal Server

It’s easy to get bogged down in detail, especially if this is your first foray into bare metal servers.

But here’s the good news: every OVHcloud bare metal server is a massive boost in performance over shared web hosting. That’s because, with a dedicated server, all of the server’s resources are…dedicated; that is, you don’t have to share with anyone. Shared hosting is pot-luck: You might wind up on a server with thoughtful users who don’t eat up all the resources, and you might end up on a server with one selfish user who hogs the processes and compromises the security. With a bare metal server, that’s not an issue.

Choosing a bare metal server is a two-step process. The first step is to think about what you intend to use it for:

Are you going to store a lot of data? If so, think about OVHcloud’s Storage product. But a lot of data doesn’t mean a WordPress blog. Let’s say you’re a polling company, collating millions of records that you hope to analyze to predict political movement; that requires a lot of storage. On the other hand, all servers have some storage. OVHcloud’s Rise product comes with 500Gb and can be configured with more. So if you’re planning to host something the size of a blog, then OVHcloud’s Storage might be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

The second step is to ask how complex the operations you’re going to ask the server to perform will be:

Hitting up a database to retrieve some data is not a complex operation. Even something like a complex search isn’t too taxing. If that’s the kind of process you expect to perform, OVHcloud’s Rise is more than adequate. But if you’re manipulating large amounts of data, like resizing hundreds of raster images dynamically; or using facial recognition to search through millions of biometric data records; or even managing your advertising application serving millions of ads to sites across the web; in those cases, you need the sort of performance OVHcloud’s Infrastructure product delivers.

OVHcloud’s products are all scaleable. Its High-End bare metal server product is entirely customizable. Whatever you choose, and however your needs change over time, you can be confident you’re running the optimum server for your project.

Why Choose OVHcloud

There are a mind-boggling array of processors, and OS, and a seemingly infinite — and increasingly expensive — amount of hardware on offer on the web. OVHcloud radically simplifies running a bare metal server by delivering a range of popular packages, tailored for everyday uses, that are both customizable and scaleable.

What OVHcloud delivers is a clear choice, letting you choose the right server for your product.

Whether you need lighting fast response times to maximize your SEO or the space to store a digital archive of the world’s most important art, for reliability and choice, opt for OVHcloud bare metal servers.

 

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3 Essential Design Trends, January 2021

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Don’t drop the ball on these website design trends for the new year. All of the trends featured here this month are visual in nature – not as many user interface elements as previous months, but all just as stunning and usable.

Here’s what’s trending in design this month.

1. 3D Scenes on White (Light)

Three-dimensional scenes are not just a trend this month but are likely to be one of the biggest website design trends that you see all year.

They offer a great way to show off product imagery, design something with illustrations or animation for visual impact, and provide usability and understandability cues for users.

It’s a versatile technique that can work with real or created images and are also “COVID-friendly,” something designers have had to think a lot about in the past few months. (Appropriate imagery in design is a real concern, as is trying to design projects without the ability to produce traditional photoshoots.)

What’s neat about all of these projects – and plenty of others – is that they root the design in white or light backgrounds. The light effect creates an easier visual mood that’s clean and emphasizes the imagery.

This website design trend solves a lot of those problems and looks good doing it.

Google’s Cloud design uses 3D illustrated animation on a white background with plenty of depth elements. The primary color palette of illustrated objects pulls it all together and guides the eye through each of the callout labels.

The red words on the screen Crystal Pure fit perfectly with the white-on-white 3D imagery of this design. Red accents pull you into different places on the screen, and it all has a clean feel.

Hofmann & Hofmann uses the same concept with a slightly different approach. The background is still light with a realistic feel and 3D objects, but it is a lot less stark and white. The feel is a little warmer and more inviting than a flat white aesthetic.

 

 

2. So Many Stacked Capitals

If you don’t have great artwork or imagery, make your own with typography.

This trend seems like it might be yelling at you just a little, but it still works for the most part — well, as long as you don’t land on too many of these website designs in a row!

What’s interesting about this trend is that many of the designs feature all caps type and serifs. These styles have been making a bit of a comeback, but this use is interesting for many reasons.

The hardest part when using all caps is maintaining readability. That’s why you see some variances in regular, italics, and bold weights, as well as the use of multiple typefaces. The goal is to create a good reading flow with a stunning visual presence.

This trend works best when you have “easy” words on the screen to facilitate scanning. Too many long or complicated letter combinations can get challenging quickly.

Make sure to look for the Easter eggs in each of these projects:

Emotion Agency has tiny “waving” illustrations next to each word (which doubles as the navigation) when you hover over them.

Mill3 Studio has a few animations, from the text flying in and out on load and scroll to subtle movements in the emojis.

Bizarro has this fun little cat video with a tiny warning not to hover over it, but you definitely should.

 

 

3. Empty Places

The final trend in this roundup is a stark reminder of current times. Each of the website design features empty places or locations.

This style of imagery would have been avoided pre-pandemic because tourism locations would want visitors to feel like a part of a bustling environment. Not today. If you travel, chances are you may feel safer or want to be in a more secluded environment.

All of the images and videos from these locations show just that.

Designers are doing this with new stark imagery that stands alone for the design or inserting a few empty place frames into video clips or among images that show more populated times. Even scenes that contain people show very few people and focus on more solitary activities.

Paragon Oak does this by showing a beautifully lit location at night. Note that using a nighttime photo eliminates questions about where the people are or what they are doing. (This is a clever option when showing imagery of an empty place.)

Vienne to Paris shows boats on the water with a beautiful background. While you assume there are people on the water vessels; you don’t see them and get the feeling that everyone is separated in their own “pod,” a pandemic-friendly option for travel.

The Maryculter House shows various images without people – the resort’s location on beautiful grounds; empty, but immaculate rooms, and a few images of a person alone on the grounds. Again, the empty nature of the place feels more appropriately welcome for the time we live in.

 

 

 

Conclusion

One of the things that we’ve seen with design trends in the past year is pandemic-related. The composition of images to the way elements are arranged on the screen influences every aspect of our lives.

While the empty place image and video trend is big now, it may fade post-pandemic. Although, it could still be relevant for quite some time. It will be interesting to see what happens as the year progresses with this trend – will it hold on or fade away?

These trends might continue to hold well into 2021.

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Popular Design News of the Week: December 28, 2020 – January 3, 2021

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Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week.

10 Free Calendar 2021 Vectors

 

Free HTML/CSS Landing Page Templates Without JavaScript

 

Botsman – Free Platform to Develop, Test and Monitor Telegram Bots

 

Typography Principles

 

Top 10 Web Development Trends to Look Out for in 2021

 

Parametric Color Mixer

 

Add to Calendar Generator – Generate ‘Add to Calendar’ Buttons for your Website

 

What Designers Need to Know About Copyright Infringement

 

Lose the Very – “Very Good English” is not Very Good English. Lose the Very.

 

Linkish – All-in-one Bookmark Manager

 

Life of a Designer Through Funny Memes

 

APIs all the Way Down

 

Got Milk Font

 

14 Bootstrap Profiles

 

Big Review of Major UI Design Trends for Web and Mobile in 2020

 

How to Use Figma’s Inspect Panel

 

Reducing Motion in Animations

 

Dopely Colors – Free Color Palette Generator

 

How to Upload an HTML File to WordPress

 

Using Math in Photoshop

 

How to Set up your WFH Space for Creative Success in 2021

 

StackWhats – Add the WhatsApp Live Chat to your Website

 

How to Export a WordPress Site (Beginner’s Guide)

 

Podpage – Build a Podcast Website in Less than 5 Minutes

 

How to Paginate Data with PHP

 

Want more? No problem! Keep track of top design news from around the web with Webdesigner News.

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The Potential of AR in Web Design

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Over the years, experts have repeatedly discussed the possible impact of mixed realities on web design. Concepts like AR and VR are expected to have the potential to change the way that we interact with websites on a fundamental level.

Now that we’re in the year 2021, however, discussions about AR aren’t just observational anymore. The age of mixed-reality interfaces is here, in everything from Pokémon Go, to Snapchat filters.

The question is, how do web designers create incredible user experiences in a world where there are now multiple digital realities to consider?

The Benefits of Experimenting with AR

Before we look at some of the steps that web designers can take to enhance their projects with AR, it’s worth examining the benefits of interacting with augmented reality in the first place. 

While virtual reality replaces the typical world around us completely with digital components, AR augments it. This means that developers and designers need to learn how to thrive in an environment where the real world and the digital one work together. 

The most common AR application for website owners is to provide a solution for real-time and remote product visualization. Imagine being able to try on a pair of shoes before you buy them online. That’s a service that the Vyking brand can deliver by creating technology that “reinvents” the digital shopping experience. 

This test functionality plays a massive role in purchasing decisions. In a world where people can’t see a shade of make-up in person when they’re shopping online, or check how an item of furniture looks in their home, AR has a crucial role to play. 

In simple terms, AR helps shoppers to make more informed purchases. 

Here’s how you can use augmented reality to deliver incredible UX. 

1. Focus on Real-Time Feedback

Augmented reality is all about connecting the real world to the virtual world. 

Doing this provides users a unique experience – one that’s filled with real-time feedback that can deliver crucial and insightful information. For instance, an augmented reality system in a GPS app can calculate the average time before reaching a destination based on previous trips.

Another option is for an augmented reality to use solutions like face-mapping to help customers determine how a certain makeup product will look before they buy it. For instance, that’s the case for the Mary Kay Mirror Me app, which simplifies the process of shopping for make-up. 

When designing for AR, experts need to consider how they can provide customers with real-time information that they can use to make better purchasing decisions. 

2. Define input and output

Although you’ve probably performed similar exercises when designing for traditional websites and applications in the past, defining inputs and outputs of UX in AR environments can be tough.

Defining inputs and outputs allows you to determine which elements of an interface your user can actually interact with, in your interface. This gives you a better idea of what to “augment.” For instance, you might decide that physical gestures like a swipe of the hand will be essential for AR inputs. However, you’ll also need to consider how each mobile device offers different input possibilities. 

Outputs are a little simpler. For instance, you could offer a three-dimensional model of a product that your customers are interested in. Once you have that output, you can think about how the customer will interact with it by changing colors or position.

3. Embrace Customer-Friendly Performance

Another feature at the heart of AR applications is interactivity. 

Good designs in the augmented reality world need to be simple to access and use, otherwise customers will end up avoiding them. For instance, 60% of customers say they want to use AR when they’re shopping for furniture. However, they’re only going to use your app if it actually works. 

The Décor Matters website and app mix gamification with home decorating features that help customers get a better view of the home goods they’re planning on buying. The website even has inspiration pages available to help users find and try new design options with their AR technology. 

When designing for AR, think about how you can make your applications or technology as simple to use as possible, so customers actually want to interact with it. 

4. Address the Environment

In augmented and virtual reality applications, it’s important to remember that interfaces aren’t bound by physical screens. The viewport will move with the user, shifting perspectives in response. Most AR designers will use four different signifiers to describe AR environments:

  • Public environment: The entire body of the user is involved as a controller, like with the Xbox Kinect or Nintendo Wii;
  • Intimate environment: Where a user can be seated – often in a desktop environment;
  • Personal environment: AR on smartphones, mobile devices, and tablets, like Pokémon Go;
  • Private environments: Completely private spaces, such as with wearable technology like the Google Glass solution.

The environment that you’re designing for will be crucial for your project outcomes. Remember, spatial considerations need to be carefully considered when accounting for how users will interact with objects in a frame. 

5. Remember User Fatigue

Another thing to keep in mind when designing for AR technology is that user fatigue is likely to be a much more significant consideration. After all, people interact with websites and applications in a much more intimate and in-depth way when AR is involved. 

AR applications can often use the entire body of a customer as a controller. Because of this, designers need to be careful about exhausting interactions. High-effort and repetitive interactions could tire the user out mentally and physically, causing them to give up on the interaction. 

When designing, you’ll need to consider how you might over-stimulate the user with too many interaction-focused elements at once. Keep it simple.

6. Remember the Essential Principles of UX Design

Remember, just because you’re tapping into a relatively new technology doesn’t mean that you should abandon all the basic tenets of user experience design that you’ve come to understand over the years. Although UX is constantly evolving and changing, it’s always going to keep a few fundamental principles in mind. 

For instance, you’ll always strive to give users the best digital experience in exchange for the lowest amount of effort on their part. Additionally, you’ll need to think about how you can make end-users as comfortable as possible when they’re interacting with new types of technology on websites and apps. 

For instance, since AR is most commonly associated with gaming in the current environment, it might be a good idea to implement gamification concepts into your AR design. What can you do to make sure your customers are having fun?

For instance, Inkhunter is an app that allows users to try on tattoos just like using a filter on Snapchat. The experience feels familiar, comfortable, and exciting.

Unlocking the Potential of AR Web Design

Augmented Reality technology has come a long way over the years. Today, developers and designers can access simple plug-in tools like WordPress VR, allowing designers to upload 360-degree videos into WordPress sites and other unique web extensions. 

Augmented reality is becoming much more readily available on sites and apps of all shapes and sizes. Additionally, customers are accessing more ways to unlock AR’s power through everything from headsets to mobile interfaces. 

However, just like any new technology in the web design world, designers need to think carefully about how they will overcome the challenges in user experience that AR can present. For instance, though AR can offer more information for a customer and help them make purchasing decisions faster, there are also risks. For instance, add too many interactive features to a single website or application, and you could scare users off with too much information. 

In the short-term, web designers need to explore the new tools that are available to them and think about the customers they’re designing for. Only this way will we be able to make any considerable advances in the possibilities of AR. 

Are You Ready to Embrace AR?

Designing for augmented reality applications and websites can be an intimidating concept – even for seasoned designers. However, this is just another technology that creatives can use to drive better experiences for end-users. 

Learn how the latest technology works and get an insight into your customers’ needs, and you’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish in the AR world.

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Deal: The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations

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Google Fonts is one of the most useful tools designers have, with hundreds of amazing fonts provided for free. But if you just grab one of the top ten suggestions, you’re missing out on a vast wealth of typographic gems.

Just about every font on Google Fonts is worth trying out, but the very best designs — designs that engage, inspire, and delight — combine two or more fonts. It’s the same principle as sweet and sour; two competing tastes that are both familiar and surprising; that’s a good font combination.

But how do you pick out those flavors? How do you know what complements and what clashes? Does Inter work okay with Open Sans? Does Merriweather look good with Roboto?

Well, today we’ve got a deal for you that will answer those questions and more. Our sister site, MightDeals.com, has arranged an extraordinary discount on The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations. To date, it’s the single largest collection of Google font combinations ever produced.

Read on to find out how the PHBGFC will save you time, update your design choices, and keep you inspired throughout 2021 and beyond…

What’s Preposterous About the PHBGFC?

The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations is almost 8,000 pages long. If you use one of the suggested font combinations every week, it will take you 125 years to exhaust it.

We think you’ll agree that that’s a truly preposterous number of design options.

What Exactly is the PHBGFC?

When you visit Google Fonts, you see a nice clean interface, with some dropdowns. You can pick a font. And then maybe pick another. But there’s no real way of discovering, trying out or otherwise selecting font combinations.

The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations changes that by lining up all the possible combinations in an easy-to-browse package.

Step 1: Navigate to the index at the front of the book.

Step 2: Locate a font you’re interested in, in the index.

Step 3: Click the font name to navigate to the corresponding page in the book.

Step 4: Scroll back and forth through the pages to review the possible combinations for your font.

It’s that easy!

The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations lays out all the best Google Font combinations for you — every font included has a regular, bold, italic, and bold italic version — saving you days of hunting through the site hoping to hit upon a combination that works.

What If I Don’t Like the Suggestions?

The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations isn’t a set of rules or guidelines; it’s a tool to help you make the best design decisions you can make in the shortest possible time.

The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations purposefully doesn’t exclude any combinations — even ugly combinations are deliberately included — so you’re free to compare an unredacted list of font options.

Every design decision you take is yours, but instead of spending hours downloading, installing, and comparing prospective fonts, you can review a combination in seconds.

Who Should Use the PHBGFC?

The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations is an essential purchase for anyone working with Google Fonts. It will save you time and improve your familiarity with one of the web’s best resources.

If you like fonts, then you’re going to enjoy just scrolling through the Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations. It’s a beautifully realized catalog of font options.

Whether you’re a design student, a web developer curious about design, or a seasoned design professional, The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations won’t just save you time; it will help develop your eye for great font combinations.

Grab The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations Today!

This incredible resource, designed to help you maximize your use of Google Fonts, will save you hours of fruitless hunting through Google’s UI.

The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations normally sells for $69, but thanks to our sister-site MightyDeals.com, WebDesignerDepot readers can grab it for just $24! That’s a suitably preposterous 65% off the full retail price.

Head over to MightyDeals today to download your copy of The Preposterously Huge Book of Google Font Combinations and start making Google Fonts work for you.

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