If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
-Paul Newman
A good shared host will take you a long way. Most of us will never have the traffic to really justify a dedicated server and it’s accompanying expense. In all honesty a quality shared host should be able to sustain a site that enjoys 1000+ uniques a day and around 50 gigabytes of bandwidth a month before excessive resource usage drives you to greener pastures. Those figures are daily averages from a site that I am involved with that is on a shared host. That site can at times see as many as 10,000 uniques a day, and those days do bring resource overusage shutdowns, but most days it runs just fine. That is a lot of traffic by most people’s standards, certainly enough for the vast majority of blogs.
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Truth About Shared Hosting
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Mobile Web Industry Takes Center Stage
It's still early in the development of the mobile Web. The majority of the iPhone Web apps currently available are cool little tools created by a developer for kicks or because they want a better way to access a Web site. While many people get that the mobile Web has potential, most companies still need to figure out how to profit from it.
Wait. Scroll. Scroll. Tap-tap. Wait. Wait. For many years, that was the typical experience of someone surfing the Web using a mobile phone or PDA, at least in the U.S. Although some content Relevant Products/Services providers offered stripped-down versions of their sites specially designed for mobile users, most did not, and reading a page designed to be viewed on a PC on the small screen was about as much fun as sitting in a dark room reading a newspaper by flashlight.
Today, the mobile Web environment is in a period of rapid change, thanks in no small part to Apple's iPhone. From the phone's introduction in June, 2007, through March, 2008, 5.4 million iPhones have sold, and to date developers have created more than 17,000 sites or "Web applications" optimized for the device.
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Web Design- the invisible hand to the success of your business.
Business and website go hand in hand. Website is the focal point of your business, interacting with your customers and clients round the clock. People judge you by your covers and this is where a good looking website design steps in. A professional website layout puts your business where it matters the most- in front of your customers and set you apart from the noise and clatter of your competition. How many times have you walked in a store which appears shabby? I bet you avoid stepping in, leave alone doing business with them. The same rule applies to your website- it is your virtual storefront and by designing an eye catching website, you are bound to turn a few heads and keep visitors coming back.
Picture this- your website acts as your storefront, your web layout and design the first impression your customers get, your content acts as brochure and catalogs for your customers to browse through, would you be willing to take a chance with any of the pointers that directly affect your business? A professional looking website layout portrays that your website means business. A website should be designed like a car with the purpose it needs to serve in mind. What´s the use of creating a vehicle without passengers? Getting a good looking website does not necessarily cost you a fortune. A well thought out website design would not only add value to your website but open up host of revenue avenues for your website besides creating value to your business. Making your website easily accessible and providing relevant content with your business niche creates a winning combination.
Before you start creating a website, there is an important factor to be borne in mind- your target audience. Your target audience should dictate your website theme and design. For instance if your business niche is real estate, your target audience is in the age group of 25-55 years and your website theme, layout and concept should be governed by your target audience and by over looking this key component you would end up turning your website-"internet real estate" into an "internet wasteland" . Your website should speak the language of your customers. Hiring a professional web designer to turn your vision into reality might come in handy but remember no one knows your business better than you, so your involvement would always create a personalized professional website leaving your footprint on the website, helping you to communicate efficiently with your customers. Make sure the website serves the purpose for which it has been created.
Business is what Business does- making contacts with the right people at the right time at the right place. But how can we do it all the time? This is where a website steps in. In simple terms it puts your business on auto pilot. Every Business needs a website-PERIOD.
Source : http://www.americanchronicle.com/
Friday, July 4, 2008
What’s hot in Web Development?
“People are beginning to figure out that Web sites are very complicated things that need to be maintained and upgraded regularly,” says Jeffrey Hoffman president, CEO, and founder of WebslingerZ, a North Carolina-based Web development firm established in 1995.
Since people generally do not have the ability to do Web engineering on a developer level, they’re looking for ways to do updates and maintenance themselves rather than pay others to do it on an hourly basis. So, even “People you wouldn’t expect to say the words “content management system” are asking for them,” says Hoffman.
“They may be marketing, sales, PR folks who have things they want to accomplish via the Web: updating photos and text or more complicated things like using content management systems as sales or marketing applications,” Hoffman says. “They want to do their entire workflow on the Web and use it as a lead generation service.”
That means, he notes, they need a content management system that lets them build a form to intake leads and manage them.
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Five Hidden Benefits of Designing Your Own Logo
These days, do-it-yourself (DIY) is everywhere, invading industry after industry. So if you're weighing the pros and cons of designing your branding materials yourself instead of hiring a graphic designer, you're not alone. Obviously, you expect to save money as a design-it-yourselfer -- and you probably will. But that's just the beginning. There are other DIY advantages that are less well-publicized.
Here are five hidden benefits of employing your creative side and designing your logo:
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Web Designing Tender - Re-designing of Website
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Project Details:
Type : Tender
Id : 41452267
Category : Animation & Multimedia,Web Design and Development
Title : Re-designing of Website
Estimated Budget : 25000EURO
Total Requirement : We Require the Website to Go Live Within Three Months
Description :
The website is intended to be an authoritative and up to date source of environmental information for the general public and other key audiences. Information is also given on sustainable living.
Scope of work:
- Provide documentation on the new site, including technical and users manuals.
- The html portion of the site (i.e. excluding attached documents etc.) will be fully bilingual (Irish/English) and dynamic switching at page level will be facilitated.
- The new site should also perform well with regard to search engine optimization and this should be accommodated from the site build stage (HTML tagging).
- We require a bespoke content management system to be developed by the successful provider to enable content to be submitted, maintained and updated.
- Build the site database in accordance with the design document. Documents are to be stored in a single location, accessible from multiple points in the site, if required.
- Build the content index and implement the search facility.
- Build the web pages in accordance with the approved design document and implement the approved navigation scheme.
- Populate the ‘go live’ version of the site with any content not accessible via the content management tool.
- The successful provider will provide a detailed introduction to the system and deliver specialist training to our staff in the use of the content management tool.
Interested providers are requested to send their detailed proposal on or before 5.00pm on 15th August, 2008. Tenders can be submitted in English or Irish. For more details have a look on attachment.
Country : Canada
Status : Closed
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
10 ways to make your Web site design project go smoothly
Time and time again, I have seen companies struggle with Web site design projects. Initial Web site design and redesigns of existing sites may each face a few different challenges, but overall, they are similar. My experience has been that these problems are not technical issues, but project management and cultural issues. Often, no one follows a game plan — they just blindly rush off and attempt to re/design the Web site with little forethought. On the other hand, I have also been through a number of successful Web site re/design projects (measured by, “Did we get a good-looking, usable Web site deployed in a reasonable amount of time?”). Here are some of the things I’ve learned to do that will help make any Web site design project go smoothly.
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