ITRD - Information Technology & Resource Development

I have a feature request. Is this something you can custom develop?

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:14:48 +0000

Yes - we are open to working on special requests. Please contact us and let us know what you have in mind.

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Quiz App Software

Can I add other sheets to the Question Generator Excel File?

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:08:22 +0000

Yes you can. Please ensure that the sheets are added at the extreme right of the current sheets / tabs

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Quiz App Software

Can you create and / or publish my app for me?

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:04:41 +0000

Yes - this is a service we offer. Pricing and details depend on the desired platforms and what publishing service you are using (if any). Please contact us to discuss this.

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Mobile App Development

Quiz App Software

Can you help me find and fix the errors in my questions.js file?

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:02:59 +0000

Since we will be troubleshooting a problem with your content - and not our software, we offer this as an add-on service. Cost and the time it could take varies based on the number of questions. Please contact us for more information.

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Quiz App Software

I have created the questions.js file but the questions do not display in the app. What is the problem?

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:58:29 +0000

One likely cause could be that the code within the questions.js file is broken because of some characters that you have added to the data tab. Our routine attempts to address all possibe issues, but it is still possible that this could arise. We suggest that you delete a few lines to a hundred lines at a time and try to identify the question that is breaking the file. If you use a color-formatted editor such as editplus, it will also show you where the possible error could be - by a change in the text color.

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Quiz App Software

Website Design Speaks Volumes

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:23:07 +0000

The internet has become the best way for all companies – established and startups alike to boost their sales and service to their customers. Due to this there are numerous websites springing up each day but as most of the people want to go cheap on this issue oftentimes the design process gets affected directly affecting the quality of the website. But what most people don’t understand is that clients would not like to walk into a dirty office whether offline or online.

The main reason people visit a website of a company or a product or a service is seeking more information. Of course they can get the same by either writing to the company or may be calling them up but visiting a site is easier and hassle-free. So when prospective clients visit your website you would want the first impression to be, “wow these guys are so professional, I want to do business with them.” After all first impressions are the best impressions. And if you have a visitor thinking your site is awful, how would you expect any of them to do business with you.

Step into the shoes of your client and consider what would make him or her purchase from your site – the professional look, the ease of buying, the information that you provide etc.

The next important thing is the time the website takes to load up. Research has shown that the patience level of visitors to online sites is no more than 30 seconds. Whether the visitor has a DSL connection or any other connection if your site takes more time to load, the chances of them skipping to other sites is greater. Hence design your website in such a way that whether it is a dial up connection or a DSL connection the site gets loaded within 30 to 60 seconds and no more.

Your site may look good and also download quickly but if it doesn’t work the whole purpose is defeated. An online visitor’s worst nightmare is looking at pages that have not been created properly or errors that keep popping up or getting only half the information without any idea of where to go next. This will annoy the visitors who will not only move quickly away from your site but may never come back to it or refer to any of their friends and family.

Considering that your site has all the above prerequisites, if you miss out on the “contact us” section you have lost the game. It is very essential that the visitors are able to contact you either through email or phone or office address or even just have contact forms put up so that they can leave their phone numbers or email address for you to contact. It is essential that the contact information is not limited to the main page of your website but to each and every page so that they don’t feel lost or feel it cumbersome to come back to the main page to search for the contact details.

Armed with these you should be able to create a professional looking, easily loadable and working website to boost your business.

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Your Free Guide To Obtaining A Cheap Web Design Quote

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:54:59 +0000

With at least one person from every household being employed in IT industry, website designing has become the most competitive job today. What does this mean to the customer – it means variety and cheap designing services.

Now you don’t need to burn a hole in your pocket to get a website designed professionally. Just look for it a little innovatively and you will get what you want at dirt cheap prices. Start through the search engines, instead of going through the organic results which generally are established companies with a good page ranking and other gimmicks, opt for the paid adverts. Search engines like Google allow start-up companies to advertise for a very minimal fee and these are put up in the Google Adwords section that appears on the top or the right hand side on your screen. Being small companies they are ready to pay an affordable price for designing.

You can also explore auction sites like ebay or sites that offer information on freelancers. Other good sources of finding cheap but good designers is the newspaper classifieds, yellow pages or even your family, friends and neighbors.

A word of caution before choosing your designer, remember throw peanuts and you will get monkeys. So to be sure that you are not attracting only monkeys check your potential designer’s profile and portfolio and communicate regularly to see if they are understanding your view point or are able to provide you with valuable information on designing your site. Pick a designer and pay only when you are satisfied, or else it may be a waste of time and money, even if both come cheap to you.

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Design Your Site For Your Customers

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:29:32 +0000

There has been enough emphasis laid on the fact that the website should be designed keeping in mind the likes and dislikes of potential customers. And this stress is not in vain.

Every customer has individual taste and would like the designer to imbibe that in the site as the website are nothing but a reflection of the customer’s personality. Therefore it is important to please the customer as it is only happy customers that get you more customers.

Having said that, it is not the website owner who is the end customer but actually the customer who will be buying from the site and it is their needs that should be catered to. Sadly most website owners are unmindful of this fact and would want the designer to design a site according to the site owner’s taste. The only focus of the website owner is to make money from the site and not really please the customer. This is one major reason why most websites fail after the initial takeoff. The website owners need to heed to the advice of the designer who is generally well versed with the preferences of the browser or end-user.

To design a successful site, define the following first:

1. What is the main purpose of the website?

2. Who is the target audience”

3. What is the goal of the website owner? and

4. What is the kind of content to be put on the site?

Once the above have been defined, get working on some more intricacies of the site

· Try and have a simple design that is consistent all through the site

· The design should be compatible to different browsers i.e., Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome etc

· The site should be quick loading and have an easy navigation menu

· And the penultimate – add relevant fresh content to the site regularly

Sales Letter

There is little doubt that the intent of your website is to sell and hence a sales letter is a must. Let your main page act as your sales pitch. Give your customers a strong message about your site and product and service with a keyword rich title, an introductory paragraph that is short but to the point.

You will need to make the sales letter interesting by adding variety to it. For instance explain the USP (Unique Selling Point) of your product or service, why you are special and why the customer should do business with you. Add credibility to your site through verifiable testimonials. Provide value added services like bonus or free gifts or trial offers.

Close the sale by prompting them to take immediate action – have clickable links like Order Now or Request a Quote or Sign Up.

Despite the best sales gimmick selling to the customer at the first instance is generally impossible. Hence have a mailing list designed into your site. Tell the designer to include a mailing list script wherein visitors can subscribe to your newsletters, update, new arrivals or similar things. This will help you grab vital information of the visitor who you can get in touch with regularly. When the customer reads quality information from your newsletters they will extend a relationship of trust and trust will eventually lead to sale

Increase your site’s visibility

Having successfully launched your website, get a professional to submit it to popular search engines (do not limit to the top ones only like Google, and Yahoo, submit to as many as you can). Refrain from spending too much on increasing your page ranking like through search engine optimization and other stuff, if your site is good you will eventually get there.

Advertise about your site outside the World Wide Web too like through business cards, word of mouth, paper classifieds etc. When people come across the name of your site time and again, they will have a natural curiosity to explore your site. And more visitors will mean better conversion rate to customers

There has been enough emphasis laid on the fact that the website should be designed keeping in mind the likes and dislikes of potential customers. And this stress is not in vain.

To design a successful site, define the following first:

1. What is the main purpose of the website?

2. Who is the target audience”

3. What is the goal of the website owner? and

4. What is the kind of content to be put on the site?

Once the above have been defined, get working on some more intricacies of the site

· Try and have a simple design that is consistent all through the site

· The design should be compatible to different browsers i.e., Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome etc

· The site should be quick loading and have an easy navigation menu

· And the penultimate – add relevant fresh content to the site regularly

Sales Letter

Close the sale by prompting them to take immediate action – have clickable links like Order Now or Request a Quote or Sign Up.

Increase your site’s visibility

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Web design

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Your Logo is Important and How to Make It Look Professional

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:27:49 +0000

The importance of logos for a business cannot be undermined. How professional it looks determines the trust people will have in you and your business.

Before deciding on the logo design, there are a few questions to consider. You may be providing a good service but it is the logo that may win the trust of the client and that is what the client will remember. The logo helps portray the image of your company in a better way. The questions to consider when designing the logo are:

Does it make your company look professional?
Does the logo say you care about your business? It is quite possible the clients will in turn think of it as caring for the clients
Does the logo say you know what you are doing?
Does the logo tell client he or she can trust you to do the job correctly?
Which logo would tell all these aspects of your business? There are quite a few factors that help decide the best logo for your business. Design and color best help in giving your business logo the professional image that it needs to portray. The logo does not necessarily have to be a complicated colorful design.

Something as simple as the Microsoft text can do wonders or you can choose something like the ebay logo which is unique and colorful, the GE logo of General Electric is also a good example of simplicity. The design is most important as it helps in creating the image of the company and helps the client identify the company easily, almost automatically. The only criterion is that it should be unique not only so that the customers can identify with it easily but also because same logos create registration problems.

The next important factor in logo designing is the color; it speaks a lot about your business. Specific businesses are identified with specific colors for instance anything related to money directly such as financial institutions and banks are related to green, blue, black and gold colors. Similarly anything related to fast food and restaurants will have bright shades of orange, red, blue and yellow to make them look that much more appetizing. However these need not be the limiting factor and you can always try out with various colors and combinations.

The next important factor is the quality or the texture of the logo – some possible variations can be smooth text, smooth curves etc. Avoid having jagged edges and unreadable text however artistic they may look because if reading or recognizing is difficulty it will affect the quality of the logo and in turn your business.

Simply put, logos should be clean, clear, unique and professional.

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Web design

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How to Choose a a Web Designer or Web Development Company

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:05:21 +0000

With the number of web design firms springing up, as a customer it would be difficult for you to choose the right one. After all web presence is everything now for business folks. So here is a guide for the web design company shopper:

Determine what your website needs:
Is your website down or not working properly? Are you having problems with the email on your site?

Not all problems of the website can be dealt by your website designer. The hosting operations of the website are generally outsourced by the Web site design firms. You need to ascertain this before beginning with your project. If the hosting operations have been outsourced and the site is not loading up properly you will need to take it up with the hosting company and not the design firm. There are also those that provide both the designing and the hosting service giving the client a cost effective solution. So you might want to be clear on these issues before commencing. Check if the firm you choose provides for all the service in-house or outsource and if it is outsourced would there be problems if you had to change your site frequently? Would there be delays in responses and postings?

Clientele of the firm:

As they say reputation precedes the person, here the company. Before you sign up with any firm check what type of clients they have designed for. Also check their online portfolio and see some examples. You will then know if they can handle your project or not and if they fit your requirement. Sometimes some companies get limited by working for particular type of clients and though they may be having years of experience it may not be pertaining to your field. This need not be the limiting factor for a creative mind but this could give you invaluable information about the company.

Business years:

There are many fly-by-night operators as far as web designing is concerned. Hence make sure the one you choose just did not pop up overnight on the Google ranking by chance but has actually earned their way there through numerous years of experience.

Web Designing Costs:

Unless you want a site that’s only for namesakes, you should be ready to make good investments in web designing. There are many who would be ready to work for as low as $500 for the whole project but once launched you may be left in the lurch due to poor quality work. Good web designing costs run in thousands of dollars. This is mainly because there is advanced programming and graphic designing involved in building professional websites, not to mention the numerous sittings you will need to do to get what you want. Working with a realistic budget will help you get what you want.

The above criteria should help you narrow down on the web designing firm you want to hire because the sea of designers available out there could be mind boggling.

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