http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php Blog.DesignOWeb en-us Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:03:43 -0400 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:03:43 -0400 SoftCab.com 2145406http://www.feedburner.com http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=18 RegisterItToday.com. A platform to all event organizers worldwide to post their events online and promoting it online.

The event website application is easy to use. Event organizer can post an event and invite users to register to their events online. They can see user details who are registered to their event. Tracking data can make their arrangements for an event easy. Not only getting registration applications of events online, they can also sell events tickets online.

I can understand if you ask me like one of our visitor saying
"Is it absolutely FREE ???? Have doubt..."

RegisterItToday do not charge for post an event. It is absolutely FREE. There are some Value Added Services that has some costs that can help event organizer to manage their stuff, like tracking registration, event ticket collection.

The team has over 10 years experience developing easy-to-use backend website application that are used worldwide. The team has already been providing support to events in London, UK and shows in Las Vegas, USA.

To be honest, as a team leader, i did not think of providing web applications for Indian user until recent market changes in "growth and potential" of Indian Industry and USA recession and fluctuating Dollar to Rupee.

I hope Indian users would get advantage of my experienced team and we will have our niche in Indian Market.

Thanks for reading this blog.
(Will write regular now)

Rakesh K. Sidana
DesignOweb Team]]> Thu, 22 May 2008 02:20:07 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=18#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=17
I am not against Open Source but still feel custom programming is the best option if clients allow for it. This article gives you some ideas to clients when to choose Open Source Packages.

1. What is your budget?
You do not have much budget and you want somebody can help you to install Open Source with few clicks in short time. Then your choice for open source package is good one. Most of the hosting server allows their users to install Open Source with few clicks and files are automatically transferred to a default folder and you will be provided with a link to see. On the contrary, there are less chances that you like all what has been installed, because design may not be of you taste. You need to compromise because you have no budget. Do it yourself!!!!

2. Not sure!!! But you want it Expandable and Flexible?
Clients who do not know what he is expecting from Open Source, they will land up with Custom Programming after installation of Open Source. They think that it may not suit to their exact requirements

Normally "Not Sure" clients start asking for Custom Programming in conjunction with Open Source, which is difficult part like adding "patches" on the software.

3. "Patches" in Open Source Packages
Now client has installed Open Source but looking for more changes and flexibility. This is where Open Source Packages fail when there is expandability and flexibility. Recent example of PHPList Open Source becomes headache for my programmer when their functions in the admin area are too hard to change. Similarly OSCommerce has much issue when we go for changing some modules.

4. Look and Feel
We can change look and feel of any Open Source Package, but at some extent. In the OScommerce changing Category section panel is not easy and you need to do some adjustments in your design. Similarly with other packages.

5. Which is the BEST???
I would say if client has budget and timeframe, then Custom Programming is the best options. It is easy to expandable and has flexibility to add AS MANY MODULE AS you want to add.

Recent websites made by DesignOweb team using Open Source Programming are:

OSCommerce http://www.thinkaudiovisual.com.au

PHPList http://www.youngliberal.org

Thanks for reading this blog article
Rakesh K. Sidana
DesignOweb
]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:15:19 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=17#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=16 Content Management System.

DesignOweb has got opportunity to work with National Organization for making Young Liberal Movement Website.

When we started working on it, there was confusion about it what to use - custom programming or any other CMS packages. To be honest, whenever i download other cms package so called "open source CMS", i feel as if they have tied up my hands. Reading long documentations and list of varibles makes you feel dumb.

I have seen there are lots of CMS packages claiming "user friendly" for intsallation, practically they are not. Even clients have CMS Package already download, still they come to us to work on it. I never understand if you need coder to install CMS package, then why not same coder can be used to build simple custom content manager program. It takes shorter time to build than downloaded CMS Packages with fancy graphics at the backend.

Having fancy graphics at the backend of application does not make sense when only administrator has to use it. It is funny too.

Custom Content Management System. helps to add, edit modules. You can change look and feel as per your requirements.

I will be writing more on this topic. Keep visiting here.

Regards,
Rakesh
DesignOweb]]> Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:25:15 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=16#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=15 "Search" using google adsense program. It is really the best option to allow your user to search your website.

We are providing guidlines to search our website. Add any keyword in the search box related to your website for example designOweb keywords are, travel website, heathrow medical, artist website etc. It will search entire text from your all pages and show good result. Keep your website title unique and add content.

This would be helpful for website which has many pages and you want users to search your products or services. It has been believed that website visitor stay on your page for few sceonds and if you attract them to browse your website, then your hardwork for making website is successful.

Thanks for reading DesignOweb blog.

Rakesh
DesignOweb]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:50:25 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=15#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=14
Web Standards are recommendations released by W3C organization to make WWW to be easy accessible and look the same on all platform/devices.

Major changes happened when there was first release of CSS (cascading stylesheets) to replace HTML tags. The objective is to separate relavant data (content/text) from the web pages and share it on WWW. A webpage contains 2 elements - Data (text) and Design (look and feel, colors, place holders etc). The purpose is to make available data which can be accessible on any device using WWW.

The use of CSS with html has a name called XHTML. All design part is done using CSS file and HTML contain Data only.

Data sharing is the challenge for World Wide Web. Search Engine Technologies are refining their "robots". Robots are software which extract data from the websites. Make your website and display link on any other good website, your sites data will be captured by Search Engines. The world wide web is without any boundries, you can find a place of living by just searching in the www directory or know about anything come into your mind.

W3C recommedations has listed down good practices for making web page that can run on any device and easy to search.

Thanks for reading this blog.

Regards,
Rakesh K. Sidana DesignOweb]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:31:35 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=14#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=13 Top Tourist Parks or Big 4 Parks.

Our partner ContACT Internet Solution is maintaining websites for all parks and they have a popular website Go See Australia(http://www.goseeaustralia.com) Australia's Largest Caravanning Directory.

The caravan directory site helps visitors to find tourist parks suit to your budget. Even GoSeeAustralia is providing Plan a Trip service with information on driving directions and park information with travel distances.

DesignOweb helps ContACT’s clients to build unique and different website design. It is not easy task when you have to make website for same business - Holiday Parks and it should not look all same for every one. It was apprehension at first when ContACT hired us for design jobs. Now it has been more than 2 years and we are able to produce more than designs samples which have no similarity to each other site. All are made to look different. Creativity and uniqueness has made this possible.

Basic specification for all caravan holiday parks remain the same, as they require space for featured packages, accommodations, online booking and contact on the design. Map for driving direction is something which occupy space on all designs, that is important for them , otherwise finding specific park is not easy to find. The only things we can not avoid to have on most of designs are color of “ocean” and “grass”. Pictures make design attractive and flash animation too.

If you are planning to visit Australia, then do not forget to visit http://www.goseeaustralia.com, it can help you plan your trip to Australia.

Thanks for reading this blog.

Regards,
Rakesh K. Sidana]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:32:24 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=13#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=12
If you are asked this question by your clients, then read this page. It can help you.

Understanding Search Engines Technologies:

All popular and good search engines work on one basic formula "To provide relavant search result to users". They build their program to capture content / text of the all registered websites and rank them according to percentage of more content related to "keyword" typed in the search box.

I am not counting on search website which gives you junk (result) while searching anything.

Do i need any changes on the website to appear in the search engines?

I reply to this question "NO"(surprised !). Your website should have relavant content / text so that search engine can store it into their database to get it listed on their page. That's it. According to Google's guideline : "Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content." To make a point, you just need to make your website to appear as a link on a website which is already have a link in the search engine result.

You must be surprised to know DesignOweb.com has never been submitted in other websites and search engines, but still it has lots of links on other pages. GUESS why! It is because of designoweb has relavant content / text in the subject called "website".

Does appearing in search engine mean top ranking

Taking any website to top ranking is regular check up like you have "service check up" to your car every month. You have to monitor your website regularly by visiting search engines. Do not forget your competitors are also making website to come up at top. Check their websites content and follow basic guidelines of popular search engines like Google. Google "robot" want to see relavant content and a clear hierarchy to a "keyword" which is typed in the search box.

Tableless / XHTML layout are required for search engines

Not necessarily. Companies claming having website made in XHTML is better than HTML to apprear in the search engines. It is not like that. If your website is made in HTML and follow web standards in the programming then you are good.

Recently i came in contact with internet marketing company whoes programmer is using XHTML layout but they have used more than 50 div tags. It is useless saying that XHTML pages save html tags when you have same number of tags.

Nowadays search engines technology is advanced at high level to capture ONLY text (not html/xhtml tags) and display it on the serach page. So having site in xhtml (with div tags) or html (with table tags) makes no difference for search engine robot.

I have seen web pages with no meta-tags, title, or description but that had good content and still had high search engine rankings on a particular keyword search . So the content is the major factor in search engine rankings.

XHTML layout helps to separate "Design" from "Data". It allows users to change design layout without changing content/data.

Regards, Rakesh]]> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:05:27 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=12#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=11
Below are answers to few questions and guidelines for clients and web developers.

Is it easy for non-technical person to update content?
YES
A simple web-based editor, which look like Microsoft Word, can make easy to publish content online. In simple term, content management system is web-based program which has a online form to update content stored in the website database. To edit any website page, user need not to download any page from the website but just fill up the online form.

Can I update list of my products / services?
YES
To make good website with content management system, web developer must plan for items which are editable and need update before start making it. For example, services page can be a list of all services with a link to open another description page. Since client would like to add more services in the list so website should have feature to allow user to add more services and details. Same with products.

Can I update pictures on the website?
YES
This is a good feature of content management system if client can upload pictures. There are in-built functions in the programming to allow user to upload picture on the website without using FTP software. Web-based editors also allow picture update, but most of them need path of picture (already uploaded) to enter into the content rather "real" upload.

You can also read more about content management system at link below:
http://www.designoweb.com/content_management_system.html

DesignOweb builds website with features at the backend to allow website owner to update content of the website using custom content management system. Below are few website links with CMS features.

Essentially Art
A website with advanced content management system. It has functionality to allow artists to make own art gallery. Artist can use CMS to upload own art pieces and set prices and sizes. Even art pieces search also works on their art gallery. Artist get unique art gallery web address which they can integrate into own existing website.

If you are looking for Art Gallery to build, please contact Essentially Art at the website link below:
http://www.essentiallyart.com.au

Heathrow Medical Services (HMS)
A website for aviation occupational heath services. Content Management System has made easy to add , edit services to their website. It also allows them to set order of a list of their services.

Heathrow Medical Services (HMS) is a team of Authorised Panel Doctors for the Australian and New Zealand Immigration Authorities. HMS provide a full medical pre-immigration service. Chest x-ray examinations are undertaken at the nearby Ashford Hospital, Middlesex. We are also able to process Australian Police Force Medicals.

You can browse their website at link below: http://www.heathrowmedical.com/ServiceDetails.aspx?title=Immigration%20Medical%20Services


Hope this article will help users. Contact me for any comment. Thanks.

Rakesh
DesignOweb]]> Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:51:54 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=11#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=10 Essentially Art, Sydney and Direct Art Australia, Melbourne and artists in Canada and USA.

Essentially Art is a leading art reproduction and printing house located in Sydney. They have a team of photographers, designers and artists are dedicated to producing innovative fresh designs for the home or office. Essentially Art is specialized in canvas, fine art and large format digital printing and offer a complete custom service to suit their clients.

Essentially Art website makes easy for user to order art piece online, user can either order online by clicking the "order now button", by post or in person at our Sydney gallery at Skygarden Shopping centre in Sydney CBD.

The website has advanced content management system and great database for all sizes available for custom art pieces and ecommerce shopping cart. Managing art pieces sizes and display exact price with mention of postal charges is not an easy task when there are lots of criteria to calculate exact price. Custom sizes, postal charges for different countries and local. Essentially art website allow user to upload his/her picture online to reproduce into Custom Art piece.

You can browse Essentially Art website at link below:
http://www.essentiallyart.com.au

Direct Art Australia is another website for selling of Oil Paintings online. It has a list of all categories Abstract Art, Landscape and also focusing on reproduction of art pieces from Famous Artists (Paul Cezanne,Jan Vermeer, Renoir, Da Vinci,Tamara Lempicka, Salvador Dali, Gauguin Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gastav Klimt, Monet, Van gogh, Manet, Picasso, Renoir, Rembrandt, Turner )

You can browse Direct Art Australia website at link below:
http://www.directartaustralia.com.au

DesignOweb is also worked with Art Galore, Canada for their look and feel of the website design. Their website users are from Canada and USA. They have also mention advantages of prices for Canadian Customers and USA Customers.

Please wait for more list of artists websites here

Keeping visiting here for more… more stuff (we are just finishing more artists website work).

Thanks for visiting our blog.

Rakesh
DesignOweb

]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:19:16 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=10#comment http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=9 content management system to update content, upload pictures, and add new services.

HMS users are pilots, aircrew professionals and people with interest to immigration medical services, so the website design is made with concept to make users feel heathly. Sunflower and blue colors are good combination to use on the website.

HMS is a team of doctors many of whom are JAR Class 1 Authorised Medical Examiners (AME) for the CAA who also process a variety of other aircrew licences. HMS is offering medical care to aircrew and occupational health services to employees at Heathrow.

Heathrow Medical Service is Authorised Panel Doctors for the Australian and New Zealand Immigration Authorities . HMS provides a full medical pre-immigration service and also process Australian Police Force Medicals. For more detail about immigration medical services you can visit their website

The main link of HMS website is: http://www.heathrowmedical.com

Happy surfing!
Rakesh DesignOweb]]> Thu, 31 May 2007 07:34:49 -0400 http://blog.designoweb.com/index.php?number=9#comment