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Creating a new site environment in Typhoon
Jan 24th
This demonstrates the `typhoon-admin initenv` command in action. … Typhoon php framework screencast
How to add items to a Datapod site using Quick Batch
Jan 23rd
This videos shows the quick batch feature in Datapod which allows you to very quickly add items to you site. … datapod php framework
Datapod: how to export data when upgrading site to new version
Jan 19th
This video shows you how easy it is to copy data from one site to another when upgrading to a new Datapod version. … php framework
Web Site Promotion
Dec 29th
The world has become fiercely competitive these days. To get the customer’s attraction, a company needs to create something that will hold a viewer’s mind and compels him to explore the insight story. Web design expresses the theme of holding attentions by creating simple, easy-to-follow, illustrated embedded with colored framework to display useful information. Creating good websites are like learning rocket science and using information in organized manner will helps to attain better web visibility and customers we well.
That is the reason why, website is necessary and people need to make a constructive and user-friendly website so that the ultimate motive can be served easily and conveniently. To make it really useable, you need to optimize the website so that people can come and fulfills their desires easily. After all, in millions of other websites, you need to make your site visible by putting it on number one page and initiate rankings of all the major search engines.
Search engine optimization is one of the common and useful services by SEO Company in today’s growing world. These services include on-page optimization, off-page optimization, keyword searching, article & blog submissions and others as such activities that may improve the placing of a website on all search engines.
SEO Web Site Promotion Services
If you want to improve the ranking and ratings of your web site, you need to contact a really good web site promotion company. There are many companies online that specialize in promoting your site. To get their services, you need to sign up with them and can actually avail their special methodologies in day-to-day working.
The main way that people will find out about your site is through search engines. Therefore, you need to make it so that your site is one of the top few to pop up. If your site comes up 100 on the list, it’s not likely that anyone will see it.
About Component Software For Web Site Development Service
Dec 28th
The underlying objective of componentware is to actualize the dream of building sophisticated software systems by compiling pre-fabricated systems. Although there are number of varied technical tools and concepts for component oriented engineering (software), a workable and practical model that can be used by the software industry in a large scale is yet to be developed. The reason for this is due to the absence of a workable methodology. To develop a suitable methodology the industry needs to develop certain core capabilities. These are:
A formally founded and well understood component concept should serve as the basis. The basic framework can be simple yet powerful enough, to model the development techniques of all the technical component approaches. Based on the concept of competentware, a variety of description techniques are required. These description techniques can then be used for web development service as it can then be used to create a channel of communication between developers. Development of web site development service must be structured as per a process which has been tailor-made to suit the requirements of componentware.
Componentware in website development services is the science of designing systems from separate components. Web development services India is therefore trying to bridge the gap between the varied interfaces and components of componentware. Web development services in India are trying to locate suitable components in componentware and understand their usage, functionality, purpose and restrictions.
When it comes to defining a component interface it usually consists of
(a) Behavior part – that describes how a component behaves under particular circumstances;
(b) Signature part – which describes the various operations than can be carried out by the component under a certain set of circumstances.
In order to make the concept of componentware possible web site development services will need to explore in full the varied behavior of components at every imaginable level of software architecture.
Web Site Development
Dec 26th
A system development process can follow a number of standard or company definite frameworks, methodologies, modeling tools and languages. Let us see the steps involve in any web site development.
1. Analysis:
Once a client is started discussing his requirements, the team gets into it, towards the preliminary requirement analysis. As the web site is going to be a part of a system, it needs a complete analysis as, how the web site or the web based application is going to help the present system and how the site is going to help the business. Moreover the analysis should cover all the aspects. The first important thing is finding the targeted audience. Then, all the present hardware, software, people and data should be considered during the time of analysis. The analysis should be done in the way, that it may not be too time consuming or with very less informative. The team should be able to come up with the complete cost-benefit analysis and as the plan for the project will be an output of analysis, it should be realistic. To achieve this analyst should consult the designers, developers and testers to come up with a realistic plan.
2. Specification Building:
Preliminary specifications are drawn up by covering up each and every element of the requirement. For example if the product is a web site then the modules of the site including general layout, site navigation and dynamic parts of the site should be included in the spec. Larger projects will require further levels of consultation to assess additional business and technical requirements. After reviewing and approving the preliminary document, a written proposal is prepared, outlining the scope of the project including responsibilities, timelines and costs.
3. Design and development:
After building the specification, work on the web site is scheduled upon receipt of the signed proposal, a deposit, and any written content materials and graphics you wish to include. Here normally the layouts and navigation will be designed as a sample.
There can be a lot of suggestions and changes from the client side, and all the changes should be freezed before moving into the next phase. The revisions could be redisplayed via the web for the customer to view.
Throughout the design phase the team should develop test plans and procedures for quality assurance. It is necessary to obtain client approval on design and project plans.
In parallel the Database team will sit and understand the requirements and develop the database with all the data structures and sample data will also be prepared.
4. Content writing:
This phase is necessary mainly for the web sites. There are professional content developers who can write industry specific and relevant content for the site. Content writers to add their text can utilize the design templates. The grammatical and spelling check should be over in this phase.
5. Coding:
Now its programmers turn to add his code without disturbing the design. Unlike traditional design the developer must know the interface and the code should not disturb the look and feel of the site or application. So the developer should understand the design and navigation. If the site is dynamic then the code should utilize the template. The developer may need to interact with the designer, in order to understand the design. The designer may need to develop some graphic buttons when ever the developer is in need, especially while using some form buttons. If a team of developers is working they should use a CVS to control their sources. Coding team should generate necessary testing plans as well as technical documentation. For example Java users can use JavaDoc to develop their documents to understand their code flow. The end-user documentation can also be prepared by the coding team, which can be used by a technical writer who can understand them, writes helps and manuals later.
6. Testing:
Unlike software, web based applications need intensive testing, as the applications will always function as a multi-user system with bandwidth limitations. Some of the testing which should be done are, Integration testing, Stress testing, Scalablity testing, load testing, resolution testing and cross-browser compatibility testing. Both automated testing and manual testing should be done without fail. There are certain testing tools as well as some online testing tools which can help the testers to test their applications. For example ASP developers can use Microsoft’s Web Application Test Tool to test the ASP applications, which is a free tool available from the Microsoft site to download.
7. Maintenance and Updating:
Web sites will need quite frequent updations to keep them very fresh. In that case we need to do analysis again, and all the other life cycle steps will repeat. Bug fixes can be done during the time of maintenance. Once your web site is operational, ongoing promotion, technical maintenance, content management & updating, site visit activity reports, staff training and mentoring is needed on a regular basis depend on the complexity of your web site and the needs within your organization.
The above-mentioned steps alone are not strict to web application or web site development. Some steps may not applicable for certain tasks. Its depend on the cost and time involved and the necessity But even if you are a small development firm, if you adopt certain planning along with this web engineering steps in mind, it will definitely reflects in the Quality of the outcome.
Our team can design, build and deploy web systems that meet the customer’s specific business needs from the ground up. Web applications designed by PNT Global help our clients to solve business issues in the most efficient manner, e.g. to reduce operational costs, improve workflow, or to find cost-effective ways of carrying out business.
Is your Cms Building Ramps to your Web Site?
Dec 23rd
Visualize this: You’re driving to a friend’s place which has no road signs or distinct land markers. Your chances of finding this friend’s place without someone or GPS to direct you are probably none. Furthermore, should you be expected to find this same place in darkness, giving up to head home might not seem like a bad idea, right?
A Web site works similarly: if there are no clear directions on how to navigate through the site or it has poor visual cues on how to convey the content, then it will be given a low ranking and no accessibility. If this is the case for people with the gift of sight, imagine the plight of millions of visually challenged visitors who would want to access and locate content on your site.
An accessible Web site provides assistance in communicating effectively with the widest audience by flattening roadblocks in interaction. All it requires of the Web site owners is to follow Best Practices in site and content design principals to make the Web site easily reachable for all. The most common categories that hinder accessibility are:
• Blindness and Low Vision. A whole range of computer technology can provide assistance ranging from screen readers, refreshable Braille displays and screen magnifiers. Assistance in keyboard/ Web site navigation, scalable display font sizes, fuzzy searches, alt tags for all images and high contrast between the background and the text go a long way.
• Cognitive and Learning Disabilities. Simple and intuitive navigation, consistency in content presentation through out the Web site, clear labels and ALT tags, relevant and meaningful content, lengthy documents carrying executive summaries at the top and language understood by a wider audience.
• Impairment of hearing. Websites needs to be accessible with content captioning synchronized with multimedia and other manners of rendering content as well as interactive volume controls.
• Mobility and Speech Impairment. Technology providing assistance usually requires computer hardware at user site and assistive Web site architecture. This includes one-handed keyboards, head/mouth sticks and full eye tracking on user’s computer. Web site navigation using voice recognition provides an easy way to navigate through a Web site.
Access Ramp to your Websites?
Designing navigable sites for people with disabilities is not only federally mandated in some cases it is also socially desirable and makes good business sense too. The organization pursuing it comes across as one that has a strong sense of social responsibility, and sensitive to the needs of the otherwise challenged. It is also desirable because legislation like Section 508 (of the Rehabilitation act) mandate that US federal agencies have their Websites accessible for the blind and visually impaired with the help of screen readers.
Section 508, for those not conversant with the Act, requires “federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities…Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. ‘794d), agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information that is comparable to the access available to others.”
While this is not mandatory for private organizations, many have voluntarily made their Websites Section 508-compliant as such requirements may be enforced in the future. Census data points out that in 2002, out of 222 million Americans (15 years and above), there were 46 million with some form of disability (30 million severe). This number is expected to swell up to 54 million in 2007. It is only a matter of time before private organizations realize the importance of presenting their Web site in a manner that is fully accessible to visually challenged people. With such a huge base, smart private organizations cannot afford to overlook people with disabilities. Even with the annual mean earning of this segment was $23,034 against an average of $31,840 in 2002, it is estimated that they control over $175 billion in discretionary income.
Despite this not inconsiderable opportunity, most businesses have not actively taken steps to make their Web site Section 508 compliant. As with any other technology adoption, cost is undoubtedly one of the major factors that influences decision making. Developing, maintaining and repurposing content to conform to Section 508 guidelines is an expensive and resource intensive job. When guidelines change, the content or framework of the whole site needs to change too. When you consider that these changes have to be made to thousands of pages on a Web site, the effort is tedious and time consuming.
Requirements for accessible Websites
For a Web site to be easily navigable by visually challenged, screen readers are needed. Organizing content, appropriate titling and linking are critical sign posts that enable screen readers to access and read out content in the same way as a person with normal sight would interpret it. Designing such a Web site is no less challenging, as the screen reader needs to intelligently convey to the person on the site how to browse, communicate relationships between content elements, and the type of content. These requirements will be slightly different for a person who can see but has poor vision. Those falling into this category will need their content in large fonts, and visually bright colors and large image sizes.
When you consider that Web site content management itself is a challenge, Section 508 compliance requirements take this challenge to a whole new level. In addition to requirements of content, usability, design and information architecture – you will need to separate form from content, and do it to make it accessible for people with all categories of disability. This is not a task for faint hearted unless you have a comprehensive Web CMS system to handle content requirements.
Web site CMS can help Build the right Ramp
A Web site content management system is the right tool in taking over the task of creation, maintenance and management of a Web site. Most notably, it allows organizations to maintain consistency across all pages of their Web site – which is absolutely critical when it comes to a Web site which is going to be accessed by a visually challenged person.
A Web site CMS like CrownPeak can for instance, enforce design and navigation schemes, and the presentation of content through standardized presentation templates. These templates can ensure that the content presentation, titling and linking are arranged in such a way that it would enable visually challenged people to easily navigate the site using voice commands. As templates control how data is displayed throughout the Web site, subject matter experts can create content without having to worry about Section 508 compliance.
The company’s versioning and content monitoring tools can also enable government organizations to become instantly compliant with data archive regulations, as they are established.
Features like complete system auditing and reporting provide government organizations the ability to manage and track the history of all work easing adherence to compliance regulations. Files can be given a full document lifecycle, including check-in, check-out, versioning, rollback, approvals, and scheduling.
A Web site content management system also has intelligent workflow automation, ensuring that content passes through appropriate quality gates before being published. Additionally, completely configurable workflows enable organizations to assign tasks to any person, and scale up when defined thresholds are crossed. For example, e-mail alerts can be sent to content owners of specific sections on a Web site when these sections don’t get updated after a specific time period. This is difficult to do in a manual system.
To summarize, a Web content management system can provide the following benefits:
• Improving efficiency and maintaining consistency with respect to regulations
• Reducing non-compliant code violations
• Reduced maintenance cost.
Why should you consider SaaS Model?
While Web site content management systems help users manage content more effectively, government organizations will realize that most content management systems are expensive to procure, complex to implement and configure, and require more resources to maintain.
To address these issues, organizations can consider using Web site content management systems that are delivered through Software-as-a-Service model. By accessing ‘software’ as a service, organizations are spared the high initial cost of purchasing the license. Moreover, as the software is hosted, there is no hardware to buy and no software to purchase and install. The subscribing organization only pays fixed monthly or quarterly fees and leaves the task of managing, maintaining and upgrading the software to the vendor. This is extremely important for government organizations that have tight budgets and growing Web site related responsibilities.
Currently, CrownPeak manages Web content for the office of the US Trade Representative, helping America’s chief trade negotiator and trade policy advisor manage a continuous shuffling of Web site content, maintain indexing and categorization of various content types, and sustain accessibility and records management compliance.
CrownPeak also helps the Commonwealth of Virginia manage the Web site that serves as the gateway site to every Virginia government related resource, with information ranging from government elections data to travel and tourism. The vendor also provides a dedicated account manager, with an escalation path for support. By using a SaaS model, government organizations can also cut down on their risk, and choose different functionalities as the requirements grow. Further, as billing is on a monthly or quarterly basis, costs are spread across the lifetime of a product’s usage. This is an extremely attractive value proposition when compared to the traditional CMS model, where costs are paid upfront and the risk of product implementation and adoption rests totally on the organization.
That is not all. CrownPeak Lifelong Active Support ensures that content management Best Practices are available at all times. It has been estimated that 91% of all support requirements are unrelated to software and organizations deploying enterprise CMS have to make additional investments to cover this need. CrownPeak Lifelong Active Support covers these requirements automatically giving the true complete coverage of all support needs.
Accessible to All
The Internet is a powerful and influential medium. By enabling visually challenged people to access Websites, government and private organizations can take the lead in creating a future that allows every citizen to explore a vast world of information in an unhindered manner. While it is a mandatory requirement for government organizations, it is a highly desirable social responsibility for others as well; and CrownPeak Web content management system ensures that you do not have to make a large dent in your budget to achieve this goal.
The First 6 Steps Towards Designing a Web Site
Dec 21st
It can be very difficult finding a point where you can start a new website. Faced with a blank screen ot blank paper , where do you begin. The following 6 point plan may help give you a kick start in the process and help get the priorities right.
Ask yourself about your business. What do you do, how do you do it, why do you do that? Who are your competitors and how do they do what they do? Decide on your goals – what do you want to achieve from your website? For example is the website to sell online, generate leads, create newsletter sign ups, directory, community site etc. What marketing materials do you have? Do you have brochures, photos, logos, letterheads, business cards that you could use in the design? Who is your target audience? Is it local area, county, state, country, or for an international audience? Are there any compatibility, accessibility or usability issues that should be taken into account for your target audience? What content can or should be included on the site? Product information, technical specifications, company information, staff profiles, articles, graphic and images etc.
The answers to these 6 questions should provide a framework of content for the website. From this framework you should be able to develop the site architecture or site map of the information the site will contain. This will lead to how the content maps across pages, how it will be laid out and should give an impression of how those pages will link together and the navigation necessary.
How to Upgrade Your Web Site With Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 Business Class Cms
Dec 20th
Ask yourself these questions:
Is your Web site difficult to update?
Are you held back by your external Web design team?
Have you outgrown your current CMS?
Your solution might lie in a new generation of commercial-grade Content Management Systems (CMS) that can easily deploy new content as well as functionality including blogs, documents, pictures, and galleries. You gain the ability to store, control, version, and publish company and industry-specific documentation such as news articles, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures.
Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 is a reliable, secure, and easy-to-use CMS that enables you to fully control all aspects of your Web site: text, pictures, catalogues, news, forms, etc. There is no need to hire a programmer to keep your Web site current and consistent with your business objectives.
You are now able to maximize the profitability of your Web site from its inception through the day-to-day running. It also allows you to integrate new modules as your Web site requirements grow.
Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 provides Web developers with useful tools to estimate the performance of components or the whole site and greatly facilitate site development tasks. Other useful features include extensible modular and component architecture, easy integration of site design templates and component templates, and documented API.
Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 includes 23 modules that empower Web architects and administrators to manage content and structure in the most flexible manner. Forums, advertising, mailing lists, exhaustive access permission framework, statistics and analytics of the site traffic and advertising campaign performance, blogs, training courses, and more – you will enjoy all of them. Bitrix Site Manager is a multifunctional constructor. Besides easy content management, customers can enjoy a flexible e-store, site analytics, blogs, forums, workflow, AD/LDAP integration, help desk, photo gallery, and more for very attractive prices. The product is secure, and is being constantly monitored by independent security auditors.
With the new Bitrix Site Manager 7.0, the main focus is on simplification of the CMS interface for site content managers. In fact, the developer’s zone is now separated from the site manager’s zone. This is an important innovation. In the fast-moving world of CMS, content owners should be adding required content at will to ensure that their messages are getting out there. Now the site manager can solve all possible content management tasks directly on the needed pages (add, edit new pages and sections, news, catalogues, etc.). In addition, there are separate site modes for Browsing, Editing, Developing and Administrative routines. There is even a “Start Button” (similar to the Windows Start button) for quick access to any content item or service page in the Control Panel. Bitrix Business Class CMS is only as good as your boss thinks it is, and Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 is the best way to impress him. It is an easy to use, powerful content owner interface and control panel that he can actually use. This is where Bitrix shines.
Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 has a number of new and useful features. The new WYSIWYG editor enables you to add videos or Flash movies to your blogs. Site content can be added and edited in pop-up layers, which enable you to add and edit dynamic content elements, goods, and news directly from pages via pop-up dialog forms. The Photo Gallery 2.0 is enriched with the new UI permitting a number of users. The CMS offers simplified content editing and management tools including Page and Folder creation wizards, easy drag and drop menu management, and quick access to permissions settings. The new Copy option makes it easy to duplicate elements such as goods, news, articles, etc. Also, Bitrix Site Manager can now be installed with full UTF-8 support.
Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 is enterprise-ready. With extensive documentation, including integration manuals and configuration recommendations, as well as primary documentation in CHM format, all the resources needed to get started are available. Thousands of templates for the system are available as well, on a separate site, including 2000 “business” themed options.
You are invited to try the Bitrix Site Manager 7.0 online demo in the Bitrix Virtual Lab. We hope that you will be thrilled with the revolutionary and innovative interface.
What Determines the Choice of your Business Web Site Hosting?
Dec 20th
What determines the success of your business? Some people may say the quality of the products or services you are selling, but the situation is not always so. The most common cause for success is marketing. If your marketing resources are right, you could sell ice to the Eskimos.
Some time ago, marketing used to resume itself to the way people presented their merchandise to other people face to face. Along came the radio and television. Nowadays, however, if you want worldwide audience and sales, you need to rely on the internet.
There are a few places on this planet that lack internet access. Because of this, with the right website, you can reach millions of people around the world. But how can you create your website? And how can you make it available for all those people?
The best choice you can make in designing and creating your web site is dynamic generators. This implies lots of pictures, objects and other interactive components that are meant to catch the eye of the viewer. And the more viewers you reach, the greater the success.
There are servers you can use in order to create your web page. Cold fusion is one of them. It is a server for applications, but also a framework used for software development. The most common use for it is developing dynamic web sites.
A very similar server is asp. It can also be used to develop you dynamically generated web pages, so your marketing strategies will be accounted for. After your website has been created, regardless of the server used, you need to find a business web site hosting company.
Your web host must be according to your choice for the development of the website, meaning, if you used asp, you need an asp web hosting service, or if you used cold fusion, you need a cold fusion hosting provider. Let me explain.
The information you have input on your website are required to be stored on a server. The company that owns the server is called web host. Thus, according to the framework you used for creating the website, you should either choose a cold fusion hosting or an asp web hosting service.
Where can you find such services? Over the internet you can find breathtaking offers, but not all of them are what they seem to be. Business web site hosting should rely on two things: up time (your website should be accessible 24 hours a day) and costs.
How can you determine which is the best asp web hosting or cold fusion hosting provider for you? The most obvious answer would be to rely on the experience of others. But who can guide you so you will make the suitable choice?
If you visit the website affordablehostingservices.com you will definitely make a good choice. They are an experienced team that has created over 50 sites and tried lots of providers. They present relevant information about each asp web hosting or cold fusion hosting company.
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