Web Designers Help You Become a Star

Accompanying the sudden change of direction at Yahoo, many other high traffic Web sites are embracing do-it-yourself entertainment. Some are even offering their users incentives like cash prizes or a trip to New York.

For a while it seemed web designers were quickly evolving into TV “designers.” But then major portals began dropping plans to provide entertainment. Instead, sites are offering to merely provide tools for their visitors to make and propagate original content themselves.

Ifilm.com is a good indicator of where major media companies are seeing Web-based entertainment right now. The Web site, owned by media conglomerate Viacom, features short videos contributed by amateurs. Visitors to Ifilm can vote on their favorite clips and provide their own competing ones.

Web Design Jobs Make It to TV

In fact, (proving that synergy isn’t quite dead) Ifilm has teamed up with Viacom’s VH1 network in a cash prize competition, called “Show Us Your Junk.” The cross media partnership (with reward) has increased clip submissions to Ifilm considerably.

This is good news for Web designers who were probably wondering if their jobs were slowly being colonized by Hollywood content providers. With competitions like “Show Us your Junk,” it’s Web designers making an encroachment on TV.

Web Design Enables Home Entertainment

Ifilm is hardly the only Web designed, do-it-yourself entertainment exchange. Youtube.com operates similarly; inviting visitors to vote on posted content and contribute home made entertainment of their own.

This trend is encouraged even further by Hollywood content providers who are growing protective of their material. Increasingly, captured snippets of favorite TV moments are no longer free to roam on Ifilm and Youtube.

Web Design Career

The growth of Youtube or Ifilm shows that a Web design career can be more than just designing a site index or home page. Web design jobs are growing increasingly complex, and having a Web design degree or training in the field will help you to take advantage of the new trends on the Internet. Plus, it also helps to have some creativity to help you image the next best Web technology. Who knows what you may create in your Web design career.

Web Design School

Most of current web designers have different proffesions and graduations, because there was not such profession as “web desingner” 10-15 years ago, before internet was born. Other parts of web desingers graduated as graphic designers, programmer, animator or so on. The last ones are more successful due to their bakground is relevant to web design field.

How people become a web desinger – I heard various stories, as for me, I wanted to create own home page, I used to be amateur web designer, but time and effort made me a professional web designer, and the work which I liked to do started bringing me money and customers. Of cource I wished to be graduated as graphic designer or to study at computer university, but no time now to spend few years on that.

I searched in google “web designer school” and found few web sites about it. The first result was http://www.webdesignschoolreview.com/ this site lists web design schools, I think it might be useful guide to you.

Logo Designers

Simple Email form + 2checkout

I� was given the� task to create an online form, after� the form submission details to be emailed to website owner, additionally, as soon as the email form submitted visitor directed to 2checkout payment page.

After several endeavours I modeled simple php code what processes this deal.
Just basic php email function and header redirect to 2checkout at the end. see the code:

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$email = stripslashes($email);
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$text .=� “Course Name: $coursename\n”;
$text .=� “Weeks: $courseweeks\n”;
$text .=� “Fisrts name: $first_name\n”;
$text .=� “Last Name: $last_name\n”;
$text .=� “Day_Phone_Code: $Day_Phone_Code\n”;
$text .=� “Day_Phone_Number: $Day_Phone_Number\n”;
$text .=� “Evening_Phone_Code:$Evening_Phone_Code\n”;
$text .=� “Evening_Phone_Number:$Evening_Phone_Number\n”;
$text .=� “Fax_Code:$Fax_Code\n”;
$text .=� “Fax_Number:$Fax_Number\n”;
$text .=� “Birthdate:$Birthdate\n”;
$text .=� “Male_or_female:$Male_or_female\n”;
$text .=� “Nationality:$Nationality\n”;
// you can add multiple lines with the same $text. = ….
mail(‘zaur@pdesigner.net’,$subject,$text,”From: $name <$email>“);
$location = ‘https://www.2checkout.com/2co/buyer/purchase?sid=471203&cart_order_id=1234592&total=’.$total;
header(“location:$location”);
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Web designers Mission & Vision

Some advices how you should set up your youb design business

Mission:

Quality: You have to have dedicated your time and energy to ensure that yours world wide clients receive only the very best in quality and service in all spheres of your field of work. you provide your customers with unprecedented standards of quality and support which leaves every client completely satisfied and pleased with your results. you take it upon yourselves to make absolutely no compromises when it comes to punctuality and customer satisfaction. You have to supplies only the best and you strive to uphold your reputation, no matter what.
Technology: You have to use the latest and most advanced technology to complete every project which you undertake. In order to provide customers with the best one is required to utilize the best resources available in the market. You have to do just that. By using the highest and most efficient in designing and developing software, you are able to supply to your customers much more than what they had bargained for. This attribute of yours allows us to ensure that your customers are 100% satisfied with your products.
Reliability: You have to clearly understands that customers build the reputation of any organization. To successfully preserve your reputation, you need to ensure that your clients do not get the opportunity to complain. You have to manage to do so by instilling a level of trust in you customers, which now days, is not very commonly witnessed in dual shore operations. You must keep to your promises and commitments and in the process build a reputation of a reliable and trust worthy company. Your reliability encompasses other fundamental features such as problem management and after sales support and services.
Transparency: You have to provide your customers with what they had bargained for and agreed upon at the inception and acceptation of a project. You have to provide your customers with the products they have paid for right till the last cent. You musn’t levy any hidden costs or expenditures while a project is underway, neither do you make any alterations in the agreed budget. You have to adhere to a policy of complete transparency in costs as youll as products and services. Rest assured your world wide customer base will stand guarantee that you have to have delivered to them what they have paid for and even more in a number of cases.
Value For Money: You have to provide your customers with the best value and services which money can buy. Working towards becoming the best in-class service provider, you are presently a juggernaut in the software market and you deliver the highest standards in service and quality at the most competitive yet nominal rates. All of your customersshoud be completely satisfied with your products and completely comfortable with the prices you will have charged for the same. Basing your business on the fundamental principle of supplying customers with value added services.
Customer Delight: You have to have amalgamated all the above attributes in your business to ensure that your customers are thoroughly satisfied with your efforts and solutions. you have helped your customers to excel in their respective fields of work by constructing solutions which have best suited their industrial and business requirements. All your customers should have experienced total customer delight and their smiles reflect your motto, EXCELLENT SERVICE, EXCELLENT RESPONSE.

Vision :

Global reach that would ensure the best services provided to clients by a highly motivated and dedicated team.
You should are committed to quality continuous improvement and total customer satisfaction.
You should add values to the communities where you work and operate.
You should are guided by the highest standards of business ethics.
You should should have the ability to innovate, adapt and work together and put the world on fire with your solutions

Find Keywords for Google

One of the most annoying thing for web developers over the last five years has been the customer insistence on “keywords”. Mainly because of all the misunderstandings surrounding that term.

Customers would even call or email asking if we could buy some keywords for them.

And woe betide us if they couldn’t be found in the search engines for a certain query. It had to be our fault because we had forgotten the keyword!

So at their insistence, we felt compelled to waste our time adding all those barely relevant terms to their web pages.

We felt compelled because we knew it was a completely useless addition to the website.

Of course, the main reason keywords didn’t work was because everyone abused them. So in the end, search engines just said, let’s ignore the keywords and concentrate on what this website is REALLY about, rather than what the web owner would like us to think it is about.

But for about a year now we’ve had the feeling that just maybe they were starting to matter again.

Yesterday, I was researching “web 2 design”. (In fact, I should probably have been researching “web 2.0 design”, and my search results might have been more prolific. But it is often wise to get round the terms rather than hit them straight on.)

So after digging my fill of O’Reilly, and spoiling my head with del.icio.us flickr’s, I was doing some housekeeping on this site and, without much thought, I added the phrase mentioned earlier to the keywords of one of the pages. That was yesterday.

This evening I continued my researches, and hit Google again with the same query. What a shockeroonie. We are (probably were, by the time anyone reads this) top of the world for the phrase ‘web 2 design’.

Of course, after the initial surprise, I realized it is not as clearcuttingly in favour of the keywords thesis as it might first seem.

We are probably the only website in the world that happens to have mentioned that phrase anywhere on the site at all – how modern are we!- and the keyword does come into action in this case.

More research needed.

Send Money Online International – Ikobo

What’s pity that such popular and great merchant like paypal not works for my country, and for� most� other countries, there are just few countries in paypal list which citizens can receive and send money online. There about 30 of them, but what to do if I’m not citizen of those countries, and somebody need to send me some money. I tried to find answer to this question, my first answer was Ikobo.

The Ikobo and how it works, how good it is, is it easy to work….?
I found ikobo as an alternative to paypal. I asked my friend Dan to send me some money in order to start up with Ikobo, he wired 50usd, afterwards ikobo sent me its visa card on my name, with 50$ balance in it. I was so happy, cause I could get rid of Western Unions costly services. In that time, Ikobo used to charge 5$ + 3% for the amount higher than 60usd (they do the same now). I was so pleased with their services they even accepted my inquiry to raise receiving limit from default 500usd up to 2000usd a month. The only one inconvenience with Ikobo was to receive money from non USA countries, they required senders to confirm transfer by specifying visa card symbolic charge, this took 3-4 days while senders bank processed the deal, however this procedure happened only at first time, at next transfers sender could send money without any delay. Ikobo was even better than paypal for me, I could withdraw the funds instantly from any ATM machines supporting Visa cart.

All good things ends some early days, and this happended with Ikobo as well, they issued new rule what allowed users to receive funds only from 3 persons who are defined by the user. It was not OK for me, I had various kind of customers, most of them were just one time.

I’m very in need of Ikobo, I can’t deliver small works anymore to customers due to pointless fee of WU. With Ikobo I could deal with little works too. Customer don’t feel comfortable to pay lets say 20$ by Western Union, he/her prefer fast way to send little amount abroad, with low transfer fee.

I pray that Ikobo get back to theirs old system, and leave this stupid rule, “only 3 senders”. Otherwise they will lose all their customers.

What is google sandbox

I’m always asked what is sandbox of google, and I try to explain them with common words, so let me make another attempt to explain google’s sandbox, I researched it’s operating from practise and read some appropriate resources about it, In conclusion my idea about sandbox as follow:

Sandbox is so called filter which developed in 2004. The filter put in its box all new born sites and mark them as “new” site, until they are get “trusted”. This affect on the sites SERP’s (search engine results pages), untill google keep out the new website from its sandbox. The new website might appears in the result pages, for non competitve keywords or phrases, but when it come to competitve keywords, then it is no where. The reason of the filter is to keep new websites from having prompt success in the search engine result pages.

The sandbox affect to all newly websites. It is important to note that the filter is not a punishment for anything a webmaster does with a new website. The filter is merely an initiation period for new websites.

So, if you createed new website and submitted on google, even linked from other sites, your site will be kept in sandbox for a while, weeks, month, nobody know, except google. Be pathient, and go ahead with natural content building and link exchange, once you will get it. This sandbox is pointed against spam websites, and if your website is quality enough, then no reason to worry about., Google will go on to change it algo concerning inbound links and content, but the basic elements of ranking will remain the same.

Lala Mirozyeva’s blog

I have� assisted� my friend to set up a blog� web site� for her http://www.lalamirr.com/� , she is great poet/writer, and has a big list of poetry in her young ages. She writes in russian, and her poetries are published on many other russian literatures websites. I fall in romantic feel reading her lines.The Lines telling you about Baku, love, seasons, and touching other actual subject…

Magazine Subscriptions – another oscommerce site has been launched

I’m finilizing http://www.magsn.com site, the work consists of oscommerce customization and design. At fisrt glance, what� makes it different from default oscommerce look is categories and products navigation, here I used 3 pull down boxes, 1st one� is a� categorie selection, second is featured journals, and third is shop by price range, I have made the look of the site accordingly customers mock-up. She supplied me with clean draft, where from I began to work.

Additionally the store has such addons like, discount, html editor, clean url, seo firendly links, titles, static page editions from admin side, and few other useful things.�

There are going to be about 1500 magazines and hournals which supplied by publishers.

Your comments are appreciated.

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Online t-shirt design store, enquiry

Customers enquiry:

I want to have a web presence that’s hip and cool and offers something different from the typical t-shirt site. Two sites that have inspired me are:

www.bustedtees.com