September 23rd, 2009

Learn how to change the width of a Joomla template

Many times as a Joomla developer you will encounter what seems like a very simple problem but actually it is not as easy as you may have originally thought. As an example, changing the default width of a template for your Joomla site seems simple enough, but where do you begin?

Most quality templates come with the ability to alter the width of the template as well as the width of any side columns. When you see the total width of the template, you should be aware that this includes the width of any side columns included in the template. Thus, if a template says its width is 962 pixels and the left and right columns are 210 pixels each, the middle column will be 542 pixels wide.

In this article, I will explain how to change the total width of a Joomla template as well as how to change the width of any side columns that may be in the template. In creating this article, I have assumed that you have a current version of Joomla installed and you are familiar with the administrator area.

The first step is to access the back end administration area of your Joomla site and go to the “Extensions” menu then choose “Template Manager”. Next, choose your default template and either click on its name or click on the box next to its name and then click on “Edit”.

You will want to make a note of the original width of the template and any side columns as they are before you make any changes in case you wish to revert back to the original settings. To change one of the columns, look for the column in the “parameters” area, make your change and click “Apply” and then view the change in the front end to see if you achieved the desired affect. If you wish to change another column, just repeat the previous procedure on the next column.

If you want to keep the side columns the same width, but want to change the overall width of the template, just change the template width parameter only. This will only change the center column width leaving any others as they were originally. When you are satisfied with the new width, click on “Save” and then go to the front end of your site, hit refresh, and view the results. Note: not all template developers offer these parameters, however any quality template should have them included in the administrator area.

Since 1996, Marc Harris has been a principal of a web design firm and has managed site development projects for numerous clients. Marc now works almost exclusively with Joomla and is writing articles about understanding Joomla. You can find more free Joomla video tutorials at 5minutejoomla.com.

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September 23rd, 2009

Reasons to use Custom Web Site Design

There are many reasons your business should consider custom web site design if you want to be successful online. These reasons include branding, being unique, generating traffic, and so much more.

When you hire a company for custom web site design they work hard to determine what it is about your business that makes you stand out from the rest. They create a brand for you that make you memorable and recognizable. Customers appreciate a company with proper branding. Branding is what makes you stand out from the crowd and gives you the edge. If you use a company that cannot give you a custom brand then you will not have a brand and there will be nothing special about your business.

Standing out from the rest is what custom web design is all about. It will help customers understand why they need to purchase products from you or use your services. Standing out from the rest also means an excellent logo creation that is easily recognizable and memorable too. This way, when your logo is sent around the net users remember exactly who you are and why you are the best.

Custom web site design is by making a site that is customized to your specific needs, vision and goals for an online business. This means that the site is not built on a template that most other companies are using on the web today. When a site uses a template then it has the same look and feel of the rest of the sites and it may even be hard to tell the differences with the two different companies also.

Custom web site design company also work hard to generate as much traffic as possible. The great thing about customers that come to a custom site is that they are actually interested in something that looks a little bit different and stands out from the rest.

There are many reasons to use custom web site design for your online business. It is important for a company to create a brand that is memorable and puts a stamp on the visitor’s memory that is positive. Custom design works excellent by generating more traffic and building a site that is personalized for the business.

For more information, tips, and resources about web site designer, you always can visit http://www.7strategy.com, or send an email to info@7strategy.com

Stella Evans – Web Designer

7strategy Web Design Company

Olathe, KS – 66061

1-888-231-30

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September 23rd, 2009

What’s Favicon And How To Make And Install Favicon On Your Blog Or Website?

What is “favicon” and how do you make and install a favicon on your website or blog? A favicon (short for favorite icon) which usually appears in the upper left side of your browser’s address bar, is a 16×16, 32×32 or 64×64 pixel square image(icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon,or bookmark icon.

A favicon is basically an image that distinguishes a website/company from others. What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you see this image ?… Google of course. You see how easy it is to advertise and embed your brand in people’s mind. That’s the power of favicon. Simply put, a favicon for your blog or website, is another way to make “you brand”(your website/blog), easily recognizable.

How do you make and install a favicon?
Making a favicon is very easy. It’s basically making an image that you like in mentioned(above) sizes and saving it as a “ico” file. There are many free favicon generators online, like dynamicdrive.com or animatedfavicon.com . Also, if you already have any kind of Image editing software like GIMP, PhotoPlus,…you can use their built in favicon generator to make a favicon. Here is a step by step instruction on how to make a favicon and install it on your wordpress blog or any kind of blog or website for that matter.

1. Use your image editing software or any favicon generator to make a favicon.

2. Save your favicon as favicon.ico

3. Upload the favicon image to your ”public_html” folder, in case of word press upload it to “public_html/wp-content/themes/my-theme-name/”.

4. ( word press/blog) Go to your word press Admin Dashboard. navigate to Design/Theme Editor/Header (header.php) , and insert this line of code between and of your(header.php) file. Don’t get confused, the best place to put it is, the upper section, where your css file link is located.

4. (website) Go to your Web Root (public_html/www) and navigate to your “index.html” file, insert this line of code into the head tag of your “index.html” file.

5. Now save your updated file, word press= (header.php) file. website= index.html.

6. Open a new browser and type in your blog/site url. Congratulation! There is your blog’s/site’s favicon on the upper left side.

Satrap is the founder and author of controversial blog, blogstash.com. A blog full of great how-tos and information about making money online. Visit blogstash today to get your share of this valuable information and learn how to make money online.

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September 23rd, 2009

Free website templates

Website is a primary requirement of every company: big or small. Your online existence offers more flexibility to you and your buyers because they get to browse and purchase your products and services at anytime of the day or night. Internet has made our life luxurious and comfortable and thus having a website is indispensible. You cannot attract your potential audience unless and until you have a unique and impressive website. There are many websites online that provides free website templates for all those who wish to own a website. The website templates are attractive and unique. They are designed amazingly to maintain highest possible standard and fit various needs of the users. You can add your content accordingly and make your website look attractive in matter of minutes. The best part about free website templates is that they are easy to build and does not consume much of your time.

By adding your website content, you can convince your customers to purchase your products over other websites available. People browsing online are always looking for something new. They want a different and unique website that can offer them the kind of products and information they are looking for.

There are several website benefits that you can enjoy with website templates. The main advantage of using website templates is that you get freedom from appointing a website professional to build your website. Designing a website is a tedious task. You need to possess knowledge as how to utilize the latest applications and tools available. The website templates are designed by professionals using the latest software so that users can edit the designs and can fit their website content in them aptly without much of a trouble.

You can change the color of your templates as per your liking and can match it appropriately with the products and service you sell online. You can tweak the designs easily and personalize them, thus making your website unique, impressive and different from other websites available.

You can browse the free website template galleries online and pick the design that appeals you the most. You can choose them according to your taste and as per the changing needs of your audience. Creating a new website every time is not only expensive but it also consumes a lot of time. With website templates you can very easily create an altogether a new website in matter of minutes. You can get professional results without even spending much on it.

People online are looking for new things that suits their interests and are little different from the usual website. If your website is designed in a boring fashion then it acts as a turn off for most of your audience but if you have a website which is attractive and at the same time provides your audience with the right kind of information then you can very easily get more number of conversion sales.

Your website lays the first impression on your customers and if it’s not attractive enough then you lose on them and your business too. So, use the best of the website template designs available online for free and make your website sell more than ever before!

Visit our Free website template category to choose from a variety of wonderful Fashion website templates.

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September 23rd, 2009

Use Webmaster Staffing to Grow Your Online Business

Some of you might be wondering what does webmaster staffing means? So just to make it clear for everyone I’ll just give you a brief introduction.

Webmaster staffing is also known as staff leasing or outsourcing. It is a company that hires people who have skills in different fields of information technology and then leases them to those who need extra help on their online business. The outsourcing business is just like any other businesses around the world. If you have not noticed yet, all other businesses are also outsourcing in one way or another. The Shoes that you are wearing, the fish that you’re eating and the car that you’re driving, are all the products of outsourcing! The only difference is they market goods, staff leasing companies market services!

But how could webmaster staffing help webmasters on their online business?
Staff leasing generally helps online businesses in three major aspects:

• Cost cutting
• Productivity
• Time management

Cost cutting and productivity has always been one of the greatest challenges to many businesses around the world because it’s almost impossible to cut your costs and increase your productivity both at the same time. If a company prefers cost cutting then their productivity decreases and if they prefer productivity then their expenses rises. This is just like math; expense is the inverse reciprocal of productivity.

With webmaster staffing this is possible! How?
When hiring an employee upfront you will be paying about $2000 a month or maybe higher but when leasing a staff from a webmaster staffing company you might pay as low as $575 a month only! Doesn’t that mean cutting your costs for as much as 70%? You could even hire four agents for the price of just one upfront employee which puts you three steps ahead of your competitors.

Companies that offer webmaster staffing services are usually located in countries with lower living costs like China, India and Philippines. Although the wages paid to the agents may seem too low for you but when converted to their currency it turns to be real high and they are really satisfied working in such companies and as a matter of fact they try hard to do their best to stay in the company. Many people in these countries are dying to have a job in outsourcing companies, in fact a dozen of resumes pour in daily but only the best candidates are hired.

Working with a dedicated webmaster staff who renders full-time service results to a higher productivity for your business.

By becoming a webmaster staffing client you could save time and energy on issues such as handling employee benefits, questions, recruiting, interviewing, hiring new staff, office set-ups and monitoring agent’s attendance and behavior. This gives you an edge to focus more on your business’s growth and strategy.

The combinations of these three aspects obviously result to higher revenue and enhancement of competing aptitude for your online business and less headaches for you.

Massomeh Indanan is the project manager and the webmaster of a Agents of Value.

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September 23rd, 2009

Professional Website Design is a Prerequisite for Success on the Internet

A website can give your business enterprise the competitive advantage that you have been looking for. It is the unanimous opinion of management experts that a business website can greatly enhance the publicity profile of a business enterprise if you adopt a professional website design approach while creating your business website. The best part of having a website to promote your business interests is that you can get the whole site up and running by dedicating a bare minimum of your corporate resources. This is a definite advantage that many businesses can derive from the Internet as they strive to increase their profitability.

In order to design a web site, a business manager in charge of furthering the marketing efforts in a business enterprise needs to get the assistance of a professional web design and development firm. The London web designers from this firm will be instrumental in ensuring the professional website design to ensure the ease of navigation and the correct placement of all the information within the various pages of the website.

You just have to provide the required strategic inputs to the team of web designers that is working on creating your business website. You would also need to make sure that there are periodic appraisals at different stages of the web design and development process. This is essential to make sure that there is no time or cost overruns in the project and that your business is able to derive the maximum benefit from going in for a proactive Internet based marketing and promotion strategy.

When you create a website for ecommerce purposes, it is better to ask the London web designers to optimize the professional website design that they have come up with using Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. SEO services are offered by the leading web design firms that operate in the country. The ecommerce design considerations are markedly different from that of other types of websites and the content in these websites has to be managed carefully using time tested SEP principles to make sure that the site is rated high by all the popular search engines.

A web design London company that you select for providing you with a website for furthering your business interests must be able to offer you a full suite of services along with the basic web design and development work that they would offer while creating your website. These services may include content management, logo creation and associated graphical interfaces etc. that are very important aspects of a successful business website.

A good web design company that offers professional website design services will also offer you critical services like unlimited design revisions when you sign up with them for making your business website at really cheap web design prices. These companies realize that it is the need of their clients to remain competitive in the markets that they are active in and therefore come up with some affordable web design to suit the budget of all types of business entities.

Lee Jay is author of this article on Website design.
Find more information about Web design here.

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September 23rd, 2009

The Use of SEO in Effective Marketing Strategy

The use of Web 1.0 for the development of computer-mediated communication technologies has been a precursor to today’s Web 2.0. These computer-mediated communication technologies, called “interactive communication” when applied to diverse businesses, defines as the interaction of an individual with or through an electronic device or communication technology in order to access or transmit useful information or receive guidance and support. To date, interactive marketing communication applications are mostly internet based and include personalized WebPages, online articles, discussion groups, support groups, and games. Savvy marketers use SEO to reach out their audience.

As opposed to the static read-only nature of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 applications tend to be “read and write.” That is, the content for these pages is “easily generated and published by users, and the collective intelligence of users encourages more democratic use.” Web 2.0 includes a “second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users.” Web 2.0 pages frequently get updates with user-generated information so that they include the collective intelligence of all contributors, not just one site developer. Web 2.0 builds on the otherwise flat content of Web 1.0 by engaging and empowering users. Rather than branding a product through Web 1.0, Web 2.0 is about bonding with users, having a “deeper, more intimate, conversational relationship with consumers.”

Establishing a blog or a website does not ensure that it will have visits by a large number of users unless steps to connect the blog with the blogging community manifest–the blogosphere. For example, connecting a new mental health blog to the existing mental health blogosphere requires linking blogs. The five most common ways of increasing the number of visits to a website are search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click advertising, tagging/social bookmarking, RSS, and link backs.

Two of these methods–SEO and pay per-click advertising-have helped revolutionize the marketing of digital content and therefore have important implications for health educators wishing to reach target audiences more effectively through the internet. SEO requires an understanding of how search engines retrieve information. To optimize the retrieval process, optimizers manipulate websites so that they are more attractive to search engines–that is, they make the web link (URL) more popular to search engines. Ideally, health educators would have their web content listed first in search engine rankings. Many SEO companies exist to provide this service; however, health educators can enhance search engine ranking and, ultimately, traffic to their websites on their own by submitting site information directly to the search engines (e.g., users can go to “Google Sitemaps” or www.google.com/addurl to add a URL to Google). Additionally, website link popularity finds enhancement by ensuring that a new URL finds place on a site that previously is, indexed by a search engine. Link placement is, achieved when optimizers approach and request “link exchanges” with relevant pages, purchase one-way links, or post their URL on forums, blogs, and social-networking sites relevant to their keywords.

Ghanim Yalda is the author of this article on Toronto Internet Marketing.
Find more information about Toronto earch Engine Optimization here.

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September 23rd, 2009

5 reason for Custom web application development

With keeping in mind the needs of users and web owners customized web application development is getting more fame. The service is slowly getting adapted in order to go with the requirements of the clients. Popularly now a days it is know as custom software development. For developing any successful application the developers need to have great understanding of requirements of client. Once the requirement is clear in developer’s mind it’s very easy to execute it for development. Here are some important points for custom web application development.

Why Custom web application development?

• Web application development has made data management very easy for net surfer. The user gets information very fast and in adequate way. Before any Custom web application development there are some procedures and architectural policies that need to be take care in developing.

• Web applications are more used in emails, online auction websites, blogs, forums, Online shopping portals, chats etc.

• Most websites are making use of web based application development services in their websites in order to increase their business and give it an advanced advantage over other websites.

• When there is huge amount of user interaction involved then the website will be needed to develop such application that makes users interaction fast and easy.

• Shopping portals are the best examples of such application where users can have a virtual tour of the product before purchasing it and with it users can have the best idea about the products before they actually purchase them. The monetary transaction that is carried out between a user and web owners will be needed an advanced web application. This is why custom web application development very much needed.

For developing application you can use any language as per your requirement. If you are building Enterprise application then you must go for JAVA. JAVA is very authoritative language for enterprise applications. In the IT world few companies are expertise JAVA Software application development and Rightway is one of it. With over ten years of experience in web and software development made it the perfect choice of web application development Company.

Benefits of Software development in JAVA:

1. Multi-platform support language and support for web-services also.

2. Develop dynamic web applications for e commerce, e learning, polls, HTML forms processing, and more.

3. Combine Java technology-based applications or services to create highly customized applications or services.

4. Write powerful and efficient mobile application content, RPC.

5. Low – cost consumer products, and practically any device with a digital heartbeat

Contact us for Custom web application development and Software application development services. Rightway solution Pvt Ltd is an offshore web development company.

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