How To Keep Website Design Simple Yet Effective

“Keep It Simple” is one of the essential standards in achieving an effective website design. It must be applied to all features of your website, from the content to the design, navigation and so on. Here are some guidelines in implementing that simple look of your website and make it stand out among other competing [...]

 

Tips On Determining Disk Space And Bandwidth

By Von Rod Limpot, Oct. 6, 2009

Philippine web hosting companies offer various services that cater the needs of business owners in establishing a presence in the World Wide Web. But before deciding on your website hosting, you have to determine how much data storage and bandwidth will you need for your website.

To figure this out, you have to think of the content that you’ll be hosting on your site. Content includes text, images, audio and video files. Plain text are the least content that takes the amount of space. While images take considerably more and the audio and video files will need the most space. This applies to bandwidth as well.

Philippine web hosts offer what seems like a huge amount of storage space, assuming that you’ll never use it. You’ll see a range of storage and bandwidth being offered. Cebu web hosting might be offering 1 gigabyte of storage while Manila web hosting could offer 500 megabytes at the same price. The quality of service is a key factor in choosing a web host, so don’t just look for the one with the biggest offer.

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Things To Consider On Choosing A Web Provider

By PhilWebServices, Oct. 6, 2009

With web host companies in Cebu, Davao, Manila and all over the globe and with thousands of plans to choose from, making what was just a simple procedure on which provider seems like a daunting task for both pro and newbie.

There are simple things you must consider in choosing a great host. Whether it’s your first time to seek a web host provider or change to a betther one. Things such as, platform, features, cost, customer service, support, longetivity and uptime.

PLATFORM. This is the most important and the first thing you should consider. Determining the platform or the operating system that the web server should run. Usually it’s a selection between Unix/Linux server and Windows server. The choice must be based on the website and the technologies that create it, Microsoft technologies (ASP, VB) are for Windows server while open source technologies (PHP, Perl, Pythin etc) are for Linux server.

FEATURES. Once you’ve chosen your platform, the next thing to determine is the features, features that you will need from your web host. Take your time on this, take a closer look on the features as it gets longer and longer everyday. You should keep an eye on the following features, disk space, bandwidth, back ups, uptime, money back guarantee, domains allowed, databases (number & type), CGI PHP Perl Python SSI, Cron, Email accounts and so on. So just make sure that your web host can provide you with everything you need.

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Avoiding Risks In Outsourced Projects

By Von Rod Limpot, Oct. 6, 2009

In today’s competitive business market, outsourcing projects indeed proves that it’s an effective way for many companies to save financial resources, to focus on the main operations of the business and to get assistance from experts and professionals of a certain field.

There are companies that handle so many tasks but have too little time to deal with it. What they usually do is they fully surrender their task to an outsourcing provider. Aside from it’s free from time-consuming, it still manages the company’s marketing performance.

However, there are certain risks for companies that divulge into outsourcing projects. Especially when it comes to monitoring and communicating with the outsourced projects. So we’ll give some tips on avoiding these risks.

Once a company fully surrenders a certain project to an outsourcing provider, it also means losing control of the tasks. This may be a relief to business owner but it is a huge risk to them as well. Remember that outsourcing provider may have different goals and the quality of the outsourced task can be compromised if the business owner fails to keep track on the said project.

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A Guide To Better Understand Outsourcing

By PhilWebServices, Oct. 6, 2009

For every business, may it be a large corporation or a small business, outsourcing is well-known for its effective way in conserving the company’s workload and its resources.

Common misconception of people regarding outsourcing is that it is only done by big companies. Big companies who assign subsidiaries from other countries such as Philippines in manufacturing their products. These companies can lessen their expense when it comes to financial resources since the labor costs, materials and lease of infrastructures are much cheaper in overseas compare to the United States.

However, outsourcing nowadays vary in different services that caters to the exact needs of the company. Even the averaged-sized or small businesses can enjoy the services offered by outsourcing providers. The other type of job outsourcing is known as domestic outsourcing. This means both the owning company and the subsidiary are located on the same country say in Philippines, the owning company’s area is in Cebu and the subsidiary is in Manila but both areas are in Philippines. In addition, there are now a great number of freelancers located overseas that adds up to the demand of global outsourcing.

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Essential Elements Of Web Design

By Von Rod Limpot, Oct. 6, 2009

Understanding the essential elements of design help you put together a more powerful web pages. These elements are the essential tools of design. It is what makes up on every page you build, it’s the building blocks of design. So, what are now the essential elements of design? Here are re five fundamental elements of a web design.

Lines and Linework. Lines include rules and borders. They can be vertical or horizontal. It helps in defining the spaces within the web pages. Lines can be used as border around elements or a divider between elements. Linework helps in increasing the readability of the web design.

Shape. Shapes on the most web pages are rectangular or square. It builds up any enclosed figure in a design. It is used to convey meaning and organize information. It is also used to direct the eye through the design to sustain its interest.

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Basic Principles Of Design

By PhilWebServices, Oct. 6, 2009

The basic principles of designs help the web designers on putting together all the design elements in an appropriate manner. Using these principles, it also help web designers build more pleasing and useful designs since design is beyond embedding HTML tags up to the site.

BALANCE. The principle of balance shows you how to lay out your pages so that it will work. It is also the allocation of the light elements and the heavy elements on a website. The larger and the darker the elements are, the heavier it will be in the design. Balance is a visual interpretation of gravity in the design. The position of elements on the page determines how balanced the page appears. It is in the layout that the balance in web design is found.

CONTRAST. Contrast is not just all about colors, as what all people thought. But it is more than that. There are the contrasting sizes, contrasting textures and contrasting shapes. Contrast in design is an accentuation of the differences between elements in a design. By using more subtle differences in contrasting font sizes, images, layout shapes and text styles, you can take advantage of contrast without blasting your browsers with a loud contrasting color scheme.

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