Tuesday August 14, 2007 at 11:42 am (ALL, Web 2.0)
The term web2.0 was originally presented by O’Reilly Media (A well known media company publishing books and websites on various computer technology topics). It’s a term that refers to a new generation of websites (social networking websites, wiki-based websites etc). These websites take advantage of web application technologies and give web users the ability to collaborate and share their experiences, views, opinions and interests while they surf the web.
The web2.0 is a revolutionary phenomenon. Let’s talk about the most basic characteristics of the websites using the web2.0 concept:
- A web2.0 website should be completely interactive and dynamic with a friendly user-interface based on the latest web2.0 technologies like AJAX. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tuesday August 14, 2007 at 11:41 am (ALL, Webmasters)
There are three broad ways to turn your web site into a place where your customers can buy your products and services and pay you money for them.
The first is to get a merchant account and set up a professional private shopping cart. This makes sense if you also do consumer shows where you can take credit card orders, or otherwise have reason to take credit card orders in person. However, if you’re predominantly a web-based business, it’s probably overkill. It requires installing somewhat arcane software, it requires going through and configuring said software, and getting a signed security certificate, and the list of things that can go wrong (without you being aware of them¡) is long and somewhat scary. Read the rest of this entry »
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Wednesday August 8, 2007 at 11:39 am (ALL, Google info)
The start page of Google Docs (or Google’s basic file manager) brought back the option to archive files, but changed its name: now you can hide the files from all of the views. This is especially useful if you store personal information or if you rarely need some files.
An even more useful option if you have many documents is sorting. Just click on a column’s header and you can sort the files by name, collaborator’s name, starred status or by date. If you click on the header again, the files will be sorted descending. Unfortunately, the sorting options aren’t persistent and every time you open a folder or the main view, the files will be sorted by date (the default option). Read the rest of this entry »
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