Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Philippine Web Designer

Discover the secret on how to succeed online, business owners now in Cebu, Philippines are strugling on to how to promote their products online but first they must have a website and looking for cebu web designer are not easy to find because most of them are working on the company but cebu web design is a small group of three working as a philippine web designer that can cater all your needs from web design to search engine optimization or seo.

We started in a few local clients since year 2005, but fortunately we gradually grew up to present so, we decided not work in the company since our income is limited only. Philippine web design is one of the good job that IT professional must take it seriously otherwise they are always a slave of their employer.

Monday, August 18, 2008

Most Professional Commercial Sites Now Using PHP


PHP is the most popular dynamic web programming language which you see in most of the websites that require you to sign in with your username to a site, vote in a poll, download or upload something or even while you are using the shopping cart of online shop. It is the main language of most of the sites that are professionally written for commercial purposes.

Unlike HTML, PHP is much closer to the basic programming languages like C or even JAVA. However, calling PHP a programming language would be a huge mistake since it was originally written in C and then developed into a sever technology by a college student Rasmus Lerdorf. In fact, his first intention was just to create a small script to track hits on his “Home Page” and yet, it became the most popular open source in the Internet world. Further, the name PHP comes from HP of “Home Page” and P of “Personal” and “Portable”.

With PHP, users can do variety of programming; from a simple “Hello World” script to a very detailed shopping system. Its simplicity and maintainability separates this code from its competitors; JSP (Java Server Pages) and ASP of Microsoft. Knowing this fact, most of the Internet web space suppliers build their servers with Apache (Linux) so that their clients can work with PHP instead of WINDOWS based ASP. PHP being a derivative of C is associated with LINUX which also supplies the user with another useful companion of PHP; MySQL database server.

Some people might say that PHP is just the “free” version of ASP (Microsoft’s Active Server Pages); in other words ASP for the poor. However, this is not the case. ASP, as most of the products of Microsoft Hegemony, does not let the user to do any further setting then it is allowed in the installation software. Everything is done automatically and almost nothing is left for the initiative of the user. Whereas most of the things are manual in PHP, in order to install the PHP/APACHE/LINUX triplets you really have to know what you are doing and have to work on them.

Other than the flexibility of this technology, it is also extremely stable since it uses Linux which is a modular operating system which means it opens a new module for each and every function that you try to use. In the end, you really do not want to have a server which cannot support you for 24/7. The most intriguing feature of PHP is that it can connect to MySQL database or SQL 2000 server using its own open source libraries developed for the users by the users. These connections are also without using ODBC which is slow because it a mediator between your code and the database. PHP directly interacts with the database bypassing this middle burden thereby giving you tremendous clock enhancements.

PHP is the basic tool for you to follow the path to become a web programmer and create your own, sophisticated, nicely coded, interactive internet pages. Use PHP if you want to be in total control of your server and want to know what really is going on.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Does Your Business Need a Website - Who Should Design It?


Anyone in the business world knows that when someone asks, “What’s your website address?” you better have a URL to give them. They don’t want to hear “I don’t have one yet” or “I’m working on it”. Having an established, professional looking website, always scores credibility points for the business owner.

Of utmost importance though...it is far better to not have a website than to have a nonprofessional, cheesy looking site. You will do much more damage to your business by portraying your company in a less than top-notch light.

If you don’t have the knowledge, skills or abilities to produce an outstanding design yourself then hire a professional web designer. Web designers aren’t cheap, but that’s no reason to cut corners. Rework your budget or possibly try to barter for all or part of the work to build your website.

You can save yourself time and money if you have your website copy written. Provide your web designer with the text and the layout of how you want it to look. Offer color schemes. Send links to other sites that you admire. Of course, you never want to copy someone else’s site, but by giving your designer an idea for the theme you’d like to have, the process will go much more quickly.

The more work you can you do up front yourself, the easier it will be on your pocket book. Many designers work by the hour. If you want to have lots of links in your website, spell that out clearly. Ask your designer if you should submit your text and ideas in a Word document or if they would prefer it some other way. And make sure to forward any photos you want to use to your web designer. Web designers are not mind readers. Most will do as many edits as you like, however you will be charged for each edit.

There are many "quick and easy" web design companies out there, advertising that you can have your website up in an hour. And there are many canned templates that you can use which are very user friendly. But, keep in-mind that most of these tools are for beginners. They will not provide a professional looking site. If it’s your business, the one you’re trying to make profitable, image is everything. Don’t try to cut corners in this area.