10 ways to improve the design of your commercial Web site

September 3rd, 2009

Avoid 10 common Web design mistakes that can cause the public face of your commercial enterprise to fall flat. Applying the experiences and the lessons learned from previous designs can make your own Web site design a productive and valuable addition to your enterprise.

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Comet & Reverse AJAX

July 22nd, 2009

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One of the most basic laws of a web application is that the client, not the server, must initiate any communication between the two. There are a number of common use cases where, ideally, the server would like to talk to the client dashboards and monitoring apps, chat rooms and other collaborations, and progress reports on long running processes. Comet (a.k.a. Reverse Ajax) provides a mechanism for enabling this.

Alex Russell has coined this term Comet™  for a flavor of AJAX that has been getting more attention than AJAX now. Comet describes applications where the server keeps pushing or streaming data to the client, instead of having the browser keep polling the server for fresh content. It uses long-lived HTTP connections to reduce the latency with which messages are passed to the server. In essence, they do not poll the server occasionally. Instead the server has an open line of communication with which it can push data to the client.

Web 2.0 Applications in Hindi

July 22nd, 2009

We are all players of new are of internet better known as Web 2.0. Web is flooded with social networking and collaborative sites. We make new friends open ourselves in new better way. Expressing ourselves can’t be better than when done in Mother Tongue. When it comes to express basic emotions like love, anger, proud, excitement etc., we prefer the language we started our life with.

logoNow we have a great news for people who wished to use their favorite social networking website in Local Language. An example of the usage is implemented in scrapbook of orkut.com. There you can switch to hindi / english and type in Hindi. Google’s Blogging service, Blogger has already enables Hindi bloggin service. In near future larger set of websites will offer services in Hindi and other Indian languages.

Thanks to Google, their new Transliteration API makes all this possible. Its easy to use programming interface that web programmers can implement in their web application to provide Hindi support.

Here’s a demo of Google Transliteration API.

What’s World Wide Web?

July 22nd, 2009

A formal answer to this question would go something like this. “World Wide Web is interlinked websites from web hosts around the world that provides access to infinite pool of data

Informal introduction goes like this.
Internet is a necessity in everyday life now. Today we not just only access information, we share information, and we are creating our virtual identity in this digital world. Today when we here a news, a name, about some product, some company we Google it first to satisfy our knowledge hungry gray matter. We have started meeting new people online in new form of web that is Web 2.0. We discuss, share, suggest and even find life partner online. Beautiful colors of real life are getting digital. This is just a start of a new dimension of Life.

Our identity on internet is getting equally important as real world. A person is known to be more important if he is found on first page of Google search results when you Google a name. People are pumping information on their Blogs, uploading photos on Picasa and videos on YouTube. These tools have given us new eyes to see what others are doing. How they are living their life. Inspiring and taking real and digital world closer.