Money Making with Blogging

24.com (South Africa) conducted a blog survey (1000 bloggers were surveyed), it was largest blog survey and its statistics were finally manipulated on 10th of December 2008 and few amazing facts and figures came out (Author of SA Blog Report - Mandy de Waal). Most bloggers are of age group between 25 and 44 and blog was just for fun not for commercial value to earn money, very few bloggers make money and that too very low amount.

Blog research results showed only eight percent of surveyed bloggers have a commercial motive, and out of this number around 85% earn between R1 and R1,000 while 15% (or 12 surveyed bloggers) earn between R1,000 and R3,000 each month.Some 43% of respondents earn more than R20,000 monthly, while more than 15% earn over R50,000 per month. Interestingly, 58% of local bloggers are married or cohabit, and 46% of them have children. There is an even split of men and women blogging and 58% are between the ages of 25 and 44.Some 95% of respondents said English or Afrikaans was their first language. Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria are blogging epicentres and account for more than 75% of surveyed bloggers.

Survey result also says that blogging has lot to do with bloggers online and offline lives. South Africa capital Cape Town appeared to be blogging capital as most responses were from there.

On an average 1 to 5 blog posts per week was calculated to be done, blogging platform is considered and taken as an outlet to express personal, pen down individual ideas thoughtfully. Graph showed 50% bloggers posted just 1 post per week, only 15% posted 4-5 postings weekly. Another interesting fact was that 65% spent 1-10 hours average weekly on their blog.

I would like to conclude by saying blogging provides open platform for individual to contribute and share information, experiences. Internet Blogging is self empowered. We need to become more aware and utilize blogs as revenue generating model that involves larger audience, diverse participants from all over the world and easy integration and mobilizing people to think and act.

Dedicated PHP Developers

To ensure top class PHP development services to the customers' worldwide open source development company in India utilizes its resource pool to provide custom web design services India, custom web application development services, CMS development, CMS customization India, ecommerce website development, B2B open source solutions, B2C web portal development. Our dedicated team members have extensive, hands-on experience on website development using PHP MySQL as programming language. Our work areas include these segments:

Open source consulting; web site design, website development, website integration, website maintenance, custom web application development, custom software development, custom software solutions, CMS development, CMS integration, CMS customization, social network application, vBulletin, workflow management, tracking software solutions, discussion board, forums, Wikis, blogs, portal development.

Open source web design development is able to achieve php web development using open source development capabilities:

• Methodologies: extreme programming, agile development, Rational Unified Process (RUP) , Model View Controller (MVC)
• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Web 2.0
• Skilled in a variety of DBMS platforms such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server
• We have set of PHP coding standards and practices as well as software development methodologies in place. The coding standards well define the conventions, techniques and styles to be followed during every aspect of project development from design to coding.


Open source Development Company dedicated php team, joomla developers, drupal developers, Ruby on Rails programmers, sugarcrm consultants, open source developers solely work on clients projects to meet their needs and fulfill their requirements and specifically work your projects.

India ranks first in outsourcing because of its rich resources, uninterrupted good quality services it has been providing to its partners globally without any failure. Indians are well-known for their entrepreneurial skills, technical skills, expertise and in-depth knowledge and innovative nature. Software development or web development companies in India offer affordable, dedicated and expert programmers, developers, consultants to customize the client’s requirements and provide bespoke solutions. Either you can outsource to India or can hire Indian web developers, PHP programmers, they are well trained, they attend seminars and workshops on latest design tools and development technologies. It is really essential to remain up-to-date with new tools and technologies and have enough knowledge to upgrade the existing ones. Starting from requirement gathering to final delivery of project these dedicated php developers work under guidance of senior developers, programmers, project managers and get full support from them. Our programmers and developers and web designers are very innovate, think in broad way, they inculcate and explore to add value to your services. Most important point based on which you can select a web application development company or company for outsourcing PHP is spectrum of services they are offering and experience of team members.

Is your website down? Know and Recover – Why and How???

What if a well designed and developed website does not load fast. I am sure your visitors will be taken to your competitor’s website and may be those visitors do not visit your website again as time is money and to view a website nobody would like to wait and gaze. So why not check for few factors which will speed up your website load time. Few points are: number of objects your web page has as objects overhead dominates web pages latency. CSS techniques are recommended for any website rather than using graphic techniques. Every net surfer hates website which doesn’t load. What if this is our own website? Before coming to reasons for website going down let me discuss few important things which I think needs to be considered at the initial stage. Do not use multi-threaded html; images could be in more compressed form; HTTP compression is recommended for java script.

Very common problems seen for websites down time:
• May be server problem; DNN error or network issues;
• Error in your website’s application
• Web space limitation.

Outcome of server downtime: Decrease in traffic; Less Visitors; Downtime in your ROI.

There are many companies providing website monitoring services, we have been using InternetSeer that sends error alert showing at what point of time your website goes down and type of error, reason behind website downtime, also sends error alert when website is up. It is all upto you to select website monitoring service provider.
Website Monitoring is integral part for website maintenance and website owner must have strong foot hold on monitoring important ports.

Before hiring a web monitoring service provider check list of services they provide like whether they provide multi protocol support (FTP, DNS, HTTPS, Ping, etc.) ; downtime notification (SMS or Email); global monitoring, uptime and performance report, multi-lingual support, maintenance.

Get open source consulting, your website designed and development by open-source-development company located in India.

Joomla CMS Customization India

We expertise in Joomla CMS development, Joomla CMS customization, state-of-art custom web design with Joomla CMS, e-commerce application solutions with open source CMS features and search engine friendly urls and search engine optimization coding.

Open-source-development.com offers comprehensive one-stop web solutions for your website and it is your words and our work put together turns dreams into reality. Do you have an existing Joomla extension that needs modification?? Are you thinking of redesigning your existing website and moving it to some interactive Joomla template and customize it???? ready to have Joomla template for your website? Then you are at the right destination, we will develop a Joomla website, add new themes and functionalities to existing Joomla extension to make it more interactive, enticing and easy for users to manage.

Main features of Joomla are:

1. Authorized access to different modules based on access permission is possible.


2. Real time content updation is possible. It is very simple and easy similar to word processing, no prior HTML knowledge required.


3. Creation of content menus dynamically can be done.


4. Polls creation is easily possible.


5. Managing all types of file and file formats from multimedia to audio and video files, text files, pictures in different formats like .png, .jpeg, .bmp


6. Managing News Feeds, from different news source web sites


7. Managing built in RSS, search engine friendly URLs and search engines.

Since Joomla is open source off-the-shelf-application it is cheap as code is free, only cost of customization is involved. Maintenance cost is reduced as it is easy and simple to manage for those using it, no extra employee is needed. Mere knowledge won’t work; you need to be purely tech savvy to modify the core source code of Joomla CMS. There are different modules and components which are available by default, come along with Joomla CMS. All you need is to choose from them as per your requirements, also you can add new feature on your own. Do not worry! customization of footer, header and advertisement banners can be done. Joomla programmers and developers develop new design, theme and template and integrate on the existing script. Enjoy custom Joomla CMS development, Joomla CMS customization, Joomla website development, Joomla web design, outsource Joomla development services to India.

Drupal Web CMS Development

Drupal web content management system made a bit simpler and easier for you. To avoid head over heels in development, developers, designers and programmers put heads together to savvy with code and module configuration.

Drupal developers and programmers can combine various modules of Drupal and its features to create a variety of community based sites with minimal code manipulation.

O’Reilly Media has been putting out media in regards to technology and tech community; chronicling new developments and staying up on tech trends has kept them at the forefront of the industry.
Comprehensive knowledge about core Drupal framework, which all modules to select for certain websites and certain modules not to included as best development practices. It is really enjoying if you are overly tech savvy and know to use Drupal to fullest for a range of situations and styles; just utilize your knowledge and share your expertise.

If you are thinking of developing a dynamic website full of interactivity with less coding and custom template and themes Drupal Web Development is one of the preferred options. Why Drupal content management system for your website:

Reliability: Drupal successfully runs on thousands of websites across the globe and because it is open source CMS it is easy to track bugs and fix them. There are many Drupal communities which are working to help Drupal developers and programmers share their knowledge and improve performance of websites by managing codes. Dedicated team of Drupal developers are working to keep every thing right way.

Maintainability: Drupal CMS provides tool sets to customize your website requirement, whether you want to upload text, image or audio, video files or product catalogue there are different modules to upload these easily. Drupal Content Constuction Kit (CCK) similar like SDK (Software Development Kit) helps to build forms and controls as you desire.

Adaptability: Developers from Drupal communities contribute to make Drupal more organized. Drupal is widely acceptable by SMEs (small and mid sized enterprises) and media corporations for developing e-commerce websites, discussion boards. Drupal is easily and readily adaptable to myriad of web development needs.

Customizability: Interactive websites are pleasing for users and provide users real time updation facilities. Drupal “off-the-shelf-application” provides templates and themes to customize appearance to meet your particular requirement. Drupal comes with lots of built in functionality which can be customized to provide interactivity to websites.

Outsource Drupal development services to open source web design development company in India. Whether you need small scale Drupal programming to develop small websites, great look websites with usability and interactivity or e-commerce websites, media corporations open-source-development.com will build complete website including Drupal coding modules and custom themes.

Issue Tracking Software Eventum

Eventum issue tracking open source off-the-shelf application is available under General Public License (GPL) and is developed by MySQL AB Team. Eventum has been written in PHP language and MySQL is used at the backend for database. Whether incoming technical support requests or software development team bugs and tasks request eventum is used to track and manage various issues.

Below is summarized system requirement of open source off-the-shelf application Eventum:

PHP Scripts handling web server is required.
PHP5.1 and newer version is needed with following extension.
• PCRE Extension
• Session handling enabled
• MySQL Extension
• GD Extension
• IMAP Extension (c-client imap library)
• gettext support if you want to use localization
For email support SMTP and POP is server is needed.
MySQL database server is required.

Installation is very simple and easy as Eventum bundles the libraries, but eventum file should be placed in directory.


User Management by creating users within application; multiple projects can be defined and accordingly we can set categories and priorities; issue creation by login in the application; custom search options, external e-mail account integration; e-mail alerts to set notification alerts; integration with source code management software and time tracking are important features of Eventum.

Advantages:
Cost effective product, can be easily customized, it is simple and easy to use and eventum provides effective issue tracking.

Any enquiry from you will receive our prompt attention. Open-source-development.com could provide you with latest web design, web application development based on latest technologies using off-the-shelf or custom application development solutions. Your early positive reply is most awaited. Thank you!

MVC web application development India

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is architectural design pattern for interactive web design applications of software systems that separately defines each layer. The interactive application is arranged in three different layers: Model, View and Controller. Using this style or pattern software is separated into model representing core functionalities, the second module is view that is used to display model to users and controller lets the users control the model. Model or application model consist of data representation and business logic; second module is for views that offers interface for user input and third is controller that is used to dispatch request and control flow. This programming model and implementation infrastructure allows developers to use the application source code without changing in different client-server environment. Since model, view and controller are used in single, non-partition space they can be easily deployed.

Ruby on rails technology uses this model view controller (MVC) architectural design framework fore creating database driven websites using Ruby programming language. MVC reduces code complexity by avoiding developers to write code again and again that is code redundancy. All this is achieved by making complex web application easy to handle by dividing the web application into simple layers.

This programming model or methodology is not suited for systems with many domains but is well suited for single domain system because of its simplicity. Modification is easier as model, view and controller are separate. This allows easy modification of data and reduces code duplication as all the three data behavior, data presentation and data control are separate.

Application operates on this domain specific information Model, database interaction and business logic are handled by the model, also multiple views may exist for single model (these are user interface elements), these are actual HTML code that are displayed in the browser and controllers manage web server interaction, these are user actions that may lead to changes in the existing model.

MVC makes the complex web application developmentsimple to mange and implement. Controller lies between model and the view and is responsible for extracting objects from database using model and giving it view for user. It is view that takes data given by the controller and produces the HTML output for the web browser, at the same model and controller are set free to do their specific jobs while view is busy generating HTML codes. The view is added sum of HTML and Ruby and adds dynamic content from model without relying on third party for formatting. Rail framework captures HTML and sends to web browser. Ruby on Rails development takes these concepts and bundles into single pack.