Blog Title: Macronimous Web Design Blog

Know more about PHP frameworks

Here is another nice, well I think it is nice, since it’s pretty short and gives you an over view quickly. All PHP developers must find one Framework for them before your client forces you to learn one. Thanks to Ryan and Team for this precise information.

Mobile web development and Standards.

Here is a nice presentation which talks about the standards for Mobile web development.  

Will SEO efforts for Bing affect the SERPs in Google?

Not exactly, if you optimize your site for Google SEO factors you will generally do well for SERPs in all the major search engines. In addition you need to do some tweaks in turn for the difference in the algorithm. I have done some research to the sites that lists in Google and Bing for high traffic read more..

Questions for Web designers.

Today I revived few questions from Carl Williams of Odin Jobs for a blog entry. I believe every designer should ask themselves to keep the answers with them always. 1. When and how did you get started in web design? 2. What is the single most important attribute/skill a good web designer must have? 3. What hard and read more..

Do you really need an SEO consultant?

At present you have a website that has been designed and development meeting your business needs and you admire the look and feel of your website, easy user interface and functionality for your customer, and thinking how you and your business will be known to your customers?   Then you need to think of populating your website read more..

Database Optimization Techniques to Increase SQL SERVER Performance - Part III - Index on multiple columns

Index on multiple columns for SQL performance Since clustered index reorders the table and arranges the data according to the index key, SQL Server allows only one clustered index per table. This results in amazing performance, when you only have to worry about one particular column. If you are in need to order the data by read more..

Database Optimization Techniques to Increase SQL SERVER Performance - Part II - Increase query performance with indexes and statistics

Indexing:                             One of the most advantageous methods for increasing the performance of queries is the formation  of efficient indexes.  A well-built index helps the query to avoid the necessity of scanning the entire table for results. If you have created an index, SQL server will automatically measures and stores the equivalent statistical information regarding the read more..

Database Optimization Techniques to Increase SQL SERVER Performance - Part I - Increase SQL Server stored procedure performance

1) Increase SQL Server stored procedure performance with following three tips:         Stored procedures plays a vital role in enhancing the performance of the database. The following three tips will help us to maximize database performance, when stored procedures are used. Use NOCOUNT:            If NOCOUNT option is turned off, on each operation: stored procedures returns information concerning read more..

Our new site is up! - www.macronimous.com

Our New business site is up for us from today : www.macronimous.com . The previous site was around 8 years old, and grown up to over 600 pages of static content. A complete makeover was a challenge and our team was able to achieve it in 3 Months.The main changes are, 1. Layout and Graphic changes (With read more..

Is Dmoz dead or editors active?

We all know Dmoz is the largest human edited directory in the web and the link juice from DMOZ produces good Google ranking. A large group of editors manages Dmoz and getting your site registered by the Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org) is vitally important as far as search engine positioning is concerned. In earlier 2005 I used read more..

Using subversion for web development

We use Subversion in Macronimous, and I found it would be interesting to share its benefits and our experience with Subversion. It’s a bit lengthy entry, kind of Article, But I believe at the end you will find it useful. Web applications are growing tremendously, with more developers involved in finishing the projects. This is when read more..

10 Things you must know before doing SEO for your Site.

1. SEO is not a onetime process - Like your conventional marketing (Eg. Paper ad), you cannot stop SEO by paying onetime, see results are stop. Remember you have your online competitors working with another SEO team like what you do.  2. You need to allow your SEO person to optimize content - The content and read more..

Load and Stress testing - Tools reviewed!

Most of the performance issues occur because of high stress in server.  You should perform load testing to know how many concurrent visitors your site can serve perfectly. It is difficult to arrange without the help of a set of actual user. It is the proper way of using advanced automatic load and stress testing read more..

Using images cleverly for SEO

In general many neglect SEO for images and some avoid due to ignorance. Using images for SEO is as important as adding Page titles and SEF URLs for SEO. Also it helps a lot in Google General Image search, as well as product image search. To start, first step is to make certain that you use read more..

Why Cubecart?

Many of our customers who look for Ecommerce solutions find Opensource solutions to build it cost effectively and they like what we recommended, Cubecart!There are reasons:1. Easy to customize (skin based), and this keeps the cost low. 2. You can bring great look and feel with skins, you can make the site like complete custom design. No read more..

The colors of SEO Hat

SEO is one of the marketing strategies used for increasing site visibility in search engines. Different people follow different SEO techniques for organic promotion in search engines; some may be ethical, some non-ethical and others intermediate. These practices are colored according to techniques used, compared with the search engines recommendations and guidelines.  Here is the list read more..

4 SQL injection methods every PHP programmer should be aware of.

The Problem with all the codes is that the value is not sanitized before it will be sent as a query. All we need to make sure is that we passing the secure data into database. We can send secure data and prevent the data hacking by following the four prime SQL injection methods Function mysql_real_escape_string() : In read more..

Simplify Database admin with free MySQL tools

Briefed below are four MySQL tools that are really interesting, and you would like to review them and test them for better DB management experience. They do fairly good job with the database admin management, and good alternates to phpMyadmin.    1. SQL Buddy: A tool that allows you to get more work done for less, the SQL read more..

Drop down Menus for Wordpress CMS - Plugins reviewed

Organizing of content is done better way using drop down menus. But coding them could be a heck of a task. Thanks to some of the finest plug-ins that cater to the drop down menus needs for Wordpress, we can use them in our websites or blogs for easy drop down navigation. These plug-in can read more..

7 Questions you must ask your SEO customer before you start anything!

 Here are the few (might look silly sometimes) we ask our SEO clients before we do anything, means even before we study their website. 1. Describe the type of customers/audiences/visitors that you are targeting with your website. 2. What are the products or services that you provide? 3. What are your target specific keywords? Do you know what your customers to be read more..

Alternatives to Google Analytics to measure your ROI

Our SEO team likes Google analytics, But they still generate some reports manually and simplify some of the reports generate by Google to make it readable to clients. Not all the clients will understand the detailed reports from Google Analytics. They need facts and figures, easily understandable. So, always our SEO enthusiasts are looking for read more..

Use frameworks - Cut down your web Development cost!

Cost cutting! - This is something everyone always appreciates, particularly during this slowdown. People want to spend small or no money, however things need to keep going! You need to cut down the development time, so you can save money, execute more projects and manage to reduce the cost of development. This is the time read more..

15 SEO Tips and Hints for 2009

If you are an SEO analyst or specialist here are few techniques which are used widely these days. I am not going to explain the boredom basics, which could turn off you :) However, if you need to refresh basic and regular tips / techniques you can go to these below topics: (1) Search Engine Optimization for Beginners (2) Increasing Link read more..

Using dotProject for web project management

Out of my experience in handling various projects for our company, I have realized this one hardcore fact that Project Management is one of the very essential constituents of a project. I was initially going through various PM tools and found dotProject to be a useful tool. Since then our company has been using dotProject read more..

Greetings!

Everyone at Macronimous wishing you a very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New year 2009!

You still can do SEO with your Flash website

Flash does wonders to sites, making them more visually appealing and interesting. But have you thought how appealing it is for the search engines? The fact that not many of us know is that sites that are completely made using Flash, would be treated as a single page by search engines, thereby reducing the crawling read more..

Oxite – Opensource CMS in Microsoft way!

Last week there came a surprise from Microsoft, an Opensource CMS. While there are plenty of Opensource CMS applications are available, we may not need another one in the line. However, I really appreciate this step from Microsoft. Microsoft named as Oxite, and ASP.NET Model-view-Controller based CMS. This bold open source attempt from Microsoft, contains a read more..

Measures to reduce your website bounce rate

Have you heard of the term “Bounce Rate” and thinking of what is it and how to reduce it? If you are using Google Analytics it is well and good, in Google Analytics you should have noticed “Bounce Rate” in Dashboard section and Top Content section. Bounce Rate is calculated using percentage of visitors who read more..

Using twitter for SEO

Twitter, one of the top free social messaging and micro-blogging site, which helps users send and read text-based posts, is also known as tweets. In twitter, text-based posts are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have registered themselves to receive them. Not only can users obtain updates through the Twitter read more..

SEO techniques Ebook made simpler

Search engine optimization is very important with respect to any online business sites, to get it search engine visible. At the same time it is an ever-updating industry. When done in a proper and standard procedure, by experienced professionals, it is sure to give top long-term results. So we thought an ebook on SEO techniques, to read more..

Time Zone Difference – A blessing for the Offshore outsouricng

We all face competition everywhere. Especially in this fast paced life where everyone is expecting speed and efficiency, we ought to give them the best. Offshore outsourcing not only help in managing your organization’s work better, but also help in effective and timely completion of tasks. We have heard it from many of our clients that our offshore read more..

4 places to find great Photoshop plugins and filters

Following the best four series, this time I have chosen 4 sites to find wonderful and useful Photoshop plugins and filters. Though there are thousands of sites offering free Photoshop plugins and filters, searching through the sites and choosing the ones required could be a tedious affair. Am sure this list would prove to be read more..

Social Bookmarking as a tool for SEO

What is Social bookmarking? It’s an easy way to save and share the websites/pages you like, with tags, for better classifications, so that you can revisit them easily. You can also share the URLs you like with your friends, site visitors and networks. Unlike your browser-based book marking, social bookmarking sites help your sites, resources and read more..

Securing your Wordpress site and blog

Hackers like Wordpress sites and your blogs too. With some precautious steps you could avoid your Wordpress driven website being hacked. Wordpress codex has a detailed article on Hardening wordpress, and hence hardening your site. In fact its a guide to help you to find and prevent your PC vulnerabilities, Server Vulnerabilities, Wordpress package issues, Your read more..

Download our new free flash guestbook, easy to integrate with your website

A guest book allows you to keep a check on who is been visiting your website. Getting feedback becomes all the more easy with the all-new guest book from Macronimous. Forget boring forms. The real difficulty in getting feedback is to push the visitor to leave behind little information.  The fun to use guest book from Macronimous tempts read more..

Four Wordpress plugins to create Multimedia rich websites and blogs

Wordpress is a simple and handy platform that is highly used in creating blogs and is also one of my favorite blog platforms, Wordpress plugins that are used along with it can create excellence to sites. Out of many Wordpress plugins that are available, I have chosen 4 that are my darlings, from the Multimedia read more..

Top 4 competitor tracking tools

Online competition tracking is not as easy as we all think and we don’t know when competitors make different alterations to their websites and fine-tune their keywords to gain top results. The most crucial phase and factor of SEO is competitor analysis, as staying ahead of the competitors is not an easy task. For that, read more..

Social Bookmarking practices in simple steps

Here is a video I like about social bookmarking practices and thought of sharing for those who don’t like to spend more time in reading long articles about social Bookmarking and more interested in straight to the point This video demonstrates explains how effective and easy social bookmarking practices are and comparatively you will know how much read more..

Web 1.0 Vs. Web 2.0

This post is written based on the requests seen in forums. I still found most of the surfers don’t have clear picture about the “difference between Normal design websites and Web2.0“. So thought of writing a brief note on Web2.0 Hopefully people who try to know Web 2.0 design standards should be knowing about normal design, read more..

How important is effective web content for SEO?

You have a well designed website with perfect usage of flash banners and graphic designs, with proper site navigation and easy accessibility. Still do you feel that you are not getting the desired visitors and sales to your site? I suggest you probably need to work on the content in the site. I believe it is read more..

5 minutes site visitor analysis.

Even before we started using SEO, Just after building the sites we started using a Site visitor analytic tool. Initially we used Goldstats; It was more than sufficient when we had only 20 pages, and no much SEO really done. It was a nice start. But when we added articles, and  really wanted to know more about read more..

10 Minutes SEO Checklist to review your SEO Considerations

This Simple SEO checklist will help you to follow steps to rank your site in major search engines You just need to spend 10 minutes to review your site with below SEO checklist. If you can mark “yes” to most of the SEO considerations then your site will be having a reasonable traffic which can be developed read more..

Google Chrome - First impression.

A whole new browser. (?) Can’t agree to that fully, since it is based on Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox components. I personally like the products from Google, and I believe Chrome would also make some difference in the Browser market, though it is available only in XP and Vista. A Linux version should make this read more..

Know your website enemies!

Do you own a successful internet business? Built a great website and promoting it online? Is website your business gateway? So you value your website very much and  it’s time for knowing the attacks your website - your brain child, may face. There are both and good bad eyes looking at your website. Apart from Physical read more..

Cost of SEO

When you plan for your site promotion, there are few things you should keep in mind before working out a cost or make a budget. I will make that as few questions to ask yourself or your marketing team. How important SEO is to your website? Do you want to make your website as a primary business gateway? Do read more..

Immutable Laws of Marketing and online Branding

As a Web Marketing professional, I was attracted by Two books during last week. One is on Marketing - this is for every business in the market and one is for the Internet marketing. Both are from the same author(s). The first book is The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and the second one is The read more..

Is your opensource CMS flexible enough to accomodate your design?

In a survey, by the Information Architecture Institute, 47.6% of people says “My CMS is not flexible enough to accommodate my design”, as a key issue they face with many Opensource CMSs available in the market. This made me to think about the truth behind this. What prevents them from making a great design for read more..

Web2.0 Applications: Are they all making impact?

Its Web2.0 era, and many of us know how a web 2.o site would look like. We are also developing web 2.0 sites, especially Social networking sites, though we still have no clarity on Web2.0 impact in business. But everybody wants to make it. We get at least 2 requests per week for Social networking read more..

Adding your business details in Wikipedia

Have you ever wondered how to get your business details published in Wikipedia? You might have tried it and found after few days or weeks the links and the content are thrown out. In the following YouTube Video Dr. Ralph F. Wilson interviews Mike Svatek about to do this genuinely. It’s worth a watch - read more..

4 Search Engine Results Page (SERP) tracker tool

Search Engine Results Page, which is abbreviated as SERP, is a tool in which, once a keyword is typed in, it shows the results of various web pages where those keywords appear. This is taken from the results of various search engines, thus giving an idea of that particular keyword’s position in the web. This read more..

Top 4 Link Popularity Check tool

Link popularity is one of the methods to increase the traffic in your site. This is an excellent way by which your online website can be recognized to a greater extent. It refers to the procedure in which many links or hyperlinks from various other sites are linked to your site, thus increasing the chances read more..

4 Keyword tools

Keywords! The very word has gained so much importance in the past few years, in the field of online marketing. To make the work a bit easier for the keyword writers, there are many tools available nowadays. If one gets an idea of the people’s needs and queries that they type into the search engines, read more..

4 SMO Sites

Social media optimization (SMO), a type of search engine marketing, is a collection of practices used for networking and promotional needs, via word of mouth. This is produced not through family or friends but by the usage of networking in online community sites, video sites, social bookmarking and photo sharing sites. There are various ways read more..

4 tools to track your (online)competitors

Online competition tracking is not as easy as we all think and we don’t know when competitors make different alterations to their websites and fine-tune their keywords to gain top results. The most crucial phase and factor of SEO is competitor analysis, as staying ahead of the competitors is not an easy task. For that, read more..

4 CVS tools for web development

If you are developing websites collaboratively, say your development teams are working jointly in a project (design or programming) and using CVS or Concurrent Versioning Systems is one good practice to save everyone’s life before they mess up others code. Assume John uploads his code using FTP at the at 6PM, and Dave overwrites read more..

4 Web collaboration tools

Did you ever wonder how to work efficiently with your offshore team. I am sure you wish to have some better mechanisms than simple emails back and forth. When you like your customers to interact with your team, without you spending much of your time, But at the same if you can monitor the projects read more..

Access our Blog from your Mobile (browser)

Accessing this blog from your Mobile browser is now enabled. Thanks to Alex King of alexking.org. Its a simple Wordpress plugin, Its called Wordpress Mobile edition. Just follow the instructions, activate the plugin, The blog is up for the mobile now, just call blog.macronimous.com from your Mobile browser..and Yes.. you got it! Alex read more..

Wild ideas - Nokia Marph!

Do you want your phone looks like your wristwatch?, Pen? or even like your arm band? Do you like a phone which never need to charge its batteries? Nokia is working on making this into reality with the support of Nanotechnology. Recently at Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition in the Museum of read more..

Do you want to Blog?

So you want to blog. But why? “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” – Says Herman Melville. When you want to link your thoughts with others, when you like others to learn read more..

Wordpress likes.

Recently we started our Business blog section with Wordpress, Simply we are enjoying it. I would like to share what we like in Wordpress. Overall Wordpress is very easy to install, create the mySQL database and mention the mySQL login credentials in the configuration file, upload them all, Run the setup and you are done! - read more..

A story behind Inbound Links!

Many people arise a question “Link promotion – Matters quantity or quality?” Link promotion proves to be the base for search engine optimization. People try to optimize their sites using strategies like competitor link analysis, identifying thousands of back links, say 10,000; but simultaneously keep worrying over the time consumed in adding their site to this read more..

CMS, Ektron and Gold partnership!

Web Content Management solutions save your organization time and money while adding value to your existing Web investments. Several key benefits includes : Anytime, anywhere Web publishing : With some web content managment solutions, content “owners” in your organization can securely add or update content from any Web browser. Anytime, anywhere Web publishing: With some web content management solutions, content “owners” read more..

Advices for healthy life

Ramesh has sent me some advices for a healthy life, which I would like to share with our readers. Reduce volume of tea intake Do not eat bread which has JUST been toasted Stay some distance from your cell charger Drink more water in the morning, less at night Do not drink coffee twice a day read more..

iPhone SDK

Apple released the long awaited iPhones Software Development Kit (SDK) and the associated iTunes “App Store” and iPhone Developer Program. If you are a developer you can download it for a price of $99 and start developing applications for iPhones. Unlike other Phones, Apple was keeping their phone isolated from third party applications, means you cannot read more..

Analysing Trends in Eductaion

The present corporate sector is concerned about the educational issues too as a part of its social responsibility. Being involved in the web development for educational institutions for over two decades, we thought of disseminating information on various dimensions of education from time-to-time to our constituency. We, AES Technologies India Private Limited, are venturing into read more..

Web2.0 Stuff

This is what I understand about Web 2.0: Web 2.0 is a trend which uses web as a platform to build collaborative applications of sharing nature - mostly hosted community solutions. Web 2.0 applications also use rich client side integrations using Ajax, light weight user interfaces with limited graphics built with XHTML and CSS. I found read more..

Software as a Subscription Service

Finally Microsoft enters into ASP model. You need not buy your license for some of the softwares like Exchange server, Sharepoint etc. You can pay per month and use it. At present its in Beta, as every one keeps their buggy applications in the name of Beta! You can visit it at http://www.mosbeta.com. At read more..

The most popular destination for offshore outsourcing

India is still the most popular outsourcing destination - Studies says. A telephonic survey was conducted by BDO Seidman LLP says, The most popular destination for offshore outsourcing among U.S. tech firms is India (60%), followed by Southeast Asia (50%); China (46%); Western Europe (21%); and Latin America (19%). The study adds, 64% of tech companies in read more..

Your business need a Mobile site

If you have a website for your business to reach millions of internet users, you should also consider a simplified version of your website for the Mobile phone browsers. Designing a mobile site is not a big deal. If you are not a web designer, You can easily do it with dev.mobi’s Mobi site builder. read more..

Tips for Email Efficiency

I regularly read the tips from the expert trainer for business writing, Ms.Lynn Gaertner-Johnston, who was the founder of the company called Syntax Training. She also conducts seminars on Business writing, and she shares some 26 tips. Read these 26 email tips from seminar participants. Then apply and share those that fit your corporate culture. 1. When read more..

Mobile development tools

There are plenty of tools are available in the Market for Mobile application and game development. Which one is your choice? I found few articles, which gives a list of tools for Windows mobile as well as Java (enabled) phones - I mean Windows CE.NET and Java ME (J2ME). Michael Juntao Yuan of JavaWorld.com has written an read more..

Welcome!

Welcome to Macronimous web blog! This blog will be regularly updated by a team of web development professionals, including programmers, designers, SEO professionals. We will also post our thoughts on Mobile development and offshore development in India. We hope to keep this blog refreshed with news and thoughts - which will help readers to update and read more..