website developing tools

To develop website. There are several tools/softwares that can be used. Some of them are as follows:

IrfanView- this is one of the most simple and easy tool of all. It comes with the features that a person can use with ease.  The features like resizing the image, by percentage is one of the key feature of it.

Serif WebPlus- if you want templates and want to work on that, then this is the answer to it. it is having media utilities like for youtube , flash etc. There is nothing like only “technical people” can work on it because there is no technical wording used in this.

TopStyle- this one is for the person or professional, who have knowledge about html, or css. If you have an old html page or website and want to change it, this software will help you. 

ImageLab from Sausage Software- there are numerous of images available to the users. This is used by non-designers who want ease in their job. It is one of the best alternative to modify the clipboard images.

Blocking Social networking at work- right or wrong?

Every eight out of ten person is on social networking media, whether it’s Facebook, Twitter or any other sites. Even CEO’s, MD, managers and higher officials can be found on those media. So, if it is called as “bad” then why are they there?

The question which still prevails in most of the organizations is– should these sites be banned for employees or college students?

There are different opinions of different people. So what should be the real solution to this?

According to the Nucleus Research survey, employers are losing 1.5 workers per 100 in employee productivity to the supposed time-wasting activity known as "Facebooking." 

Even students lose their concentration while studying or while working in lab. Their mind wanders near these sites only as many of us are now addicted to it.

It is to say when given a chance, a person logs in minimum ten times in his spare time, just to see if there have been any comments on his status, or like on his picture or any updates. It can be summarized as “human behaviour”- we if given a choice would definitely divert from our work at some point of time.

As every coin have two faces so there is a second opinion on this concept too.

We all need small breaks from our work every now and then as we are humans not machines. Even if social networking is banned, it doesn’t mean employee won’t find any other means of deflecting himself from the job if he wants to.  

Same can be said for students too. There are researches which states people who took small breaks between tasks were 9% more productive than others who did not. "It gives them a chance to reset their concentration”. 

This issue is again not a scenario which can be defined as pure white or pure black. There are some gray regions in this, which needs to be addressed. On the whole, we must leave it to an individual. Let him/her decide on whether they want to waste time on such stuffs or they want to make use of it. If they don’t perform, then organization can take measures to talk to that person.

The question which now arises is how many of us would not touch social networking sites as a matter of personal discipline? 

 

And this can be answered by individuals only as they are the one who have choice to balance their job as well as their pass time. If they prefer to waste their time- then they will find other ways other than these sites. On the whole it can be productive as well as non productive, which totally depends on individual’s perceptions. Banning sites is never a solution, if they want to stimulate their productivity or educational values, may be disciplining those who don’t work as they are expected to, can be one of the solutions.

Creating website- PHP or ASP.NET or JSP

We have created a banner and logo which was a basic requirement for a website. Now we need a platform-One needs to know in which platform he/she should make a website.

The most popular is PHP and the simplest of all is ASP.NET.

One of my friends prefers JSP over these.

The key points are:

PHP

-download WAMP, LAMP, and XAMP for windows, Linux or both respectively

-install it; make sure all the “services” are online.

-this package have APACHE server needed for the PHP code to run. MYSQL is also there, we can make our databases in it.

-make your PHP files in notepad and save it as *.php

-Or we can use DREAMWEAVER

ASP.NET and JSP(java server pages)

-these both are not open source like PHP. But ASP has easier options like. Drag and drop “textbox” on your webpage directly, working with VB or C# in background.

-ASP run on IIS or PWS server (built in these days), JSP runs on Apache tomcat server.

-JSP supports real java codes and like java its platform independent

-ASP.NET can be made in DREAMWEAVER or within .NET framework.

-for database connectivity in JSP, it only needs driver of that database and it will connect to it.

So this was the basic information about the three platforms. Pick one, read online tutorial and start coding.

If you don’t want a website with backend option, then wix.com also provides great deal of website, edit it and upload it.

At first, it may be a challenge but slowly it would become more interesting day by day.

create a small website-logo

when creating a website another thing beside that should be taken care of is logo.
there are various tools for creating logo, like photoshop, corel draw.
this video will tell how to make an transparent logo, which can be put on any background. you need not worry about its background. let suppose youhave a logo that you want to use but its not transparent so for this, see the following video.

create your small website- Banner

For all those who are trying to make their websites. whether its for project or for own reasons. these are some of the videos that might be useful.
every website have a banner, why not create it in flash.

when you created a banner just add this banner in your html file.

Net neutrality and Non Discrimination

How many of us know, “TIM-BERNER LEE”? 

This person is the reason; we are been able to read this article. Not only this article but he is the reason for this whole concept of “WORLD WIDE WEB”. This article is not about him or his achievements or his role in the making of “www” but of higher concern.

When it was made- our internet, the main focus was on the word, “no discrimination”.  It means there is no partiality to whatever service is demanded, or to whatever website we want to log in, every feature and every service should be treated without discrimination. This is the reason, when we try to find something using “search engines”, the sites with closest or probable match is given to us in form of list not the ones that are highly paid.

Now the question arises, is this impartiality really happening?

No, this is a clear answer. Yesterday only i tried to open a simple website that came into my “Google search”. And what i got was, “this website cannot be open in your country.” This is not the end of it, many of us must tried at some point of time to search something on YouTube, and many a times the statement was the same as above.

What we are talking about is- “NET NEUTRALITY”. It simply means network neutrality that is; no favourites should be played with the contents that are on the internet. 

Like in every story there are some people who want the “good guys” to die.  In this context they are the big telecom companies who want it. They want to act as a “gatekeeper” checking whose website or apps should go fast, and who’s slow. This scenario is like bribing the watchman with a 20 Rs note and asking him to enter the college late without notifying anyone.

What will happen if this internet will become as “pay per view” types? By pay per view- it means we may have to pay a network tax to run voice-over-the-internet phones, to use advanced search engines.

May be, the free-flowing internet as we know, will be a history.

The telcom’s have two general complaints with a non-tiered, neutral network.  They argue that the improvement of infrastructure is costly and without proper compensation, results in major content providers not paying their fair share. 

Let take a neutral point- let’s see the whole scenario in a form of pros and cons:

To be in favour of Non- neutrality, one of the points is- Capacity is finite.  So concept of prioritization comes up. If there is no prioritization, a few apps will consume too much bandwidth; and also it reduces the service provider’s motivation to increase bandwidth

But to counteract these statements

The net neutrality is essential for-Innovation- ISP/operators can kill innovative apps if they are allowed to discriminate; another point is that of “competition”- operators can kill competition by selectively disallowing certain applications.

At last the consumer only will suffer.

 

In conclusion, Net neutrality is not a law yet, it is still practiced. If it is not there then consumers fear that they will discriminated by network provider on the content. The future is still unset, why not take our bid, there are various sites for these petitions and who are working for “our right” of net neutrality. Why not support them.