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Successful web development at affordable rates

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:28:55 +0000

When you need to have a site developed it is very important to get the most professional designers, developers and copywriters to do the job for you. There are millions of sites on the internet today. In order to stand out from the crowd good joomla customization is necessary. Great style and functionality will always be in fashion and professionalism never hurt anyone either. It is very important for your site to be fast loading with easy transparent navigation and simple structure that won’t slow down customers who are always in a hurry to view pages without the unnecessary hassle. People hate when designers have lots of pop-up windows, fancy welcoming pages or clashing backgrounds on their sites. This is not about showing off cms development but about making it most comfortable for the users.

Nowadays websites are becoming more affordable and are built much faster than in the past. It doesn’t mean they are worse, in many cases they look just as professional as old-school websites built from scratch without website development modules. With joomla module development it is possible to build very professional websites fast without losing on creativity and individuality. It is important to maintain a chosen style throughout the website and make sure that when users turn to different parts of the site they can still distinguish where they are. Easy navigation is a prerequisite for a successful website. If a user can get to where he wants from every page of the site, then the layout is really great. Sites that load fast, don’t have built-in audio and video files are welcomed by the public, look good on all screens and in all browsers. These are the basics, a good site will have much more at work to make visitors stay satisfied, let alone bookmark it.

Making things faster and easier

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:26:09 +0000

With project tracking software the task of controlling and carrying a project to completion has been somewhat eased up for project mangers worldwide. With dashboards and control panels everything happening within the scope of a given project is easily monitored and controlled. Scheduled tasks can be viewed and time spent on them easily checked, so that the manager knows exactly what everyone is up to. You would say that Google Docs perfectly fits to fulfill all these functions but I would say that this is a completely wrong understanding of the project management process at all. For sure, Google Docs allow you to edit the documents and allows collaboration and file sharing but even the basic documents sharing opportunities are limited. That is why if you want to achieve success and what is more to reach the point of a convenient workflow you should turn your attention to special project management shareware. One of the best features of project management software is its adaptability and flexibility with timetables and schedules easily reschedule if the parameters change. It is easy to manage the day with the interface that includes the presentation of tasks for the day, messages coming in, meetings scheduled, important calls to make, issues to address and risks to look out for. Everything is fully customizable and you can have an email marketing solution tailored exactly needs of your particular business. Collaboration is take to another level and communication on a daily basis, as well as file sharing and video conferencing is no longer a problem. No wonder more and more people use this software every day. It really makes the life of everyone easier and helps the project team focus on delivering the best service possible to their clients. And ultimately this is what every CEO has always been dreaming of!

TcPdf PHP Library

admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:54:51 +0000

I worked on one project with many different reports that had to be created. And in addition to html reports, client wanted to have pdf options, so his customers could download pdf version of report.
PHP build-in libraries for PDF creation, haven’t satisfy our needs, because we had much tabular data, and many different tables, so it would take too much time to setup all these width/heights with block elements that those libraries offer.
I checked some additional libraries too, and even some popular libraries like fpdf haven’t had support for tables.

Then I found one excellent library called tcpdf, which have great support for tables, different fonts. You can use html tags to create layouts, tables, blocks, define fonts, add images, so if you need really good tool, I greatly recommend this library. It is free library, and you can find many examples on their website.

However, I had to use fpdf library in same project, because we need to create Avery labels in pdf file, so user can print on sticker paper for example. This, of course could be done with TcPdf off course, but because it would take maybe whole day, so setup layout, we decided to use fpdf. It is not good idea to use two different libraries for same thing, but this was client request.