Web Design and SEO Relationship

Claremont Design's Logo

Claremont Design's Logo

Web design and search engine optimization are two factors that play a vital role for successful online business. A good web design can provide a good user interface that will let your users to easily navigate all through the features of the site. Aside from that, the design provides a lasting impression that will let you instill to the mind of your audiences what you can give and provide. It also reflects the professionalism of the online business. On the other hand, SEO provides a better chance for your website to be found by a lot of people. Good contents and services of a website can be very useless if no one is visiting it and through SEO, there is a higher possibility to gain a lot of traffic brought by search engines like Google, Bing ad Yahoo!

This is the reason why it is more advantage for your company to hire web design company that is capable to deliver high quality web designs at the same time implements the SEO concepts on the design structure of the website. If you are planning to build or restructure you website for your business this coming 2010, ask the company if they can deliver the said requirements – quality designs and well-structured site that is SEO compliant.

It is better that you start your online venture right. Go to Claremont Design’s blog for more tips on hiring the right web designers for your organization.

Fixing GNU GPL Virus/Malware

My site was infected by a certain virus that embeds itself on PHP and Javascript files. The malware/virus attached itself at the end of the file and connecting to a certain website with a ccTLD .RU. It attached a code with GNU GPL code encrypted in Javascript. It infects all index.*, default*.* and *.js files.

Since, I am using a shared hosting, all of my sites under the hosting was infected and at first I did the fixing manually but since its a time consuming tasks, I decided to create a PHP code to clean this file. Here’s what you need to do to fix your website from the said GNU GPL infection.

  1. Check your PC for any infections using an anti-virus like AVAST and MalwareBytes.
  2. Change the password of your hosting and FTP access.

Nexus One Aka Google Phone in the Philippines

Nexus One = Google Phone

Nexus One = Google Phone

Have you heard about this latest buzz about the newest phone from Google called Nexus One or also known as Google Phone? This phone which is a HTC phone that runs on Android OS in a high-speed Snapdragon processor is said to be released by January 2010. Good news is that this phone can be bought online and it will be a GSM unlocked phone. This only mean that in the Philippines, the new phone will surely work on all cellphone networks of the country like the Smart, Globe (which exclusively distribute iPhone) and Sun network.

According to rumors and leaked information regarding the phone, Nexus One has the following features or specifications:

  • It is slimmer than iPhone
  • It has no keyboard
  • Got 2 Speakers
  • High-resolution OLED touchscreen
  • Large Camera at the back
  • Voice-to-Text that can be used in emailing or taking notes
  • More features will be included here when Google releases the phone specification later.

Real-Time Search and Google Voice Introduced

Google Voice Logo

Google Voice Logo

I have mentioned on my previous post that Google is working on Google Goggles which allows mobile phone users to search through the use of image recognitions taken by the camera on mobile phones. Now, they’ve introduced several new features of the giant search engines aside from the search by sight goggles. They are the Search by Voice, new version of Google Mobile Maps and the real-time search.

The “Search by Voice” or “Google Voice” allows users to issue search queries through the receivers of the mobile phones. The improvement on the mobile maps is that it lets the users to easily search a specific location or establishment that is near his current location. On the other hand, the real-time search is a feature of the search engine to provide latest information from different news resources, social networking sites (like twitter) and other real-time news provider on the web today.

Here’s the video showing what you can expect from the real-time search:

Laganap: Sikat ang Pinoy My First Tagalog Site

Laganap.com Snapshot

Laganap.com Snapshot

I’ve been blogging for several years now and I use English as the primary language for my blog. This month, I have decided to build a new site that will use my native language – Filipino. The site is named as Laganap.com which is the Filipino equivalent of the word widespread or prevalent. It has a title “Sikat ang Pinoy” and intended to be like a tabloid-like news/magazine blog site that will focus on different popular Filipinos around the world that is excelling on different fields. Right now the site is still on its initial phase and a lot of things need to do and add.

Now, if you want to suggest something for the site just leave your comments below or go to the site and leave the feedback on the comment form of the site. You can also share your stories there if you want as long as it is relevant to the site’s theme and of course it is written in Filipino.

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