Include html file into another html file

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In dyanmic websites developed using php, asp , jsp, perl etc, including an external file like a html snippet in a file is quite easy. But at times, you may want to include a html snippet in a html file.

This can be done using Server Side Includes (SSI). SSI is a simple server side scripting language used primarily to paste contents of one or more files into another file.

For example, if you have a block of latest news on all the pages of your website. Now everytime, you need to update the news block, you would need to edit all the html pages. The easy way would be using SSI. The news block can be a html or text file like news.txt. You can include this file into multiple SSI-enabled pages throghout the website by placing the code:

<!–#include virtual-”../news.txt”–>

Now you just need to change this one file and the effect will take place throughout the website.

For more details, logon to Wikipedia.

Two utmost must haves in a news portal – Design and Usability

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After working on many news portals and media websites, I have found work done on news portals very interesting, captivating and entrancing. I just love the fair balance of work require to be done in news portals. The news web place is an idealistic field, where friction has to be removed from enterprise before starting doing anything. While creating and piling this system, various new technologies like XML and RSS have been used which in turn also saves a lot of time for the company requiring it. As per my one of the observance, working on professional portals is like same as on news portals, if and only if you acknowledge less perceptive user requirements for branding and monetization. Since from a long period of time, we are working on news portals and during this period of time, we have also determined several other dozens of news portals, in which I have noticed that most of the online news sites makes unique design mistakes.

One of the mistakes that occur mostly is with the “fill available space” logic. According to me, the user should not browse through wide range of varied headline designs, fonts, inconsistent graphics etc. What the reader wants to have in a news portal is simplicity and informative content. No body pays much attention on home page animation and showy graphical drop down menus.

Along with this, no body really wants to have unnecessary clutter on the home page content of news portal. Including variety of news feed resources; more density of the reader is on the layout of home page, headlines and titles, which must be more color-coded, eye catchy and simple. More crisp and clean design structure is the success mantra for the news sites. The length of the headlines must be clear and appealing. Advertisements available on news portals are comparatively more memorable than other things. The essential planning and proper agreement addressing standard design web site are important, before making live your news portal. Our major aim is to a great job work by impressing more and more visitors, by having a simple and readable news portal. In a nutshell, if you are also looking for constructing a news portal, at least spend 2-3 hours on Google and look for the various differences between news portals available on Internet or consult us.

Web 3.0: Next generation web

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Web 3.0 is a conceptual entity, considered as an extended version of web 2.0 by O’Reilly. It is an intelligent web application, which also provides the context to search for online information. Basically the application is all about openness, interoperability, global database, 3D web and control of information.

Web 3.0 vs Web 2.0

Web 2.0 – It is about mass collaboration and social networking between content generator and user.

Web 3.0 – This resourceful web application is comprised with many intelligent applications, machine based learning and reasoning and natural language processing. Main purpose of web 3.0 is to cater several online searching techniques especially to user’s requirements and choices.

For Example – Nova Spivack’s Twine is the first online service, which uses Web 3.0 technology. Its basic aim is to share, manage and discover information about a user’s needs in networks of same group and like-minded individuals.

Assessment of website usability

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While designing and changing website layout and information, lot of effort was made in collecting site specifications, designing and construction of website. While, handling all these criteria’s, most of the organizations forgot a very essential and important aspect i.e. the evaluation and testing of website with the help of real users or by website usability expertise. This evaluation plays a vital role for promotion and success of your business. Some key strengths of website evaluation are:

  1. It is the least expensive stage while designing and development of website.
  2. If not executed properly, it can lead to have negative impact on your targeted consumers. Also, it points toward decrease in sales and your growth.

Inspite of all these facts, most of the companies do not pay attention to evaluation factor while deciding the timeline for their project. If you want more growing opportunities for your project, never forget to include this assessment of website usability, as after being live, website is the one which brings destined customers to you.

Installing sugarCRM on Mosso hosting

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We have been able to host sugarCRM on Mosso hosting successfully. There are two things that needs to be taken care of ie php memory limit and php upload limit which are 2 MB by default. These two values can be increased by using the code below in the .htaccess file:

php_value memory_limit ?M
php_value upload_max_filesize ?M

Replace “?” with the with the value you need to replace it with.

The successful modification of the php memory limit and max upload size will show in your PHP info file.

Regards

Ravi

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