I have been in this business for nearly 13 years. In these years I have seen our industry grow from a fledgling outcrop of the software industry to one which has grown into a huge industry in itself. The web design and development industry in India has branched into many specialities and created many gurus in [...]
Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Why doesn’t India have a web designer and developers association? Its high time this industry organized itself and implemented standards.
Posted by Ron on April 29th, 2011
Are you taking enough risks with your digital marketing strategy? Breaking out of the conservative Indian website designs mindset.
Posted by Ron on April 24th, 2011
It always happens the same way. The client starts out enthusiastically to create something new and great and we are mandated to design something outrageous and highly creative. We put on our thinking caps and come up with something really out of the box. The client’s first reaction is wow! But as he starts circulating [...]
Online advertising revenue surpasses print revenue advertising in the US. India still has a long way to go though.
Posted by Ron on April 18th, 2011
An interesting piece of news released by Emarketer.com which caught my attention and may be a major indicator of things to come – Online advertising revenue has surpassed Print newspaper ad revenue in the US. Print ad revenue is estimated at $22.8 billion while online ad spend stands at $25.8 billion in the year 2010. [...]
The concept of gamification – Are Indian businesses and web developers upto the challenge?
Posted by Ron on April 14th, 2011
A new concept taking the online industry by storm is ‘Gamification’. The concept of Gamification revolves around rewarding users for performing set tasks in a certain manner and creating a reward structure around the overall performance of the task. Although ‘gamification’ is a new term, the concept has been around for many years under different [...]
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Tags: gamification, gamification india 
No Comments »User Generated Content for your website – Inspiring your visitors
Posted by Ron on April 7th, 2011
I was completely inspired by this video of Ze Frank explaining his various experiments and projects which look like the holy grail of user generated content. Individuals from around the world take part in his wacky and sometimes inspiring assignments. You can’t help but get inspired by this video. Ze Frank’s Web Playroom Ze Frank [...]
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy Tags: UGC, user generated content, user generated content campaigns No Comments »Why India is such an excellent destination for website design and pitfalls to watch for.
Posted by Ron on March 30th, 2011
My latest article on why i think India is a great destination to outsource webdesign services. But there are some cautions also thrown in there. View the article here: http://miracleworx.com/website-design-in-india.htm Cheers, Ron
A graduate of rediff.com – my four and half years at India’s best dotcom
Posted by Ron on March 29th, 2011
My education notwithstanding I am a product of rediff.com. I joined at the age of 21, my first real corporate job. Before that I had several small time entrepreneural ventures such as assembling computers, teaching basic computer courses, writing software and for a short while repairing computers as well. But my defining experience was at rediff. [...]
A difficult leap for online service providers going from free to paid services
Posted by Ron on March 10th, 2011
Slowly and steadily the freebies on the net are being withdrawn and paid services introduced in their stead. And this is with good reason. The inital heady days of the web where dotcoms traded free services for headcounts is not longer sustainable. With the world economy in doldrums and rising costs of infrastructure and manpower, [...]
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy Tags: free services, online service providers, paid services No Comments »What We Believe – A Web Designer’s Manifesto
Posted by Ron on February 28th, 2011
I was struck by a brilliant presentation by Simon Sinek on how leadership is about who you are more than what and how you create your product. View this brilliant presentation here – http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html So here goes – What We Believe, A Web Designer’s Manifesto We believe that every business deserves a brilliant website that [...]
India’s 2nd Email Marketing Roundtable by Netcore and IAMAI
Posted by Ron on February 27th, 2011
Attended the 2nd Email Marketing Roundtable held jointly by Netcore and IAMAI. Panelists included Ratish Nair- Co-founder at Ad Magent, Gulshan Verma, Country head – Komli Media, Sankarson Banerjee, Chief Information Officer – India Infoline, Sandip Tarkas, President (Customer Strategy) – Future Group and Atul Phadnis, CEO – What’s on India. The discussion through up some [...]
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