More than a few months ago we were hit with the Google Panda shocker. Overnight our Infertility treatment related website www.drmalpani.com lost over 30-40% of its daily traffic. Although the traffic was still substantial, the loss of the top end traffic did hurt. We immediately went into a damage control mode and made tweaks to [...]
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Beating the Google Panda update – How we transformed www.drmalpani.com and brought traffic up to Pre-Panda levels.
Posted by Ron on January 16th, 2012
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy, Web Technology 
Tags: google panda, google panda changes, google panda solution 
1 Comment »Evaluating the complexity of web project – what makes a website simple or complex?
Posted by Ron on December 19th, 2011
During a recent meeting with a prospective client I made an off hand remark that the project we were discussing is around 6/10 in terms of complexity ( 1 being simple and 10 very complex). The gentleman immediately asked how I came to that figure but it was difficult for me to explain it. I guess it [...]
Posted in Web Strategy, Web Technology Tags: complex websites, web design complexity, website complexity No Comments »Bringing older business clients online – overcoming their fears & providing guidance
Posted by Ron on December 6th, 2011
I recently met with a prospective client who confessed that she might be too late in terms of getting her business online. Overall she is a superbly successful business person with years of experience behind her but some fears (justified and unjustified) held her back from being more aggressive online. Although there are a lot [...]
Posted in Web Strategy, Web Technology Tags: experienced business owners, older business owners No Comments »Internet Explorer usage drops dramatically in India in the last 10 months. Chrome the biggest gainer. FireFox is flat.
Posted by Ron on November 7th, 2011
According to the latest stats from StatCounter GlobalStats, one of the worlds largest commerical website statistics service providers, Internet Explorer usage has dropped significantly and Chrome has jumped by almost 15%. Firefox usage remains flat. The crossover took place sometime in August where at one point all three browsers almost had equal share at 33%. [...]
Paypal increases transaction limit to USD 3000 with RBI nod. Some relief for online merchants
Posted by Ron on October 15th, 2011
Some relief for online merchants in India dependent on Paypal for their online payments from abroad. With RBI’s nod Paypal has increased the limit from USD 500 to USD 3000. However the other restrictions such as remitting the money within a week etc. remains in place. For the official Paypal take on it. https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/10/great-news-for-our-merchants-in-india/ Cheers, [...]
A career as a web design professional in India. List of web design courses and institutes in India.
Posted by Ron on June 13th, 2011
As a web design professional who runs a web design firm I interview lots of youngsters applying for web design and development related jobs. Overall I am not very satisfied with the quality of web design training in India. However going into a debate about the quality of web design training in India would take [...]
The rise and rise of Jquery. What is the future for Flash? Flash v/s Jquery a head to head comparison.
Posted by Ron on May 16th, 2011
I never liked Flash. But as a web designer i had no choice but to use it to deliver certain effects which were required for some sites. I must admit that we did some pretty awesome sites using Flash but remaining reliant on a proprietory technology from one company rankled. The monopoly of Flash and [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy, Web Technology Tags: gamification, gamification india No Comments »There’s more to life than 1′s and 0′s – Sheetal Goel
Posted by Sheetal Goel on March 24th, 2011
Apologies for disappearing after my debut article. I can make an excuse that I was unwell, that I was travelling, that workload didn’t permit me, etc. Or I can tell you the truth. I got a Blackberry. If you have one too, you’re probably sniggering or nodding your head in understanding. I mean, I’ve turned [...]
