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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy, Web Technology Tags: email marketing, email marketing roundtable 1 Comment »Tata Communications, what the hell are they selling anyways?
Posted by Ron on February 18th, 2011
The something for everyone approach doesn’t work Here we go again, another telecom company wanting to be the anything and everything of the small business community (SMBs). They are not doing through the organic development but rather through a third party vendors route, reselling established services. And you can see that they are covering every base [...]
Super Launch – The very new and improved www.mytoday.com
Posted by Ron on February 17th, 2011
A great opportunity for us was to get a chance to help redesign the user interface for one of India’s largest SMS content providers – www.mytoday.com Check out the new features with over 200 SMS channels ranging from Cricket to Sex and more. www.mytoday.com
Hopelessly addicted to Stumbleupon.com
Posted by Ron on February 5th, 2011
I have to confess i am hopelessly addicted to stumbleupon.com. What is it? Its a topical website and content discovery website where your tastes and interests are matched to throw up relevent and very very intersting webpages, videos, cartoons, blogs and more. Now i am spending my free browing time ‘Stumbling’ from page to page [...]
BigRock – Directi’s Bhavin Turakhia goes mass marketing
Posted by Ron on February 2nd, 2011
BigRock backed by Directi founder Bhavin Turakhia goes public with high budget TV ads and direct to market advertising. In the process he probably wants to bypass the huge channel of resellers, web designers, software cos and other hosting companies and go directly to consumers. Its a risky gamble but is backed by deep pockets. [...]
Adding the new rupee symbol to your website.
Posted by Ron on January 27th, 2011
It was indeed a pleasure to see the new Indian rupee symbol come onto the world stage. It makes me proud as an Indian. Having met the creator Prof.Udaya Kumar from the Design School, IIT Guwahati I know its an excellent well thought out symbol creating a perfect balance between devnagri and english symbolism. Being a [...]
