This is the second time flowers made it to our office.  The first time was on Valentine’s day when one of our girls’ boyfriends just wanted to express his love.  This time it was different!  And boy am I happy when I realized that it was our customers’ way of showing us their appreciation for our excellent customer service.

I believe that :

A bouquet of flowers is worth a thousand words …. It is a reflection on our organization’s constant commitment in providing our customers’ excellent customer service….

Recently, we have been receiving requests on the removal of email spam. Generally there are 2 ways to remove email spams. One is a client side solution, while the other is a server side solution. The client side solution refers to the purchase of a Windows based applications which can scan through all your incoming mails. A quick google showed that Spam Bully might be useful.

The other solution is a server side solution. As part of your hosting package, we provide a server-based spam filtering software known as Spam Assassin. This article will show you how to configure your server to set up the Spam Assassin,

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Has been a long time since we had time to update our blog.  Anyway, another positive feedback from our client for Web Maintenance Work!

It has been a really really hectic time for us. We took a video testimonial of our client (Boonco) quite sometime back and had no time to upload it on to our server.

Recently, Adrian (from Boonco) was asking about his video testimonial… so here it goes…

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Recently, more and more of my customers are demanding to put video on their website. Attached below are some interesting samples!

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I was reading about Sun Tze Art of War and learn about the importance of military intelligence in the traditional battlefield. In today’s competitive business landscape, market intelligence is indispensable. We need to develop a keen understanding of our customers taste and preferences to develop products more suited for the market.

In the virtual world, market intelligence is measured through web statistics tracking & analysis.

199Web provides integration to a comprehensive tracking and analysis tool which will provide you with the necessary market intelligence to drive your business to the next level.
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A content management system (CMS) gives users the flexibility of changing the content of the website themselves. However, lay man with no experience in image processing will generally face some difficulties in the picture updates. This is because, like it or not, the CMS administrator has to possess some simple image editing skills for a CMS to be useful.

Based on feedback from many of our CMS users, the most common graphic editing functions needed are:

• Resizing & Cropping an image to an exact size (i.e. 80 by 80 pixel)
• Stripping a picture of its background

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Recently, I’ve been getting requests on how to analyse the statistics of our websites. That is a great sign as it shows that our clients are not just putting up a website for show, but studying it intently to see how its effectiveness can be fine-tuned.

Fortunately for our customers, our system has a web statistics component. It is an open-source web statistics tracking product, called Webalizer.
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As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Many a times, during the mockup phase, our clients will like to tell us to do certain changes to the design. However, we often phase a limitation on what can be expressed on words…

In such instances, I will recommend our clients to download the software, Snag It, and use it to illustrate the necessary changes. Click here to download Snag It!

Snag It basically allows you to make comments and annotations on the design effortlessly. It saves you a lot of time in expressing your preferences to us. Commenting on our design using Snag It will take less than 5 minutes.. but it is definitely worth more than a thousand words to our designers….

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After the completion of their Content Management System, clients will then be struck with a big problem - cropping and resizing of the images until they are of the right size for the CMS. For the picture to look good on the web, it has to be cropped and resized to the correct dimensions.

Generally, for the systems developed by us, we will provide the appropriate image dimensions. If your pictures do not fit those dimensions, you will need to resize and crop it till it fits. This article will explain:

• resizing of pictures
• cropping of pictures

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