Archive for August, 2009

DCI logo gets a makeover, makes things simpler

'Keep it simple' is an adage we have been following from our very start. Now, our logo and brand message too reiterate the simplicity of our business approach. Dot Com Infoway's logo went through a design makeover recently. Top design minds of the company were working for months at the new logo. After a multitude of suggestions, rejections and changes, we arrived at the third generation logo of the company (which you can find below). The new logo signals our simplistic and...

Whitelist Form for SPAM protection: Part I

Developing a highly secure SPAM protection shield in your site is not an easy, hands down job. Here is an Whitelist which can check if the details posted by a user in your forms are valid and authentic. Why this Whitelist? This is for security purposes and prevents site hacking and intrusion. This is used instead of Captcha where the user sometimes feels difficult to enter the Captcha code. Hidden fields are given in the form along with the required details fields. If any extra...

Is Google UK going crazy? Looks like it is.

Last week, we noticed the invasion of US websites in UK search results. Following which Matt Cutts replied with his video on Why .com sites rank higher in UK results? As a follow-up to the Google UK search updates, we observed some tweaks in the result pages where the formatting of the search results were modified. Major formatting changes include increase in the Line Spacing and missing Underlines for the links. Detailed screenshots on the Google UK search results below: Google...

OFBiz Framework: An Innovative Approach to E-commerce

Upcoming trends in E-commerce focus on alleviating a developer’s problems in building breakthrough E-commerce applications. E-commerce frameworks are effective only if they reduce the developer’s pain of reproducing an application with same functionality/coding and allow them to customize the existing code to the utmost extent. Else, the framework should faciliate creation of new functionalities/coding which can in turn be reused in future application development process. OFBiz...

Overcoming Flash Validation Issues

Flash embedding that is compliant with the web standards has always been an issue as the code runs very long and it is very difficult to place Flash reliably. So, how to overcome validation issues of Flash object on a web page? Use jQuery's document ready function (JavaScript which is triggered when the DOM is loaded). Have a look at the below code: jQuery Part $(document).ready(function(){ if ($.browser.msie)...