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Innovation, technology fuelling growth
Innovation, technological advances and intellectual property are the buzzword of 2006 edition of Bangalore IT.in (Bangalore's prestigious infotech exhibition), which will also drive the next wave of growth. India is moving up the value chain from call centres to high-end design and engineering services.
Microsoft''s Crime Application
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Higher education is still only available to a tiny slice of India's young, and nearly 40 percent of Indians over the age of 15 are illiterate. India continues to send a large number of foreign students to the United States, and increasingly to other countries, like Australia and Canada. Nandan Nilekani, chief executive of Infosys, said India is facing a crossroads.
Educomp aims to cater 10 mn e-learners
Educomp Solutions Ltd, the only listed e-learning solutions company in India, is aiming to reach out to around 10 million learners through its products and services by 2008.
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10.30.06
Developing A Profitable Web 2.0 Project In 24 Hours
 By Paul Fisher
It took seven months to get the One Million Masterpiece charity project online. The site is complex and needed the development time, but in the last few days I've had a yearning to see if I can still turn around a project in 24 hours.
Back in the early days of the Internet boom I'd sit in my bedroom and knock out html websites all night long, but almost ten years on, can it still be done in a time where profitability and interactivity are the key measures?
So, it's 7am and I've got a plan. The new pressures I face in life (work responsibilities, family etc) have been dealt with and I have a clear 24 hours ahead of me. An idea for a site has been kicking round in my head ever since I sold a site last year. This site was a very specialist software comparison site that generated referral commissions and Adsense income. It was an excellent earner and I've wanted to recreate that success, but on a larger scale.
So last year I bought the domain http://www.shoutdown.net with the intention of building a software comparison style project. I want the site to be in the informal blog style, where the posts are product summaries (written by me), and the comments would be reviews submitted by other people. I'd also throw in a rating system, and way of attaching news releases or other relevant pages to each product post, plus link related posts (for example different versions of the same software).
So the idea is there, it's 7:30am and my first job is to select some mp3's to get me through to lunch. Here goes...
08.00
By the time I've chosen my music, switched off my Google desktop bar and responded to essential email it's already 8am - crap. So, first job is drawing out a schematic of the database that will power my site. What information do I want to keep and how will I organise it? I'm having five database tables. For ease I'm calling them level1, level2, level3 etc because I see them as levels of information about each software product - the top being category information and the bottom being the reviews and ratings.
09:15
Took me quite a while to get the structure clear, but now I'm sketching out the homepage on paper. I've looked at a few blogs that I like and have basically copied their layout for ease. I've also worked out the sizing of my main columns and rows and know the positions of the adverts, main blog posts and navigation. I still like to work on paper at this stage - I'm an artist at heart!
09:55
OK let's get on the computer. I've fired up Paint Shop Pro and my first job is to work out a colour pallet. I want three colours, so I blob different combinations on a blank white image until I get the right combination - orange, purple and grey. I then make a note of the hex codes for each colour on a post-it - this will save LOADS of time later. While I'm in PSP I'm going to mock up a logo as I already know the size of image I need from my plan. Actually I really like the logo so it will probably be permanent.
10:21
Time to start on the site. I'm using a single html page at the moment with a linked css file. Using some basic tables and css I've laid out the top bar, the post area and two columns (one for ads and one for navigation). I'm sticking to a tried and tested blog layout.
I always use Dreamweaver, but always hand code. Why use Dreamweaver then? Well, I find the preview quite accurate, but other than that I have no idea - just habit.
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About the Author:
Paul Fisher is the founder of http://www.traffikka.com/ and is head of search engine research. Traffikka.com advises many major U.K. companies on search engine marketing. The company provides complete search engine optimisation, submission and reporting packages for all sized businesses and Web sites.
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