IT is a great pleasure to announce that Solutions Infini has extended its office to another floor. It is significant because of the cooperation of the individuals who have made the establishment of the office a success.

But the significance of this occasion extends beyond the establishment and opening of the office. Solutions Infini aiming at providing its Services for what this company has been known for years, promises to serve its clients with a large team and great support for the years ahead. This is perhaps the most important dimension for us.
Thanks to all who made this possible. Cheers..!!!

Everyone knows what a blog is. Well, almost. For those who came in late, a blog (short for “Web Log”) is a website that an individual uses to post content regularly, with content being displayed in chronological order, beginning with the newest. A recent Universal McCann survey puts the number of active blogs at 184 million and the readers of blogs at 346 million. A vindication to the fact that blogging can be a brand building activity, is the number of professional bloggers, which currently stands at 46% of all the bloggers according to a Technorati survey. Statistic notwithstanding, if you question the efficacy of blog in brand building, just type in a few keywords about your industry on search engines and see how many blogs turn up.
So how does one go about building and managing content on a blog? Here are a few insight.

Create a blogging calendar: It may be easy to embark on that all important decision of “I am going to create a blog” in a moment of truth, but if you don’t have an agenda, your strategy or the lack of it can deliver zero results. Decide which is a comfortable recurrence, say a month, and create a calendar for the next 12 recurrences, which could be a year of planning.

Decide on the subject of your blog: Remember, your little blog had to compete with gazillion of others for eyeballs and if it is to make any reader evince interest, and more optimistically make her visit again, your content has to be unique as possible. Let’s consider a fictional example of SolarTop Heaters, a manufacture of solar water heaters. In this case your blog could be called, “Nifty tricks to save energy” and address one feature of your product each month that save energy.

Do NOT Market: Since users are subject to a blitzkrieg of marketing material each day, You don’t want to add to their misery. Remember how you winced when the supposedly well-written article in your favorite Newspaper turned out to be a marketing feature in disguise. Keep your blog brand agnostic and do not give in to the temptation of promoting your product.

Give your blog a good address to reside: If you want your blog to be of any help in your website marketing, make sure it stays on your domain. There is a plethora of plugins that you can use to host your blog on your website.

Promote your blog: Once your blog is up and running, submit it to all the search engines. Most blogging plugins provide this feature by default. Use your social networks to promote your blog. Add footer to your email with your blog address.

Quality not quantity: Treat a blog as an email. You would not want to read long emails, so why would someone want to read long blogs. Keeping blogs sweet and short not only helps users assimilate your views better, but also helps you generate content consistently.

Manage your content: You may want to research your domain constantly and update your calendar accordingly. Writing content at least 2 weeks prior to posting it may be good idea, since you will have that extra to review and compare with other similar blogs.

Update your keywords: Every time you write an article, you should by default be selected a set of keywords for it. These can be added as tags to your blog. Further, you could use your company name as one of the keywords.

Treat blogging as part of your marketing: The time you spend on blogging should feature in your annual marketing plan. Unless your blogging activity becomes a discipline, it is not likely to sustain itself and you may lose users that you carefully built.

And if all’s well, your blog could make money: If your content is well accepted and you manage to get a fairly large number of users, you may want to set up advertising on your blog to generate additional revenue.

Good luck and happy brand-blogging.

Online-Payment has dramatically increased in popularity and each day more customers think about their convenience in paying their bills. Online Payment is popular, because it is generally easy and convenient. Based on these principals, Solutions Infini has decided to “go with the flow” and offer this function to their clients too. So please make the best use of it. To Make your Payments online please click here.

Benefits of Making an Payment Online :

• Customer convenience – You save the extra step of writing and sending a check or depositing the money in bank.
• Immediate authorization – With automation, you know immediately if an Internet payment is valid. No waiting for checks to clear.
• You will save time – You don’t need to line up in queues to obtain cash, set up direct debits themselves or go to the effort of mailing cheques. By completing just one form, the amount will debited of your account or your credit card and will save you considerable time and hassle… with more time to enjoy doing other things.
• You will save money – Paying “Online” will reduce bank float to as little as 1-2 days. It also will reduce the level of human error in the accounting department. At last there is no lost or stolen check to worry about.
• You will be safe – There is a lot of ambiguity in the minds of users when it comes to financial transactions online. We are working together with Direc Pay – one of the safest online-banking in India. Their guidelines of safety are strict and therefore they can provide a 100% safety on all bank-transmissions.
• You save trees – More and more trees are being cut to produce paper which is used in making checks and envelopes.  SAVE TREES and spread Greenery in the Environment.

Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, called Caffeine, will be in place shortly. Don’t be surprised !! You may be wondering how will this affect you and your website .

Well this is just not one of Google’s infamous updates, this is going to be a MAJOR “Overhaul” of the search index and algorithm. This will affect how Google ranks all the web pages in the Internet, and yes, even yours.

So how is the new “Overhaul” going to affect your website ranking? I will explain to you in detail what you may need to change in your website to rank in the new Google Caffeine Search Engine.

Site Speed
This play a good part in how Google Caffeine ranks your website. Site speed is how fast your website loads. The faster the better.
If your website is outdated and takes a while to load, whether it be because of jumbled code or huge image resolutions, you will most likely rank lower that other websites out there.

Broken Links and Bad Neighborhoods
We have all fought with broken links in one way or another. We hate clicking on a link and landing at a dead end. Google Caffeine is the same way, if you have broken links on your website, get ready to kiss your Google rank goodbye. I would start checking all my links now to be ready for the change over.

Now you may be asking what I mean about “bad neighborhoods”. What I am meaning are sites that are deemed inappropriate. These will be the virus effecting sites, which they are not easily noticeable, and many others out there.
If you link to these, I don’t know why you would, you might want to reconsider.

OnPage Factors
This will play even a much greater roll in how your website is ranked by Google. Google Caffiene will be looking for the following characteristics in determining your page rank based on the OnPage Factors.
1. Quality, unique content
2. Page design
3. Good, easy page navigation
4. Title of page
5. Page’s meta tags
6. Page’s alt tags.
7. Page’s Description
8. Density of keywords
9. Page views
10. Bounce rates
11. Traffic numbers
12. Social media bookmarks

Having a perfectly optimized website based on these OnPage Factors will get your website ranked higher than others in Caffeine and well as the other search engines.

Are you taking the appropriate actions to make sure your website is ready for Google Caffeine??

Confused???? Which CMS tool to use. Joomla of Drupal?? These are few points to refer before choosing the right CMS for your website

Use Joomla when:
* You don’t know about the tech stuff at all
* You want easy install & setup with your mouse
* You don’t want to learn the tool you’re using
* You don’t need to integrate other scripts etc. to your site
* You want a candy site and don’t mind several other sites using the same template(s)
* You don’t need SEO out of the box
* You don’t care about server resources
* You’re running (or planning to to run) only one or max a couple of sites
* You don’t need one log-in to several sites
* You don’t need user groups & permissions
* You don’t run membership site(s)

Use Drupal when:

* You want a rock solid & high quality platform for your sites
* You want or need a real multi-site-feature (only one installation for several sites)
* You need any kind of user groups & user permissions
* You need to run also membership- and community sites, not only CMS etc
* You want a Powerful templating system
* You’re ready to invest a bit of your time in order to realize all the huge possibilities of Drupal
* You understand the meaning of clear, high quality code and API (easy to integrate with other solutions etc)
* You want flexibility and don’t like limitations

Selecting or changing a domain name (URL) is a critical marketing decision. The problem is more than just a simple search for availability on registration site. A good domain name is an important part of the overall design of a website.

The following are few points which you must consider while choosing a domain name :

• Make the Domain Unique
• Keep it “Short and Sweet”
• Easy to pronounce
• Make it Easy to Remember
• Use Keywords
• Reject Hyphens and Numbers
• Make it Easy to Type
• Easy to read in print and online ads
• Easy to understand over the radio or on phone
• Avoid Copyright / Trademark Infringement

A Website is not a luxury choice for your business,  it’s a marketing tool which represents your company’s competency and ethics. Why compromise that tool and risk that important source with unprofessional look?

Regular Website Vs Professional Website

1. Professional Website Designers go through various process in-order to understand your products and services and help to reach your prospective clients in a user-friendly environment.

2. Professionally designed Website attract online visitors and inspire them to explore more about the Company.

3. You gain your visitors and clients trust through representing your company in professional way.

4. Professional website stays fresh for at least 2-3 years which saves your investment in-terms of re-designing every year.

5. Leading companies have outstanding websites, because they see the potential.

1. Be consistent in your layout

When you are consistent in your layout, this makes navigation easier. This is especially important for people with disabilities because when navigation is easier, they have less difficulties to access your site.

2. Avoid using tables for layout

Many designers use tables for layout, while others consider this a bad practice. We are not going to argue if design with or without tables is better because each of them has its pros and cons but as far as web accessibility is concerned, tables are bad. Tables are non-linear and this creates a lot of problems for the devices that parse the page.

3. Don’t Use Deprecated Tags

Deprecated tags might not always be suppirted by all web browsers, thus not guaranteeing that your site is displayed correctly. Much like any language on Earth, HTML is evolving. With W3C leading the front, web development is going towards full separation between presentation and style:HTML formatting tags vs. CSS.

Deprecated tags are simply HMTL tags that are in the risk group of going obsolete. They shoud therefore not be used. Here is an extensive list of deprecated HTML tags.

4. Think Navigation

When you design for visually impaired individuals, a clear, visible and understandable navigation path is very important. The structure and names of each included navigation link is thus as important as the design.

Make sure you spend some considerable time figuring out what content your visitors are looking for and then via the navigation make it super easy to reach it. Use larger font sizes for the menu items and place your link menus clearly visible. Also skip flash to not only confuse the visually impaired, but to limit search engine indexing as well.

5. Write Simple

It is a known fact that the same text is more difficult to comprehend when you are listening to it than when you are reading it. For the visually impaired and audio dependent, the written language is thus vital. Avoid using long sentences and paragraphs and words that are difficult to understand.

6. Use relative font sizes

Relative font sizes give users more control over the size of the text they will display in their browsers which is why you should use relative font sizes whenever you can.

7. Use Sitemaps

Sitemaps are a necessity in any case but when web accessibility is concerned, they are vital. Sitemaps ease navigation incredibly and you must always include them in your sites

8. Consider Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts ease navigation without the mouse.

9. Use textual descriptions for nontext elements

Any non-text element except spacer images and design graphics should have textual descriptions. This could be done in the <alt> tag or with a caption.

10. Use high contrast color combinations

High contrast color combinations are easier to read even by people without any visual impairment, so there is no reason to put for example light gray text on a white background.

11. Don’t use colors to convey information

It is not only the color blind who won’t be able to read pages where color is used to convey information. Use colors as decoration, not as a way to communicate with the user.

12. Don’t use flickering effects

It is not only ads and animations where your head spins because of all the flickering effects. Flickering is not only bad for people with visual disabilities but it is also irritating for many others, so there is no reason to use it in your designs.

13. Death to Frames

Frames are so last century! Even if frames were not a web accessibility sin, there is no point in using them. In case you absolutely have to use frames, provide an alternative noframes version for the modern user as well as for the impaired.

14. Use simple numbering for lists

Similarly to tables, long lists should be broken down in smaller chunks. You need to be especially careful with nested lists – nested lists 5 levels and deeper are difficult to follow even by academicians, not to mention by people with visual limitations.

15. Avoid using automatic redirects

Automatic redirects are disscussable because when you use them, it is quite possible that the user might have not finished reading the text and when he or she is redirected, this makes it more difficult for him or her to follow. Also, for slideshows, presentations, and similar stuff, don’t use automatic forwarding to the next slide.

16. Scripts and noscript versions

It is true that scripts can add a lot of functionality to a page but when due to various disabilities users can’t take advantage of this advanced functionality, scripts make no sense. Additionally, in many situations scripts simply can’t be executed and this is why you absolutely must take care that the noscript version of your pages has the same functionality as the scripted one.

17. Add a Skip-to-Main-Content link

For site visitors who do not navigate via the mouse but the keyboard primarily, a link to help them jump to your page’s main content is often appreciated.

18. Put the main content near the top

The top of the page is a crowded space because all important stuff (and ads) go there but since users with disabilities might not be able and/or willing to scroll down to see what’s there on the page, it is even more important to put the most important things near the top of the page.

19. Label form elements

When form elements have labels, this makes them more user-friendly but for users with disabilities this is more than friendly – it is vital.

20. Validate your pages against the W3C requirements

This is the blog developed and moderated by Solutions Infini Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Here we deal with the latest trends in Web Designing & Developing. And will also come up with some beautiful Tutorials which will help u readers.

So you can start posting your comments, blogs, tutorials and help yourselves and others grow……

So wishing you all the best……