Posts Tagged ‘dayton’

OmniSpear to offer new Website Maintenance Packages

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009



Website MaintenanceOmniSpear now offers Website Maintenance Services packages that have non-expiring hours which carry over month to month until used up. This is the perfect solution for any firm that isn’t sure how much maintenance help they will need. Website maintenance services can be purchased in increments of 2, 5, 10, 15 or 20+ hours. The more you purchase, the more you save.

Visit our Website Maintenance Page for more information

OmniSpear is located in Dayton, Ohio and offers website design, maintenance and custom application development.

20 Tips for Boosting Pay Per Click Conversions

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Using Google Adwords? Here’s how to make sure your CPC ads are on the right track.

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/67586.html

Check out TinyChat – Free Chat

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link for free. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, myspace, personal site and many other portals. And, you can invite people through simple mail notification and twitterings.

http://tinychat.com/

5 top non-technical mistakes made by programmers

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Great short read on common mistakes made by programmers:

http://www.makinggoodsoftware.com/2009/07/07/5-top-non-technical-mistakes-made-by-programmers/

WordPress SEO Tips that you might have missed

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

9 Must-do WordPress SEO Tips that you might have missed:

http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2009/07/9-must-do-wordpress-seo-tips-that-you-might-have-missed/

Top 5 Reasons to Use ColdFusion

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Here are a few reasons to use Adobe’s Cold Fusion scripting language. While not as popular as PHP and .Net, Cold Fusion has been around since 1995 and has a great collection of built-in tags and functions.

  1. It’s easy to write (basic syntax is similar to HTML tags)
  2. Built-in tags save a tremendous amount of time
  3. Code examples are easy to find as well as free custom tags
  4. Cross-platform compatible (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac)
  5. Professional support available through Adobe

OmniSpear coders have developed in ColdFusion since version 1.0 in 1995. No matter what version of ColdFusion your application is in, OmniSpear has the experience to enhance and maintain your CF-based application.

Contact OmniSpear, Inc.

7 Reasons to Use CakePHP

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

The CakePHP Framework has several features that make it a great choice for developing web applications rapidly.

  1. It helps developers to reduce code repentance in creation of websites or web applications
  2. Cake is easy to understand and sets industry standards in security and session handling.
  3. It provides powerful and flexible data validation features.
  4. CakePHP reduces the cost of website creation and ongoing maintenance.
  5. It is developed under the MIT license so it is free for everyone.
  6. Built in view helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
  7. Compatible with PHP4 as well as PHP5

OmniSpear, Inc. has been using CakePHP as the primary framework of choice for several years and has experience developing and deploying large scale e-commerce, web site, and intranet systems.

Are you a GeekDad? Happy Father’s Day!

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Top 10 Ways You Know You’re Married to a GeekDad

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Web Design Feedback / Markup Tools

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Are you or your clients still printing out and scribbling on revisions of a web project to convey the changes you want? Sending countless e-mail attachments back and forth between you, your team and clients? New markup tools make it easy to provide feedback on design, content and code without ever leaving your web browser.

Solution # 1:

Notable.com – Complete Website Feedback / Project Collaboration SaaS ($44 per month)

Notable.com allows you annotate any part of a page, even if you’ve never touched HTML. Visually leave feedback where the actual problem appears within the site. In addition to doing inline feedback, Notable.com keeps track of who suggests what and tracks the history of feedback made from each team member / client contact.

Key Features:

• Add inline feedback for both website layouts and code
• Quickly and easily collaborate centrally or remotely
• Review feedback history to spot trends in mistakes
• Easily add additional people to review and provide feedback

Cons:

• May be too pricy for small web development shops (starting price is $44.00 per month)

Feedback within Code Example

Feedback within Code Example

Feedback on top of a web design example

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Product Tour: (http://www.notableapp.com/tour)




Solution # 2:

Aviary.com – Falcon Image Markup (Free!)

Aviary’s Falcon Image Markup Tool allows you to make screen shots of your web project and make simple inline markup. While not as slick as Notable’s service, Falcon is still useful for providing quick feedback. Best of all, it’s free! All you have to do is sign up for a free account and install a Firefox-compatible toolbar. The toolbar allows you to quickly capture and notate

Key Features:

• Free!
• Easy to use, FireFox plug-in makes screen captures easy
• Fast loading, even on slow connections

Product Video:

iPhone OS 3.0 update due at 1pm ET

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

If you’ve been tethered to your Mac since midnight, obsessively pressing the “Check for Update” button in iTunes, you can give it a rest. At least for a few hours. Engadget has deduced that today’s iPhone 3.0 update won’t get pushed out until around 1pm ET.


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