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Computer and Mobile phone content is merging... Get in on it...

Advances in mobile phone technology is now moving faster then any other market. Computers may be getting faster, but they have reached there potential - it will be along time before we see something completely different on a computer again.

Mobile Phones however, are still along way from what they can be used for. With each new mobile release, new features are added. Third Generation (3G) mobiles are giving people the ability to access a range of content; videos, games, ringtones, themes - but until now, there has been a wall around where people can access their media.

Service Providers (such as '3') have been only allowing their users to access new features from there high cost WAP download sites. Predictions are however, that these restrictions will soon be dropped. - You have unrestricted access to content on the internet - it should be the same on your mobile phone. For web site designers - a new market will soon be arising.

The popularity of computers will never be lost, but younger generations are gradually becoming more accustomed to their mobiles. In the past "Send to a friend" links might have been popular ways to get a quick new visitor to your site. But the speed at which teenagers and young adults forward their new funny videos or ringtones to each others mobile phones is exponentially higher.

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If you own a flash games, funny videos, funny pictures, phone themes, ringtones, -- or any site that is generally targeted at the younger generation, be prepared for the next wave of mobile phones, they could increase your sites popularity tenfold.

Phones are already now allowing simple flash games - it will not be long before they can take the full flash games you offer on your sites. Phones can currently support 3gp videos (which require converting) - soon they will play your streaming wmv. Funny picture sites. Allowing your users to browse, play, try on their computers, then download to swap, share on their phones - will be a great way to keep your site popular.

Although phones may not be up to the standards where no changes are required for users to browse your site on their mobiles - its not too early to jump on the mobile content crazy early.

Setup a WAP site, to allow users to download content, Offer smaller cut down versions of funny pictures for the smaller phone screens. If your site has funny videos - offer them in 3GP format. One thing to remember though! Make sure you have your logo on your content - otherwise, once its being shared on mobiles, how will new users find your site?

One site that is already getting started on the mobile phone/computer content is itsall3.

itsall3 is being designed to take advatnage of the mobile market as soon as it opens up. The site is a content managment system offering funny videos - streaming wmv for computers, 3gp videos for mobiles. Ringtones, themes, wallpapers, flash games -- all avilable for playing, rating, commenting on a pc - with a very simple, easy to use WAP site to download the items to your phone.

Start taking advantage of the mobile market today - phones that currently cost £400, will soon drop in price, allowing everyone to own a phone that can play games, watch videos, etc -- and people are going to be searching the net for places to get them.

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Tim Norman is a flash games researcher who keeps studying various trends in flash games. He has reviewed many online games sites and recomends the ones like Flash Games

Content Management Systems - Choosing the Right One for You

Why choose content management?

Content management systems are everywhere on the web these days, helping thousands of web contributors pump out robust sites loaded with content with easy and constant fresh updates. Whether you're looking to build a deeply functional community-based web site overnight, or just too lazy to learn how to code a professional and good-looking network of pages yourself; chances are there's a content management system (CMS) out there for you.

The way it works is simple. The new webmaster to be simply follows a few simple instructions to install someone else's code onto a web hosting account. They can then login to the admin interface, and start running a site or an entire community almost immediately, loaded with all the features desired.

Which one should I choose?

Almost everyone who's spent enough time on the internet has heard of the big content management systems such as phpNuke and Drupal, but did you know that there are literally hundreds upon hundreds more great options out there for a webmaster to choose from? Each one is slightly different, designed to run on a different platform, and to support a different library of features, plug-ins, and templates. Each one has not only a slightly different feel on the front end, but a totally different interface for your site contributors to utilize on the back end.

The first decision you need to make about your content management system is where you plan to run it. The most popular option nowadays seems to be a combination of PHP and MySQL, which can be support by any modern Linux host. While this option is the easiest to support and install, you should remember that it's not the only option, and might not be the best. If you're running from a Linux platform, there are other options that tend to require a bit more effort in setting up, but may be well worth your while, such as PERL, Cold Fusion, Java, JSP, or Ruby on Rails. All of these languages are just as effective, however may be less likely to be supported by your host. There are also a number of options which run from a Windows environment, demanding technology such as ASP. In the end, choose what you feel comfortable with, and know for sure that your web host will support.

After you know what kind of site you can run, you can start thinking about features. There is a content management system out there that will do literally anything you can think of. Period. Start thinking about how you want your web site to function, and the greater purpose it will serve. Will you have a lot of authors to your pages that don't know HTML? Get a CMS system with a built-in HTML editor. Would you like visitor statistics beyond what your web host keeps? Get a CMS system that tracks that too. Do you want polls, email, or photo galleries? Is the potential for search optimization of this site important to you? These are just a few examples of things that are very important to consider, and are just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.

Now, granted, that's a lot of information to gather. Here we find ourselves halfway through this article, and I haven't even told you where to look. By the glory of the internet, most of the work is of course already done for you. My personal recommendation for comparing the various options a web site known as CMS Matrix, which for the record, I have no affiliation with; it's simply a great site for this purpose. From this interface you can browse through virtually every viable option for a content management system out there, designed to work on anything from a fun personal site to an enterprise-level corporate intranet, and get a full breakdown of pricing, compatibility, security, features, and even ratings from others who've already given the system a try.

Won't my CMS site look like all the rest?

It doesn't have to! Most quality content management systems will allow you to apply templates and plug-ins to your site, which can set the design of your site apart from others using the same engine by nearly anything that HTML and CSS can do. Typically, you can find templates on the main web site for the content management system you've chosen - and in the rare event that this is not the case, templates are typically no more than a Google search away. Most systems which let you install a custom skin will even let you design your own; allowing you to make your new site virtually as personalized as any site on the web can be.

Corey is a webmaster and community leader with Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, LLP (http://www.ubiquityhosting.com), where he works both directly and indirectly in helping other webmasters to get on their way in weaving web sites of their own.

Does Content Bring Links?

Am I skeptical? Admittedly, it's easy to be. But pray wonder awhile if indeed this is so. For about a year, as an avid web-watcher, one would have seen a tremendous growth in writing. A problem of just too many, if you say. This begs the question, 'Do all contents make qualified reading?'.

If the answer is a firm 'No', I feel prudence demands we revisit our skill as content writers and look closely at our ability to improve thereupon. Putting it mildly, it is almost incumbent on us to do so. Lest readers of this article suspect another instance of 'know-all-arrogance', let me confirm that I do not intend to cast aspersions. Instead, I just want to let some light enter through the cobwebs of contents mushrooming around us.

How it all started - the keyword game

Not long back, search engine optimizers had their eyes riveted on meta-keywords, and every seo expert worth his salt rushed in to stuff keywords there. Word went around that this would guarantee top rankings, and soon enough we came to see 'mile-long' keywords jostling for space in the meta-tag. Thereafter opinions surfaced that there should be commas between keywords. Some said commas were not needed. Others felt to the contrary and suggested further that there must not be space after commas, and so on.

To be true, this tactic did pay back for a good length of time, till search engines awoke from slumber to take note of this 'wise' misuse. Instances were often where web sites stuffed completely unrelated, yet highly popular keywords to catch eyeballs. Those were days when search engines were supposedly weak in their algorithms, and as a result, web sites with overstuffed meta-keywords had a field day.

Things were to change soon. If Google was thought to have taken lead to totally wean away from the importance of meta-keywords, others quickly followed suit. This dramatically altered the game. For good.

On to incoming links

At the time when meta-keywords was slowly fading into oblivion, in came the next avatar, namely 'incoming links'. For all that followed, Google has a fair share to contribute. Why? First, Google declined to crawl a new web site unless it is linked from at least another web site which is already in Google's list. In its opinion, a new web site is considered an orphan (and not to be crawled) till it is 'mothered' or 'fathered' by another 'known' web site.

It is a good logic, Google's. And one that did not seriously dampen a newbie's spirit to come into being. In the process, locating a known web site, where to link from, became the first step before coming alive. What though did alter the eyeball game was something more that Google announced.

Google frankly said incoming links do weigh a lot in its consideration of a webpage's importance (and 'popularity' by corollary). No sooner Google's preference became apparent that a no-holds-barred game started. Link farms cropped up in every nook and corner of the web. Businesses that only offered links flourished like there would be no end to good days. It was indeed fortuitous that Google's 'noble' intention could give birth to thousands of link-related ventures all over the web, many of them spurious.

Links turning sour

Here is a perfect example of antithesis - you want one, get something completely different. No doubt when Google stressed on links, what it had in mind was to help surfers shuffle unhindered between related topics across a wide section of similar web contents. What happened instead in many cases was chaotic intermingling among web sites that were as disparate as chalk from cheese. Not that Google cared for them, but the idea persisted that one link too many is a great boon, no matter where it came from.

Feeling about, one is tempted to surmise that Google's algorithm was structured in a way that gave preference to links between related topics, yet not factoring in the possibility of unrestrained quantification. As if that were so, Google started altering the way search results are presented in sporadic spurts. The screening continues and each time this happens, the search results assume different hues.

Predicting Google is a zero-sum game, and I am not one to hazard a guess. Yet, looking at stories around, I can't help saying Google has probably relegated the importance of incoming links. If indeed that proves to be true, what emerges is building reciprocal links will shortly become passé.

Content to rescue

This brings us to links from contents. And why not? Here was where the web started. To recall old days, it was for content that we began referring internet. Content then was more in the shape of quality information. There was a ring of authenticity in what we saw on the net in the sense that people who published pages in those days seldom resorted to misinformation. Once commerce entered the scene, the entire picture transformed and degenerated into what we see today. Perhaps that was inevitable given the fact that no public domain can ever remain free of litter.

In a way therefore, the coinage of the term 'Content is king' is indicative of returning to roots. Or, is it? Coming back to where I started, one can't help being suspicious of this new-found love for content. For, if you sniff around, you'll find there is no dearth of content per se, but rare are those contents that offer you quality information.

Overflowing supply

I happen to receive hundreds of articles everyday. Sifting them is tedious and after I devote couple of hours each morning, I am more often than not left utterly disappointed. To be sure, most articles, barring a few, will pass the test so far grammatical perfection is concerned. But only a handful offers new insight or some sense of analytical thinking. A frightening majority is dull, boring, repetitious, and easily predictable. If I were to post guest articles in my web site (which I don't for other reasons), I would have had tough time selecting the right ones.

Why such proliferation of contents? The reason is not far to seek. Since content became 're-important', for many web sites the game shifted to acquiring large volumes of it, quality being of no concern. No wonder, there is a huge need of ghost writers these days, for how else would you expect to gain prominence double-quick! Prominence for what? If it is only to fetch links (through author bylines) or to impress search engines, luck may soon run out.

The reason is simple. Accumulating quality content is an ongoing effort, not something you do off and on. Top information sites like SearchEngineGuide, Clickz, Travelwriters, WilsonWeb and others are doing it for years. It thus follows that any effort to attract search engine's attention, whether by sheer number of keyword-enriched articles or by garnering author back-links, has to be planned for longer term.

It's not my case to prove or disprove any point, but who knows an overdose of content may not after all be to Google's liking! Better to be trim than fight to become fat overnight.

A freelance content writer, Partha Bhattacharya runs WebInfo, a free web marketing resource. Contact Partha at prioriti@gmail.com for your next content writing assignment. Quality writing at reasonable rate.

Easy Content Management with Server Side Includes

Content Management Systems made easy with Server Side Includes

Content Management systems are an invaluable backend aspect of a webpage now-days. I honestly see very few web sites that can really say they don't need some sort of Content Management system. However, not all content management needs are the same. There are plenty of instances where all that needs to be altered is slight text here and there, or details. It doesn't make sense for the company to pay a designer an hourly fee every time they need an update, and it doesn't help you to have to spend half your day working on pointless copy updates.

Here in lies the problem, most content management systems are not designed for small alterations. They are either custom modified code, where customers end up paying for development of features they are not even going to use (ie: the more complex functions they don't need), or you end up paying for an off the shelf package that takes more time and effort to setup and still has more than you ever needed.

What I do to solve this problem is simply use server side includes. Server side includes are basically a line of code in a webpage that says "load this part of the web site from this file." This makes it extremely easy to update a section of the web site that is just a body of text.

So as you are developing the web site, sit down with your clients and ask them which paragraphs they want to be able to edit. This could be news, about us, past projects, etc. Once you have found that out, store the text of each of those paragraphs into a .txt file in a "cms" or similar folder. You can then apply the proper markup around the server side include, and style it properly. For example,

Hello.txt in /public_html/cms

Hello, and welcome to our site!

Then in the index.html

<h1> <!--#include virtual="/cms/hello.txt"--> </h1>

Now all that has to be done to edit the heading, is setting up an FTP account that drops them in the CMS folder, and they can upload the file as needed with the changes.

The drawbacks at this point are that they still have to deal with the hassle of FTP. Don't worry though, in part two I will describe how to make a simple CGI script to deal with that for you like I have done for clients such as Ann Arbor's Hideaway Lane and Kingsley Lane Lofts. The other drawback is server side includes also do put an increased load on your web site, so it will download slightly slower. The less server side includes on your page, the quicker it will download, and you can try and compensate for the increase in load by using proper code to reduce file size, and proper image optimization.

Ross Johnson is co-founder of Ann Arbor Web Design Company, 3.7 Designs. He has been coding with perl and php for five years and counting, and looks to make the most cost effective and successful web sites that he can for his clients.

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