After very long time I am posting a actual blog post rather than my daily tweets. Sorry for not blogging very often as life is very tough & busy in this part of the world now.

So I have 20 Google Wave invitations to give away & it will be done on first come first serve basis. What you should do is send me your Gmail email address along with why you want Google Wave. And when you got your Google Wave account comment on this blog post saying that you got it.

That’s so simple

And happy Waving people!!!

Bucharest, Romania and Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 19, 2009 – AXIGEN, the professional messaging solution vendor , announced today the signing of a business partnership with Minlo Technologies Ltd, a Sri Lanka based provider of digital technologies. This agreement aims to further reinforce the AXIGEN Mail Server presence and product range distribution in South Asia.

Minlo Technologies is a versatile digital technologies provider, offering personalized services such as business consultancy, integrated business solutions, design, web application development, CMS customization, Internet Marketing and training to a wide variety of customers. The company comprises a team of young enthusiastic entrepreneurs and experienced professionals who combine cutting-edge technology, creativity, extensive IT knowledge and, most importantly, an open attitude towards innovative ideas, in order to provide businesses of all sizes with customized, highly-reliable and ergonomic solutions.

“We are very excited to collaborate with AXIGEN, which is a leading brand in the global mail server solutions market. We believe this business relationship will completely change the Sri Lankan and South Asian integrated business solution sector and we are confident that AXIGEN will become one of the most successful brands in Minlo`s vast range of integrated business solutions portfolio. Our ultimate focus is to satisfy our clients catering with diversified and high end business solution,”

said Mr. Damitha Wickramasinghe, Minlo Technologies CEO.

“We are very pleased with our new partnership with Minlo Technologies and we are highly confident it will help us further adapt our innovative messaging solutions to the specific challenges and demands of Sri Lankan companies, whilst allowing us to pursue our development goals throughout the Asian continent,”

concluded Oana Bornaz, AXIGEN CEO.

One of the top ten messaging solutions in the world according to The Radicati Group, the AXIGEN Mail Server has a strong focus on meeting the needs of business customers, either directly or through Service Providers employing the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Winner of the ServerWatch 2007 Product Excellence Award for the Communications Server category, AXIGEN runs on several Linux and BSD distributions, on Solaris, on Windows operating systems, on PowerPC and SPARC architectures and is becoming the messaging solution of choice for a growing number of service providers and enterprises worldwide.

About Minlo Technologies

Minlo Technologies combines a unique blend of creativity and technical expertise with sound business strategy, delivering a full range of effective solutions. Developing Content Management Systems, Internet based Business Applications, Rich Internet Applications and delivering attractive & functional creative design is their bread and butter. Ideas and concepts that have never been done before, new technology, new ideas and new boundaries to break – that’s what they’re passionate about. Their range of clients varies from top private companies to non-profit organizations, covering a whole array of industries and specialties, interests and needs.
Find out more at: www.minlotec.com

About AXIGEN and Gecad Technologies

Established in 2001, Gecad Technologies SA, member of the GECAD Group, is the vendor of AXIGEN, a messaging solution for professionals that ensures an efficient and secure worldwide communication environment and business growth for both service providers and companies of all sizes. Currently, AXIGEN is distributed internationally by over 200 partners from 80 countries and manages email traffic for more than 11,000 companies with 8 million end-users.

Our team of seasoned professionals, with 15 years of experience in messaging and IT security delivers cutting-edge products, by developing an innovative carrier-class technology based on proprietary architectures such as AXIGEN GrowSecure™, AXIGEN SmartProcessing™ and AXIGEN UltraStorage™.
Find out more at: www.axigen.com

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Qpato Consulting, affordable, high quality, professional web design and web consulting company located in Germany, launched their official website.

www.qpatoconsulting.com

Site is developed in Wordpress using valid XHTML/CSS blended with accessibility.

Vote for MyConferenceTime.com as the oDesk Site of the Month Contest.

oDesk is the marketplace for online workteams, with the best business model for both buyers and providers. Each of the websites included was built by oDesk providers in collaboration with their oDesk buyers.

MyConferenceTime.com allows teachers to post their available conference times online so that parents can instantly sign up for a meeting. Email confirmations are sent to the teacher and parent.

Don’t forget to put some comment as well.

Discover the mission

The premise is simple: Internet Explorer 6 is antiquated, doesn’t support key web standards, and should be phased out. This isn’t about being anti-Microsoft, it’s about Microsoft’s lack of development in the browser market. With IE7/8 not available for Windows 2000, IE6 accounts for up to 20% of web usage, primarily via business users. Clients pressure designers to ‘force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. Microsoft needs to fix this, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.

Read the article

In the article, ‘Calling time on IE6’, we ask designers and developers if it’s finally time to take IE6 behind the shed and shoot it. Major names in the web industry debate our mission, talking about the pros and cons behind dumping IE6. How feasible is it to shun the browser entirely? What can you do to minimise the impact IE6 has on you and your clients (and increasingly tight budgets)? And what can and should Microsoft do to help us all move the web and web standards on? Find out by reading the article, or just ‘skip to the end’ by looking to the bottom and getting involved.

Get involved

• Put our logo on your site and then link to this site. Follow us on Twitter.
• Educate your colleagues, users and clients regarding calling time on IE6.
• Ensure sites work in IE6, but don’t waste a lot of time fixing non-critical issues.
• Provide an upgrade notice for IE6 users.

  <!--[if lt IE 7]>
  	<div id="ie6Warning">
  		<h4>Time to upgrade your browser</h4>
  		<p>If you're reading this, you're surfing using Internet Explorer 6, an eight-year-old browser that cannot cope with the demands of the modern internet. For the best web experience, we strongly recommend upgrading to <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com/">Firefox</a>, <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">Google Chrome</a>, or a more recent version of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx">Internet Explorer</a>.</p>
  	</div>
  < ![endif]-->
  

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Powder Process Design Services Ltd is an UK based design, manufacture and supply of powder processing solutions to serve the needs of companies in sectors like Industrial Minerals, Chemicals, Ceramics and Recycling.

When PPDS approached Minlo Technologies site was out dated and suffered from design as well as usability challenges. PPDS Founder, Nigel Thomas wanted this to be redesign in very short period of time and launch soon after that.

As a web development firm, Minlo’s responsibility was to develop a standard compliant website with information architect, graphic design, user interface design, implementing accessibility, usability, JavaScript development and finally cross browser compatible.

Process included in the redesign of the site

• Scratching the user flows
• Information Architect
• Enhanced new User interface with user experience and graphic design
• Initial build of the site
• Loading content
• Accessibility, Usability & Browser compatibility testing

Here is the URL of the PPDS, http://www.powder-Processing.co.uk/

When using fonts on websites, font should display it’s all properties & styles on all or most web browsers which runs on different platforms like Windows, Mac or Linux. Unfortunately we don’t have much fonts which supported on all web browsers & platforms. So fonts which are working on all or most web browsers are called Web Safe Fonts.

So here are list of web safe fonts which I am using in my web design projects.

Arial

CSS code;

font-family:"Arial", Helvetica, sans-serif;

Georgia

CSS code;

font-family:"Georgia", serif;

Courier New

CSS code;

font-family:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;

Trebuchet MS

CSS code;

font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-seri;

Lucida Console

CSS code;

font-family:"Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;

Verdana

CSS code;

font-family:"Verdana", Geneva, sans-serif;

Times New Roman

CSS code;

font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;

Lucida Sans Unicode

CSS code;

font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", Lucida Grande, sans-serif;

Tahoma

CSS code;

font-family:"Tahoma", Geneva, sans-serif;