Daily Archive for February 24th, 2008

Techno…

…I’ve been listening to it. Honestly I have been finding it difficult to find something I liked because I’ve pretty much tried most of the metal out there and know what I like.

Decided to take a small weeklong break from metal. No metal except when I’m running, or when I need a sudden bit of inspiration.

I got a collection of the top 100 techno songs, and so far they’ve been great. I discovered techno because of this tiny and free independent game: Synaesthete which is an amazing little game. It’s more of an experiment rather than a game, with art, color, techno, music, rythym and lighting in careful interplay.

I found this from the indie game festival, which has some absolutely amazing games, including some really cool physics centered games. This has inspired me to consider working on a game over the course of the next eight months or so. I’ve got a couple of great concepts of physics based games in my head which I want to make sometime.

you can see the IGF website at http://www.igf.com/

So the chap behind zoho is…

I ocasionally use zoho’s productivity suite to do some work online, and didn’t know it was founded and run by an Indian in chennai. Zoho gets a lot of buzz from bigger blags like TechCrunch, etc.

They deal in everything from online office and customer relationship management to groupware and content management.

Vembu is a low-profile guy if there ever was one. He is also cheap as hell. Yet, of course, you know that among entrepreneurs, frugality is a virtue. A tremendous virtue.

Go read (forbes.com).

Visualscope solutions review

Visualscope LLC is a Seattle based design and development company, who seem to be a great company with promising designs, and have requested a review, and here it is:

The company:

Visualscope are Seattle web designers with experience with over 1000 designs, who seem to be well versed with design, development, hosting and marketing your website. With lot of experience with web design and SEO, e-commerce, and writing content, and they clearly know what they’re doing. Pay per click advertising is about to drive me nuts. I see these ads when I log into my web hosting provider, in the web design portions of their sites, triggered when you confirm domain names registration. SEO popularity is crucial to the results of a re-integrated pay per click web site in your favorite search engine.

The main website:

The best way to tell a great web design company is by their website itself, and clearly Visualscope knows what it’s doing. The front page gives a clear picture to a user what they do, along with details, and all their designs are clear, fresh, inspiring and professionals. Click the thumbnail for a few comments on the website.

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General design quality and aesthetics:

You can view their portfolio, or click on some of the samples I’ve provided to see the design in whole.

The design quality is quite professional, and it is unlike the regular “web2.0″ gradient and contrasting colors which tends to annoy quite a few people. Repeated use of stock images, and simple and easy to use design elements appeals to most users, particularly to the general market of customers of their clients. The websites are neatly organized and easy to read and use. They use bright designs, colorful and happy photographs, which has been proven to reinforce customer trust, and bits of flash to add a little extra to every website. They have a lot of clients over a thousand, I counted nearly thirty or something in their portfolio, which is well divided into categories.

Services:

They appear to mainly specialize in white hat Search Engine Optimization. But from the portfolio, they also offer hosting, PHP, Flash, CMS design and maintenance, ASP, Javascript, mash ups, and of course, CSS and HTML. The focus also seems however for marketing and SEO, and this company knows what they’re doing. Focusing on keywords, and adding good content to rank rather than other black hat methods. They are standards compliant and rules compliant and from the testimonials, it’s clear that this company is known for keeping on schedule and being easy to communicate and work with, essential for this kind of thing.

Also, they have written quite a few articles, and have made available plenty of website resources, I particularly like this one about ranking well, or rather how there’s no quick fix to doing so.

Overall, they seem to be a great company with lots of experience in designing quality websites and optimizing them, and more. They’re designs are clean, professional, and colorful, and from the reviews online, they’re clearly a great company to work with if you’re looking for designers.