Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Have you ever expect this from your child's school? - Apps Masters™ - Blog

Have you ever expect this from your child's school? - Apps Masters™ - Blog

Have you ever expect this from your child's school?


School Management System

There are many aspects that are involved with managing and maintaining a school or school district. There are student records to keep track of, teachers to evaluate and parents to keep informed. In the past, all of that work has been done by people using paper and pencil methods and filling up endless filing cabinets with all of the paperwork. Most schools have now gone to an online school management system that makes life easier for everyone involved. These management systems typically include features that would include some or all of the following: attendance, online grade book, parent access to see student progress, seating charts, student emergency information and test scores, and a few others.
While many of the school management system programs are jam packed with features, that doesn't mean they are a good fit for all schools. In larger schools, many of those extra features are welcome because there are people that have the time to work with the program, and there are more students to manage. With smaller schools, however, they are often times looking for a more scaled down version that can help them save time with student management, but not create an overwhelming new program that they need to implement. Be sure to pick a school administration system that fits your needs.
A couple of the main features in any student management system that small schools would benefit from would be the attendance and online grade book. Both of these items simply make life simpler for teachers, students and parents. One of the nice features of taking online attendance is the fact that the building secretary can see who has and has not taken attendance during the morning hours. They can remind the teachers to get their attendance done and stay on top of things much more effectively. They are also able to see much more quickly who is gone for the day, and whether or not they knew ahead of time that those students would be gone. This helps with tracking down unexcused absences.
The online grade book feature is great because it allows teachers to enter grades from home, and it gives the school the ability to print out report cards rather than having teachers fill them out by hand, which can be a painstaking process. These school management system features will certainly become staples in any small school setting in the very near future.
Apps Masters provides a website for Schools not just this a complete Cloud based School Management System, which has separate panel for each of the following:
1. Administrators
• Control all areas of application 
• Create new accounts and approve registration requests 
• Send Mail / SMS to users 
• Control site settings, dormitories, classes, subjects, news, events and grade levels • Set class schedule for each class 
• Can use private messages with other site users 
• View library, download and check book status
• Can Switch between default theme 
• Control languages and set default one and add new one 
• Payments Control 
• Import/Export User details via CSV & Excel • Set School terms 
• Enable/disable activated modules .
• See users profiles 
• Control Mail/SMS Templates 
• Send Exam details to students and parents via Mail / SMS 
• Control Transportation 
• Control Polls system 
• Control Media System
2. Teachers
• Can see classes schedule 
• Add / Control attendance for students 
• Add / Control grades for students 
• Create online exams for classes and review marks 
• Can use private messages with other site users 
• View library, download and check book status 
• Can view news, events and calendar 
• Select language for his account 
• See users profiles 
• Send Exam details to students and parents via Mail / SMS 
3. Students
• Can view exams and assignments 
• Can view online exams and take them 
• Can see classes schedule 
• Can view news, events and calendar 
• Can use private messages with other site users 
• View library, download and check book status 
• Select language for his account 
• Pay invoices via PayPal 
• See users profiles
4. Parents
• Can see his student’s mark sheet and attendance 
• Can view exams and assignments 
• Can see classes schedule 
• Can view news, events and calendar 
• Can use private messages with other site users 
• View library, download and check book status 
• Select language for his account 
• Pay invoices via PayPal 
• See users profiles
Further Features:
• Black & Blue themes (2 modules) • Administrators, teachers, students and parents (4 core modules) • Import/Export User details via CSV & Excel • Administrator must approve registrations of teachers, students or parents • Languages System with pre-build 9 different languages : English, Arabic, French, Dutch, German, Hindi, Italian, Turkish, Russian • Administrator can define new language • Users have the ability to change language and administrator can deactivate this feature. • Payments with PayPal integration and tax calculation. • Invoice generation • Private messages : simple way to communicate with other users by messages • Mail / SMS : Administrators can send e-mail or SMS to teachers, students or parents • Support different 8 SMS APIs and 4 methods of mail delivery • Send Exam details to students and parents via Mail / SMS • Send Student’s absence notifications via mail / SMS • Ability to edit the messages sent for Exam details and Student’s absence notification ( Mail/SMS Templates ) • News Board : Publish school news on board • Events : Publish scheduled events • Calendar : List events, news, exams and online exams on calendar • Attendance : Track attendance of students • Two attendance models • Subject-Based • Class-only based • Attendance selection status from : Present, Absent, Late, Late with excuse Or Early Dismissal. • Attendance Statistics and search for attendance features. • Student can see his attendance history • Exams : Add exams scheduled for school students and grade levels • Assignments : Upload assignments related to each class • Online exams : Create online exams ( Multiple choice ) for students with auto marking • Dormitories : Add your school dormitories • Classes : Add your school classes • Class schedule : Create class schedule for each one • Subjects : Add subjects and their relation to teachers • Books library : Create online library by either download or book availability on library • Media center with unlimited sub-albums features • Polls System • Transportation : Manage school transportation with ability to list subscribers • Popup profiles for students, teachers and parents • School Terms
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

How to build Brand Identity?


Branding by UK Experts

The key to creative and effective branding of any program, product, service or institution is finding the right positioning--to drive the advertising and other marketing tools. It doesn't have to be complicated or weird. In fact, if it's good and effective, it's simple and will follow this "Rule of consumers"--"You are what you appear to be." This position, or 'brand' is really an identity (not in your mind but in your audience's)--a way people can sort through all the confusing information and summarize what they think about something.

What do you get with a brand identity?

Over the last 25 years we have come to learn that the development of a brand identity is much more than a mere benchmark denoting successful arrival in business, or its evolution and growth. A clearly defined and easily recognized identity has, in fact, become a critical success factor in today's highly competitive business environment.

Just to lay some "groundwork", here are ten reasons why doing so can have a strategically important effect on your bottom line.

o It's easier to know who you are, which means:

o It's easier to know what you do. (Helps develop goals)

o It's easier to know how to do it. (Helps with implementation)

o Less energy is expended overall. (Creates efficiency in communications)

o Team building occurs naturally when staff can identify with a common symbol, common language and therefore common goals. (Sports uniforms are a good example. Every player feels like a part of the group.)

o You can match your image to your clients needs or view of his business. (A simple matter of "give'em what they want.")

o With a clearly defined identity you communicate more efficiently with your customers, and they remember you more easily. (Memorability is easier when everybody clearly knows who you are.)

o Enhancements in the overall quality of your product or service. (Consistency always counts.)

o Benefits and unique qualities of your business are communicated more clearly to your clients thereby increasing sales. (Marketing tool)

o Helps set identifiable standards of quality in your product or service. Helps with a sense of reliability by developing a "brand identity." (Brand names are trusted.)

So, what is a brand anyway?

As we begin the process of making recommendations for developing a brand identity let's talk about what we really mean by "brand." What is it, why does it work, how does it work and who makes it work.

Philip Durbrow, vice chairman of the international design firm of Frankfurt Balkind Partners, recalls, "When I first started working in branding, it became obvious that there were no clear universal definitions of key words like marketing, strategy, identity, image and brand. I've developed specific definitions so that we are clear on what we are talking about. Fuzzy words yield fuzzy thinking and fuzzy brands."

Some Definitions

There is very little consistency in people's understanding, or usage, of brand terminology. For clarity, we offer the following definitions:

A Product: is something that is produced to function and exists in reality.

A Brand: has meaning beyond functionality and exists in peoples minds.

Product Quality: has major influence on Brand Qualities.

Brand Qualities: are the thoughts, feelings, associations and expectations created by a Brand Identity.

Brand Identity: is the way in which a brand is expressed visually and verbally.

Branding: is viewing every customer related activity as part of the branding process and managing it accordingly. Everything a company does that affects its customer, affects the value of its brand.

Marketing: means making it easy and motivating people to buy your product--through product design, pricing, packaging, distribution, advertising, etc.

Brand Marketing: is pushing beyond product benefits to fulfill a strategic core promise. It means looking past the tangible to the intangible, accommodating buyers' practical needs while resonating with their deeper feelings.

Brand Strategy: means deciding which brands are going to be used to deliver which products and services to which customers. (This may involve usage of global brands, umbrella brands, megabrands, subbrands, flanker brands, brand extensions and brand families.)

Brand Equity: is the present value of the future combined purchases that are a result of the preference created, or the premium paid, for a brand's products.

Why do we want a brand?

All brands start by speaking to the needs and aspirations of an audience. The aspiration is the brand identity: that's a projection of how the brand wishes to be perceived by its target audience (as opposed to the brand image, which is the way the brand is, currently perceived).

Knowledge and appreciation of this core concept will allow the steward of the brand to develop the mission, build and nurture the market, maintain the brand philosophy, strategy, overall look and feel of the brand and, of course, the logo. What is the audience going to be satisfied with or disappointed by with the message coming from the brand? What is going to help build a strong brand identity (what would weaken it)? How can the aspirations for the brand identity be reached?

Who's Minding the Store?

The brand steward, usually senior executive from the parent company, must protect and cultivate the immutable core of the brand (about 50%) in order to ensure that the brand remains strong. The steward manages the part of the brand that must remain fluid (the remaining 50%) in order to keep the brand relevant and exciting. Typically we see a freshness and evolution in the brand's advertising and packaging, that's the part of the brand that is constantly evolving. The steward is responsible for overseeing the advertising agency's efforts to promote the brand, to develop brand segmentation internally (that is, the sub-brands) and to direct the packaging of branded products. The overall responsibility of the brand steward is to keep the brand on course and profitable.

Companies that have broad, strong brand recognition can diversify through their sub-brands more than narrowly focused companies. For instance, Brit Richard Branson, a courageous babyboomer, started his first business in 1968 at the age of sixteen and has cultivated companies in the entertainment area ever since under the umbrella, Virgin Group (www.virgin.com). First came Virgin Records. Ten years later Branson branched out to form Virgin Atlantic Airways, then a year later added Virgin Holidays. Two years after that Virgin expanded to include Virgin Airship & Balloon Company, Virgin Publishing and Virgin Hotels, among others. Branson, a highly visible and consistently strong leader, is the very essence of pioneer spirit and innovation. Consumers 'get' virgin's abstract brand identity because Virgin's broad target audience identifies with Branson and all he stands for: unencumbered global vision and maverick style. He is a self-proclaimed Virgin for life.

Durbrow offers this wisdom, "There is no long-term advantage to having a brand image that is greater or lesser than the brand really is. If the image is greater than the reality, people will be disappointed whenever they encounter the brand. If the image is less than the reality, the company will never benefit from all its hard work, i.e., the brand won't command a premium or create a preference for the company's branded products."

The Brand As Asset

When included on the balance sheet, the brand's equity is an intangible asset like good will. Its value brightens the parent company's fiscal picture: this is one big reason why companies are eager to develop strong brands. An enhanced financial picture allows the parent company to generate revenue, grow and expand. The brand, which is structured to be easily separated from the parent company, may be sold. The brand may be segmented to increase the market by creating sub-brands which appeal to more specific consumer needs, further increasing the value of the brand.

In the long term, it's the brand's core message that must be honored. All the strong brands--CocaCola, Nike, Calvin Klein, to name a few--give the impression of unswerving confidence, through their billion dollar advertising campaigns. This is exactly the kind of motivational leadership our emotionally charged culture craves. "The branding statement has to be honest, relevant. For example, the Coke brand is the value of constancy. The contour bottle and Spencerian script are promises that the Coke you'll have in Thailand is the same as the Coke you'll have in Oakland. The challenge for us is always to find ways to make something change and stay the same." People have a strong emotional attachment to CocaCola--it's something they grew up with. Coke is a part of the history of America. Waterbury adds, "The CocaCola headquarters and museum in Atlanta are a testament to excellent management of a global brand: A brand that makes a personal connection for almost everyone."

How Brand is Different from Product

Many organizations use the term "Product Manager" interchangeably with "Brand Manager." While most of us could think through the semantic difference between a "product" and a "brand," it seems that (with a few exceptions) the two concepts become indistinguishable when it comes to their management. This confusion may explain in part why there are so few brands and so many products.

The product is defined by its form and function, what it is and what it does. The product is physical attributes, such as price, performance, ease of use, design and style. What a product is can be relatively easily communicated, rapidly changed and effected in the short term using a number of tools: just add a new ingredient or change the shape of the packaging and you have a new product or, at least, a different one. A good product/ marketing strategist is one who can distill a large amount of data about the consumer, the market, his competition, distribution, and boil it down to the few essential premises that will form the backbone of a focused marketing plan. He should be able to distill these premises even further to write an effective communication strategy which, as any honest advertising person will tell you, must be based on a single minded selling proposition. This ability to distill facts down to their simple essence presupposes an excellent knowledge and understanding of the product's consumer or end-user and buyer.

The brand is almost the opposite on all points. Whereas the product has a form, the brand does not have a physical embodiment: It is merely a promise, a covenant with the customer. Some say that the "logo is the brand"... but this isn't so. A logo is meaningless if it does not communicate the brand's covenant with the consumer. And, whereas communication of a product's physical attributes is straightforward and fast, communication of brand values is inherently circuitous and slow. Like the character of an individual, brand character is most difficult to communicate proactively: The individual cannot tell what his character is; the observer must figure it out for himself... an indirect communications process which requires time and absolute consistency. And, contrary to product communication which is best based on one single minded forceful proposition, brand character, like the character of a person, becomes better defined as it gains in complexity. Lastly, whereas the product manager must gain a superior knowledge of his consumer to be effective, the brand manager's success is in great part based on a thorough knowledge of the idiosyncrasies and the values professed by his company and its long term corporate players, its top management.

Written by UK Branding Experts

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

How To Be Successful?




Many people want to know how to be successful. I believe the secret to success is quite simple. Notice I didn't say it is easy, I said simple. I am going to illustrate with several quotes from Brendon Burchard's book, "The Millionaire Messenger".

The first and perhaps most important secret to success is, "Don't give up on your vision or play small because you are starting out."

Brendon goes on to describe his circumstances when he was living in a tiny apartment in San Francisco broke because he spent every dollar he had on rent and "cheap burritos". He was writing on a tiny, three-legged, fold-out table his mom used to use in her sewing room. Brendon was drafting a newsletter on the psychology of success working on an outdated laptop that was gathering condensation on the screen from the broken radiator that was hissing steam. Hardly the vision one would expect for someone writing a newsletter about success. But he didn't quit, he didn't give up

He asked himself, "Who am I fooling? Who cares what a poor, goofy kid has to say about success?" "You need to have a grand vision for yourself and your message, despite your present circumstances" says Brendon.

So there you have it. The secret to how to be successful is quite simple. Start with a grand vision of what you want and what your life is going to be lie. Best to have a vision of how you will serve and help people because as Zig Ziglar has said, "you can have everything you want in life if you help enough people get what they want in life"

The next important ingredient in the "how to be successful" formula is to never let your present circumstances become the excuse for not taking action. Many times would be entrepreneurs make a plethora of excuses. Common among these excuses are: not enough money, not enough time, too busy, don't know enough, who wants to listen to me, who am I to tell others what to do, I haven't achieved anything yet... The litany of possible excuses is endless. Every great person started at the beginning and you can too.

One of the most common phrases in network marketing is "getting ready to get ready". Many people are capable of spending a lifetime getting ready. Maybe I will get started just as soon as I clean my desk, organize my files, get a better camera, buy a new computer are all common excuses.

Once again the secret to how to be successful is quite simple. Create a vision and take action! That's all there is! Maybe there is a third ingredient in the secret to success. No excuses permitted!

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Apps Masters™ Inc: Why Is Email Marketing Important for Any Business?...

Apps Masters™ Inc: Why Is Email Marketing Important for Any Business?...: Email Marketing Service Every email sent to a potential customer is considered as email marketing. Email marketing is very important...

Why Is Email Marketing Important for Any Business?


Email Marketing Service

Every email sent to a potential customer is considered as email marketing. Email marketing is very important for any online business for a whole lot of reasons.

1. Easily reach out to your customers:

Staying in touch with your customers through some sort of medium is a must for any business. Email marketing has just made it easier to reach out to your customers.

You can send a message to the whole list of customers easily and effectively.

2. Promote your brand:

When it comes to the sales of your product, it is all about promotion of our brand. The better the promotion, the better the results. Email marketing is a very good and effective way to promote your brand.

3. Discounts and offers updates:

Regularly updating your customers about the new offers and discounts is a good to boost your sales.

4. Increase your brand visibility:

Things that fade from eyes, fade from memories. Customers buy what they see, so it is very important to remain within your customers eye sight. Marketing makes it easy for you to increase your brand visibility to your customers.

5. Make new customers:

Make new customers by sending emails to people who have the potential to become your customers in the future.

Best email service provider:

MailChimp: MailChimp is the best email service provider there is, more than 8 million people use MailChimp to send emails. It has many features, a lot of pre-designed email templates and very good reporting. It is free for sending low volume of emails but if you need to send high volume of emails, you need to sign up for a premium account. If you can afford the cost of a premium account, it surely is a great service and you should try it for your business.

Do you need an email service provider?

Whether or not you need an email marketing service provider depends upon your requirements. If you have tons of users, a whole lot of emails to send and need very good reporting of your email bounces, clicks and more, then you should probably use an email marketing service provider to do the work for you. Otherwise, if you are good with a simple email management system that sends emails to a list of users and your server can afford to send emails to your user lists then you can develop your own email marketing software.

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hospital Management Systems - Healthcare Services

Hospital / Clinic Management System


Health management is one of the most popular professions as per the recent survey. Since health or hospital management is turning out to be increasingly privatized so there is great requirement of not only skilled doctors but also effective hospital administration tools. Hospital management systems make the best utilization of available information technology and improved telephonic infrastructure which will manage hospital in effective ways. This system offers the benefits of enhanced administration, strict cost control and other streamlined operations. It addresses all basic hospital needs and covers wide area of hospital management and administration.

There are different modules of hospital management system such as:

Laboratory information system:

This module is generally used by hospital pathology lab for recording as well as disseminating information regarding the performed tests. Hospital Management Software gets online requests from surgeons and doctors and helps the laboratory personnel in generating requests. On the basis of requests, a user can input sample as well as generate sample numbers too. In case the test demands approval, it becomes necessary for the supervisor to approve result and make it available to the respective concerned doctors.

Pharmacy management:

This module caters to various systems such as stock management, dispensing, control functions, drug information system within the pharmacy department. It receives prescriptions from their respective doctors and departments. Different pre-defined stock levels are managed within the pharmacy for avoiding irritating conditions like as OOS. It offers a whole comprehensive collection of the available drugs. With the help of this system medicines can be easily implemented based on different aspects.

Billing module:

Billing module of hospital management system looks after all types of billing within the organization for long term. It facilitates billing operations and cashier functionalities such as inpatient, referral and outpatient. The system also offers automatic posting of all charges which are related to various services such as lab tests, medicines which re issued, telephone charges, food, beverage etc.

Queue and appointment module:

This scheduling system helps you in effective scheduling of patients and appointments. It helps nurses and doctors to see available time slots as well as allocating appointments. It prevents system from generating appointments in case the doctor is busy or unavailable.

Operation theatre management:

This clinical information system tracks all types of surgeries which are taking place inside the hospital. It assists in scheduling theaters, records of surgery details, surgery team and other checklists related to surgery.

Some other popular modules of Hospital Information Systems are:

• House Keeping and Laundry Management

• Bio-Medical Waste Management

• MIS (Management Information System)

• Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

• Blood Bank Management

• Stores and Inventory Management

• Billing and Financial Accounting

• HR and Payroll Management

Hospital software is powerful, easy to use as well as flexible and has been developed for providing real conceivable offers to the clinic and hospitals. It is completely integrated tool which offers all relevant information throughout the hospital for providing relevant information throughout the hospital. In a nutshell, it can be concluded that this system plays an active role in strong decision making for financial accounting, patient care and hospital management systems in a proper way.

Apps Masters™ Inc UK. Offers hospital management software, Clinical Information Systems and hospital software to improve health system automated http://apps-masters.com/hospital-clinic-patient-management-system/

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

How ERP Cloud Accounting Software Can Benefit A Company?




How ERP cloud accounting software can benefit a company?

Enterprise resource planning is part of owning a business. There are many applications and programs available that can help to organize and aggregate data from each department. However, traditional platforms rely on proprietary information technology infrastructure that is vulnerable to crashes, outside attacks, and human error. ERP cloud accounting software is more stable and can keep a company going no matter the state of on-site servers.

How Does the Program Work?

The application is a centralized portal that allows managers to keep an eye on key parts of their business. Instead of operating on an on-premise server, the program is just as the name implies, it is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) protocol that relies on off-site technology, i.e. "the cloud" to function. While it works in a similar manner to on-site protocols, this version is often more easily updated in comparison. New patches to the software are automatically installed at the time of deployment, rather than having to wait until the IT department has time to run the update.

In addition, ERP cloud accounting software is customizable to a specific business or industry. It can be programmed to only pull information for the required functions such as CRM, human resources, and accounting into one central location.

What Are Some Benefits of Having ERP Cloud Accounting Software?

There are several benefits of having a cloud-based enterprise resource planning program. Like many things about off-site storage, the total cost is often lower. That is because of the reduction of equipment needed in order to maintain and support the program. It also saves man-hours as technicians will not have to spend time updating the project.

Beyond saving money, companies may see increased business productivity. Since employees will be able to access the information stored in the enterprise resource planning program from anywhere, decisions can be made quickly and accurately.

While the employees are better able to perform their jobs, the service also allows for streamlining operations on a corporate level. Many of these applications also allow for budgets to be integrated and forecasting to be available so that the business can grow faster.

While many companies are concerned about the safety of their information, this off-site solution is just as secure as traditional on-premises storage. The data is saved and encrypted onto the network server and is consolidated into a centralized location. Most businesses that utilize this powerful tool have providers that offer top of the line security protocols including military-grade AES encryption.

Since the ERP is cloud-based software, it can be scaled easier than traditional programming. Companies can utilize just the services they need with the application and add solutions faster when necessary.

ERP cloud accounting software is an important tool for businesses to utilize. By having a single portal for planning, manage customer relationships, offer eCommerce options, and give administrators access to a general ledger, managers can run their companies easier. Having the program operate from a remote location that is constantly maintained and secured saves time and money.

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Friday, July 17, 2015



AMD's incredibly small, yet insanely powerful Radeon R9 Nano is launching in August

The Radeon R9 Nano video card uses high-bandwidth memory and AMD's powerful Fiji GPU to offer flagship-level graphics performance in a six-inch form factor.

AMD’s computing and graphics division may have sunk screaming into a sarlacc pit last quarter, but those results were riding on the shoulders of Radeon R200-series video cards nearly two full years old. The Radeon crew’s gearing up for a more bountiful future with the recent release of its powerful Fury X and Fury graphics cards, built with cutting-edge high-bandwidth memory and AMD’s most powerful processor yet—Fiji.

During AMD’s earnings call Thursday, CEO Lisa Su let slip a more concrete launch window for the oddest, most intriguing member of the Fiji lineup: The Radeon R9 Nano.

“Fury just launched actually this week and we will be launching Nano in the August timeframe,” Su said while answering a question about the supply of Fiji-powered graphics cards. Previously, the R9 Nano was only confirmed for “this summer.” amd radeon fiji gpu AMD's Fiji processor. The four small squares arranged around the black AMD-marked chip in the middle are HBM stacks.

The R9 Nano, like the 7.64-inch flagship Fury X, will take advantage of HBM’s integration directly on the Fiji die to shrink the overall length of the card down to crazy small proportions. The Nano is a mere six inches long, and unlike the Fury X, doesn’t require an integrated closed-loop liquid cooling solution to stay frosty—which makes you naturally wonder how much punch it’ll have.

Don’t be worried. The Fury X’s GPU packs a whopping 4096 stream processors, while the air-cooled Fury rocks a cut-down version with 3584. AMD hasn’t confirmed the R9 Nano’s exact specs yet, CEO Su has said that the six-inch card will offer “significantly more performance than the Radeon R9 290X,” AMD’s previous-generation flagship. The dedicated servers hosting providers would definitely take the benfit of it.


Color us intrigued—especially for small form factor builds like Steam Machines. Another monstrous Radeon with not one, but two Fiji processors is also slated to launch sometime this fall.

The Features And Benefits Of Using Dedicated Servers



You've come a long way from your fledgling website that only got two hundred hits per month. You now have a three hundred page monster on its way to getting millions of hits per month. You're going to need a better hosting plan than you had before. A much better hosting plan.
Sure, your shared hosting plan worked fine in the past. Ok, well, not counting those intermittent down-times and oh yeh, that other time when someone (one of your competitors, maybe, but most likely an ex-girlfriend) figured out your account password and deleted your entire website. But that simply will not do for your website as it is now. You've invested too much time and money into this project and its finally starting to yield some results. There is absolutely no question about it: you need to find and review dedicated server plans and choose the right one fast!
A dedicated server is itself, the physical piece of hardware that your hosting provider rents to you. It has its own processor, hard drives(s), Random Access Memory (RAM) and bandwidth capability. Your website and its associated software will be hosted exclusively on this dedicated server's hard drives. Dedicated servers allow you to install and run almost any program. They additionally allow other users, whom you have given access, the ability to connect to your dedicated hosting server and use those same programs at the same time you do. This has made dedicated servers very popular amongst internet gamers. Dedicated gaming servers offer all the same features of regular dedicated hosting servers but they are intended for less serious pursuits.
But what are the other benefits of utilizing dedicated servers? That's certainly a valid question considering that dedicated server hosting costs significantly more than shared or virtual hosting plans. But with the increased cost comes features and benefits that are significantly worth it.
There are many benefits of using dedicated server hosting for your high traffic, software intensive website or gaming application. We've listed the most important below to steer you in the right direction.
Customization: Most dedicated server hosting plans allow you to fully customize or build your own dedicated server. You can therefore select and pay for only the features which you will require. You often will get your choice of operating system software (Windows Server Edition & Linux Redhat being the most popular options). Your choice of such software should be informed by considering which system your web applications will run best on. A major selling point with dedicated hosting plans is also which control panel to use. Plesk and Cpanel control panels are the most popular choices. Both will allow the hosting of multiple domains and websites but Plesk control panels have proven more popular largely because of their ease of use and their ability to facilitate event management, Postgresql, Support Ticketing Systems, various Language Packs and advanced dedicated game server hosting.
Reliability: Because your website or application is hosted exclusively on this dedicated server, you don't run the risk of the server being congested by requests for other people's websites or applications. On a shared hosting plan, the speed at which your web application loads is dependent upon how much traffic other websites that are on the same shared hosting server are getting. This causes slow loading times for high traffic websites and other websites that share a server with them. Dedicated server hosting avoids all this by affording your web application exclusive bandwidth. Shared hosting is also risky because you have no idea who is uploading what to the same server that you are hosted on. John in Nantucket might be uploading a web application containing an as yet unidentified virus that deletes everything it touches. If your website resides on the same server as John's, then, to put it technically, you're screwed. Dedicated hosting avoids all this and lets you sleep a little easier at night.
Security: No one else has access to your server but you. You are responsible for all its contents so there is no possibility of viruses or other malicious software unless you put them there. Additionally, most dedicated server plans come with the option of an external firewall so you can better enforce your specified access rights.
Unique IP Address: All dedicated servers have their own unique IP address so the IP address of your domain points only to your website. Shared hosting plans assign 1 IP address to every domain and website hosted on that particular server. Website traffic is then directed by host-header-reading software installed on the server. This process is usually very quick but can be slowed down on a congested shared server. Your dedicated server will have its own unique IP address which can only point to your website or web application. No header-reading software is needed to slow down the loading process (unless you decide to host multiple websites).
Upgrades, Upgrades!: No doubt, your website will continue to grow and so will your budget. At anytime during your dedicated server hosting you can add more bandwidth, RAM and increase your processor speed. While some hosting providers will allow you to switch operating systems this is generally not recommended. Make your mind up in the beginning and stick to one OS. This will save you many hours of tedious software conversions and 'unexplained' downtimes.
Other Options:
o Hard Drive Arrangement: If you have opted to have two hard drives on your dedicated server then you can arrange them in one of two ways: Raid 1 or Raid 2. Raid 1 or disk mirroring, allows you to select one hard drive as your primary 'work from' hard drive while the other hard drive serves as an exact copy of the primary drive. This is very important if your web application will contain highly sensitive data relating to your customers or any other unique information. If you are not particularly concerned with this kind of back-up utility you may opt for a Raid 2 configuration in which there is a primary hard drive with the secondary drive being used once the primary storage becomes full. The Raid hard drive arrangements make dedicated server hosting many times more reliable than regular non dedicated server hosting.
o FTP Backup: The best dedicated hosting providers will additionally provide an FTP back-up account for your account. You can mirror vital content that is already on your dedicated hosting server in that account.
The benefits of dedicated server hosting are clear. Armed with this knowledge feel free to look around for the cheapest dedicated hosting providers. A reliable dedicated hosting company will provide you with all the above-mentioned options to ensure that your mega website and games are always up and running. Remember, choose only those options which you need in a reliable dedicated server. There is no hard and fast rule for what constitutes reliable dedicated servers : you must carefully decide which options are best suited for the applications which you intend to run. A low cost dedicated server that has all the bandwidth, space and security features to run your programs effectively is the perfect upgrade from a non dedicated server hosting plan. Your dedicated hosting server is yours to customize so do it wisely and cost effectively.

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Best Free Android Apps to Help With Your Finances


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This article focuses on the very best free Android finance apps. What can finance apps do and how will they help? Basically, for a short, all-encompassing answer: all these Android apps concentrate on money and if they are used, they will help you save some cash!

The debate of whether to pay for Android apps will continue forever. That's a decision that needs to be made by you, the individual, and whether you think the paid version is worth $X.XX to you. Will it give you that amount of enjoyment or will it save you more money than you paid for it? These are good questions to ask yourself before you jump in and pay for an Android app.

Since we're talking about finance apps that can save you money, it would be pretty ironic if I were pushing paid apps. Sure there are some amazing Android finance apps that cost money (many of which I would heavily endorse- but that's for another day), but if the goal of downloading them is to save money, there's no better way than to start off with nothing invested! Here they are: some of the best free Android apps that will help you with your finances!

Quote Pro

Get the latest stock quotes and news while being able to get very detailed information on the stocks you're interested in (or the ones you own). This helpful free Android app also allows you to create and track your portfolio(s). While this app isn't going to blow anyone away by the dozens of additional features that you may or may not want, its core functionality works extremely well.

Tip Calculator by TradeFields

This is another Android app that simply isn't going to go beyond what it's good at. This works perfectly as a tip calculator for anyone who wants (or needs) one. There are literally 100s of these tip calculator apps available and this one is the best. Why? For me, it has the best UI and is really foolproof. If you can dial a phone number, you can calculate everyone's share of the 17.5% tip for the $127.56 dinner bill!

PayPal

This is a very useful free Android app for all of the 10s of millions of PayPal users worldwide. With this app, you can do all the same things you normally do on PayPal. But now, by paying for an item as soon as it's allowable, you can help expedite the shipping process. You never know, this may not impact you at all for dozens of transactions and then the next time, you'll get that amazing skin cream on Friday instead of having to wait till Monday! Trust me, after you've had this app for a while, it's just nice to have access to PayPal 24/7.

Currency Converter

If you're travelling abroad and want to have some peace of mind about the money conversion, you should download a free currency app. Why download just a random currency app when you can download the best of the best- for free?!? This Android app, developed by Pocketools, can provide you an extremely simple currency calculator in a very basic user interface. However, if you desire more currency information, this app can do that too: you can view currency trends over a 5 year period, graph any currency against any other, convert any currency to another (all currencies of the world are available on this app) or do just about any other thing you can think of if it involves any of the world's currencies.

Mileage

This isn't what you would typically think of as a finance app, right? It's not, but it is. Most importantly, it can help you save money if you choose to dig deep into the information it provides you. It will track your vehicle's gas consumption in a number of different ways that can be helpful if you're trying to cut costs and your fuel usage. This app's UI is very sleek and the data is very easy to read and interpret. It's eerily fun and potentially a money-saving Android app!

Finance

This generic name represents the power of the developer of this Android app. It's Google and this app provides real-time stock quotes. The UI is very solid; like most things Google, it isn't flashy, but gets the job done nicely. If you're a Google Finance user and you've loaded up a portfolio, this app will be a "game changer" as it's fully synchronized and gives you access to everything as if you were on your home computer.

Personal Finance by PageOnce

This is a great Android app if you have many banking/credit card accounts and crave the ability to be able to stay on top of them from one easy-to-use source. This finance app is really well built and the UI is very pleasing to the eye. This is one of those apps that just keeps going. What do I mean? Well, the more you use it, the more features you'll find and the more ideas you'll have to utilize it! IMO, it's a must have.

Financisto

This is another personal finance manager app. Like the other apps of this type, there are functions galore! It allows you to add many different types of accounts (checking, credit, savings- and multiple ones of each kind) into the manager, schedule and monitor recurring payments, create a budget (short term, long term or even set up a "project" which would be great for vacations) and filter what types of information you want to view during normal viewing or when checking out one of the many reports available. Amazingly, there is much more that this free Android app is capable of!

I'm leaving out some great Android apps, right? What about the huge banks' and insurance companies' Android apps?

*Of course, every major bank, credit card company and insurance company out there today have created their own Android app. What do they do? Well, essentially they're all the same: these Android apps make it easier for their customers to manage their accounts and learn the latest about the company and its offerings. What's the best thing? There's a tie: they'll make your life easier and they're all free to download!

To list all these would really be beyond pointless as they're all very similar and are only worthwhile to download if you're a customer of the company. However, this doesn't mean I don't make use of them and you shouldn't use them! I would suggest that you download and take advantage of as many of these Android apps that make sense for you. Having an up-to-the-minute balance for your checking account may just prevent you from those dreaded, expensive overdraft fees. Not a terribly bad thing for a $0 investment!

Please feel free to share your ideas, if you would like to create your own app! Android App Developer

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

How to Hire The Right Web Design Firm


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Regardless whether you manage a small business, charitable organization, or Fortune 500 company, choosing the right web design firm can quickly become a full-time research project. With thousands of design firms to choose from, what factors truly determine which design firm is best for your business?

The primary considerations for choosing a web design firm are:

* Price

* Customer service/access to support

* Credibility indicators of the design firm

* Portfolio and design experience

* Other services offered (domain renewal, hosting, SEO)

* Turnaround time

Let's take a closer look at each consideration in detail, and explore how to identify and qualify the right design firm.

Price

Like many products and services we purchase, both personally and professionally, deciding on a web design firm can often come down to price. But the value of the services rendered is really what's important. A $200 web site usually turns out to look, feel and perform like a $200 web site.

The price of your site's development will depend on three factors: the features of the site, the amount of content, and the service options included with the design package, such as hosting.

Because pricing varies by firm, here are several principles to use when determining the validity and value of a web design quote:

* Does the quote state one all-inclusive price for the entire project?

* Is there a reoccurring monthly fee for hosting?

* Is the site custom-built, or is it customization of an existing template?

* Is there a separate fee for content development, such as writing sales copy?

* Is domain registration/management included in the package?

* Will the firm provide multiple design concepts, prior to actual development?

It's important to compare quotes from at least three firms to, determine the value of the services offered. Looking for the best value is important in a competitive service market.

Customer Service

There's nothing worse than signing with a firm that offers a great product, only to find out they are impossible to contact. Consistent, open contact with your web design firm is important for ensuring success before, during, and after your web site is developed.

Throughout the design process, you may identify text, photos, or contact information you'd like to change before the site goes live. If you have immediate questions regarding your site's development, you'll be glad to have immediate contact with customer support staff by e-mail, telephone, or live chat.

If you are limited to e-mail technical support, consider other firms that offer a wider range of customer service options such as telephone and live chat support. E-mail is great for convenience - when it's convenient.

Credibility Indicators

Identifying "credibility indicators" can help ensure a firm is trustworthy, and will be around after your deposit or full payment is sent. Credibility indicators include, but are not limited to:

* Toll free telephone support

* 24 hour customer service

* Better Business Bureau affiliation

* Human e-mail address contacts

* Google PageRank of 2 or above

* Presentation of a hard-copy quote/design contract

Design Experience/Portfolio

Does the design firm have experience in working with similar types of businesses? Even if a designer doesn't have a web site in their portfolio related to your industry, the firm you select should have a strong working knowledge of how to develop an effective site for your business type. Product and service web sites are not the same. Your designer should have a plan of action for developing a site that reaches the maximum number of prospective customers in your target market.

A few good questions to ask about a firm's design experience include:

* Does the firm offer a number of diverse, finished web sites available for review?

* Will the firm conduct research regarding my competition?

* Will my web site highlight the features, benefits and value of my product or service?

* Has the firm outlined a plan of action for creating an effective site, start to finish?

Design experience need not always relate to the type of web sites the firm has previously developed. If you have a specific look in mind, ask the firm if achieving a similar design is possible. The ultimate goal is to know you're going to get a tangible benefit out of your site through effective, affordable web design.

Additional Services

Many web design firms offer design, but do not provide other required services such as hosting and domain name registration. Ideally, your web design company should be a full-service firm, offering at least basic hosting, domain registration and search engine optimization services tailored to your needs. Research each firm to determine other key lines of business, so that any future expansion of your site will be seamless as your business grows.

Turnaround Time

An effective website should take 30-60 days to go live, from the start of production. Unless you're offering hundreds of individual products or services on your web site, the entire development process, start to finish, should take no longer than 60 days. Turnaround time should include:

* Upload of your web site to the hosting provider

* Configuration of any scripts or forms on your site

* Domain propagation (accessing your web site and e-mail via yoursite.com)

Hiring the cheapest, fastest, or most elaborate web design firm does not always equate to hiring the right web design firm. A limited amount of front-end research can save time and money in the long term, and maximize the sales revenue from your web presence.

Jim D. Ray is a seasoned web developer and president of Apps Masters™ Inc, a national web design firm serving the small business market sector. To learn more, or for a free quote for your own web site, visit the us at [http://apps-masters.com].

Choosing the Right Web Designer

Web Design & Development

So, you've finally decided that you need a web site for your business? Well, there are a few key-points to remember BEFORE you make one of the most crucial decisions for your business.

Choosing the right designer for your new business web site:

When it comes to choosing the right web designer for your web site, you should always shop around first to check out all of the available options. There are many web design companies out there to choose from. And most of them are pretty good at what they do.

Always ask to see samples of a web designer's previous work and examine their portfolio. This will help you get a better feel for the style of sites any particular web designer is capable of doing. Most of the time, web designers have their own unique style and you can easily spot which designs they've done in the past. I mean, it's similar to any other artist's style; you can definitely spot their previous works based on the general layout, color scheme, and over-all visual appearance of the sites.

Experience is also a key factor here. Just like any other craft, web designers get better with experience. So naturally, you'll be better off by choosing a web designer who has more experience under his or her belt.

Another key point you should define is whether or not the web designer can make you a 100% custom web site. Or will it be just a basic template web design that 100's or even 1,000's of people already have across the Internet. Pretty much anybody these days can create a basic HTML web page in Microsoft Word or Publisher and change the title of it to reflect their Branson business. But you must ask yourself: "is this really what I'm looking for"?

Web sites that are truly custom built will stand out more the rest of the basic template web designs that so many people are using these days. A custom web design will catch the eye of your potential customers and show them that you have a really professional web presence and you mean business.

A lot of web designers these days choose to do the template web sites for one of 2 reasons:

It's cheaper to use a basic template web design. They might be lacking the necessary skills needed to develop a fully custom web site. Whatever the case may be, make sure you go with a designer who is capable of creating a custom web design for you. It will inevitably cost you more for a custom site. But it is totally worth the extra money spent. Trust me, in the end you will be much happier with your web site if it is a site that's unique and created for just your business and not everybody else's.

Communication with a potential web designer is also critical in the development of your web site. You need to be perfectly clear and define your goals up-front, before you actually sign a web design service contract with a designer. Make sure you know what you are getting for your money and make sure you get it in writing! I have a 9-page web site design contract that I use every single time I design a new web site. Included in this contract is an itemized list of all work that is to be performed during the development of the web site. Things like the exact number of pages, the exact number of graphics to be designed, whether or not I need to create a logo, the estimated time before completion, whether or not routine site maintenance will be performed after the site is 6 months or 1 year old, etc.

Defining these things will help you in the long run and will also make sure you and the web designer are on the same page.

I also use what I call my "web design planning worksheet". This worksheet gives "milestones" or deadlines for each phase of the web design project. Things like "In 2 weeks the general layout will be done" and "2 weeks after that, the site will be coded and launched" and then "In one moth after the web site is launched, we will evaluate it to see what needs to be adjusted", etc. (these are just examples, by the way. the details included in one of my actual worksheets gives exact dates and more specific milestones).

And what about the web hosting for your new web site? Usually, a web designer will provide some kind of insight as to which hosting company they recommend. Web designers in general have a preference for a hosting company that they know will be a good choice for your web site and they should assist you in making this selection.

Fortunately, we have our own web server here at Apps Masters Hosting Servers, so we can do all of the hosting ourselves. This is very beneficial because we can make sure the web server stays up and running and if there is any maintenance that needs to be performed on the server, we can do it ourselves in a timely manner. Plus, we will always cut a deal for our web site hosting services to any new business who chooses us to do their web design.

Will your new web site require any specialized web programming? Well, the answer to that question is based solely on the needs of your Branson web site. What kind of site will it be? Does it need a shopping cart for e-commerce? Will you be implementing any special web applications or online forms for your viewers to fill out? Will it be a web site that requires your viewers to fill out registrations and sign up so they can login? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then chances are you'll need a web designer who can also program.

Web developers and designers must be skilled in the art of web PROGRAMMING (something that is very different from regular web DESIGN). Web programming involves the implementation of different web programming languages like JAVA, PHP, Flash, SQL, or.NET. All of these web programming languages need highly skilled individuals to code them and develop web programs with them.

I personally love PHP! I use it for pretty much everything. I won't go into the details of PHP in this article (I would have to write an entire book about it to cover all of it). But with PHP, I can create pretty much any web application that is logically possible.

So, make sure you choose a web designer who is also capable of coding any special functions that your new web site needs. This decision needs to be discussed and gone over by any potential web designer you might use to create your Branson web site.

And finally, you should always check with the potential web designer's previous clients to make sure they give him or her a good reference. Remember: it just like any other service. You need to verify a web designer's references and make sure they can do what they say they can do.

So, just to summarize all of the tips I've mentioned:

Ask questions, questions, and more questions before you choose a web designer. Clearly define your goals from the beginning. Ask to see the web designer's portfolio and samples of their previous work. Make sure they can help you with choosing a web hosting provider. Get documentation to show exactly how many pages will be included in the project and the estimated time before completion. If your Branson web site requires special web programming, make sure the designer can handle it. I hope this article helps anybody who is getting ready to have a new web site designed. A good web site can really do wonders for your business!

Here at Apps Masters website design & development, we specialize in affordable custom web design for all businesses! We also offer very affordable pricing for our web hosting services. If you would like to know more about our services or to see our web design portfolio, visit our main company web site at the link below. We offer affordable custom web designs!

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