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Custom PHP Application Development / Custom Web Application Development

June 26th, 2010 4 comments

Over the years, we have been involved in not just web design and online marketing but a lot of custom PHP development. Every now and then, a stock standard solution doesn’t fit the needs of a client where we develop custom solutions for them. Here are a few examples of the work we have done. Client names and project names have been hidden because of privacy.

Sports Event Management Dashboard

Still in an infancy stage, we built a solution for a sports company to manage their events. Previously they have been using Offline Forms and Direct Mail plus cheques to manage all their events. Now they are about 80% online in all of their range of events with the rest set to finish towards the end of the year.

Screen below shows a dashboard, where they can see at any stage, how many started the registrations, how many completed the registration and how many errors there were. This also tracks on a percentage level how far they are from reaching their target.

Sports Event Management Dashboard

 

Tracking applicant History (Record Check)

One of our clients uses companies to check histories of people. Companies hire our client to do record checks on potential employees so that they are risk free. The system we built allows our client to give access to those employers to do record checks on individuals themselves. Also our client can jump into the system anytime and do record checks on behalf of the company.

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Dealer Communication and Management

A Client recently asked us how he can communicate and manage his dealership base more effectively. The solution we have implemented for him allows him to not just manage his products, but also his dealership base, such as adding dealerships, editing dealerships and communicating offers to his dealership quickly within minutes.

Dealer Communication and Management

Setting up your Google App email (IMAP) in Outlook 2007

June 21st, 2010 1 comment

Google Apps for Businesses

With DzineClub hosting plans, most of the times we set you up with a Google App account. This allows you to access emails via a Gmail interface and also set up your email on Outlook, Entourage, Apple Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird etc.

To set up your Google App email account on Outlook 2007, please use the following steps:

Start Outlook

If you already don’t have an email address associated.
It will ask you to set up a new email. CLICK YES.

If you already have an email address, click on Tools, Account settings

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Click on New and Select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP

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Enter your name, email and password

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Tick Manually configure server settings or additional server types

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Choose Internet e-mail and click next

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Enter Internet e-mail Settings

  • Enter your Name
  • Enter your email address
  • Enter your account type as IMAP
  • enter your username which is your full email address
  • Enter your password
  • Click on more settings

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Click on More Settings …
Click on Outgoing Server Tab

Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and make sure Use same settings as my incoming mail server is checked

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Click on Advanced Tab

Insert Incoming server (IMAP) as 993
Select “SSL” as the following type of encrypted connection: SSL
Insert Outgoing server (SMTP) as 587
Use the following type of encrypted connection: TLS

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Click on OK

You should be all set to go. Make sure you use emails for the better of humanity 🙂

Showing events on your site

June 14th, 2010 No comments

Google Calendar for Events

Events are now an integral part of some businesses. For a small business adding an events section and making it an online part can cost a fair bit of money and resources. Here we’ll look at how you can at the least quickly set up a calendar on your website without it costing a lot of money for you.

For this you will require a Google account as we will be integrating your Google calendar on your website. So please create a Google account and go to http://calendar.google.com to view your calendar. You can double click on any date to add your events. Once you have filled out your events, please follow these steps to integrate it to your website.

Here are the steps.

1. Click on the down arrow next to the calendar and click on calendar settings

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2. Copy the code under Embed this calendar to copy the code to your Google Calendar. If you need the colours and sizes customised, click on the link.

Google Calendar for Events

3. Paste the code on your html page or give it to your web designer.

You can also do other things with your calendar such as:

  • Display events from Multiple Calendars in the same calendar. So you could have your events calendar with your product launches calendar
  • Change the amount of information available on the calendar

Get to front page of Google – List your business to Google Maps for free – Google Places

May 13th, 2010 2 comments

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Take advantage of online search to grow your business and brand.

Google Places – Add your business listing to Google

What are the advantages of listing your business on Google Maps:

Better Visibility to your business

  • Your business gets better visibility when people search for your business. You could potentially get to the front page of Google quickly
  • Your listing gets displayed when local users or users who search locally in the area search for you or your business type. This allows you to quickly expose your brand to local customers

Convenience

  • It is free to add your business. You could even upload a data file if you have branches or multiple businesses

Get more customers

  • Create Coupons as an incentive to get more customers
  • Display photos and videos of your business
  • Add services and products to differentiate yourself from your users

Reporting and Insights

  • Get insights into who is searching for your business and what products/services they are searching for. This information can help you identify new products to offer as well as remove products/services that are not on demand
  • Get insights into where users are searching from. This information can help you identify target markets and audiences for marketing
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    Want to add your listing now? Head off to http://www.google.com/places and click on Add new business.

Lift Attendance in your offline/online events – Leveraging facebook social media for businesses

April 28th, 2010 No comments

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How can businesses leverage facebook today, in the next 10 minutes with very less resources. If you run events (offline or online) you are in luck. One of the things facebook does very well and the reason why a lot of people use it for is event management.

You should however use other channels as well for better response, however if it’s a personal services event and all of your contacts are on facebook already, you could potentially use facebook just your event invites.

Advantages of using facebook for your events

– you can set up an event invite in 5 minutes and send it out to your fans
– the event has a viral effect, once your contacts RSVP, their friends will see that and might attend themselves
– you can build up your business fan base through nice events
– It’s FREE!! can’t top that

 

So how do you set up and event in your facebook business page? 

Pre-requisites:

1. Log into your facebook account

 

2. If you haven’t already, Add Events as a tab

Click on the plus button next to the tabs and select events. This will add Events as a tab. All of your fans can now find your events under the events tab.

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3. Create a new Event

It will now ask you to create an event if you don’t already have one. image

Enter Details of the Event. You can add a street address if you like, select the times and click on Create Event.

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4. Add picture and describe your event

Leave the default settings as is. If you select Meetings, then you should get a good fit of business events.

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5. Publish to  page’s Wall and fan’s home pages

Click on Publish to publish it to your home page.

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6. Invite Friends with a personal Message

As a final step, you can now invite all of your friends to this event and also add a personal message. If you have a list of email addresses for your business associates, use the Invite people via email box

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Happy Inviting!!

The facebook Social Media Advantage for Businesses

April 28th, 2010 No comments

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Facebook has traditionally been viewed as a personal social networking tool by many businesses. The perception for some companies is that it exposes public lives and public information to your business contacts. Obviously no one wants that.

Facebook over time has evolved into a very good business platform. It is a bit of work and hard to leverage some features of facebook from a business perspective but some features are done in 5 minutes and businesses can leverage those advantages almost immediately.

The first thing to understand is that TODAY and NOW, facebook is not just a personal social media tool. It is a thriving business community and you can generate leads, inform prospects and customers, build better relationships and expose your brand to a massive community without having to put pictures of you drunk at the last christmas party 🙂

Over the next few weeks we will look at scenarios where you can leverage these functionalities for your business. The first one in the series is using facebook events to lift attendance to your online/offline events.

DzineMail – 5 minute email creation – Email Marketing Australia

April 24th, 2010 No comments

To showcase the capabilities of our Email Marketing platform, here is a quick video that shows you how you can import a list of subscribers, set up a professional email campaign, deliver it to that list and view reports all within 5 minutes.

You can essentially have this email marketing platform set up with your customised email template within 24 hours. Contact us to find out how you can send out your email within 5 minutes.

To view a larger full screen version, please click on the video and use the fullscreen button.

DzineMail Email Marketing Australia – 5 Minute Email Campaign

Email Marketing Australia - 5 minute email

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Need a DIY email marketing platform to quickly send out emails and track them? Contact us at info@dzineclub.com

WordPress for non-geeks

April 22nd, 2010 No comments

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Lately a lot of our clients have started using wordpress as their blog/website engine. So to help them understand and utilise wordpress themselves, here is a guide. We will cover in this guide

– How to add pages to your wordpress site
– How to add blog posts to your wordpress site
– How to create a menu for your wordpress site
– How to add and remove widgets from your wordpress site

We will endeavor to update this guide over the next week, so if you are a client who is getting this implemented in the next week, bookmark this page to get the details.

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If you are looking to use wordpress or wanting a new website with a blog that you can manage yourself, drop us a line at info@dzineclub.com Our team can send you a portfolio of wordpress websites that we have done for our clients in Australia.

Using DzineClub CMS to resize and optimise Images

April 18th, 2010 2 comments

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Previously using dzineCMS you had to resize your images on a different software before dropping into the site. For some clients who didn’t have a lot of technical knowledge around image editing, it was a bit of a pain 🙂

Now with time, we have decided to make it easier for those clients and enable optimization and resizing feature in the image gallery.  You can now use the CMS itself to resize your photos that you have imported from your camera and make them web-ready.

If you are using DzineCMS to make changes to the SEO and Content of your sites, here are some instructions on how to resize images using DzineCMS itself.

  1. Log into the dzineCMS system
  2. Upload an image to the image library or select an existing image
  3. Hover your mouse over the image and click on optimise

    This will load up an optimization screen. you can use this screen to make the following changes to your images:

    Basic operations

    – crop the file
    – resize the file
    – Rotate and flip the file

    Adjustments

    – Remove red eyes
    – whiten teeth
    – Automatically adjust levels
    – Adjust brightness and contrast
    – Adjust hue and saturation
    – sharpen the photo
    – blur the photo
    – denoise the photo
    – make the photo black and white
    – invert the photo
    – cross process photos

    You can also use a variety of photo effects.

If you have any issues with resizing images or would like one of our staff to take you through how it is done, please drop us a line at info@dzineclub.com

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Do you currently have a website but no content editing capabilities?

DzineCMS can be a low cost but effective solution that can allow you to make changes to your text, images and SEO content. Contact us at info@dzineclub.com for a demo and to find out how you can implement it for your website.

Google Apps Marketplace – Use these Free Apps for your business now!

March 11th, 2010 1 comment

Google has just launched the Google Apps Marketplace. Because most DzineClub Hosting packages come with Google App for Domain emails, you can now use these apps for your business. Some of the recommended ones are:

Zoho CRM


https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=2533+17854168373705313802
Zoho CRM offers businesses a complete customer relationship life-cycle management solution for managing organization-wide Sales, Marketing, Customer Support & Service and Inventory Management.

TripIt


https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=3492+14195420367568577649
TripIt helps employees travel smarter by organizing their travel plans no matter where they booked. With TripIt for Google Apps, there are many things employees can do to improve their travel…

  • Use TripIt to organize and share their travel
  • View travel plans using gadgets and mobile phones
  • See who’s traveling where on a company travel map

ManyMoon – Free Social Productivity, Project Management and Task Management

http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=3539+9922984539899306906

Manymoon is the #1 team collaboration application for Google Apps and is trusted by thousands of businesses. Put your social network to use to securely get work done, instead of just talking about it

  • Attach Google Docs to tasks, projects and events
  • Add project information to shared Google Calendars
  • Gadget for collaborative task mgmt in Google Sites

Check out the video for its features

Aviary Design Suite

https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=3442+17116012818275486668

Free design tools and templates to create, modify and share images, logos, presentations, audio tracks, podcasts & more. Teams can collaborate on multimedia projects. Works directly in Google Docs.

  • Create Logos, Slides, Business Cards & Letterhead
  • Retouch photos, Make Web Templates & Banner Ads
  • Develop Podcasts, Remix Audio & More
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