Duranos Web Design Services

Telkom, Exelcomindo Pratama, Bakrie Telecom, Infokom Elektrindo, Indosat & Powertek Utama Internusa signed an MoU for Palapa Ring project, the hundred millions dollar (about Rp 2.07 zillions) IT infrastructure to construct a 10,000 km span of fibre optic linked 33 province and 440 regencies, from North Sumatra to Papua, started in 3rd quarter of 2008.

Telkom, contribute largest part at 40%, to acquire largest quota at 40 Gigabytes/s, followed second place by Excelcomindo with 13.3% share of the giant investment.

Indonesia’s Information and Communication Minister, Muhammad Nuh, says The Palapa Ring project is part of the government’s plan to boost telecommunications penetration in the country, which currently stands at 20%. In the future the Palapa Ring to be connected to the Republic China’s backbone to form a larger telecommunication corridor.

The Palapa Ring when operate will be first national giant internet backbone to reach the nation’s lower economy regions, including isolated villages in eastern region. Indonesia, currently at 25,000 km of fibre optic telecommunication infrastructure length, far left behind by neighboring Malaysia or India, with 75,000 km and 3.4 millions km length each.

Kertha Wisata an established organization in Bali to hold government licenses in running various schools, including Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Administrasi (STIA) Denpasar, Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen Informatika dan Komputer (STMIK), Akademi Pariwisata (AKPAR), Pusat Pendidikan Perhotelan dan Pariwisata Bali (P4B), SMA Pariwisata (SMA P) and Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK), have assigned Duranos Bali based web design services to construct its web presence at www.kerthawisata.ac.id.

Kertha Wisata school web site constructed with various set of necessary features, such as: news management, articles & other fixed documents management, information search, downloadable documents management, academic calendar, discussion forum, pictures gallery, newsletter management as well as scholarship feed.

Thanks to its document management feature, data stored in relational database can easily be added, edited or removed by an in-house web master. Web pages now can be added virtually without quality nor quantity restriction. academic calendar can be referred online by students & civitas acedemic, Students, lecturers and public can exchange ideas, opinions & views in the provided Sekolah Kertha Wisata Forum, emails can be managed online through webmail system.

On the other hand the application of “Web Standards” throughout the website have increased site’s visibility from search engines, as well as setting minimum standard for accessiblity and usability.

Worldwide broadband subscriptions to exceed 536 million by 2011, with DSL accounting for over half of the market, and Fiber (FTTx) and WiMax among the fastest-growing in the next five years, according to a recent report by Strategy Analytics, “Worldwide Broadband Subscription Forecasts, 2007-2011,” MarketingCharts reports.

(Broadband revenue - led by Europe, Asia Pacific and North America - will exceed $150 billion in 2011, Telecommunications Online writes, quoting the Strategy Analytics report.)

Worldwide broadband subscriptions will exceed 330 million in 2007, with DSL accounting for over two-thirds, the research firm forecast. “Ambitious fiber rollouts in the US by Verizon and AT&T, and in Europe by French operator Free, will bring overall FTT(x) subscriptions to 64 million by 2011,” said Ben Piper, director of the Strategy Analytics Broadband Network Strategies Service.

That means fiber would grow to constitute nearly 12 percent of the total by 2011.
FWA/WiMax deployments are also expected to experience an impressive growth trajectory over the next five years, with an 88 percent CAGR, Strategy Analytics said. Broadband Service revenues will surpass $150 billion in 2011, with Europe, Asia Pacific and North America leading the way - a 13 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2007 and 2011, according to Strategy Analytics.

A recent survey in New York revealed that more and more real estate ads spending shift to online from ordinary newspaper one.

As everyone is online, multimedia displaying capability is there to utilize, means any number of pictures, movies or 3D presentation can be displayed online, email alert can be set to notify any new “related” ads placed online, all surely have made real benefits of advertising online than the conventional newspaper.

Representatives of several major real estate franchisors said that many home sellers still see newspaper advertising as an essential component of selling a home, but that younger brokers, home sellers and buyers are clearly more focused on using the Internet.

Real estate could become the next category of classified advertising, you know, after help-wanted ads, to mark a significant and permanent shift away onto the Internet. The stakes are big for newspapers since classifieds are highly lucrative and make up more than 35 percent of their revenues.

A top media industry analyst at the Fitch Ratings credit analysis service, says that currently a good 30 percent of help-wanted classified advertising is now online, while the Internet’s share of real estate and auto classified advertising is lower, at about 15 to 20 percent, but poised to move higher.

As home-buyers flock online, it’s also tough on realtors, since home-buyers are becoming accustomed to seeing extensive color photos, descriptions of the neighborhood as well as video tours of the property — all of which costs money to produce.

With all the online tools available today, realtors have the ability now to really expose the property in a significant way. People have the ability to tour the house. That has changed everything.

Web standards. You may be wondering what this buzz is all about?

So Web Standards can simply be defined as a set of standards & practices established by W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium) to be used in creating and interpreting web-based content to ensure the web-based contents are accessible to as many audience with any web browsers as possible. This is just like setting standard for the universal web site.

By as many audience as possible means be they normal people, people with impairing vision, color blindness, partially or completely lacking in hearing, or elderly people, etc. all should be able to access the published information whenever possible.

By any browsers means any specific web browsers used to open the content, be it different web browser brands / engines (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc) & versions (version 6.0, 7.0, etc.), be it PDAs, screen readers, or on kiosks. The keyword here is universally accessible.

Thus, applying web standards means a big, I mean big, difference to our websites.

Some immediate benefits we gain from applying web standards are:

Enhance websites search engine overall ranking

Nothing more delicious from search engines (which actually are and act like web spiders / crawlers) point of view than well written content, with clean, well structured, and semantic markup. Search engines will easily chew, digest and index your website contents. This will results in a much more content & structure comprehension by the search engines, which eventually end up in a higher search ranking.

Faster web pages loading

Well structured markup that separates structure & content from presentation is much more streamlined and slim than old table and spacer HTML. Loaded data on web pages thus sized smaller hence become faster for visitors to download, while from your side, the website spends lower bandwidth data, which leads to lower bandwidth cost.

Nothing more happier than knowing visitors get what they want (web pages) and they get them served on their web browsers quickly.

Lay a solid foundation for accessibility

Applying web standards will minimize the chance your website inaccessible to various different people with disabilities, or just using different web browsers, just using screen readers, just using slow dial up connection, and so on.

Lay a solid ground for usability

Having websites applying web standards will usually also make website easier and simpler to use. Here we lay a ground where we enhance the ease with which visitors can employ our website in order to get their particular goal coming to our website accomplished.

Future ready website

By separating content & structure (XHTML markups) from presentation (CSS) and apply web standards, we ensure that we have done all we could for the content to be ready for the future, as content in its plain simple & readable form, due to separation from its presentation information, become so intuitive and should be readable by any newer web browsers of the future. Be it any upcoming future web browsers, gadgets, cellular phones, PDAs, handheld devices, etc.

Make website simpler to maintain

How would you rather prefer wading through tens kilobytes of nested tables and spacer images or just browse through a streamlined, clean and well-structured document when you need to update web pages?

That’s only true for web developers who get used seeing naked code markups, you said. If you use an older Microsoft Front Page editor, you’ll get into trouble. It may be true, but, how would you get a consistent look easily, if you still need to scroll the pages to see if there’s an extra formatting applied unintentionally.

Editing, inserting, removing pure content without its presentation data is lot much easier and efficient than having to make sure all the presentational code right on every instance they exist. Using a separate CSS to control appearance makes it simple to make a site wide design changes.

We even can adapt the same web content for different purposes or devices easily.
For example to adapt the same web pages for print, to display on handheld devices, text only browsers, can be done by providing links to different CSS files.

So, after realizing all its benefits, who wouldn’t apply Web Standards? Please stand up..