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Columns ads not only hot on print media, its online counterpart, especially free personal classified ads, has been dramatically said to be sooo.. popular these days, that even the top player Craiglist was once said could easily generate $500 million/year by only adding 1-2 paid ad banners per page, if they were to do so, which apparently they were not for some good reasons.

By almost any measure, Craigslist is a phenomenal success. It was once said to be the 7th most popular web site in the world, according to various web visitors traffic estimators. The free online-classifieds site had become the nightmare of newspaper executives everywhere it launched a list. While it did not release financial statements, no one doubts that it has been comfortably profitable since 1999, about the time most other dot-com boom started running out of cash.

Personal advertisements are free, like Craiglist’s CEO Jim Buckmaster put it nicely, “We’re much more comfortable charging companies than charging individuals, as businesses are better equipped to afford a small fee”, suggesting free personal ads one are much more favored by the mass.

Though we’re not trying to compare the features and capacity for any second, it is in this spirit of free personal advertisement, we brought Indonesia’s Column Ads Mart to live at http://mart.web.id in a little modest hope that it can become useful for Internet users & readers in Indonesia (or beyond).

You can put your personal ads for free at http://mart.web.id. It will be automatically wiped out after about 1 month period of placement. Column ads placed can be either in Bahasa Indonesia or English. We certainly keep the right to remove any ads we think inappropriate for our users though. You’ve been warned.. Visit Mart.web.id >

Having a publishing media these days has become a norm, we’re talking about the online Internet digital interactive one called blog, which is essentially an effective publishing machine with broad global reach.

Blogging is like a common way what people do when they’re online, after for quite sometimes merely become an audience or reader, now it’s your turn to be heard and known by others.

Especially for professionals, such as lawyers, architects, accountants, doctors, blog website can be an important medium to express your professionalism, transmit your valuable knowledge & experience, while at the same time get recognized and known by public, clients to be or peers.

Dr. Sukma Merati, a reputable anatomical pathologist doctor in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, a progressive medical doctor who thinks this way. Dr. Sukma’s medical pathological blogging website has just soft launched, surely there will be some learning curve phases before most of the blogging site tools & arms become useful.

Constructing your own blogging website with your chosen dedicated domain name (.com, .info, .name) and applying today’s web standards which emphasize on usability & accessibility is one of specialty can be provided by Duranos Web Services.

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..

A new pop information web portal, Kamu.info, in Bahasa was recently released.

Kamu.info aims on providing a web place for youngsters to find, gather or submit interesting info. It allows new users to self register and submit their articles online for publishing on the portal.

New facilities to be implemented in the near future among others: discussion forum, classified ads, newsletter subscription and a handful of other interesting features. The website construction was designed for 1024 x 768 pixels or wider screen resolution and use a state of the art content management system on PHP / MySQL platform.

It’s estimated that the major strength and selling point of this portal are its high domain “real estate” value, simple & easy to remember domain name, kamu.info, which in English literary or casually translated as “Your Information“. Quite promising.

Considering the market readyness nature in adopting new web destination, organic search engines result awareness and various other facets that need to be developed, the initial plan is to launch it quietly, then add, extend and develop more features as they become apparent as required.

Here at Duranos we create various web based products online catalog systems cater to your business needs.

A products cataloging system backed by relational database developed to suit the characteristic of your products allow you to display products list anyway you like, adding new items, updating or deleting existing products, managing their categories, counting remaining stock, searching specific products and many more.

Practically no quantity nor size limitation, bulk products’ data entry and editing system which let you add new items and edit existing items’ data in a breeze.

With its web based feature means it’s accessible from a browser with internet connection from all over the world!

Contact Duranos today and tell us your products catalog requirements, we’ll give you some suitable options to select.