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Be watchful when purchasing a Hotel management Software from reseller.

Selecting hotel management software is not an easy task.  Most of the hotels does not have it is owned IT department or specialist   therefore hoteliers are getting into trouble.  They get to know about the Software from their consultant, friends in the same sector to sales guy who visit them.  Some consultants choose the software based on commission they receive from software vendor.  Some general managers, purchasing managers do the same.  Sales guy always try to convince they have the best software. Property owners, consultants, general managers or purchasing officers does not know origin of the software whether it is locally developed software or a foreign product sells by a reseller. There are many software products available in the internet also it is easy get a members ship and resell the product.   All product vendors has got very good website.   It is again difficult to find whether these vendors also sell someone else pro...

Chinese help to face cyber threats

In a move to boost cyber security, Sri Lanka reached an agreement with China to cooperate closely to face serious cyber threats and to share information on such threats in the future. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Centre and Sri Lanka’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (a subsidiary of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka [ICTA]).   Accordingly both parties agree to actively promote project cooperation and carry out technical cooperation and joint research in the field of network security, so as to create a harmonious and secure network environment regionally and globally. CERT|CC Chairman Earle Fernando said the MoU would help both countries to cooperate in ensuring cyber security because information networks have become important infrastructures in both China and Sri Lanka. “In recent years, increasing serious cyber-attacks brought severe challenges on information infrastructure of b...
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Web purchase: NDA to set up monitoring body WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL 2014 15:08 The Director of the National Drugs Authority Dr. Hemantha Benaragama warned Lankans not to purchase medicines, especially drugs that were purported to enhance sexual performance over the internet. He said that he had a meeting Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa regarding the issue and that a unit would be set up in collaboration with the Customs, Interpol and the CID to monitor such activities. “There is a tendency of buying medicines through the internet,” Dr. Benaragama said. According to law, drugs cannot be advertised without the approval of the particular country’s drugs authority but many websites advertise and sell such drugs. “Any kind of medicine should be registered in a country where it is marketed and during the registration process the country’s regulatory authority would evaluate it and see whether the drug was suitable and safe,” he said. “Three parameters are considered when issuing a ...

Web visitors does not know what is address bar in the web browser

This is my experience. I met more than hundred web visitors from different age group, different industry for the past 12 months 2013- Jan to 2013 Dec. 80% of them chooses a search engine and type www.hisdomain.com in the search to find new website Therefore it is recommended to add your newly designed website to all famous search engines as soon as possible (even without Meta tags). Otherwise your client will say i cannot see the website and you will start searching for bugs   address bar  1. a text box in a web browser displaying the address of the web page that is currently being viewed.  short cut  -  Ctrl + L

Running an e-commerce website is not easy in Sri Lanka

 Getting an internet payment gateway ( IPG ) is Expensive  PayPal integration is not allowed yet The banks are more into discourage investors ( Ecom Business )  There is no proper  information available about Payment gateway facility on their websites No any support document available Contacting relevant department in the bank is a not easy  There are enough experience developers and designers. Cost of development is lower compare with other countries but there are waiting to get support from the banks

Most of the websites are outdated

The copyright in the site is not correct. I have noticed some websites still having 2007-2008  dates . Your website has an animated intro page. In the past, many sites designed with welcome page that took considerable amount of time to load.  Now visitors tend to leave the as soon as they see a Intro-page and they will never come back You have more than three font styles and colors. One of the most important things on a website is consistency. You are building your company’s brand. You don’t want to confuse your consumers with inconsistent font styles and colors.  Your site’s content is contained within images. Text located within images is unreadable by both search engines and visitors with images disabled. Your website is small on a computer but too big for mobile.  Does your site look puny on your monitor? Just a few years ago sites were built for much smaller screen resolutions. Today’s wide-screen, high-resolution monitors make old websites ...