Zip files with PHP

After researching few different classes written in PHP that zip files and not necessarily extract files from zip archives I've come across the one that was able to handle multiple client platforms like Win XP, Linux, and MAC OS. It is called plczip and it is found at pclzip website. Other classes that I've tried offered similar functionalities but proved difficult to work with in WIN XP native zip extractor. Zip file format has several bits(flags) that unreadable by that native XP extractor so with pclzip class those issues got resolved.
Here is the list of the other classes researched:

zip class from red monkey
hasin zip class
zip class by joshua townsend

OBJ Leads Seminar

OBJ Lead Generation Seminar


ABOUT OBJ

• Part of the national network of papers and online portal
• UP 5% in circulation in 2007
• 99K weekly readers (paper comes out on Friday)
• Net worth 2M Annual income 233K read the paper 53 min a week, mostly C level people

Articles usually contain information about companies add new jobs and services and include company’s contact information
Different marketing ideas and strategies from local companies as they are implementing them currently to expand sales

Monthly reports on various trends and list of certain industry ranking

Occasional networking events, award ceremonies, and interactive ways of generation sales (calendar lists all these events)

On page 34 there is “BIZ digest” where you can send a press release about your company’s anniversary [FREE], if you’re promoting someone in company, if your opening new location, if you are partaking in a community effort, if you landed new big deal,
OBJ favors:
• breaking news with local businesses
• featured entrepreneurs
• learning from mistakes

Book of Lists is an annual publication containing list across variety of industries and trends

Send and receive emails on boost mobile

If you are looking to send and receive email on you boost mobile and have not had much luck here is a possible workaround.
RECEIVING:
In your email client options (Gmail, Yahoo, POP, IMAP) set forwarding of emails to: yournumber@myboostmobile.com [use 10 digit number with area code]. Now email will come to your cell as text messages.
SENDING:
In each email that you receive as text message you will see highlighted text of senders email - to reply simply click on that text and your done.

SEO Seminar at SBDC on 05/20/2009

SEO Seminar @ SBDC 05/20/2009


Organic Search Results

People are more likely to click on it because of its relevancy over paid results
You can only optimize for only one keyword phrase per page
More tedious
50% of users scan only top organic search results
72.3% of users feel that Google organic results are more relevant then the paid results
Conversion rates for organic results are 3 times higher then paid results


Site layout

Golden Triangle, F pattern
Easy navigation
Clutter free
Flash Compatibility – no search engine can completely index contents of its objects
Flash workaround - http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/


Keyword Research

Searched keywords could be derivatives of the actual terms used on you web page
Blogging – easy way to update your customers, it keeps robots coming back often, RSS feeds are important http://blogsearch.google.com/ping


Google PageRank

It is a scale on 1-10 on how important Google deems your site


Competitive Research

What elements competitors have in place that you don’t:
1. PR
2. Keywords
3. Elements


Easy Steps to help you rank

• Keyword research
• Put keywords in a title and on the page
• Add links to other pages on your site
• Submit your site to free local search directories like Yahoo and Google maps
• Get links back to your site from site with Google PageRank 3 or higher


Google Analytics

Visits
PageViews
Pages/Visits
Bounce Rates
Average time on site
New Visits

HTML Multiple Select and PHP

Recently I've needed to create a from where certain product could belong to multiple categories and I wanted to find a best way to handle this process in limited space on the website. I was debating between multiple check boxes and a select box with "multiselect" option. Because of space and complexity of check boxes I went in direction of single multi-select dropdown. htm
Check the code below - ` was added to code to display code on blogger properly:

<`?php
foreach ($_POST['options'] as $option) {
//code to do something with each option like insert into DB
}
?>
<`html`>
<`body`>
<`form name="my_from" action="" method="post">
<`select name="options[]" multiselect> // NOTICE THAT WE ADDED [] TO INDICATE THAT THIS IS AN ARRAY!
<`option value="ABC">ABC
<`option value="123">123
<`option value="xyz">xyz
<`option value="987">987
<`/select>
<`input type="submit" name="submit_my_form" value="Submit" />
<`/form>
<`/body`>
<`/html`>

Web development cost in Orlando

One of the first questions that anybody looking for web development services will ask is "How much will this cost?". There is a variety of answers one will get in response varying from $xxx.xx for Y number of pages, or $xxx.xx for entire project, to $xx per hour. There is huge number of web developers and firms available so pricing can vary just as much. Here are two figures below that illustrate what average salaries are for web developers in Orlando, FL market for companies that enterprises that have resources to hire full time web developers. Figures are provided by the www.salary.com highest rated online portal disseminating salary data.

IBR LLC Website Videos

IBR has just added new service - website videos. One of the best ways to communicate with the visitor of your site and a potential customers is via video message. As most people learn and retain much more when concept is explained audio-visually rather then text - you may utilize website video to:

• Set your website apart from the competition
• Get better conversion rate and therefore more sales

There is wide variety of custom additions that are available with each video. We offer wide array of professional actors that present your products and services convincingly. Videos are produced within 2 week time frame after receiving you custom script. To learn more and to see LIVE DEMO of your own site visit Orlando website videos.