With well over 1 billion users, it’s hard to believe that the site has not even been around for a decade.

Zuckeberg relaunched Facemash as TheFacebook.com, initially and the name was later changed to Facebook. In 2005, the site allowed users to upload pictures. Till date, Facebook has seen over 219 billion photos being uploaded.

By September 2006, Facebook began expanding and allowed anyone over 13 to join the site. It also got the NewsFeed in 2006.

Facebook CEO Zuckerburg recently announced a new feature called Graph Search, a tool that utilises social data to help compile results for users.

Additional features like Facebook Cards and voice calling on iPhone in North America to attract users were also rolled out by the company.

Facebook has been mired in controversies over privacy concerns, underage members, hacking attacks etc despite tremendous growoth.

The CEO of Facebook Zuckerburg has been dragged into lawsuits over stealing the idea for Facebook from his seniors at Harvard – Cameron Winklewoss, Tyler Winklewoss and Divya Narendra.

A separate case also filed by Co-founder Eduardo Saverin accusing Zuckerburg for pushing him out of the company. Both the cases were settled out of court.

Facebook in 2012 flaoted its IPO and the company went public with a peak market capitalisation of over $104 billion. The hype was short-lived and the stock of the company soon took a battering however the company is set to evolve more this year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has indicated that in the earnings call, highlighting that mobile and new elements will be the key to the site’s future.

Source: Khaama Press (KP)

With well over 1 billion users, it’s hard to believe that the site has not even been around for a decade.

Zuckeberg relaunched Facemash as TheFacebook.com, initially and the name was later changed to Facebook. In 2005, the site allowed users to upload pictures. Till date, Facebook has seen over 219 billion photos being uploaded.

By September 2006, Facebook began expanding and allowed anyone over 13 to join the site. It also got the NewsFeed in 2006.

Facebook CEO Zuckerburg recently announced a new feature called Graph Search, a tool that utilises social data to help compile results for users.

Additional features like Facebook Cards and voice calling on iPhone in North America to attract users were also rolled out by the company.

Facebook has been mired in controversies over privacy concerns, underage members, hacking attacks etc despite tremendous growoth.

The CEO of Facebook Zuckerburg has been dragged into lawsuits over stealing the idea for Facebook from his seniors at Harvard – Cameron Winklewoss, Tyler Winklewoss and Divya Narendra.

A separate case also filed by Co-founder Eduardo Saverin accusing Zuckerburg for pushing him out of the company. Both the cases were settled out of court.

Facebook in 2012 floated its IPO and the company went public with a peak market capitalisation of over $104 billion. The hype was short-lived and the stock of the company soon took a battering however the company is set to evolve more this year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has indicated that in the earnings call, highlighting that mobile and new elements will be the key to the site’s future.

(PRWEB) January 24, 2013

With over twenty years of operational experience, Zeus Design, a Rhode Island web design firm, understands that today’s competitive search engine optimization market leaves little room for errors or inconsistencies. After all, failing to comply with a new search engine algorithm change can drastically reduce a website’s search rankings, sometimes with near-permanent negative effects. To prevent this from happening, companies must be willing to revolutionize their online presence, both on the front- and backend.

However, rather than react to search engines, Zeus Design took the proactive route by redesigning their website to anticipate the search engine algorithm changes expected in 2013. The company examined current and past search engine trends to look for evidence of where and when companies like Google or Bing decided to change the way their algorithms worked. After much research and internal debates, Zeus Design overhauled every part of their website, from the code to the content, and one team member had the following to say on the topic:

“Google is the king of online advertising, and complying with their guidelines is crucial for succeeding in the search engines. The problem is, reacting to their algorithm changes, like last year’s huge Penguin and Panda updates, can cost a lot of time and money, which can put a lot of pressure on an already taxed company. We believe that by taking the proactive route we’re attempting to head off the SEO problems that are bound to occur during the upcoming year. Google is going to change their algorithm, there’s no denying that, but we don’t want to sit around and wait for it to happen. We examined our data, saw a trend occurring, and then took to putting in place a plan to ride that trend before Google even makes it an actuality.”

Starting New for the New Year

Google’s algorithm changes are only one part of the volatile nature of the SEO web design industry. According to the aforementioned Zeus Design team member, much of the company’s redesign choices also came from current and upcoming design or development trends. “We converted our website to a WordPress platform, which gives more dynamic capabilities and user-friendliness,” said the aforementioned Zeus Design team member. “We also made our content in general less spammy, and more organic and natural, targeting users as much as the search engines. It’s a fine balance, after all.” He explained that Google’s official guidelines are only some of the rules that a search engine optimizer must follow. In fact, there are numerous unofficial rules floating around the SEO industry, all of them important for the success of a website. Which rules Zeus Design chose to follow with their redesign, they will not say: “Just know we made our code compliant and our content sharp.”

In a World without Rules

As any search engine optimizer can attest to, search engine optimization is the Wild West of the online world. Outside of Google’s brief descriptions about each algorithm update, much of the job is left to guessing, waiting for data, and then creating a theory based on that data. There are no rules for what’s right or wrong, and often when someone finds a rule, Google soon changes it with a new update. Quite simply, the life of search engine optimization is one of reactionary adjustments, but Zeus Design believes their recent redesign will be the start of their proactive pursuit for more effective, faster search engine optimization results.

If you or someone you know is in need of web design or development services, or search engine optimization, please visit Zeus Design at http://www.seowebsitedesign.com/. Their expertise on the matter makes it easy for any company to climb the search engine rankings.

Sadat Mansoor Naderi, the chairman of SMN Investmentsis the first and only Afghan business man who receives the peace through commerce award.

In an exclusive interview with Khaama Press (KP) Syed Sadat Mansoor Naderi said investment and creation of job opportunities is vital for the reduction of war, violence and to maintain stability in the country.

He said, “Investment and creation of job opportunities are effective to reduce violence and expand peace throughout the war-torn countries like Afghanistan. As you are aware over 60% of the Afghan population is comprised of Afghan youths who are in dire need employment opportunities after they complete their education. The youths will unfortunately prefer to participate in war activities if the government and private sector do not pave the way for job opportunities.”

Sadat Mansoor Naderi said he was optimistic regarding the 2014 and will expand SMN’s investment across the country despite majority of the Afghans are concerned and believe that 2014 will be a period of economic and political crisis for Afghanistan.

In regards to the 2014, Syed Sadat Mansoor Naderi said, “My views regarding 2014 is very optimistic and therefore we are working to expand our investments and will continue to grow in the future as well. For us 2014 is only a date.”

In the meantime Mr. Naderi said Afghan investors and traders are facing a number barriers including lack of security, standard transportation system and electricity in the country.

The Peace through Commerce Medal dates back to the first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, who commissioned the medal in 1790. Jefferson gifted the medal, formerly known as the Diplomatic Medal, to foreign diplomats who aided the Continental Congress during the American Revolution. The medal is most renowned for its inscription, To Peace and Commerce, centered along the top.

SMN Investments is a privately held group of companies with a major market presence across various economic sectors in Afghanistan since 2000.

SMN believes in the strength of strategic alliances with select multinationals, key local enterprises and the Afghan government. The Group is committed to re-invest in select sectors and vertical and horizontal integration to capture more of the value chains in which it operates.

SMN has pioneered the insurance industry in Afghanistan and is the first fully licensed private insurance company. The company has secured over $20 Billion in reinsurance commitments from the London market and recently delivered coverage for Aynak Copper Mine ($3.6b investment).

Among the group’s principal capacities are:

• Insurance
• Mining
• Fuel Storage and Distribution
• Retail FMCG and Wholesale Consumer Warehousing
• Professional Services
• Transportation and Logistic Services
• Construction, Design and Engineering
• Automotive
• Security Services
• Telecom Services
• General Trading
• Manufacturing/Agriculture

The world’s biggest search engine and the social networks’ presence in Ireland will also enable lawyers to sue the companies on behalf of clients abused by anonymous bloggers and tweeters according to Paul Tweed, the Belfast-based libel expert.

Tweed, who has acted in libel cases for Jennifer Lopez, Harrison Ford and recently The X Factor judge Louis Walsh, who accepted damages €500,000 (£421,000) from the Sun, said it will be the likes of Google, Twitter and Facebook who will pay the ultimate price for the “abusive, anonymous blogger in his underpants”.

He added that his law firm, Johnsons, has recently sent warning letters and emails to individual bloggers and tweeters who have abused journalists and politicians. Johnsons has also sent warnings to the relevant internet servers providers.

“We will send a ‘take down’ notice to either Google, Facebook or Twitter and we get various responses. Two or three years ago our demands for ‘take down’ notices were largely ignored by the likes of Google who are based in Seattle and could quote us back the American constitution,” Tweed said.

“In those days we used to tell our clients ‘look, even if we get a judgment we are not going to be able to enforce it’. Because US courts would not enforce them and our clients basically had to turn the other cheek.

“Now the whole landscape has changed. The massive game-changer is that the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google have established European headquarters in Dublin and in doing that they have subjected themselves not only to Irish defamation and privacy laws but also those EU laws on libel and privacy. That means they are potentially a target because they are providing anonymous abusers on line with a platform.”

The libel lawyer revealed that about 60% of the cases he is currently dealing with are connected to the online abuse and alleged defamation of his clients. The majority of the clients are Irish and British journalists, Tweed added, although he would not disclose any names.

“There is a big, big problem here with regard to online abuse and libel because once the privacy horse is bolted you can’t put it back in the stable,” he said. “In the past a newspaper like the News of the World, when it printed defamatory material about a client, could be forced to print an apology that was proportionate to the damage done to that client. With online this defamatory and often threatening material is passed on within seconds around the world. Once it’s out there it’s out there for good somewhere.”

Tweed denied that he is seeking to curb internet freedom and insisted that he was creating a “deterrent” to those who use social media and other online outlets to spread fear and falsehoods about individuals.

“I love newspapers and I admire real journalists. They put their names to stories and stand up to be counted if they get it wrong. These guys blogging away in their underpants in their mammy’s attic spreading lies about people – some of them dedicated, hard-working journalists whom I know personally – have to be held accountable somehow,” he said.

“These guys in anoraks are the playground bullies of the internet and the only way to deter them is to make the platforms they use accountable. If these internet behemoths are not held accountable for the actions of these abusers, law, and I would argue genuine journalism, will collapse.”

WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination.

WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPLv2 (or later). It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is fresh software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there.

We have different ‘Dedicated’ and ‘Shared’ hosting packages which can fully mean clients expectations and requirements in different levels.

Our professional technical members provide full premium support 24/7 which is one of the things we are good at.

The Site Container:

For a dynamic site to work at all it needs a solid base. A height-flexible container encasing the content of the site is a perfect foundation. Something as simple yet as effective as a black border with a consistent site-width will set the inner content apart from the page background. This container can expand or contract height-wise to naturally accommodate different amounts of content.

Navigation:

One of the best ways to maintain dynamic and functional site navigation is by using drop-down menus. Drop-downs allow for specific site navigation from any page on the site, and are easy to dynamically produce, employing the same logic as the site container.

Main categories are each wrapped inside a relative div so that each can be assigned an absolutely-positioned, hidden submenu which will appear upon mouse over. This method is best for dynamic sites because the height can increase or decrease as the number of submenu items increase and decrease without affecting the overall layout of the site.

Too Much Content (We should all be so lucky):

A constant challenge facing dynamic site developers is displaying a wealth of content in just one page. Often times, layouts are optimized for a specific amount of content, and if they exceed that amount, the pages will appear crowded and jumbled.

One of the best methods of alleviating this problem, ensuring a usable and SEO friendly design, is combining JavaScript and DHTML to create tabbed browsing within pages.

Examples of this can be found at Ugallery.com, an online art gallery, where a page was created for users so that they could display as many pieces of their artwork as desired without exceeding the fixed site width. The solution was a scrolling gallery powered by JavaScript and DHTML. All of the information is still rendered in the source, however, much of it is hidden, to be revealed when a user mousse over a scrolling arrow button.

The same basic function was employed for the artist’s profile. The height of the container was constrained, and so, a profile was placed within a scrolling DHTML text box, making use of the “overflow:hidden” style, and affording artists more space to describe themselves.

The artist’s current portfolio, their exhibitions, and a visitor commentary section also had to be incorporated on one page. The solution: Tabbed JavaScript and DHTML navigation which better organized space and allowed the visitor to toggle through the artist’s portfolio, exhibitions, and visitor commentary without reloading.

The lesson here is when building a dynamic site, make use of advanced design techniques. By using these methods, not only can information be better organized and more intuitively arranged, but it can also be constrained to achieve a consistent look and feel for the site. Also remember that most DHTML mentioned in this article can be found at various open source web sites.

Happy web designing!

About WordPress.org

On this site you can download and install a software script called WordPress. To do this you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything. There is also a service called WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself.

What You Can Use WordPress For

WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination. (And tech chops.)

However the quality of service was not as good as of now because on that time we did not have professional web developers and graphic designers. As the flow of returning immigrants started back to Afghanistan, the young generations who had spent time outside the country studying schools, colleges and different professional short courses beside arrived back to Afghanistan.

Many of these newly graduated returning immigrants joint different organizations and many opened their own enterprises in different classes of business.

 Currently there more than 100 web designing and web development companies operating in Afghanistan a few of which that comes under the most popular of them are listed below:

• Aria Technologies
• Net Links Afghanistan
• Barg Sabz Web Designing
• Lemar Solutions
• Bitsoft
• Blue Technologies

But, unfortunately web hosting services did not grow in the country due to internet problem and lack of electricity around the country. Web Hosting services companies requires high speed fiber -optic internet and regular electricity currents to start operations.

For the time all hosting services are provided by off-shore international organizations mainly based in United States, United Kingdom and European countries.