• How can I improve productivity in my company by using the Internet?
  
  
• Is it possible to reach my prospective customers in the far corners of the world through a web presence?
  
  
• Does your website receive a number of hits, but still leave you wondering whether your target customer visited your website? Read on for the solution...
  
  
• How can a web application/web site benefit from a redesign? How can a customer support team help in keeping a website fresh and updated?
  
  
• What does it take to transform a website from a simple online brochure to one that offers e-commerce transactions online?
  
  
• What does custom web development encompass?
  
  
• What does successful requirement capture have to do with software project success?
  
  
• Does collaboration in an organization mean just plain 'team work' or something more?
  
  
• How can I build a popular community on the web and make sure that it remains successful?
  

• How can I develop an online tutorial? Do you have any model to help me get started?l

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1. How can I improve productivity in my company by using the Internet?

Interested in new ways to communicate, transfer information and innovate on the web? Would you like your employees to improve productivity and also be able to measure performance levels on their own through a simple web portal? An intranet may be the right solution for you. It can help your employees gain access to critical information that can in turn help improve efficiency levels. Not to mention, the amount of paper that can be saved!

An intranet or an employee portal can ensure that knowledge is being shared within the organization. It can help train employees towards higher career growth, link processes and workflows within the company and also go a step further and help test and recruit new employees online.Back to top

2. Is it possible to reach my prospective customers in the far corners of the world through a mere web presence?

Yes! Strategic marketing and proactive website promotions can take a website places. Literally! Search engines like Google, Yahoo and the likes can provide your website the visibility it needs and help you reach a global audience. Is website promotion just a case of meta tags? Here's some informative content that will teach you how to promote your website on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and so on.
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3. Does your website recieve a number of hits, but still leave you wondering whether your target customer visited your website? Read on for the solution...

It's not enough to bring a large load of traffic onto a website. It's also important that the right kind of traffic - your target audience - reaches your website. How do you ensure that your target customers are on your site?

Also, once these targeted customers visit your site, your website should keep them there and get them to contact you. For this to happen, it would make sense to make each of your customers feel unique on the website. Personalized customer experiences are what we are talking about. Be it a more communicative and interactive website through the usage of technology that helps you do this, or through a website that talks to the customer in his/her ownlanguage!
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4. How can a web application/web site benefit from a redesign? How can a customer support team help in keeping a website fresh and updated?

Once you've understood the need for a website that communicates more, you may be wondering as to whether it makes sense to rebuild your existing site from scratch, or just give it a new look or add a few sections that will help you achieve your purpose. You can choose to redesign or rebuild your website or make a concerted effort to update the content on the existing website and give it a fresh and appealing look all round the year.
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5. What does it take to transform a website from a simple online brochure to one that offers e-commerce transactions online?

A website can help create multiple channels for your services and products. With not just an online store, but one that can manage your inventory and ordering for you. You can begin with a simple e-store that hosts a product catalog, a shopping cart and an online payment option and later think of enhancing your website with additional features as and when your business grows.
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6. What does custom web development encompass?

Sometimes a website may not fit into a particular category. It may be a unique website with specialized features that on the whole communicates what the website owner's business aims to, but in a very customized manner. These web sites could be online stores, portals, relationship sites, distribution networks, customer support applications, web enabled knowledge management systems, enterprise resource planning systems, customer relationship management systems or something entirely new and different. Some web applications may be industry-specific like health care, art, logistics, or the food industry.
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7. What does successful requirement capture have to do with software project success?

Learn to avoid some of the typical causes of project failure by investing in clearly outlining the requirements for all parties concerned. The reasons for a high rate of failure among software projects range from inadequate user input to unclear objectives to frequent changes in requirements. How can these problems be overcome in a real life scenario? Requirements capture and appropriate management play a prime role in its success..

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8. Does collaboration in an organization mean just plain 'team work' or something more?

Collaboration is achieved when applications integrate with processes, projects and information in real-time across the virtual enterprise. Application users in today's scenario are not just the people directly connected to the enterprise, but also include the virtual enterprise network and its players.
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9. How can I build a community on the web and make sure that it's successful?

For starters, exchange notes, put up interesting articles, list events, discuss issues and sell your services or products online.
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10. How can I develop an online tutorial? Do you have any model to help me get started?

For starters, check out this tutorial which was conceived and created by an instructional designer. It contains 6 parts and provides a comprehensive guide in developing an online course.
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