Manik Gunawardana's cyber space

After 1 month struggle the Promotions.lk website has came to its final stage. The website was completely done according to my concept and this is a basic static website with a contact us form and a CV upload facility to apply for a job online.

I have read this article recently and I thought it is an interesting article to share with the others. So here I am posting it in my blog.. 1. Make it easy to subscribe. If you have a brick-and-mortar shop, you might have users sign a guest book to keep them up-to-date on events and special deals. On a website, invite users to enter their emails for future discounts or promotions. Remind them you will not sell their information. 2. Use a transparent "From" name. A message from a trusted brand — The Apple Store, for example — is less suspicious than something from "admin[at]apple.com." 3. Don't waste the subject line. This increasingly separates opened messages from trashed ones. If you are a news site, use it for eye-catching headlines: "Google Avails Free Wi-Fi to US and Canada." Marketing a product? Use the subject line to share news about discounts: "Stay sunny for spring. Half off floral handbags this week." 4. Avoid abbreviations...

Website design for New vithanakande tea factoty, one of the large tea ecporter in sri lanka. 

LIC Lanka is a subsidiary of LIC India (Life Insurance Corporation). I got the opportunity to design a layout for them. This is what I have done. Still the approval is pending. This is one of a cool design that I have done.

The approved layout for Charter House International (Pvt) Ltd. Business : Bathroom Fittings    Industrial solutions Site          : CMS based website

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a spee...

Table less web design (or table less web layout) is a method of web design and development without using HTML tables for page layout control purposes.Instead of HTML tables, style sheet languages such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to arrange elements and text on a web page. CSS was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to improve web accessibility and to make HTML code semantic rather than presentational. Early in its advent, many web developers considered CSS a more powerful and easier to use way of formatting, and considered the  tag obsolete. On the other hand, early CSS had very limited and difficult to use layout capabilities and many common page layouts (like the 3-column design) that were very easy to implement with tables had no obvious equivalents in CSS. As of 2006, CSS layout capabilities improved considerably. Nonetheless, many websites still use CSS for text formatting only, while using tables for layout. Advantages Accessibility Bandwidth savings Ma...

Neat and Easy Navigation: Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Ask yourself this, What do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them.  Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site's looks. Try to keep the focus on your content, use a template for this. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up. Optimum Load Time: Make sure your load time is low. For this you must: Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts: They hugely increase your file size. Optimize your HTML & script code: Make sure that your site doesn't have any unwanted tags or unused scripts. Use Server Side Include (SSI) files where ever possible. SSI files once called from the web server reside in its cache...

This is a truly inspirational lecture by late Dr. Randy Pausch. His last lecture about achieving your childhood dreams. The professor has passed away on July 25th 2008. This is a tribute to a truly remarkable man. Dr Randy, we salute you...!

Joomla! came into being as the result of the fork of Mambo by the development team on August 17, 2005. At that time, the Mambo name was trademarked by Miro International Pvt Ltd, who formed a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose to fund the project and protect it from lawsuits. The development team claimed that many of the provisions of the foundation structure went against previous agreements made by the elected Mambo Steering Committee, lacked the necessary consultation with key stake holders and included provisions that violated core open source values. Features The Joomla! package consists of many different parts, which allow modular extensions and integrations to be made easily. An example of such are extensions called "Plugins". (Previously known as "Mambots".) Plugins are background extensions that extend Joomla! with new functionality. The WikiBot, for example, allows the author of Joomla! content to use "Wikitags" in Joomla! articles whic...

1. Find Yourself It's so hippie dippy but practical. The hippies were on to something good with this one. Stop trying to be someone else. You have useful things to offer. Own it. 2. Work Hard Don't be lazy. Hard work pays off. OMG I sound like someone's Mom! 3. Be Nice to People There's no need to be mean, in words or thoughts. Reason 1: Karma, duh. Reason 2: Regression. When mean thoughts occupy your brain and not-so-nice speech pours out of your mouth, you slip a few notches on the psychological development chart. 4. Get Sleep Your brain and body need sleep to perform at the level you want so give it to them. 5. Eat Healthy  Same thing with sleep. Give your body good food, not junk. 6. Do Yoga  A yoga practice helps you "stay you." Following your breath in meditation and moving with your breath in yoga class helps you notice what you are. Which (surprise) feels pretty good, leads to happiness, and allows you to succeed at being you. 7. Be Conscious Practice ...

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS (receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and Feedalizr. The service is free to use over the web, but using SMS may incur phone services provider fees. As of March 2009, Twitter has received extensive visibility and popularity worldwide. Twitter is often described as the 'SMS of Internet' in that the site provides the back-end functionality (via its APIs) to other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages often ...

Internet marketing, also referred to as web marketing, online marketing, or eMarketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet. The Internet has brought many unique benefits to marketing, one of which being lower costs for the distribution of information and media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet marketing, both in terms of providing instant response and eliciting responses, is a unique quality of the medium. Internet marketing is sometimes considered to have a broader scope because it not only refers to digital media such as the Internet, e-mail, and wireless media; however, Internet marketing also includes management of digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) systems. Internet marketing ties together creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including design, development, advertising, and sale. Internet marketing also refers to the placement of media along different stages of the customer engagemen...

Hi Guys this is the approved layout for the SLT PEO tv website. The website is about IPTV in sri lanka . The client was Sri Lanka telecom this is the second layout, the first one was rejected and the client decided to go with this one.. there are lots of differences   between this one and the live site (Because the site is frequantly updating) www.peotv.com  Just leave a comment if you like the design... :) thanks..

Flash movies can be a great thing. They can help catch eyes that are otherwise bored with static looking pages, and they can help tell a story better than plain text. However the use of flash must be tempered with the ability to rank in search engines. This article describes some of the considerations and recommendations when using flash on a website. Disney does it. And so does Oprah. Even my favorite pizza place does it. That is embed their primary navigation and important content inside a flash movie. In fact in all these cases, a good part of the sites home page is flash, rendering that section of the page invisible to search engine crawlers. Granted these are extreme cases of sites which use flash extensively, but there are other cases where even a little flash can be improperly used. There are also cases where flash is not only appropriate, it is recommended. The question then becomes how to best use flash without affecting search engine rankings. Much like the early settlers of ...

How does your favorite browser's Javascript engine speed compare to other popular browsers? The speed of your browser's Javascript is becoming more and more important because of Web 2.0's reliance on Ajax and complex Javascript libraries. I have added a benchmark test, which you can run on your machine at home, to compare the newest versions of Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. How does your favorite browser stand up to the competition? Web Browser Average Runtime Relative Firefox 3.0.1 (with add-ons*) 506 1.47x slower Firefox 3.0.1 (no add-ons) 538 1.56x slower Google Chrome 0.2.149.27 557 1.62x slower IE8 Beta 2 806 2.35x slower What do you think...?