Santhosh’s Blog

This is a virtual video tour created by the architects of Bill Gate’s House.

Credits:  bubblepoo

I was one among the first to grab the BSNL’s EVDO back in September 2007.

After a month long of usage, I decided to write up a review in my old blog. Now the old blog doesn’t exist. The review which I wrote in late October 2007 made my blog much more popular. I saw people visiting my blog to read and the review and get the information. The comments were flooded and my blog almost turned into a discussion forum by the end of December 2007.

In January 2008, I bought ThemeBin.com and created a sub-domain as bsnlevdo.themebin.com and moved my review there with added discussion forum. The forum was a hit and attracted people and they found it very useful. And finally, the user database has been increasing considerably high. So I decided to move the site to a main domain and bought www.bsnlevdoclub.com. And moved the forum to www.bsnlevdoclub.com/forum yesterday.

Now the homepage uses wordpress for easy content management and with very minimum ads. I believe, I’m doing my best to broadcast the information about the BSNL’s one mighty little device.

Visit the hompage at: www.bsnlevdoclub.com and the forum at www.bsnlevdoclub.com/forum.

First things first. This post will no where relate to OS war, its just a homepage war of two giants.

Most of the web designers will work like a donkey to make sure their web template or the blogging themes are w3c Compliant. Yet most web designers will fail to get it valid.

But here the two giants has a massive bunch of people working for their company day and night, but yet they have failed in creating a w3c compliant WebPages (HTML). At least, they could’ve made their homepages valid. :p (No offense meant).

Here are the results of the validation from w3c validation.

Number of errors in www.apple.com : 10
Number of errors in http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx: 27

Validation result pages: Apple.com & Microsoft.com

Note: Do remember that the number of errors keeps changing, because those people keep updating their homepages every now and then.

And the results of few other popular website:

en.wikipedia.org | Errors: 0

Wordpress.org | Errors: 2

Yahoo.com | Errors: 34

Intel.com | Errors: 50

Ubuntu.com | Errors: 54

Oh, I for our favorite site:
thinkdigit.com | Errors: 178 + (no Doctype found)!

Damn, I also forgot to give the verdict between apple.com and Microsoft.com.

Verdict:
And the winner is, Apple.com :p

My friend Ravi, has started a new tech forum, which is worth to register an account. The forum covers all kind of Computer related issues and some webmastering etc.

And more than that, he has few prize plans like “Post and win prizes”. There are many kinds of prizes he will be offering and depends on your forum carrier and certain other parameters.

So visit today and register  your free account and start posting whilst you will you win prizes!

Visit the forum here: http://www.9zap.com/forums/

This is my first simple Joomla! tutorial.

This simple tutorial makes your Joomla based website’s URL search engine friendly and hence your site will be more visible to the search engine resulting in increased traffic!

1. Login to you  Joomla! Adminstrator Panel

2.  Click on “Global Configuration”.

3. Under “SEO Settings” , change the value of “Search Engine Friendly URLs” and “Add suffix to URLs ” to Yes

Click on “Save” and its done!