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A North American pioneer in information technology, CIS Group has created a full range of innovative software solutions to support businesses in furthering their success. For more than 30 years, CIS Group has been developing an impressive level of expertise across a wide number of related fields, including distribution, delivery routes (DSD), sales automation software and merchandising, Bus and Coach Solutions and trucking transportation operations.

Today CIS Group is one of the largest providers of mobile software solutions in North America, helping companies maximize productivity, decrease distribution costs, and enhance profitability. Their innovative solutions have proven track records. They are responsible for the automation of over 8000 routes and reps throughout North America, making them a leading provider of software solutions for mobile sales, merchandising and direct store delivery software. CIS has offices in the US, Canada and Costa Rica.

Product list CIS Group is offering is really impressive! Here is a short description of the main four:
Companion suite
Everything connects. Full visibility and control over activities taking place on the road. Companion automates the activities of mobile personnel, increasing overall productivity and profitability. Including route accounting software - Direct Store Delivery (DSD)!

Coach suite
Everything is connected. Reservations, vehicles, parts, destinations, drivers, wages, so that you can spend your time on what’s most important: transport.

Rapid suite
Rapid ® is the most complete integrated planning tool for the transportation industry. It is the solution that allows instant tracking of all resources, as well as providing at all times the trip status and exact operation costs.

Cargo
The Cargo ® system facilitates fleet management by providing real time information on the costs and performance of your different departments. Cargo ®combines flexibility and ease of use. It covers all the transactions related to your vehicles.

In conclusion I can say that you can trust in the expertise of CIS Group!

Today I was browsing for a new template for one of my sites. What I found is real treasure - Template World is absolutely top quality resource, unique and creative website templates designed by certified web professionals. I was really amazed of the variety of categories listed on their front page. Literally they have everything covered.

Later, after acquiring a login name I found myself browsing all those various sections of the web site segmented by the purpose of the template. I stopped for a while at Wordpress templates and took the time review them all. What makes good impression is that you can preview the look of your future website even before you pay for it. Also the price for a site design is quite good - you get high-quality premium website designs at just $49.95 (any good designer will easily charge you hundreds of dollars, if not thousands).

Here is a list why Template World are special?
- Their web templates are easily editable.
- They are 100% compatible with popular html and image editors.
- They are 100% compatible with all major browser environments and operating systems.
- They are designed to be usable on slow speed and broadband connections.
- They are primarily geared toward a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels (with compatibility for 800×600 pixels, 1152×864 pixels and higher).
- Coding is uniform and friendly. This means that there is no change in the structure of the template on content or graphic inserts when you customize.
- Templates are easy to upload on the web.
- Template World offers some free css templates for you to sample before purchase.

At the end of the day I felt delighted for choosing Template World as my template resource.

These days everyone needs protection against SPAM, viruses and Internet attacks. Me and my small blog are no different that the rest web sites and small businesses. Few days ago I encountered very strange activity around my email server which ended in having my all email addresses spammed. I cleaned them all but needed a permanent anti spam filtering solution to avoid future problems. That’s how I met the guys at Perimetec Solutions.

What they offer is something really cool – a complete set of products for every business:

- Barracuda Spam Firewall - that’s what I choosed to protect my email server. In fact they offer both software and hardware protection.

- Barracuda Web Filter – content filtering and application blocking, also must have product.

- Barracuda IM Firewall – monitor your messaging activity.

- Barracuda Load Balancer – helps you maintaining high uptime on your server.

- Barracuda Message Archiver - email archiving solution.

- Barracuda Web Application Controllers – this one consist of Barracuda Web Application Firewall and the Barracuda Application Gateway which combined offer protection against hackers attempting to exploit vulnerabilities in your application.

Also highly recommended is to visit the FAQ section where you can find answers to a lot of questions. And what I really liked about this web site is that they offer you a free trial! So you can test their web security services for 30 days completely free.

Few days ago I was browsing casually and looking for some SEO advices then I landed at NVI: Montreal Web Design Firm web site. It really attracted me from the beginning with its modern looking design and intuitive navigation. I contacted them for what I wanted and felt glad that they responded in very short time.

Therefore I feel obliged to share my opinion in the products they offer:

- Custom website design – you can get professional advice on what you need and what will suit you best.

- Montreal e-commerce – this service can help you out when you want to attract visitors and turn them into potential buyers.

- SEO marketing – you will definitely need a SEO plan when starting your presence on the internet. Believe you cant do without this marketing advice!

- Montreal Search Engine Optimization – ah, this is my favorite service and that was the reason I contacted them in the beginning. Being on top of search engines results page is important for every one of us and here they come to help us out. They provide all the best solutions and practices to reach great rankings on every major search engine.

- Content Management System - in modern internet business we all need a piece of these. Modifying your content easily and without much effort is vital for your success.

- Canadian web hosting – looking for reliable hosting company? You found it!

- Corporate Branding Strategy – branding your business the right way should be a key factor in your strategy. Having your own name, logo and identity will help you stand from the crowd.

At the end I had all my questions answered and had more time dealing with my programming.

This one comes from SitePoint and its a time limited offer. I guess some 20 days the files will be available for download.

“The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques” was written by experienced web designer Corrie Haffly and has 278 full color pages which is split into 9 chapters.

The book shows you how to :

* Design attractive web graphics
* Touch up photographs for web use
* Create web site mockups using Photoshop
* Improve your digital workflow
* Master menus, buttons and background tiles
* Use nondestructive editing techniques

You can download a high-res copy of the book in PDF format here:
view web page
File Size: 64Mb

I came across this article on the Yahoo Developer Network. Its from the book “High Performance Web Sites” by Steve Souders. Here is a brief list of what Steve is suggesting and link to the original:

1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put Stylesheets at the Top
6. Put Scripts at the Bottom
7. Avoid CSS Expressions
8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags

Recently Adobe released new version of Coldfusion in which they put a lot of Ajax features. For example user interface controls, proxy for data exchange and Ajax logging and debugging.
View demos here.
View Coldfusion web page

DevReach 2007, the premier event for professional developers in South Eastern Europe, is coming your way! Held in Sofia, Bulgaria, DevReach brings together the development community and acclaimed international speakers for a practical talk on the latest Microsoft technologies. The event is organized by Telerik and Kulov.net and supported by Microsoft Bulgaria.

Following last year’s success, DevReach 2007 will try to raise the bar even further - more speakers, more sessions and more expert-level content. Several of last year’s lectors such as Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin, Stephen Forte and Goksin Bakir will be joined by other renown community figures such as Tim Huckaby, who will be making the keynote, Miguel Castro, Dino Esposito, Joel Semeniuk, Lino Tadros and others.

The conference will offer 4 simultaneous tracks with more than 40 practical sessions in 2 days. All sessions will be recorded and will be available to attendees for viewing after the end of the conference.
more for the event

Hi there, welcome to my new blog.
Here I will try to share info on some tricks that impressed me over the net.

Basically thats going to be some new .net control, Java script or just anything related to web 2.0 and AJAX.

Feel free to post comments and suggestions!

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