Pixel8 complies with the requirements of iGov.ph with all its related projects

Government websites are the least websites we’d want to go. We visit government websites only if we need to, why? There could be few deep-rooted reasons we want to do as little as possible with the government and we can’t really resolve it all here. One reason why most us would just bother to go to physical offices, fall in line for hours and just take our business there, we don’t trust the online system of our government services. It could either be poorly designed, unresponsive or just not made comprehensively.

Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy is revolutionizing the government website game by carefully planning the outcome. We’ve worked with a few challenging projects from the government and it’s never easy. But that’s our job - make difficult things easy for the user.

Did you know that there are very specific rules in creating a website for a government-funded institutions? Yes, and there’s a 16 page PDF file of it.

Description and Interface Requirements

1. Vertical Measurements
Government websites should be designed using a responsive framework with a standard width of 1190px on regular screens that scales down gracefully on smaller devices of 320px in width. This would allow the website visitor to access the website content on multiple types of devices. Website layout should be based on a twelve column grid layout that scales down to a one layout on the smallest of

mobile devices.

2. Homepage Section
A government homepage is broken down to seven (7) major sections. These are the top bar, masthead, auxiliary menu (optional), banner, content area, agency footer and standard footer.
- inner page : with 6 sections (top bar, masthead, auxiliary menu, content area, agency footer, standard footer)

3. Content Area Placeholders
The content area may only be divided into four, three, two and one column(s).

4. Section Components
- republic seal
- main navigation
- search bar

Here’s the complete specifications from iGov.ph http://i.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Website-Template-General-Guidelines-Dec.-14-2013.pdf

We have completed a project to develop Pilar Sorsogon Local Government website and it’s one of the projects we could easily be proud of. We get the pleasure of completing a website that could help deliver better service to public, make information sharing easier, and migrating transactions online, cutting off unnecessary trips to physical offices.

How many among us wished we had a better school website? I have! Schools and school organizations disseminate information to thousands of students every now and then and the task can be quite overwhelming if not chaotic. This challenges the traditional way we do things. Most school administrator and/or school organization leaders stick with what has always been done, not necessarily effective.

Imagine inviting a group people to attend to a meeting, getting everyone’s response, tracking and updating for any adjustments. Or during enrollment, students signing up for different subjects and finding the best schedules for their back subjects. What if there’s a system that could handle all these tasks. Now you don’t have to imagine because there’s certainly web service fix for that - an efficiently done school website.

5 Well Done School Websites

Here’s a list, in no particular order, of best school websites we curated from various sites on the internet for you:

1. Mapúa University - https://www.mapua.edu.ph/
2. International School Manila - http://www.ismanila.org/
3. University of Santo Tomas - http://www.ust.edu.ph/
4. Trinity Preparatory School - http://www.trinityprep.org/school-life/travel
5. Greenwich Country Day School - https://www.gcds.net/admissions/apply

What to watch out on web designs that gets you the points

Functionality, responsiveness
The main purpose of websites on schools is to post events, coordinate people and if a little extra, facilitate essential process like enrollment or library indexing. It’s important though that all the desktop features you built can be used to mobile devices like phones and tablet.

Layout - grid layout is in
Modern layout does half the job of website design nowadays. One look to landing page and you know if you want to use it or just forget about it. The layout and overall appearance of a website is your first impression to visitors, so make one that lasts, one that’s good.

Graphic design, fonts, accent, header
Invest on themed and coordinated design. This will help establish your brand and add credibility to your website as well as all the information you post on it.

Use of images - actual and cinematic images of your school or organization
Find the right image, on the right size and put it in the right place on your website. High definition images may be a little heavy on the upload but it sh

Content
You may think that text contents are boring and outdated but that is only if your text content is boring and outdated. With the right length and angle, you can use content management on your advantage. At the moment, new websites invest on good editorial-style content, front page. Editorial style restructures the technicality and agenda to a level that is relatable to almost anyone.

Pixel8 Web Solutions & Consultancy provide extensive service from the planning to actual launching of websites created for specific purpose - yes, that includes schools and school organizations. Talk to us now and let’s plan the future of your institution or organization today.

Construction expo is not new here. BiConEx hosted the first construction expo last year and it came out with great success. Aiming to gather all construction supply chain and services, build partnerships and expand opportunity to all participants and attendees of the event.

This year, The City Government of Legazpi in celebration of Ibalong Festival once again presents Bicol Construction Expo 2017. With the growing demand of establishments in the region this expo gives a space for exhibiting best resources available for consumers and business owners alike.

Pixel8 Web Solutions partnered with BiConEx for creating a digital version of the event through a functional and efficient website that works well on every device. In the website, all the information needed for the event is published so it’s a one-stop site for all interested body. You can register, view your booths or sponsorship through the website, provide feedback and enquiries, check and review sessions, view gallery, find the map and contact person of the event.

The other main sponsors of the event are: Ibalong Festival, City Government of Legazpi, United Architect of The Philippines, Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers, Davies Paint, Legazpi City Tourism, 3E-vents and Rotary Club of Legazpi.

What to Expect at BiConEx 2017?

Day 1
Ribbon Cutting and opening program

Day 2
Series of sessions and sharing of best practices from participants:
10AM - 11AM by Pixel8 Web Solutions & Consultancy presentation
11AM - 2PM by Magna Prime presentation
2PM - 3PM by Greenfield presentation
3PM - 4PM by Davies Paint presentation
4PM - 5PM Globe presentation

Day 3
Engineering and Architecture sessions

Come and join us on a 3-day packed event and meet people, shake hands, exchange business cards or event seal a deal! Register from www.bicolconstructionexpo.com and print or show a digital copy of the confirmation email as your easy access to the event. See you there!

Remember when we were in class, about to make a report on something complicated but equally important. What do you do? First, you gather all the resources and reference that you have on the topic. Then, study them, make notes as you go on, highlight important information and quote references. How you will make these information into something comprehensive is the core of content management. It does count when you can make people listen to you when you report, and it’s another thing to keep them listening.

When you have a business proposal, you have to sell it to all kinds of people regardless of their need and priority. Being a person with competing priorities, the common tendency is to turn down anything that would probably disrupt one’s budget or time. The challenge of being heard and paid attention to is finding the perfect package for your goods that would appeal to everyone.

Advantages of Good Content Management

1. Good rating on search engine ranking
2. Unique strategy on each content
3. Adds premium value on products and services being sold
4. Increase website traffic for first time and repeat visitors
5. Builds up credibility of the website and increases chances of referral

8 Best Tips on Content Management

1. Short and simple texts
2. Categorize contents with clean layout
3. Use common alternative to technical words; if the alternative is not available, define terms in context
4. Follow good SEO protocol. One guide that we commonly use is Yoast.
5. Update and refresh content on a regular basis
6. Include multimedia attachments and presentations to support your statements
7. Support statements with statistical data and study if possible
8. Review on-page and off-page contents to make it rank higher on engine searches

At Pixel8 Web Services & Consultancy we believe that there are no shortcuts on accomplishing something great. We believe in every product we sell including our clients’. We envision to make each and every client sell their goods competitively without losing integrity. This is why we work hard on creating content specific for each goal of each of our clients.

We offer extensive packages on content management depending on your needs. You can check the complete list of our packages HERE. For project that has specific requirements you can get a quote from our Get A Quote page and talk to one of our sales specialists.

Weddings are the most beautiful celebration of love the union of two people and group of people closest to them. But they almost always take the best in you and before you even get to the day you are already far too exhausted. Good news, this year Marc and Joseph's Event is hosting the biggest wedding expo for all wedding enthusiasts.

Have a hassle-free wedding and preparation that you actually enjoy with your friends and family. Bicol Weddings will organized a week long expo for all your wedding necessities all in one place, from bridal gowns to flowers, cakes to event hosts.

Su’Pay at Ayala Malls

Su’Pay, this year’s Bicol Wedding Expo hosts various exhibits from the best services we have in the region. A celebration of local talents and creations, inspiring fresh ideas through partnership and innovation.

The week long event started bright and sunny. Beautiful people wearing the most gorgeous pairs we’ve ever seen in black, white, gold and everything in between.

Organizers

Marc & Joseph's Events is the premiere consolidated services company in the Bicol Region. They cater to all kinds of events whether weddings, debuts, conventions/seminars, concerts, parties and corporate events. They also provide FREE wedding consultations and give our clients the best of everything without them having to worry about anything.

By providing this exhibit to the Ayala Mall-going public, Marc & Joseph's Events and its partners hope to inform and encourage its target and potential clientele to avail of services provided by local wedding suppliers. Furthermore, the organizing group and its partners would like to show the public their products and portfolios, as well as make an impression in order to further promote this thriving local industry. With its diverse offerings and number of participants, the organizers are positive that this event will yield positive results.

This event will also be made with the participation of local celebrities and officials who are both known and relatable thus increasing foot traffic in the establishment and will result to better business for everyone.

Exhibitors

Fashion Designers and Couturier

Makers of wedding suits and dresses that makes up your fairy tale wedding dream.

• Jun Lee
• Limitada
• Peewee Benitez
• Disenyong Gallaga
• Iris Ceneta
• Kutur ni Jean

Invitations

Ready-made or DIY wedding crafts and supplies to make it uniquely yours

• Krafty Craft by Fei

Event Coordinators and Planners

Keeping everything together while you cherish every moment of your big day

• Le Chere
• Nhorie Ghay’s Events
• Clara Photography and Event

Bar and Catering Services

Makers of the food experience that stays with everyone even after the event

• Lucky Fortune Seafood Restaurant
• Ring of Fire
• Bicol Food Delights
• Icars
• Rounds and Squares

Wedding Photography and Documentation

Capturing the most candid moments of your life in snaps and rolls

• Pixie Dreams Studios
• Pullout Productions
• Red Strings Studios
• Suburban Love Studios
• Cuadro
• Eli Casim
• Fishcrackers
• Gouldian Photography

 

Make-up Artists and Stylists

Brings the spotlight right on you on the biggest day of your life

• April Sapaula
• House of B

Florists

Making your happy ever after theme the way you pictured it

• Pido Torres
• Jefferson Thomas

Event Hosts

Brings the party in the house

• Flored Jay Naval Medina

Shoes Designer

Makes the perfect pair to match

• Jojo Bragais

Hotel and Resorts

Familiar luxury that caps your wedding day

• The Oriental

Events Website

Bridging gaps, connecting people and making it easy for you

• Pixel8 We Solutions & Consultancy

Bicol Weddings 2017 website is sponsored by Pixel8 Web Solutions & Consultancy, developed to fit and function in all device for easy access to information and coordination of sponsors, exhibitor and attendees. Get your own events website from the best digital solutions in town, Pixel8 Web Solutions & Consultancy.

Is social media enough to market your event? You are organizing a big event in 2017 where anything can go viral and be forgotten the next day. Sure you can utilize social media for advertising your event but most people wouldn’t go browsing the news feed for 5 minutes just to reach your post.

Advantages of a dedicated website for an event

1. A dedicated event website doesn’t limit your exposure online. You can put up your ad and run it all the time when people visit your site.
2. It gives more credibility to your event. A point of solid reference with all the information needed for your event makes a strong impression that you are committed to it.
3. More opportunity to get sponsors and partners to contribute to the success of your event.
4. Feature what best represent your event without following strict restriction, like word count and image size.
5. Open a space for people to register and subscribe to updates.
6. Link all social media accounts and contact number in one page. Earn people’s trust by providing accessible communication lines.

A compelling website are greatly accounted for an event’s success. It is important to have a platform to allow interested attendees to register for an event online, provide feedback and contact the organizers for any issues. As for the organizers a website will serve as their biggest marketing strategy and automation of administrative tasks like data gathering from visitors.

Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy has been supporting events that gave us extensive experience and knowledge on developing websites for events. Delegating such a new way of doing business might be hard for most of us but we are committed on making the project with our partners so they can be involved as much or as little as they want.

 

An Electronic Commerce, also well known as “eCommerce” website is a way of trade online becoming familiar nowadays. It is growing exponentially over the past years and has been adapted by most businesses now. eCommerce entails online goods services, retail services, marketplace services, payment, ticketing, and customer services.

eCommerce Businesses May Employ Some or All of The Following:

1. Online shopping web sites for retail sales direct to consumers
2. Providing or participating in online marketplaces, which process third-party business-to-consumer or consumer-to-consumer sales
3. Business-to-business buying and selling
4. Gathering and using demographic data through web contacts and social media
5. Business-to-business (B2B) electronic data interchange
6. Marketing to prospective and established customers by e-mail or fax (for example, with newsletters)
7. Engaging in pretail for launching new products and services
8. Online financial exchanges for currency exchanges or trading purposes

Top 5 eCommerce Websites in the Philippines

Lazada

Its sites launched in March 2012, with a business model of selling inventory to customers from its own warehouses. In 2013 it added a marketplace model that allowed third-party retailers to sell their products through Lazada's site; the marketplace accounted for 65% of its sales by the end of 2014. As of April 2016, Lazada is majority-owned by Alibaba Group.

OLX Philippines

Philippine classified ads site Sulit rebranded as OLX in 2014. The merger in the Philippines between OLX and Ayos Dito redirected Ayos Dito users to OLX as of 2015. OLX had 11 billion page views, 200 million monthly active users, 25 million listings, and 8.5 million transactions per month in 2014.

Cebu Pacific

Cebu Pacific, is a Philippine low-cost airline based on the grounds of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA Terminal 3), Pasay City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines. In August 2009, Cebu Pacific became the first airline in the Philippines to use social media. The airline created a fanpage on Facebook and Twitter.

Zalora

Zalora is an online destination for everything fashionable in the Philippines. Bringing you an insight on global trends, they feature your favorite international designers and the most relevant Filipino brands.

Metrodeal

As a undisputed market leader in Southeast Asia when it comes to discount vouchers, MetroDeal works hard to present you the best deals on the best things to do, see, eat, and buy in your city. They claim on their site that they only sell items that they would want to buy online.

eCommerce Worldwide

eCommerce bridged the wide gap between customers and sellers. Through this medium there are no barriers and limits for transactions. It takes the extra time of going to physical stores to “look around”. Customer service is almost always accessible through a few clicks.

eCommerce has started a global revolution for buying and selling. It is a common language that everyone understood and as we move on to the future, we expect to apply it to almost anything we need. In 2012, eCommerce sales topped $1 trillion for the first time in history.

Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy makes eCommerce website. Multiply your products or services sales through an efficient website that works well across all devices. We design and optimize sites according to the business needs. Whether you are just starting up or have been on the business for some time and just decided to take your business to a bigger market, we take the challenge of creating competitive spaces for your products or services.

A quick search on Wikipedia will tell you that Domain Registration is the process of acquiring a domain name from an organization or commercial entity that manages the reservation of Internet domain names - like getting a newborn’s name registered on a birth certificate. A domain name should not only be easy to recall, but should be simple to type. Web Hosting Service on the other hand, allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible through the internet - like your local statistics office.

Why is domain registration important?

Each website is assigned an IP address and remembering one is almost impossible. Domains are like shortcuts that people can easily remember. It is more than just a shortcut because it provides name recall for your business, too, if you’ve chosen a good one. There is a very thin line between strong online presentation and getting buried in the internet. This is why it’s important to put a lot of thought and research on choosing a domain.

1. Your business benefits from name recall. The easiest your domain is to remember, the more traffic you’ll get.
2. Private domains gives credibility to the services and products you provide. It shows how established and systematic your system is.
3. Domain names plays a big part in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), where it helps your website or content to show up in every search engine.
4. Serves as an advantage with marketing attracting walk-in customers to trust you.
5. Registering your own domain support your brand advocacy. It promotes loyalty and accessibility to your existing customers.

How to Register a Domain

There are many other ways on registering a domain, especially if this is part of a package or internal arrangement as part of outsourcing. This is the standard step by step procedure if you want to register on your own.

1. Settle on a domain that you'd like to use.
2. You will need a credit card of Paypal account for paying your domain.
3. If you have a web host, you'll need the names of their primary and secondary nameservers. You'll need the information to point your domain name to your website after you buy your domain.

If you don't have a web host, a temporary website specially set up for you to reserve and secure your domain name. Most automatically park your domain by default

Top 5 Domain Registrars

1. NameCheap

Namecheap, Inc. is an ICANN accredited registrar, which provide services on domain name registration, and offer for sale domain names that are registered to third parties (also known as aftermarket domain names). It is also a web hosting company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company claims to manage more than seven million domain names for its approximately three million customers.

2. iPage

iPage is a web hosting and domain registration company owned by the Endurance International Group. They offer a wide range of web hosting solutions for online businesses and webmasters to create websites. iPage offer one of the cheapest and low-cost shared web hosting packages which are highly suitable for small sites.

3. GoDaddy

GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. As of May 2017, GoDaddy has served approximately 17 million customers and had over 6000 employees worldwide. The company is known for its advertising.

4. BlueHost

Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 1.9+ million domains with its sister companies, HostMonster, FastDomain and iPage.

5. InMotion

InMotion is one of the great hosting providers due to their outstanding support services and feature rich plans. You can reach their customer service through Skype. You can also learn on your own by searching the information from the knowledge base maintained on their website.

Web Hosting Services

Web hosting services makes it possible for websites to post on the internet. They allow storing and posting of data through servers. Paying for web hosting is like paying for a safe storage of your files that can be accessed online anywhere, anytime.

The concept of domain registration and web hosting can be a little intimidating to most people. This is why our packages in Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy is quite flexible in its terms involving domain registration and web hosting services.

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Information systems (IS) is an organized system for the collection, organization, storage and communication of information. Specifically, it is the study of complementary networks that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and distribute data.

Computer-based information systems are essentially an IS using computer technology to carry out some or all of its planned tasks. The basic components of computer-based information systems are:

• Hardware - all of the devices which work together to accept, process, show data and information.
• Software - are the programs that allow the hardware to process the data.
• Databases - are the gathering of associated files or tables containing related data.
• Networks - are a connecting system that allows diverse computers to distribute resources.
• Procedures - are the commands for combining the components above to process information and produce the preferred output.

Imagine you are running an institution or a small business catering to hundreds of customers everyday. All of these customers have an individual data sheet. Would it be so much easier for you if you have a database where you can pull out every information in just a few clicks? It is important to note that customer satisfaction follows an efficient system.

Advantages of having an Information Systems

1. Accelerated processing time for transactions
2. Organized safekeeping of customer’s information
3. Multi-user compatibility that allows multiple transaction at once without system break
4. Accessibility to any device bound by the limits of your provider
5. Sophisticated security on storage of information

Hiring an additional employee that would look after all the information safekeeping is a common argument against information systems. We could all agree that human is still superior than any machine or software but comes with more limitations. Such limitations are: time restrain, unavailability, unprecedented errors and single-handed.

Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy offers Information Systems services that goes with Enterprise Resource Planning Structure, Simplistic User Interface, Multi-User Level and Permissions, Browser Application Platform, Multi-Format Print-outs among other value packed services.