If you have made the decision to outsource some of your IT tasks to an external company then it’s important to make sure you choose a company who will look after you properly. Throughout the rest of this article we will look at some of the things that you will want to carefully think about when looking for an IT staffing agency.

By Robert Nyman: Stop developing for Internet Explorer 6

This proposal might seem a bit drastic, but please allow me to present my case.

Where we are today

This year, it is eight years since Internet Explorer 6 was released. A couple of years later, the three main competing web browsers had all reached a very competent state when it came to especially CSS and JavaScript support, and started challenging Internet Explorer. Since then, all web browser have released newer and better versions.

Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage.

Historically, web analytics has referred to on-site visitor measurement. However in recent years this has blurred, mainly because vendors are producing tools that span both categories.

It’s not a easy job to find a best, or i must say the perfect analytic tool for your website. However, there are quite a few resources around the web. Still, it’s quite a complex task to identify which one is the best. In this Article Below, you’ll find some of the Best Ways to Track Your Website Daily Traffic with some web based and stand alone downloadable tools.

by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com

Are you thinking of selling things on the web? If so, you will probably also be considering some way in which you can accept credit cards on your site. Since new webmasters who visit thesitewizard.com often ask me about how they can get started accepting payments in this form, this article provides some basic information on adding credit card payment facilities to your website.

Following are the validations done while testing a website.

1. User Interface or Usability Testing
2. Functionality
3. Interface testing
4. Compatibility Testing
5. Load / Stress Testing or Performance Testing
6. Security Testing

by Jay Philips

It is very important to make sure that your application functions as expected. There may be times that you add one little piece of code and all of a sudden other parts of the application no longer works. You may not have time/capacity to manually go back and regression test all the pieces of your application to make sure they are up to par. Companies use a variety of different testing tools for regression testing. There are lots of tools out there from very expensive to open source.

Below is a list of some open source/free tools that may come in handy.

Please keep in mind that every application is different so the tool you pick from one application may not be the same tool that you pick for another. My advice would be to pick a tool that can meet most of your current and near future needs.

Many Japanese companies are choosing to outsource much of their IT work to Vietnam. According to a November 2006 article in GlobalServices, “Vietnam: Capitalizing on the China-Japan,” by the year 2010 as much as 10% of Japan’s software outsourcing may be sent to Vietnam.

For all the reasons described above, Vietnam is clearly an excellent choice for meeting any business’ outsourcing needs. Here is a quantitative summary of the advantages of working with offshore providers located in Vietnam.

Outsource to Vietnam? Offshore development includes software, web design, website, application testing and more. Outsourcing software development is the driving economic force of many emerging countries.  India and China are well recognized as the industry leaders for outsourcing software development. Despite their huge market share in offshore development, Vietnam is quickly emerging as a software outsourcing destination. Outsourcing to Vietnam is gaining recognition as a low cost quality software maker in Asia. CIO magazine suggests that to outsource to Vietnam is about 90% cheaper than developing software in the United States of America. Compared to India, developing software in Vietnam costs between one third and one seventh times cheaper. These are very convincing figures for companies to start venturing their offshore development to Vietnam.