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Information System for Health Care Facilities and Why It’s Essential

Information System for Health Care Facilities and Why It’s Essential

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Hospitals and other health care facilities process hundreds to thousands of transaction per day in various units – all of equal importance. While modern countries fully implement computer based application on most institutions if not all, in Philippines we still use the good old ways of doing tasks. As good as it was, it can’t keep up on the demands of our workplace. Hospitals for examples file decades-worth of patient’s data that needs to be available in a quick search. Most of our hospitals do this manually.

Advantages of Information System to Hospitals

Apart from providing a unified system for all units on the hospital these are the other uses of information system to hospitals:
1. Faster facilitation of laboratory requests and relaying of results
2. Accurate dispensing of medicine from pharmacy
3. Easy registration of inpatients and outpatients consults
4. Automated scheduling and settings of appointments to doctors
5. Tracking of patient’s expenses and payments
6. Efficient stocking and dispensing system for hospital supplies
7. Dispatching work orders for maintenance works
8. Quick timekeeping and payroll services
9. Safe and organized storage for charts, records and other data
10. Circulating memo and announcements all over the hospital

There are few ready-made software that are being sold in the market to do some of those tasks. These software however are not customized to work specifically to each institution.

Pixel8 Web Solutions creates information systems tailored fit to each business following strict and meticulous attention to details.

For more information regarding our Information System packages you may check out IS package or contact us.

Why should you get a website for your hobbies

Why should you get a website for your hobbies?

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Everyone has something they like to do their free time. The beauty of a website for your own hobby is that it’s your free space and only people who are interested would look at it. Sure you can post all about your interests in your personal social media account but not many would welcome repetitive activities. By getting your own website, you can post and regulate as much post of the same kind, discussing the same topics, indulging in the same things over and over again and you won’t get flagged for it. It also provides a creative space that would add credibility to your craft that boosts your self-esteem to be open about what like doing best.


PHOTOGRAPHY

Personal snapshots piling up somewhere in your hard drive with no one to show it? Show it to the world! Showcase them in a gallery type website. You don’t have to put it out there to be bought – just a little creative space. And you open them up for a possible sale or even better a commissioned work. It’s also proven to boost will to keep taking photos if you have someone to show it. Modern design for website portfolio optimizes your work’s exposure to endless possibilities.


NATURE AND BACKPACKING

Document your spontaneous adventures going out and about through a website. Build your bucket list and update your site as you go on with it. You can post a review, DIY itinerary, guides and hack for outdoor experiences. Take breath-taking pictures and post it on your website. It’s like keeping a digital online! Take people on journeys they couldn’t take and inspire them to go on their own adventures.


ARTS AND CRAFTS

Do you love knitting? Painting? Pottery? Or just about any random craft you love to do with when you’re not tied with your professional life? Put it up on a personal website. Inspire to create nice things because the world deserve more of it. We provide a simple and minimalistic layout to highlight every detail of your craft!


COOKING AND BAKING

Who doesn’t love a hot home-cook meal? Food is one of mankind’s greatest joys. Everyone can eat but not everyone can cook. If you are lucky to make people’s mouth water just by looking at your cooked / baked goods, make them ask for more!


GAMING AND GADGETS

Document your digital entertainment for other enthusiasts. Build your real life connections just as you would in a video game. Provide feedback and reviews for new gadgets, film exciting unboxing and upload it. Pick your favourite, feature handpick items and maybe even get paid for it. You only have to enjoy what you’re doing and share it to people who find it interesting.


MOVIES AND MUSIC

We’d love to setup our own movie and music review website because who doesn’t love a post grand cinematic experience or a life changing music you heard for the first time? Now you don’t have to feel guilty about flooding your social media profile of



We make good things out of the things we like doing. Sign up for your own personal website now and you might just make a living out of something you enjoy!

Mobile Web Vs Mobile App

Mobile Website Vs. Mobile App: What Should You Get

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Limiting your website capacity to only fully function on desktop is almost just as bad as not having a website at all. We became dependent on our mobile device for almost a anything – pay our bills, shop, check destinations, manage our schedule and connect to the interwebs. There’s really no question whether you should get a mobile version for your own website or not. Some of us would go on though for a quest to find out whether to get a mobile website or a mobile app.



WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Mobile Website

The mobile Web refers to browser-based Internet services accessed from handheld mobile devices, such as smartphones or feature phones, through a mobile or other wireless network.

mobile website by pixel8

Mobile website made by Pixel8

It’s usually included in the price of designing your website that works with both iOS and android system. Although it’s low to almost no cost for maintenance there’s no push notifications or offline access. Poor web design can cause problems like: performance issues, cluttered design and unresponsiveness.

Preferable for:
Website that provides short and quick information
Process of simple transactions
Excellent web design support for mobiles

Mobile Application

A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications that run on desktop computers, and with web applications which run in mobile web browsers rather than directly on the mobile device.

Its advantages include push notifications, offline access, optimum performance for mobile devices, smart design. However, getting a mobile application costs extra expense and licensing for app / android stores.

Preferable for:
A wide catalogue or gallery of products
Multi-transactions like online banking or payment systems
Newsfeed for articles or blogs that can be read on the go

The Verdict

If you have loads of funds for marketing you can absolutely get both and get better results. But if you have a limited financing, you can just get the right one and save the other for later. Mostly if you need to provide an offline touch base for your customers, you can get the app. You can use a well done website design to work for mobiles, too – by sticking to the mobile version and polishing it to fit nicely and work perfectly.

You can never go wrong with Pixel8 Web Solutions whatever choice you come up with choice because make mobile apps that works well on all devices tested on iOS and android devices. We also make websites that is mobile ready if you opt to have that.

Bag, Shoes, Clothes and Everything Flashy for Online Shopping

Bag, Shoes, Clothes and Everything Flashy for Online Shopping

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Who wants bags? And shoes? Maybe the right question is who doesn’t? We all love a good pair of treat now and then. This is why the demand Want to hop in on the online shopping craze? Do you have a home grown business of bags, or accessories?

Get a guaranteed digital solutions for your online shop.

Get your own website! Handpick a product and feature everything you love about it in your own space.
Create your own unbounded catalog.
Get you a system to facilitate taking orders, payment and shipping.
Save your energy only to do tasks that can’t be done by technology yet.

We are offering content management along with web development so we can continue to curate the online shop for you. You can focus on expanding your market and strategizing supply and demand.

Website Development for Online Selling

Big online shops didn’t grow overnight. They are made up careful planning and sometimes risky takes because marketing breaks doesn’t come in comfort zones. We primarily develop websites customized to a business needs. The thought process is simple, put ourselves in the shoes of our clients and think: what would we want our customer to see so they buy what I’m selling. By investing on a website, you invest on valuing customer experience which is a real treat if you want to keep you customers and expand your market out of your existing customer base.

Social Media Marketing

Social Media marketing is a hot pot for all online sellers at the moment. It became so powerful that one would think they won’t need any other medium to sell their products. You can do better though! We can help expand your business to other platforms, reaching out to untouched market. We can run ads and schedule posts in a strategically not wasting any money on unnecessary advertisements. At Pixel8, we have a dedicated team for social media marketing as part of our comprehensive digital marketing plan.

Content Management

Feature your products like how one will put it in a centerfold without having to pay the cost! Create contents that would sell your products then and there. The digital age makes everything instant and fast that it lacks the human touch. Don’t get disconnected by leaving your business dangling online and just getting fed to unlikely customers. Who pays attention to ads that seems like spam, right? Targeted advertising is the key to effective marketing.

Some of the most successful online stores using Instagram as their market place

1. Neon Island Instagram – 69k+ followers
2. indioeyewear – 12k+ followers
3. happyskin_ph – 170k+ followers
4. shopseektheunique – 46k+ followers
5. shopisola – 4k+ followers
6. Heir Clothing – 3k+ followers

What Makes a Sleek and Efficient Official Government Websites

Making of Sleek, Efficient and Still Official Government Websites

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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

LGU Pilar website by Pixel8

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.

Cool in School 2017 Smart and Light Websites

Cool in School: Smart and Light Websites

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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.

eCommerce The New Market Place To Be

eCommerce: The New Market Place To Be

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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.

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How to Boost Your Sales through Your Online Presence

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Online presence is a collective effort of being seen on the internet. Although having a website significantly help the cause, it is not the sole task to be “present” online. We are talking about online presence because it is an absolute game changer when you have a business or meaning to start one.

So what does it take to have a strong online presence? We say you’d need 3 things mainly – branding, website and strategical digital marketing. We can start off by (1) Conceptualizing a brand that best represents your business; (2) investing on a well positioned, fully functional website that works across all devices and (3) digital marketing campaign with varying aggression depending on your kind of business.

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3 key elements for a strong online presence | Pixel8

Your business doesn’t have to be big right away. In fact, if you start from the bottom you have nowhere else to go but up. One may start on retail and hitch on bigger platforms like well known online stores. While this may work to establish your market and maybe gain some investors, you will find as you go on that there is very limited chance of growing your business exponentially that way. In 2006, an American retailer named Sophia Amoruso started Nasty Gal earned good 550,000 customers in over 60 countries that all started with a personal eBay account. She then later switched to sell her own label of clothes, on her own website and named “Fastest Growing Retailer” in 2012 by INC Magazine.

Tips on boosting your online sales through online presence

  1. If the platform you are hitching doesn’t fit your purpose, make your own platform. Get out there and make start something new instead of putting your idea in an old box of closed standards.
  2. Test everything. The internet is full of infinite probabilities and you’ll know what will kick in only when it does. Do split testing.
  3. Offer comprehensive products and services. Market them one at a time. You have put a lot of thought and effort in coming up with your products and services for sure so make that impression in each product you launch.
  4. Invest on website layout and positioning of ads, opt in, promo, images.
  5. Feature benefits of your service or products
  6. Enhance and protect trust meters (rating, views, traffic, likes)
  7. Limited offers, limited quantity, time offers
  8. Invest heavily on images, graphical representation

 

Most of online businesses now starts with small groups in facebook, instagram and other eCommerce website like Lazada and Shopee. This is a good strategy in building up your brand and customers. However, you are bound to the rules and limitations of the site that you are “leasing” and could often hold you back for a bigger opportunities on accelerating your business growth.

 

It sound like a big leap and therefore, scary. Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy is proud to become your wingman every step of the way. We are your one-stop shop for web solutions that offers expert excellent branding, comprehensive website and strategical digital marketing.

 

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Digital Marketing in Social Media

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Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Pinterest. LinkedIn. Google+. Tumblr. Posting on these platforms for an establishment as a job? Sounds easy for a second there until you go online and wonder what to post and how to do it right. It is easy to post what’s on your mind, check-in to a nearby cafe and post an obligatory selfie with your dog. Utilizing digital marketing through social media for business might be a little tricky than that.

 

Consistent

Social media presence / digital marketing plays a big role in making your mark to people. Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms moves fast. And if you have to get along with the pace to be seen and make an impact. Timetable and scheduling posts can be helpful when managing several social media accounts.

 

Up to date

It’s important to be aware of recent events to post relevant information. With the overflowing information provided by the internet, people tend to oversee things that aren’t relate-able at the moment. Read news, study things that matter with your target customers at the moment and continuously innovate your pitch in accordance to the needs of your customers.

 

Engaging

Direct questions on your post can be helpful. Make people think more of it rather than just reading a plain text information. Avoid open-ended questions though as it can turn readers attentions around. You may use questions that can be answered by yes or no. Engagement doesn’t necessarily mean that people would comment of like what you posted. It’s more of getting in touch with people by involving them in the thought.

 

Simple

Post simple and comprehensive information. Long posts tend to bore people out and mostly passed on online. The concept of simple posts also avoids being labeled as misleading or out of touch. Use coherent text and smart graphics that compliments each other. Do not saturate your ad with all the information. Make them want to learn more of your offer. You may publish the full ad in another page.

 

Creative Digital Marketing

Studies prove that a post with a picture is being seen by more people than full text. Increase your chances of being noticed by using info-graphics, pictures, text on pictures. Creative posts are more than just spreading words in an image. It’s more of careful curation of ideas and turning them to smart designs.

This statistic represents how many people uses each platform:

Facebook – 1.59 billion users

Twitter – 317 million active users per month

Instagram – 600 million monthly users

Pinterest – 100 million monthly users

 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is now the most widely used web analytics service on the Internet. This tool can be used to evaluate progress on online campaigns including social media platforms. It is the most widely used website statistics service. Currently it is in use on around 55% of the 10,000 most popular websites. Google Analytics can be measured in different ways. These includes sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page and downloading a particular file.

Features of Google Analytics:

  • review online campaigns
  • identify poorly performing pages
  • track sales activity and performance
  • helps understand the behavior of component groups of users

 

Social Media / Digital Marketing is a very powerful platform to influence people. This strategy can no doubt make your business reach its full potential if done right. Pixel8 Web Solutions & Consultancy  Inc. specializes in launching campaigns that truly help your cause. Contact us today.

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How Brand Identity Help Your Business and 5 Tips on Making it

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Would you buy a regular backpack with unknown brand for P1500? Even if it’s a well-done product, sturdy and has all the pockets in the right places for your need you’ll feel that it’s a little bit too much, would you not? How about a black Adidas bag with a bold print of it’s logo in front for P1500? I say it would be marketable even at P1700. This is the power of brand / branding, your product is a sales pitch itself.

The Brand is the most valuable asset that represents your business. If done right, this will benefit your business in the long run. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had your business for a long time or you’re just getting started – branding vs re-branding.

Benefits of Branding or Re-branding

  1. Attracting new customers and strengthening relations to existing customers. Branding / re-branding is like starting fresh without necessarily starting a new company. Taking the best practices and creating new dynamics that is worth jumping on board for.
  2. The main goal is to be recognized and remembered. It is important to stand out, to be known and in the long run be trusted by people as their go-to provider, among the hodgepodge of companies advertising their products .
  3. Inspires employees, suppliers and distributors. Living up to the brand gives people a sense of purpose and direction.
  4. Opportunity to reprice and increase market share. It has been proven that customers are willing to shell out premium pay for well-established brand; like a value added service that will allow you to negotiate your terms and to sell with a higher value. Branding is like a person being sure of himself and what he believes in.

Tips for Branding or Re-branding

  1. Think of what brand you want to embody. Get the perfect mix of (1) what is the foundation of your business, (2) what is driving your business; and (3) desired perception of your employees and customer.
  2. Let the brand grow within your core values. Huge part of the success of branding / re-branding relies from the people who work within the company and the product or service towards the customers. Equip the people right in executing the brand in dealing with customer.
  3. Aim to be consistent in delivering your brand. While name recall does help, building your brand doesn’t end with stamping a logo in every business property or publicity. It requires engagement and dedication in every transaction.
  4. Innovate and update. Business models don’t always work especially in the fast-paced age of technology. What worked 10 years ago might hurt your business now. Stay relevant by exploring new ways of doing your business, improving your products and services.
  5. Listen to the customers / consumers. There are tons of researches we can rely on the best feedback you can get is still from the people that consume what you are providing.
Branding with Pixel8 Touch

Branding with Pixel8 touch

It’s not easy to find the right balance of boldness and professionalism and this is what we master in Pixel8 Web Solutions & Consultancy Inc. Branding is more than just plastering logo and color scheme on your business products. Luckily, we are confident that we can expertly come up with fancy cards and letterheads for you and on top of it guide you with the right recipe for your business brand identity as a whole. Make your mark with Pixel8 touch.