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Why should you get a website for your hobbies

Why should you get a website for your hobbies?

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

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

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

Domain Registration and Website Hosting

What is Domain Registration and Web Hosting Service?

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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

 

8 Digital Solutions You Don't Know You Need

8 Digital Solutions You Didn’t Know You Need

The whole digital experience of a customer is made up of different essential components. After substantial research and testing we came up with 8 digital solutions that would deliver not only best customer experience but dynamic business and customer relationships.

Getting digital solutions is not just another additional cost to your business. It actually gets you quality work done over a strict time limit and regularly delivers results. We provide a timetable for each of our projects and work transparently with our clients creating mutual trust and enough room for big ideas.

 

Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy Services

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Defines your online presence

Companies now do much of their business online, so an effective online presence in the digital space is vital. Even if most of your activities take place offline, customers still refer to your website and social media accounts as a yardstick for the credibility of your business.

We can support your company, agency or startup with high quality, fair-cost website and IT solutions will mean your online presence practically manages itself. We use a flexible mobile-friendly web development platform, so you can be sure that your website will look great on any device, and be favored in Google searches on mobile.

What good does a comprehensive website do to a business? It’s innumerable! Although we gathered all the top advantages from our best resources and studies and we have to come up with this list:

  1. Wider reach to customers
  2. Cheap and accessible way of marketing
  3. Measureable response and ROI
  4. Interactive communication with customers, clients and prospects
  5. Highlights value added services

Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy features 5 packages for Website Development:

PROFESSIONAL – professional web development package start-up, small scale networking

CORPORATE – business type website for private sectors, small business

E-COMMERCE – business website with online shopping

GOVERNMENT – government website with complete compliance to iGOV Guidelines

 

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)

Be found and stand out

SEO has been a concept of for webmasters and content managers since 1990s but it didn’t get widely known until 2000s. It is now a key player in doing business online. We provide a full package website audit and analysis to maximize all opportunities to show up in Google searches. One business will be different from another thus we create different strategies for every project. We build links, increase traffic, establish and protect your online reputation. Along with these goals comes a frequent and systematic evaluation to the progress and provide effective recommendations.

Advantages of SEO:

  1. Get more traffic to the website and get repetitive visitors
  2. Plays an important role in online business websites as well as other interactive sites through link exchange
  3. Affect the revenue for the site
  4. Maintain the position and ranking on the search engines like Google, yahoo and others

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING

Does the legwork from your desk

The number of people using social media is expected to reach some 2.95 billion by 2020. People spend an average of 6-10 hours per day. With these statistics, social media plays a major role in marketing now. The number of people using social media is expected to reach some 2.95 billion by 2020. People spend an average of 6-10 hours per day. With these statistics, social media plays a major role in marketing now. We conduct geographical and cultural profiling for a period of time to get the best strategy for your business’ best interest and maximize return of investment (ROI).

  1. Increase brand awareness and loyalty
  2. Run targeted ads with real-time results
  3. Increase website traffic and search ranking
  4. Share geotarget content faster and easier
  5. Provide rich and interactive customer experiences

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Mining the content gold

We provide complete web content management from the landing pages to blog pages. We collect, manage and publish information related to your website. As part of the promise that we will maximize all opportunity to appear on search engines, we will utilize SEO in every page backed with internal linking and metadata – the technical things we do in the backend to boost your content online.

  1. Convenient way to distribute content and do updates
  2. Draw-in more revenue or traffic to the site
  3. Content is always fresh and up-to-date
  4. Improve communication by providing a collaborative environment for content sharing
  5. Personalized touch on press release and campaigns

 

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

App Solutions perfectly crafted for your mobile

Mobile use increased exponentially over the years. People has become highly dependent on mobile phones with their everyday tasks. Along with website development, it is important to pay attention on mobile app equally to reach more people. We make Mobile App with the best programming language to make a seamless experience on every device with front and backend support access.

  1. Provide more value to your customer’s experience
  2. Build a stronger brand
  3. Connect faster and easier with customers
  4. Boost revenue
  5. Real time update

 

INFORMATION SYSTEM (IS) DEVELOPMENT

Tailored fit Solutions at its finest

Information systems is a study of systems with a specific reference to information and the complementary networks of hardware and software that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and also distribute data.

We create database system, point of sale system, expert system and more information systems molded with your business need. We create the perfect match of technology to your business to make the most out of it.

  1. Business can be open anytime anywhere, making purchases from different countries easier and more convenient
  2. IS application promotes more efficient operation of the company
  3. Improves the supply of information to decision-makers and chain of command
  4. Having immediate data converted to useful information presented to people who can act upon it
  5. High adaptability to change with the need

 

BRANDING DESIGN

Polish your corporate brand with the Pixel8 Touch

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 rebranding.

Making your business stand out in its own unique identity is one of our best offers. We build it from the logo to marketing collateral including business cards and letterheads. We work with our clients closely to get every tiny detail right.

  1. Business can be easily recognized and remembered
  2. Promotes loyalty to customers
  3. Builds up image of quality, experience and stability of business
  4. Opportunity to lift economical value of products and justifiable premium price
  5. Lower marketing expenses

 

IT CONSULTANCY

What would experts do

We expertly advise, estimate, manage, implement, deploy, and administer IT systems on behalf of our client organizations. We have packages for when a client wants to outsource all or part of the IT services from a specific company or a temporary help during a one-time project.

  1. Continuous creative and efficient innovation
  2. Utilization of technology for accelerated business growth
  3. Improved local and global marketing
  4. Systematic resource and data management
  5. Accessible customer support and satisfaction

Most are skeptical about the arrangement of outsourcing, even more with a new concept of doing business digitally. Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy absolutely understands this and are willing to take the extra mile of meeting you to take the big leap. Leverage your online presence through Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy, where we create digital solutions pixel by pixel.

Information System Management Pixel8

How Information Systems can do the Legwork and be Your Ultimate Virtual Manager

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.

Boost Sales Online | Pixel8

How to Boost Your Sales through Your Online Presence

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.

Boost Sales Online | Pixel8

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.