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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.

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Happening Now: 2nd Bicol Construction Expo

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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!

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Do I need a website for my upcoming event?

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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.

 

 

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.

Domain Registration and Website Hosting

What is Domain Registration and Web Hosting Service?

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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.

 

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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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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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Hitting the Maximum Marketing Potential thru a Comprehensive Website

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What good does a comprehensive website do to a business? It’s innumerable! But we tried and gathered all the best resources and studies that we have to come up with this list.

Benefits of comprehensive website:

  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
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Anatomy of a Comprehensive Website

Creating the perfect comprehensive website can only be achieved by completely understanding the needs of your business and your customers. We can always create a site for our business using presets and template made available online. This doesn’t however covers the careful study of what you need to put up in your website where to put them and how responsive it will be. It’s makes a first time visitor feel like they’ve been there before. You are confident that people will be able to look at your site, find what they’re looking for and give them the freedom to browse more.

 

Factors to consider:

      • Site Architecture
        Graphic Design
      • Color Scheme
      • Page Layout
      • Content Creation
      • Relative values of margin and font
      • Consider device resolutions
      • Size changes proportionally
      • Vertical column drop for content
      • Navigation drawer for sub-sections
      • Bottom bar for more actions

 

10 Tools We Use for Making a Comprehensive Website

  • Git

Git is a version control system (VCS) for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. It is primarily used for software development. It can be used to keep track of changes in any files.

  • Backbones.js

Backbone.js is a JavaScript framework with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the model–view–presenter (MVP) application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library. It is designed for developing single-page web applications, and for keeping various parts of web applications (e.g. multiple clients and the server) synchronized.

  • WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011, the plugin quickly became popular for its simplicity to install and customize and free base product.

  • CS-Cart

CS-Cart is a perfect solution for any online business, from a small startup to a large web shop.

  • Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end web framework for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML- and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions. Unlike many web frameworks, it concerns itself with front-end development only.

  • mySQL

MySQL (Structured Query Language) is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

  • sketchUp

SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications. These applications include architectural, interior design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, film and video game design. It is available as a freeware version (SketchUp Make) and a paid version with additional functionality (SketchUp Pro).

  • Npm

Npm allows users to consume and distribute JavaScript modules that are available on the registry. Packages on the registry are in CommonJS format and include a metadata file in JSON format.

  • Apache Cordova

Cordova wraps your HTML/JavaScript app into a native container which can access the device functions of several platforms. These functions are exposed via a unified JavaScript API, allowing you to easily write one set of code to target nearly every phone or tablet on the market today and publish to their app stores.

  • Adobe

Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products. Now, they’ve foray towards rich Internet application software development. Best known for Photoshop, an image editing software, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud.

 

WordPress

This platform is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is installed on a web server that is either part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites.

 

What We Offer:

  • Lock-In Period and Service Guarantee
  • Responsiveness
  • Design & Feel
  • Flexible Features
  • Client Support
  • Package that Fits
  • SEO Friendly Sites
  • UX Design Assured
  • Secured Websites
  • Safety Backup
  • Online Payment
  • Online Reservation

Moreover, what we offer is understanding your business and building the blueprint of a website from the core to the external layers. We find the thin line between what your business needs and what your customers want to see and make it the center of our services.