Web Services

Web services are being adopted in the marketplace as a mechanism for efficient process integration in the enterprise. In creating Web services for your corporate network, you may see the need to to grow the scope of these services beyond the limit of your firewall. You can offer your services to your business partners, customers, and even subscribers, and allow them to become integral parts of your business processes. There are certainly many business issues to be solved before you offer others access to services from your network, but let’s focus on the technical issues behind this.

As you start externalizing your Web services beyond the boundaries of your enterprise network, you will be faced with a number of issues that you need to address. These issues include security, reliability, quality of service, communications compatibility, and more. On the issue of communications compatibility the scope of this article you can run into a myriad of technical issues that network software using different protocols, operating system platforms, or even written in different programming languages need to satisfy to even talk to one another.

What You Should Already Know

Before you continue, you should have a basic understanding of the following:
•    HTML
•    XML

What are Web Services?
•    Web services are application components
•    Web services communicate using open protocols
•    Web services are self-contained and self-describing
•    Web services can be discovered using UDDI
•    Web services can be used by other applications
•    XML is the basis for Web services

How Does it Work?
The basic Web services platform is XML + HTTP.
XML provides a language which can be used between different platforms and programming languages and still express complex messages and functions.

The HTTP protocol is the most used Internet protocol.

Web services platform elements:
•    SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
•    UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
•    WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

Web Services

The World Wide Web (commonly abbreviated as “the Web“) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, the World Wide Web was started in 1989 by the English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and later by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a “web of nodes” storing “hypertext pages” viewed by “browsers” on a network, and released that web in December. Connected by the existing Internet, other websites were created, around the world, adding international standards for domain names & the HTML language. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web.

The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularizing use of the Internet.^[3] Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet The Web is an application built on top of the Internet.

What is a website?

A website (also called an Internet site or a home page in the case of a personal site) is a group of HTML files that are stored on a hosting computer which is permanently connected to the Internet (a web server).

A website is normally built around a central page, called a “welcome page“, which offers links to a group of other pages hosted on the same server, and sometimes “external” links, which lead to pages hosted by another server.

A URL looks something like this:

http://en.kioskea.net/www/www-intro.php3

Let’s take a closer look at this address:

• http:// indicates that we want browse the web using the HTTP protocol, the default protocol for browsing the Web. There are other protocols for other uses of the Internet.
• www.commentcamarche.net corresponds to the address of the server that hosts the web pages. By convention, web servers have a name that begins with www., to make it clear that they are dedicated web servers and to make memorising the address easier. This second part of the address is called the domain name. A website can be hosted on several servers, each belonging to the same name: www.commentcamarche.net www2.commentcamarche.net, intranet.commentcamarche.net, etc.
• /www/www-intro.php3 indicates where the document is located on the machine. In this case, it is the file www-intro.php3 situé located in the directory www.

Web Services

Lots of people are looking for jobs nowadays, some are new graduates, or eventhose who are looking for part time jobs. Here is a lists of the Top 10 Most Applied jobs here in the Philippines.

1. Technical Support Staff. This job falls under the Business Process Outsourcing Industry. These jobs may be in the form of call center agents or email support employees.

If you want to join this industry, you better have knowledge on various technology applications such as the Internet, DSL, telephone operations, and other technological stuff.

2. Call Center Agents. Although I have a thing against call center agents carelessly brandishing their half-baked American accents in the MRT and other public places, call centers are still looking for more people to hire! This is perhaps the largest industry in the Philippines nowadays. It is keeping the economy afloat! If you need a job urgently and you want to earn a lot, go polish your English skills and your accent, write your resume and apply at Call centers.

I worked for a call center for a year and if you ask me, I’d rather not go back there. Heheh.

3. Customer Service Assistants. I don’t exactly know what customer service assistants do. Do they give water to customer service agents in call centers? Do they help customers with what they want to do? Or are they the offline equivalent of call center agents. If you don’t know about this, too, then you better Google it.

4. Information Technology Specialists. Although we fall behind India in terms of IT proficiency and the number of IT practitioners that we produce, a lot of IT specialists are sought after by companies in the Philippines.

5. Production and factory workers. Next to the services sector (business process outsourcing, call centers, etc.), manufacturing is also a big employer of Filipino workers. For people who want to work in factories, then you better ask around and apply to these companies.

6. Salesladies. With a number of malls going up nowadays, salesladies are in demand. Salesladies are in demand not only in our country but also abroad. At least, Filipinos who want to go abroad have more choices now.

7. Sales Clerks. Perhaps sales clerks are the male equivalent of salesladies. I really don’t know the difference. But if you’re into sales and you can sell stuff, you might want to consider this.

8. Construction Laborers abroad. There seems to be a shortage of carpenters and builders abroad. That’s why they need Filipinos there.

9. Receptionists. Buildings, offices, and other companies are in need of front desk associates and receptionists. So if you have the looks, the personality, and the patience in dealing with customers, this might be the job for you.

10. Accounts executives and food attendants. There’s lots of money in sales. If you have the guts and the contacts, too, being an account executive might be great for you. Likewise, the food business is always in demand. Food attendants are also in demand.

You may search for companies who are looking for new personnel in their companies at bestjobs.ph

Web Services

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often considered the more technical part of Web marketing. This is true because SEO does help in the promotion of sites and at the same time it requires some technical knowledge – at least familiarity with basic HTML. SEO is sometimes also called SEO copyrighting because most of the techniques that are used to promote sites in search engines deal with text. Generally, SEO can be defined as the activity of optimizing Web pages or whole sites in order to make them more search engine-friendly, thus getting higher positions in search results.

SEO can be a 30-minute job or a permanent activity. Sometimes it is enough to do some generic SEO in order to get high in search engines – for instance, if you are a leader for rare keywords, then you do not have a lot to do in order to get decent placement. But in most cases, if you really want to be at the top, you need to pay special attention to SEO and devote significant amounts of time and effort to it. Even if you plan to do some basic SEO, it is essential that you understand how search engines work and which items are most important in SEO.

Top 10 SEO Tips – Tricks – Secrets

Here are my Top 10 SEO Tips you can use to help get your Web Site more exposure in the Search Engines.

1. Keyword Research : Keyword Research is the first and probably most important job in process of search engine optimization.
2. Keyword in Domain name : Lets take, our main targetted keyword is “Dog Training Dallas”, than if our domain name contains our main targeted keyword “Dog Training Dallas”, like www.DogTrainingDallas.com then it will rank higher in search engines.
3. Keyword in Title : If the main keywords are targeted in Title of the page, the chances for ranking higher in search engines increases. The “Title Tag” is in the source code below the <html> and  above the <body> tags.
4. Keyword in Description : If our targeted keywords are in description of the page, again the chances of ranking the website in search engine increases.
5. Keyword in page file names : If the page file name contains the keyword of our website, it gives greater weight in ranking in search engines
   (e.g. www.domain.com/your-keyword/your2-keyword.html)
6. Alt Image Tags : All images should be optimized well, with adding alt image tags as search engine robots cannot read, they read the alt tag for the image. It will help to target your keywords in describing the image to robots. So use your keywords in the Alt Image tags.
7. Link Popularity : Link popularity is one of the important factor in ranking the websites higher in search engines. Link popularity can be defined as total number of incoming links to website to particular page or to the main domain. Bets are one way quality incoming links from relevant sites
8. Anchor Text Optimization : Use the same keywords as anchor text to link to the page from different pages on your site. This is especially useful if your site contains many pages. The more keywords that link to a specific page the better.
9. Fresh Content : Robots love fresh content, so you want to update your website frequently with fresh relevant content. This will attract the search spiders and help you more in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).
10. Web Directory and Article directory submissions : Try to increase one way links by directory submissions and article submission. Over time this will help you to grow inbound one way links and ultimately help your web site achieve higher rankings in the search engines.

Tutors for search engine optimization are available online for those willing to optimize their own sites. There are also many SEO companies that will provide the service at a cost. Some caution should be used in securing a contractor to make sure that what is being promised is feasible, realistic and cost-effective.

Whether performing your own search engine optimization or hiring a contractor, with the billions of web pages on the Internet and the hundreds or even thousands of “hits” that can be returned from any single online search, SEO is a necessity for anyone looking to benefit from search engine traffic.

Web Services

A web programmer or coder is the person who writes the code and backend functionality of websites and web based software. The most common programming languages are PHP, Java, .NET and most recently Ruby On Rails and Python. PHP is by far the most common and is very easy to program in.

Job Description: Web Programmer

Responsibilities of programmer:

1) Arrive on time and prepared to work – as directed by manager.
2) Be courteous and respectful of all  customers and employees.
3) Document all work – billable and non-billable time as directed
4) Meet billable time targets as directed by management.
5) Ask questions of your supervisor if you have questions.
6) Work in a team environment to complete projects in a timely manner. Must be
able to work independently as well.
7) Strong time management and organizational skills with the ability to multitask.
Desire to stay up-to-date on current and emerging technologies.

Requirements:

 At least a Bachelor degree in a computer-related field (computer
science/programming).
 Advanced knowledge of standards-based XHTML and CSS coding (not
WYSIWIG)
 Advanced knowledge of programming languages including PHP, Perl, ASP, SQL,
VB, C++, and XML.
 Extensive experience developing databases.
 Experience with both Microsoft and Linux operating systems.
 Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
 Experience with web-based software applications.
 Above average written and verbal communication skills.
 Web development related certifications highly desirable.