I found this at DigitalFilipino. It is an e-commerce information kit. A very useful read for those who want information written by a local — Janette Toral.

Here some of the stuff found in the kit:

Creating an E-Commerce Project Plan
Domain Name and Branding
Getting Buyers’ Attention
Guidelines for Merchants
Opportunity in Every Crisis
State of E-Finance and E-Payment in the Philippines
Using Money Remittance Services to Accept Online Payment
CCNow.com Merchandising and Discounts Tools
Affordable payment solutions
Learning from Catalogs
Managing risks of online payment
Dealing with payment fraud
Protection of Personal Data
Affiliate Marketing or Internet Advertising: Generating Income in Your Website
Maximizing Google
Registering your Site with Search Engines
Dynamic advertising with Google
Attracting the Right Hits Consistently
Relentless marketing
Do People Talk About You?
Build it, break it
Making Virtual Networking Work for Business Promotion
Networking for business
Make your website media-friendly
Preparing for the holidays
From hobby to online business
Working from home: tips for the freelancer
Work at home
Skills SMEs Should Acquire Before Doing Business Online
Running a business online
Knowledge as commodity
Fighting for your copyright
Guard and Protect Your Copyright
E-publishing
Ideal online travel agent
One million in three weeks
Online Travel: Customer Service is Key
Real estate selling online
Passion for success
Concerns about e-commerce
Resolving disputes online
I hate spam!
Choosing a Web Site Hosting Service

Click here for the source. Will read when I have time

I just finished designing a new theme for the blog. Inspired by the Cherry Blossom Theme found at themes.wordpress.net. The Post-It image is from SXC.

It has a small space for a Google Adsense link and I designed it for screen resolutions greater than 1024 x 768. Anyway, here is a preview.

I just found this on Slashdot. A very interesting read since I am planning to dive into AJAX as soon as I get my hands free from the projects I have right now. Also, hopefully, I will also be working on a new company. hehe.

I am particularly interested in Dojo. It is supported by big companies like IBM and Sun. So I think it will outlast the others.

Here are a couple interesting images I got from Infoworld.

A snippet from Dojo:

If there is one open source AJAX project that is leading the pack these days, it might be Dojo. It’s not necessarily better in any particular way than the others, but it is both broad and deep with a big selection of very customizable widgets. These traits may explain why both IBM and Sun have recently signed on to support the Dojo Foundation and its work.

The project Web site and the code have the flavor of an exceptionally fertile open source project run by a neutral team of enthusiastic developers. The management is clearly aiming to encourage a wide range of contributions — as long as they fit Dojo’s basic philosophy demanding simplicity and clarity.

Dojo has an excellent editing package, a wide selection of animating boxes, some drag-and-drop tools, and much more. A tool for providing maps from Google and Yahoo just appeared in the latest 0.3.1 version.

I feel, however, that Dojo suffers a bit from the kitchen-sink-like quality of popular open source projects. Some parts of the library are well-documented and illustrated by a set of good demo pages. Other parts have little documentation, leaving developers on their own — the manual as well as the book describing the project have large holes typical of volunteer-built documentation.

Adding a bit of the Dojo toolkit to your Web application is pretty easy. The source code is modular, so your application only needs to load the necessary pieces using Dojo’s loading mechanism. In many cases, all you need to add is an extra attribute, dojoType, to your working HTML, and the code will do the work when it loads the page.

Dojo continues to improve as it attracts more developers with more ideas and code from other projects. The leaders are doing a good job of keeping these contributions in order, and there’s every reason to expect more sophistication in the future.

Source: Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits

By: Peter Wayner - July 31, 2006

i had fun reading this… it is more on the ladies’ side… if you are a guy, just convert all the “Guy” words to ‘Women” in you mind while reading it…
1. If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away.
If he doesn’t want you, nothing can make him stay.
2. Stop making excuses for a man and his
behavior.
3. If you have ANY doubt in your mind about a
man’s character, leave him alone.
4. Allow your intuition (or spirit) to save you from
heartache.
5. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship
that’s not meant to be.
6. Don’t force an attraction.
7. Slower is better.
8. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly
happy.
9. If a relationship ends because the man was not treating you as you
deserve then heck no you can’t “be friends.” A friend wouldn’t mistreat a friend.
10. Have faith in God regarding your relationship, but don’t let faith make you stupid. God does things decent and in order.
11. Don’t settle.
12. If you feel like he is stringing you along, then he probably is.
13. If he keeps changing his mind about the relationship–take that as a BIG sign that he is unstable. Do you really want to be with a man like
that?
14. Don’t stay because you think “it will get better.” You’ll be mad at yourself a year later for staying when things are not better.
15. Honorable men take care of their business
and aren’t involved in a whole lot of mess.
16. The only person you can control in a relationship is you.
17. There’s only one ‘reason’ a man dumps you; he doesn’t want you.
18. Avoid men who’ve got a bunch of children by a bunch of different
women. He didn’t marry them when he got them pregnant, why would he treat you any differently?
19. You really do have to kiss a few frogs before finding the prince.
20. Always put yourself and your happiness first.
21. Always have your own set of friends separate from his.
22. Maintain boundaries in how a guy treats you. If something bothers you, speak up.
23. Like from the show Sex and the City, if he doesn’t call, he just isn’t
that interested.
24. Be honest and upfront.
25. Know when to cut the cord, don’t be strung along.
26. Don’t fall for the “I’m confused role”. Remove yourself from the
situation to let him figure things out (but don’t wait for him, move on).
27. If you want to have a clue as to how he will treat you, watch how he treats the WOMEN in his family (not just mom).
28. There’s more than physical abuse, there’s emotional and mental abuse. If he causes any of them…flee.
29. You cannot change a man’s behaviors. Change comes from within.
30. Don’t let him place rules on you that he is not willing to follow
himself — double-standard.
31. Don’t EVER make him feel he is more important than you are…even if he has more education or in a better job.
32. Do not make him into a quasi-god. He is a man, nothing more nothing less.
33. Demand respect and if he can’t give it, he can’t have you!
34. Don’t compete with other woman, but be aware that men are attracted to what they see.
35. If you think he is cheating, he probably is. Confront him right away
and if you feel he’s lying, let him go.
36. Actions speak louder than words.
37. Never let a man define who you are.
38. Never rely on a man for compliments, look to yourself for that.
39. Never borrow someone else’s man.
40. If he cheated with you, he’ll cheat on you.
41. Just because he says he loves you, doesn’t mean that he won’t hurt you and it doesn’t mean that you are meant to be with him.
42. To use painful hard-won wisdom — ‘get it right’ the next time.
43. Know that you deserve to be the number one person in the life of the No.1 person in your life.
44. Love is a verb …
45. Learn to give up your lifelong task of trying to make someone
unavailable-available, someone ungiving-giving, and someone unloving-loving.
46. A man will only treat you the way you ALLOW him to treat you.
47. All men are NOT dogs.
48. You should not be the one doing all the bending…compromise is a two way street.
49. If you don’t love self…you can’t love anyone else.
50. You cannot mend someone else’s broken heart.
51. You need time to heal between relationships…there is nothing cute
about baggage…deal with your issues before pursuing a new relationship.
52. You should never look for someone to COMPLETE you…a relationship consists of two WHOLE individuals…look for someone complementary…not supplementary.
53. Dating is fun…even if he doesn’t turn out to be Mr. Right.
54. NEVER give more in a relationship than you are getting out of it.
55. Never become your man’s “therapist”.
56. When actions and words conflict, believe the actions. Respond to the actions.
57. A real healthy relationship requires two people. One person can end
it - but it takes two to make it work.
58. Don’t fall for the “I’m not the loving type”…when a man loves you
there is nothing in this world (within reason) that he wouldn’t do for you.
59. Make him miss you sometimes…when a man always know where you are, and you’re always readily available to him he takes it for granted.
60. Give him his space…let him go out with his boys, don’t pressure him to spend time with you, You cant force a man to hang out with you.
61. If you wouldn’t allow your daughter to be with him you shouldn’t.
62. Never let a man know everything. He will use it against you later.
63. Never move into his mother’s house.
64. Provide financially for yourself and don’t depend on anyone.
65. Never co-sign for a man.
66. Never believe you have the perfect guy and he is so innocent.
67. Never spoil your man; let him spoil you.
68. Never let a man mess up your credit.
69. When it’s time to let go; let go.
70. Good men should be treated like good men.
71. Don’t play games.
72. Don’t fully commit to a man who doesn’t give you everything that you need.
73. Keep him in your radar but get to know others.
74. Compatibility in terms of educational attainment, values, beliefs,
personal and career goals, and socioeconomic status, are important.
75. Never date a guy who wears color contact lens.