Harvard Gazette 2.0, a project in which New Circle Consulting managed and delivered all the back-end programming, was recently named finalist in the News category of the 2009 MITX awards.
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Gazette 2.0 Named MITX Awards Finalist
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Switch to gmail from POP3 (Outlook)
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009A few months after I switched from POP3 mail to gmail, I wrote an article “Gmail – what, why and how“.
Two years has passed since then, I’d like to share more thoughts of this switch.
Is gmail good at organizing email?
My answer to this question is “yes”.
Similar to many other business owners, I receive several hundreds of [...]
Track PDF file downloads
Saturday, January 24th, 2009A common way of tracking how website pages being used is through Google Analytics. You just need to bury a piece of javascript code towards the end of your web pages.
What if you have PDF files or other MP3, or video files for people to download and you like to know how many downloads each [...]
Launch a “custom-built” website within 15 hours
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008We had a business idea of aggregating all musumes free days information and displayed in a calendar, can be filtered or searched on by city.
Input information – free date, time, name and location of museum
display information – filter by city, in an calendar, easy navigation
Grabbing the domain name is the easy part but as simple [...]
Website Grader
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Inspired by the Internet Marketing Kit by Hubspot, I spent last two days tuning newcircleconsulting.com, and moved up it’s grade at www.websitegrader.com from 81 to 90 within 48 hours. Woo hoo! (www.newcircleconsulting.com gets 88 only, 2 points lower than newcircleconsulting.com, not sure why these two are different.)
Here is what I did:
Reduced title tag to less than [...]
In-site Search Options and Comparison (Part II)
Friday, June 27th, 2008This is a continuation of In-site Search Options and Comparison (Part I)
Option C: Build Your Own Custom Search Solution
You can write code to index all content to your database and build your own search feature.
Pros: You have complete control of not only the look and feel of the search results page, but also how [...]