How to set up a Custom 404 File not found page

September 3rd, 2008

Sometimes we found that a user encountered the frustrating 404 error page while clicking on a link to a page. It may be due to the fact that the page has been deleted or no longer available on your site, the customer mistyped the link Url etc. At this time your server returns a HTTP status code of 404 to indicate that a page is not found.
In this case the users will do the following :-
# Click on the BACK button of your browser and go somewhere else.
# Try to back up one directory in the URL and try again
# Write to the webmaster of the site and the referring site to inform them of the situation.
So you should do something as generic messages can be frustrating to the user & potential user may just leave.
The error code should be customized with a page that apologises for the mess up & provide more useful information about your site. A good custom 404 page will help people find the information they’re looking for, as well as providing other helpful content and encouraging them to explore your site further.

Process :-
Now, the creation of the custom page itself isn’t difficult. It is just another HTML file saved with any name you want it to have. To get your custom page to show up on a 404 error requires a little extra work.
For technical information about configuring your server to show your custom 404 page, choose the type of server your site is hosted on:
Apache
WebStar
iPlanet Microsoft IIS
Roxen
thttpd Lotus Domino
Netscape Enterprise Server

Don’t know your web server? Try NetCraft. Enter your domain, and it will tell you what webserver it’s running.

1st Method
To begin, go to the main directory of your web site (where your main page is located) through FTP or Telnet. Look for a file there named .htaccess, it begins with the dot as though it is a long file extension. If you have the file, you will want to edit it. If you do not have the file, create a new text file and save it as “.htaccess”.
If you are creating the file from scratch, simply type the following line into the file, changing the url to the location of your custom page:
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yoursite.com/custom_page.html
Keep it all on one line, with a space on each side of the number 404. Also, this is case sensitive, so be sure to check the case of the E and D in ErrorDocument before you proceed.
If you already have the file and need to edit it, look for a line like the one above. If it is there, you can just change the url. You may want to ask your web host before doing this, just in case. If you do not have the line, add it in after everything else on its own line.
When you are done, upload your new .htaccess file to the server. Then, be sure to use the CHMOD command through your FTP or telnet program to set the permissions to CHMOD 644.
Also be sure that you have uploaded your custom page to the server, otherwise you’ll get a 500 server error or something similar. Once that is done, you can test your new error page by typing in a url that you know does not exist on your server. You should get your custom page, ready to bring in the lost visitors that may be out there.

Second Method
First, open up Internet Service Manager and right click on the website that you want to set the custom 404 Error for. Click on Properties and then choose the Custom Errors tab. Scroll down until you get to the 404 HTTP Error. You’ll notice on the right that it has the filename that is associated with the 404 status listed. You can edit this file directly, if you like, or choose a new file (by choosing Edit Properties).

Examples of custom 404 pages

Ex -1 : Sorry, the file you were looking for could not be found. It may have moved to a new location. Please use the navigation to the left to help you locate the file. You can also search for a file by using the Search Page at this site.
To go on to the main page of this site, click the link below:
manuallysubmit.com

Ex-2 : Sorry, the site you requested was not found. Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. You may find what you’re looking for if you try searching below, or, if you have some issues with SEO Services you might well want to go check out manuallysubmit.com.

In addition, you can add the 404 widget to your custom 404 page. The 404 widget automatically provides users with helpful suggestions instead of error messages

Because a 404 page can also be a standard HTML page, you can customize it any way you want. Here are some suggestions for creating an effective 404 page that can help keep visitors on your site and help them find the information they’re looking for:

• Tell visitors clearly that the page they’re looking for can’t be found. Use language that is friendly and inviting.
• Explain the error that has occurred, and perhaps describe common reasons for the error (mistyped URLs, outdated content etc.). Use clear language and don’t ramble.
• Your 404 page should look similar to the rest of your website, so that visitors know that they’re still on part of your site.
• Consider adding links to your most popular articles or posts, as well as a link to your site’s home page.
• Think about providing a way for users to report a broken link.
• No matter how beautiful and useful your custom 404 page, you probably don’t want it to appear in Google search results. In order to prevent 404 pages from being indexed by Google and other search engines, make sure that your web server returns an actual 404 HTTP status code when a missing page is requested.
• If your site has a search function, include a search box.
• If you have an index, add a link to it, and definitely link back to your homepage.
• Include an email link so that visitors can report the problem. Don’t expect a lot of them to take the time to do it, but some will, and it again enforces the point that you care that they’ve had a problem.

Overall, just make sure you motivate your reader not to lose all faith in your site, and give them options as to where to go next.

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Medical Coding & Billing - A Brief Overview

April 18th, 2008

Medical Coding 

Medical Coding is a profession that plays a crucial part in the healthcare industry. Medical coding is the process of maintaining a  patients’ records using a universally (that is used across the health care system, from doctor’s offices and hospitals to insurance companies, federal agencies and international organizations) recognized coding systems [International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), Current Procedural Terminology,4th Edition (CPT-4) and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Level II (HCPCS) codes] to medical diagnoses, signs and symptoms of disease, poisoning and adverse effects of drugs, complications of surgery and medical care to ensure compliance with federal regulations and insurance requirements. Hospitals and doctors use the codes for internal data collection and planning, while insurance companies and public agencies require the codes to reimburse health care providers. The codes are even used by international health organizations to track patterns of disease and the costs of health care. These coding systems serve an important function for physician reimbursement and help you to save up to 40% to 60% on your medical billing and coding projects. Error-free medical coding is an integral part of professional and genuine practices. The doctors, hospitals, and healthcare organizations are paid faster and better if the medical coding and billing is done correctly. 

Medical Billing

Medical billing is a subspecialty of medical coding. Medical billing is a challenging business that requires great attention to details, quick processing and adherence to norms. It is the process covering a wide range of activities but the primary goal of any medical billing company is to process super-bills and submitting medical claims to insurance companies in order to receive payments for their clients in a timely manner. Errors such as under pricing, under coding and missed charges create great loss in the medical practice income. Offshore Medical Billing has great expertise in billing for office visits, consultations, professional fees for surgical procedures, technical components, professional and facility fees for hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, anesthesiology, hospital visits and in-office minor and major procedures.

Medical Billing Softwares 

Lytec, Kareo, HCFA, UHC, UB92, Medic, Medics II, Medisoft, Misys, Inception, IDX and Nextgen 

BENEFITS OF OUTSOURCING MEDICAL CODING AND MEDICAL BILLING

The growth of medical billing companies are increasing day by day in today’s technological world. But most of the companies loosing money because of high costs of Medical coding & Medical billing, denied claims due to wrong Medical coding & Medical billing, Late payments due to lack of skilled employees. Outsourcing medical coding and medical billing tasks provided companies access to highly-skilled resources and world-class technology. To add, significant cost reduction of 30-50% made companies embrace this move even more.  The headaches of medical coding and medical billing such as the ever changing insurance guidelines, state laws, annual updates on ICD and CPT codes, denied, pended and unpaid claims, are taken out of the companies’ hands and minds.  Submitting claims in a timely and accurate manner as well as making sure that optimum reimbursements are received are now the responsibilities of the outsourcing partner. The above benefits helped physicians focus more on their core business which is providing care to their patients.  Outsourcing also enabled medical billing companies possess the capability of investing on other areas such as business development and security improvement.  And because of the improved capabilities of physician offices and medical billing companies, their quality of service is greatly enhanced as well.  

Media outsourcing will be the next big business opportunity for India

April 18th, 2008

After IT companies, banking and finance, call centres, education, medical transcription and legal sectors, now the US looks for outsourcing editing jobs to India and some other developing countries. 

Media watchers say Bangalore has already attracted attention of the world media. 

Financial news service Reuters’ decision to move editorial jobs from US and Europe to India has triggered a new outsourcing era in the global media and publishing business. Reuters is setting up a polling unit in India that can make some of the calls needed to get data. The Bangalore unit will start with Australian economic polling in the fourth quarter. The agency’s Bangalore operation has more than 1,000 employees, including about 100 reporters and editors, who churn out news briefs, analyst ratings changes, earnings tables, economic polling data and other data products for the company’s subscribers. The trend is only gaining momentum. While a Reuters’ trainee correspondent in Britain gets an annual package of Rs 21 lakh, it plans to hire Indians at quarter that amount. 

Time Warner’s magazine Business 2.0 has already experimented to outsource editing work in India for one of its recent issues. 

Technology news portal CNET gets work done from India for research reports and news alerts, taking advantage of the timezone and keeping its news site fresh from 6 am onwards. 

Moreover, publishers in US are doing pilot programs to make news pages designed and made from India for cost cutting as well as providing up to date news. 

“India is a happening place. Advances in technology have made it easy to do editorial and publishing work. You have a huge cost advantage,” says Ranjit Singh, CEO of US-based TechBooks which does most of its outsourcing work from Delhi employing 2,000 people. 

TechBooks clients include Cambridge University Press, Prentice Hall, Law Writer, Net Library among others. Its latest assignment is making Chicago Manual of Style which has been the reference for writers, editors, publishers, and anyone else working with words in US. 

Players like Thomson Press, Macmillan, Integra, Newgen Imaging are doing flourishing outsourcing publishing business from India. Outsourcing of content and all other services in publishing industry is pegged at $2.5 billion globally. 

Globally, outsourcing of content and other services in the publishing industry is pegged at $2.5 billion. In India, outsourced publishing service business is doing a turnover of Rs1000 crore (Rs 10 billion) annually. 

Recent industry analyses show that the newspaper industry in the developed world is ready to outsource its non-core and core functions to destinations such as India to achieve cost cutting. 

A recent decision by the Boston Globe, owned by the New York Times, to outsource editorial jobs to India has already triggered agitation by the unions there who are up in arms. 

UK-based Pearson group is doing many of its back office work from New Delhi. British newspapers are keeping a close watch on Reuters in India.

India’s largest television news broadcaster NDTV, in late March announced a joint venture with the country’s single biggest business processing outsourcing company, Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services). The two will offer content creation and other media services to world-wide customers.

Google subscribed link

February 28th, 2008

Subscribed Links, formerly known as Search Add-ons offer a way for you to add information from additional sources or services to your Google search results. If someone is signed into their personal account that they set up on any google domain, then they could subscribe to a subscribed link offering under that account.
A subscribed link help users to see the top search results for various search subjects from his Search Engine Roundtable blog. When you search using queries that match your Subscribed Link, information from the provider will appear in your search results. Subscribed Links provide a means for web publishers to add information to the top of Google search results based on relevant search “triggers”. Web publishers do this by submitting a Subscribed Link URL or uploading a Subscribed Link file to Google, and by getting their users to “subscribe” to their Subscribed Link.  For example, if a user likes to travel and they find the content from certain major travel web sites to be particularly helpful, they would subscribe to those sites. By subscribing, they insure that the content of these sites will be brought to the top of search results when searching on relevant keywords.
One can display links to his services for the customers, provide news and status information updated in near-real-time, answer questions, calculate useful quantities, and more. To view a list of available Subscribed Links with example queries, visit the Subscribed Links directory.
Best Practice
Google does provide some guidelines for “best practices” when creating Subscribed Links. Perhaps the most important guideline is that Subscribed Links should only trigger on queries that are relevant to their content. Google feels very strongly about this, going so far as to say: “if your results flagrantly violate the principle of triggering only on relevant queries, Google reserves the right to disable their display entirely…”, per their Terms of Service.
 

Other guidelines include:

  • The title of your output (Output name=”title”) should be in proper sentence case (first word capitalized, only proper nouns capitalized thereafter).
  • In outputs, you should not make excessive use of capital letters and non-alphanumeric ASCII characters.
  • Output body text (Output name=”text1″, Output name=”text2″, and Output name=”text3″) should provide information that is immediately useful and relevant to the defines queries. The output should not simply contain generic advertisements for your goods and services.
  • Again, “If your results flagrantly violate these guidelines and produce a bad user experience, not only will users tend to remove them, but Google also reserves the right to disable your results entirely, as described in the Terms of Service.”
     

What you can do with Subscribed Links

  • Create search results specific to your product, service, or expertise.
    Design a basic version in minutes to see how it works.
  • Build a dynamic version using XML, TSV, or RSS files or feeds.
  • Include images in your Subscribed Links.
  • Include Google Gadgets in your Subscribed Links.
  • Test your Subscribed Links interactively and get debugging messages.
  • Define query patterns using lists of keywords or regular expressions.
  • Invoke the calculator to help construct your results.
     

Benefits of subscribed links :

  • Subscribed Links helps web publishers for easy availability of their contents to users. Additionally, it benefits them for placing their content at the top of Google search results above “generic” search results.
  • It provides end users with a powerful means of enhancing their search experience and results, providing them with content from “trusted” sources and helping to filter out or push low value content down in search results.
  • It should allow Google for supply of much more powerful and relevant search results to users over time, further enhancing the user search experience.
  • Subscribed Links also gives end users the ability to “vote” on sites that they find to be valuable or authoritative. By going through the process of subscribing to a site, they are in essence casting a vote attesting to the value of that site.
  • A distinctive benefit of Subscribed Links is that the content of low-value or spam web sites will be placed down in search results as high-value content is brought to the top. Web publishers who offer sites of little of no value, or who abuse Subscribed Links by using irrelevant search triggers to bring up their content, will be “punished” by end users who will not subscribe to their sites or will unsubscribe once they realize that the publisher is not providing any value.
     

How to Create a Subscribed Link
To enable Subscribed Links, click the “Preferences” link next to the main search box on the plain or Google home pages. Web Publishers create Subscribed Links by creating a Subscribed Link file. Google provides web publishers with three ways of creating Subscribed Links:

  1. By creating a tab separated value (TSV) file
  2. By submitting an RSS/Atom feed that has been augmented with special tags that define the keyword (search) “triggers”
  3. By submitting a Subscribed Links file in XML format

Subscribed Links are submitted to Google in one of two ways:

  1. By submitting a link feed URL. This is the method for submitting links for dynamic content   or for content files of over 500KB in size.
  2. By uploading a Subscribed Links file. This is the method that is recommended for static content and content under 500KB in size.

Your Subscribed Links will appear in the fourth search result position. You can identify your Subscribed Link by the link that appears next to this result that reads “Manage my Subscribed Links.”
 

Subscribed Links has several new features:
Management from the Google Preferences page
New look and feel in the search results
Improved directory content
 

What does the Subscribed Links section of the Preferences page do?
This section of the Google Preferences page allows you to manage your Subscribed Links, which are specialized results that you can choose to display on your Google search results page. From the Preferences page, you can see a complete listing of the providers you’ve subscribed to, get more information about these Subscribed Links, or remove them from your account. You can also visit the Subscribed Links directory for a complete listing of available Subscribed Links.
 

Some drawbacks :

  • When multiple Subscribed Links from different providers are triggered for the same query, only one of them will be displayed in full, with single links summarizing the others.
  • If you’re searching for something that doesn’t trigger your Subscribed Link, it will not appear in your search results. Try reviewing the example queries that the Subscribed Link provider listed on their descirption page, which is accessible from the Subscribed Links directory.
  • Make sure you’re signed in to your Google Account. You need to be signed in for your Subscribed Links to return in your search results.
     

Broken or spammy Subscribed Link :
If a Subscribed Link isn’t working properly, please report the issue on Google Subscribed Links group or try contacting the provider.
 

unsubscribe from a Subscribed Link :
You can manage your subscriptions from the My Subscriptions section of the Subscribed Links pages. To remove a Subscribed Link from your account, click the “Unsubscribe” button next to its logo.

Boeing to bring manufacturing jobs to India

December 28th, 2007

NEW DELHI - Boeing Co. has tentatively agreed to send as much as $1 billion in aerospace manufacturing work to state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. in India over the next 10 years.

Under the agreement announced Thursday, Boeing will share some its key business and manufacturing tools with Hindustan Aeronautics, said Jim Albaugh, president and chief executive of Boeing’s defense aerospace business.

The U.S. aircraft maker will help the Indian company in developing manufacturing processes and capabilities needed for the production of military hardware for Boeing and its subcontractors.

Our new website

December 20th, 2006

Welcome to jobs2india website

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We provide world-class service to the customers with more than 150 employees in our armor & has been chosen by the most number of employees as a ‘Dream Company’ to work with. Our constant perseverance and determination in building up good Infrastructure, qualified and experienced team of intellectual asset with strategic marketing have created brand equity of Global Associates in the International market.

We provides specialized e-solutions in Accounting services, CAD Conversion, Form Processing, Back Office & Tax processing in more than 50 countries in the world.

We aim to provide excellence and value for money secured e outsourcing services to all our clients by simply adopting very simple basics like :

  • Recruiting and retaining high quality staff
  • Adopting the latest technologies to improve efficiency
  • Maintaining a clear fee structure
  • Encouraging client contact and feedback

Please look round our site for more details. To contact us, simply email or phone using the contact tab above.

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December 18th, 2006

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