June 16, 2007To,All IATO Members,Dear members,Are you aware that the TAJ MAHAL is 30 Crores votes short of being selected into the New Wonders of the World?So if we don't act fast, it highly possible that TAJ Mahal will not feature as a Wonder of the World after 7.7.07.Last date for registering your vote is 6/7/07.Hence if you have not yet registered, please do so at the earliest & cast your vote to TAJ at * www.new7wonders.com *as soon as possible. Please inform atleast 25 members of your family/friends/business associates to do so. If that is not possible - please at least cast your vote at the URL above.The official declaration of the New 7 Wonders of the World will be in Lisbon , Portugal on July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07Thanking you,Sincerely,Lally MathewsHony. Secretary
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Dear friends of HimVani,
Varun has already told you about the facelift we've given to HimVani.com. But right now I'll still say that it's BETA and not a final version. So expect some more changes here and there.
So what should you look forward to:
-- The logo colours have been inversed to give a corporate look.
-- The basic colours of the site though have been retained. In fact our survey showed that people in offices asked from a far of place if they had opened HimVani.com just by seeing the colours. We did experiment with some new colours, but then on popular feedback we reverted to the old ones.
-- The blog look is out and the News website look is in.
-- We have more content on the home page and some categories have been
brought on it?
-- The Poll breaks free from the Sidebar and comes in the main content area.
-- Similarly, "News from Other Sources" has come in the main content
area. (But it might go back into the Sidebar. :) )
-- The Search Result page is no longer a long long page ... Results come as excerpts.
-- The long list of Categories has been moved from the Home Page to the inside pages.
-- Many advertisers have been approaching us and asking for the option
to advertise on HimVani but we had refrained from advertising till now
to concentrate on the content. But now we have large rooms of space
available for advertisements, so happy news for advertisers as well (and for us too as we may eventually be able to recover domain name and server space costs, and may be if we earn profits we may pay some of our writers or put up an award for the Best Writer of the Year" or so).
-- We've added the "Print" option of the article and also added the
"Mail the story" option too.
-- What has affected negatively, however is the RSS Feeds. We've let our blog live in the directory but shifted the domain name to the root, that means affect to the RSS Feeds. Those of you, who've subscribed to our earlier RSS Feed http://himvani.com/news/feed may please change it to http://himvani.com/feed or bettr still use the Feedburner feed, which in future would remain same irrespective of the changes we make. So the Feedburner Feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/himvani/news
-- The Comments Feed too has got affected. The old one
http://himvani.com/news/comments/feed has given way to
http://himvani.com/comments/feed or better still the Feedburner one:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/himvani/comments.
-- And most importantly, we'll be missing from Google News for a couple of weeks now as we have to Resubmit.
-- But overall as the site is your initiative - citizens' effort, we ask for your feedback how to improve it? And what changes still can be
brought in. Or what else would you like to see on the Home Page?
-- Also, trust us, we are going to get only aggressive here on, so watch out for surprises, more content, and more features.
Send in your feedback. What you like and what you didn't.
And let me thank all who've made this possible with the ideas. I'm not
going into specific names as each one of us here has contributed his/her bit with ideas.
We've been the leaders in Himachal web space for over a year now. And we're far far ahead from our nearest competitor, whom we've taught a few lessons on online space. And here we too have taken the lead to give you more. And to be honest the new design had been keeping us low for the moment on content.
Again, I'll ask you to please encourage us with your feedback - roses as well as brickbats.
Regards,
On behalf of Team HimVani
Surender
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