Safety Tips for Halloween

Halloween has long been a favorite holiday. For decades, little ones have dressed up in their costumes on Halloween night to go door to door throughout the neighborhood begging candy from their neighbors.
Unfortunately, Halloween is not as safe as it once was. Running around after dark leaves children vulnerable to accidents and malice. While mom and dad might have been able to accept the homemade cookies from the lady two streets over, now they have to examine their children's treats for needles and razor blades. And those who have corrupted the fun of Halloween to a night for malice and mischief have left some parents hesitant to send their little ones out at all.
However, with a few precautions, you can make sure that the Halloween spirit lives on for at least one more generation.
Stay close
You might remember going trick or treating with a group of friends while mom and dad stayed home to pass out treats. However, in today's changing society, it is simply not a good idea. Stay close to children at all times, particularly younger ones, and make sure that everyone stays within view while trick or treating. If taking out a large group, have children choose a Halloween "buddy" to stay with the entire time.
Set rules
There will be less dissension in the ranks if you set up the rules for Halloween night ahead of time. Make sure your children know before you head out what is acceptable and what isn't. This includes curfews, how far they can go trick or treating, rules about eating treats, etc.
Be visible
While the neighborhoods will be swarming with children out trick or treating, many drivers may not take the extra precautions while driving and will continue to cruise through at normal speeds. To make sure your child is visible to drivers, look for costumes that reflect the light or have your child carry glowsticks or flashlights when trick or treating.
Check the treats
Sadly, you will want to wait to get home to eat any of the treats because you will want to inspect them first. Discard any treats that are unwrapped or whose wrappers have been damaged. Look carefully for anything out of the ordinary. Avoid any homemade treats unless you personally know the person that made them - and then be careful if your child has any allergies.
Be a watchdog
While Halloween is known for costumes and candy, in more recent years it has also started attracting a crowd with more malicious intents. While some may limit their mischief to covering trees in toilet paper or smashing pumpkins, others can do even more vandalism and damage. And with so many children running around, many being only loosely supervised, there are plenty of opportunities for child predators to take advantage of the situation. Keep an eye out on the neighborhood, and report any suspicious activities to police.
If you plan for Halloween and set up some ground rules, you can help ensure that everyone has a wonderful holiday. That way, Halloween can continue to be enjoyed by children everywhere.

SEO Company Luqman-technologies.com opens new office in Tehran Iran

Luqman Qadir, An SEO Expert based in Pakistan has announced they are looking forward to open a new office in Vanak Square Tehran Iran. Luqman that runs country's leading SEO Company named Luqman-technologies.com has recently opened offices in United States of America, London United Kingdom and Perth Australia and he has expressed during my stay in Iran for around 18 months I believe, Iranian market consist of potential customers.

He said, I have spent around 18 months in Tehran Iran and has studied the Iranian market, I believe small business firms based in Tehran Iran, Mashad, Esfahan, Shirf and Karj need industry leaders in their respect domain's to provide them with an online marketing solutions, he added, they have acquired around 30 search engine optimizers, search marketers and web designers and web developers premises in Vanak Tehran Iran to provide local and Turkish customers with the kind of online advertising and online marketing solutions they are looking for.

Both Iran and Turkey has a lot in common and I believe around 90-% Iranians can speak Turkish as their second language which would let our Persian colleagues support our Iranian and Turkish clients. He added, the countries nearby such as Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan are our next target and we believe being in Tehran Iran it would be much easier for us to work with customers in these regions.

In a question about the kind of customers they are looking forward to target, he smiled and answered, we are not only going to deal with Textile and Petroleum companies but companies in other businesses such as the huge Iranian carpet and gems industry, be it textile machinery manufacturers or in Petroleum and Gas business, we are going to target everyone from a shop in down town to big huge companies in Iran and Turkey.

Tehran Iran office will be supervised by Ms. Ghazal Moosvi that has recently graduated from London's most renowned marketing university and more important she is equipped with great interpersonal skills. She speaks number of European and local languages including Azeri and Persian which would help our team support number of clients in Iran and Turkey.

In a question that Pars Data and Pars-online is the major web design, web development and search engine optimization company, Luqman answered, he said, Both Pars Data and Pars Online has range of customers but again they have never gone beyond in delivering solutions to their clients for International market and that is where we are going to make difference and we would help Iranian and Turkish companies enjoy our years of knowledge in web design, web development and search engine optimization and search engine marketing services, he says.

Visit Seo Company Pakistan website, where you will find more information about Seo Company and the way our search engine optimization and search engine marketing pricing and packages are tailored appropriate for your business category, and even information about our link building services, website design and website development and so on.

If you wish to read more about SEO Company Pakistan or SEO Services you may visit their websitehttp://www.luqman-technologies.com

Web Analytic Tools to Track Traffic Trends by Alina James

After developing a website it becomes essential for a freelance web developer to measure the performance of a website. There are innumerable tools and resources available online which lets you check that how many visitors have visited your website, which features or pages are most popular. They help you in tracking your website traffic, status, visitors' needs and behavior. Here we have put together some useful and innovative web analytics tools which provide you detailed report hits, visits, unique visitors, page views, top entry pages, exit pages, search keywords, visitor information, click paths, conversion, tracking registered users, more.

Clicky- This tracking tool is specially created for small medium business and blog websites. It enables the user to view data to help you react to changes in your traffic as they occur. You can view history for an individual page, search term, referring domain, etc.

Woopra -It offers excellent features that allow its user to perform Live Tracking and Web Statistics, Real-Time Analytics, Manage Multiple Blogs and Websites, Deep Analytic and Search Capabilities, Live Chat etc.

HitTail- This tool lets bloggers view traffic result, suggestions for improvement, and enable you to blog directly from keyword tool interface. Publishers can easily generate Google and Yahoo site maps and marketers can manage log SEO & SEM keyword campaigns.

Crazy Egg- Using this tool a freelance web developer can track, evaluate, and optimize your website based on where your visitors click. It lets them check Heatmaps, which shows which part of the page is popular. It also provides details on top 15 referrers, search terms, operating system, browser, etc.

Piwik- It helps in checking the detailed real time reports on the website visitors, search engines and keywords, language, popular pages and much more. It is a PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own web server.

Coremetrics- This is a digital marketing optimization solution and web analytics. Its products help businesses relentlessly optimize their marketing programs to make the best offer, every time, anywhere, automatically.

Radian6 - The scalable analysis solutions offered help you to set up specific keywords for monitoring purpose on a dashboard, automatically monitor the keywords on varied microblogging & image sharing sites.

MyBlogLog - It is basically a social networking platform for bloggers. It lets you check who is checking out your blog. It let you check the blog statistics including onsite clicking habits and referral information.

Whos.amung.us- Another interesting web analytic tool to check the real-time visitor on a website/blog. It allows you to check the total number of visitors on your website at any given moment. It is easy-to-install widget and requires no registration.

Enquisite - This tool allows you to keep a track of incoming search engine and PPC traffic on your website. You can view an in-depth statistics report including page position, landing pages, and specific geographic data.

I hope these tools will help a freelance web developer in anlayzing the performance of your website and guide you in making appropriate changes to get better results. Please share your views and feedback as always.

Loy Krathong Festival

Loy Krathong Festival

One of the most popular festivals in early November is the Loy Krathong Festival. It takes place at a time when the weather is fine as the rainy season is over and there is a high water level all over the country.

“Loy” means “to float” and a “Krathong” is a lotus-shaped vessel made of banana leaves. The Krathong usually contains a candle, three joss-sticks, some flowers and coins.

In fact, the festival is of Brahmin origin in which people offer thanks to the Goddess of the water. Thus, by moonlight, people light the candles and joss-sticks, make a wish and launch their Krathongs on canals, rivers or even small ponds. It is believed that the Krathongs carry away sins and bad luck, and the wishes that have been made for the new year due to start. Indeed, it is the time to be joyful and happy as the sufferings are floated away.

The festival starts in the evening when there is a full moon in the sky. People of all walks of life carry their Krathongs to the nearby rivers. After lighting candles and joss-sticks and making a wish, they gently place the Krathongs on the water and let them drift away till they go out of sight.

A Beauty Queen Contest is an important part of the festival and for this occasion it is called “The Noppamas Queen Contest”. Noppamas is a legendary figure from the Sukhothai period. Old documents refer to her as the chief royal consort of a Sukhothai King named “Lithai”. Noppamas was said to have made the first decorated Krathong to float in the river on the occasion.

In Bangkok, major establishments such as leading hotels and amusement parks organise their Loy Krathong Festival and the Krathong contest as major annual function.

For visitors to Thailand, the Loy Krathong Festival is an occasion not to be missed. The festival is listed in the tourist calendar. Everyone is invited to take part and share the joy and happiness.