Ian Francis

Website: www.ifrancis.co.uk
Mixed media painting,emotion in every line. Ian Francis works most productive at night, spending a lot of time watching TV/films, reading books and looking around the internet while creating a new piece of art.

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Adam Cvijanovic

Website: www.bellwethergallery.com
Adam Cvijanovic lives in New-York. He had multiple exibitions all over the world and every time his works strike imagination.

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Stella Im Hultberg

Website: www.stellaimhultberg.com
Naked sensual girls everywhere, on drawings, paintings, sketches. Stella Im Hultberg* is a painter currently living and working in new-York is aiming to explore the side of human nature that is suppressed or unspoken in most people.

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Dear Valued Clients,

As Christmas nears and New Year approaches, it’s time for reflection and planning for the future. Time to take your business to a higher level this year! Time to generate highly specific traffic and wait for the huge profits that can and do follow!

Here’s the great news! All you have to do is set up your business. We’ll take care of the rest!

Embracing the Christmas spirit, we at Directory Journal thought it might be nice to give our wonderful clients an awesome discount on all our listings. Simply enter the coupon code during the submission of your site and you will receive 20% Off on our Permanent and Yearly listings.

The coupon code is good for the whole month, right through November, 2008 and can be used any number of times until it expires. Read the rest of this entry »

Best of the Web (BOTW) is the world’s oldest and most famous paid web directory and doing justice to the name, has earned the distinction of being considered as the best. The directory made its initial presence felt as a Web Awards platform. The vast popularity of Web Awards led to the creation of a comprehensive web directory that is general in scope and houses only the best of the web – well designed and content-rich websites.

With the amazing success they have achieved over the years, Best of the Web intends to take their service one step further with the recent addition of an exciting new feature – Best of the Web Local (BOTW Local).

BOTW Local is aimed at providing the local brick-and-mortar business owners an opportunity to bring their businesses online and gain more visibility. Just about anyone can submit their business to BOTW Local. The best part is that you do not need a website to do that. People who are exceptionally passionate about their businesses can create a high quality website, submit it to BOTW Local and dominate the local marketplace with ease.

If a business wants to pull a large number of customers, it is important to place the business in front of customers who are ready to act, which means the business should show up when people look for businesses in an area. Using BOTW local, customers can locate local businesses. It also helps business owners reach more people in their area. Each business is given its own page where they will be able to list all the information about their business, including the phone numbers, location and other details. Read the rest of this entry »

We are pleased to inform our visitors that the Webmaster Tools section of our directory which had been inaccessible for some time is now fully functional. Here is the URL to the tools section http://www.dirjournal.com/tools/

We regret any inconvenience caused to those who could not access our Webmaster tools section during the past few days, and we hope you appreciate the new look and greater functionality.

Thank you!

As a special promotion for our valued clients, we are currently offering a discount on our listings. This is our way of showing our appreciation for the unconditional support extended by the loyal Directory Journal clients. With these coupon codes, we are giving you an opportunity to save up to 30% on our Permanent Featured and Permanent Regular listings.

We are also looking at attracting first time clients with this promotion. This is an extension of our mandate to offer the best possible services.

To redeem the coupons, just enter the coupon code when submitting your site. Please note that these coupons are only valid until September 15th, 2008.

Our coupons carry a whopping 30% discount on the Permanent Listings and 20% on Yearly listings. They can be used any number of times till their validity expires. Read the rest of this entry »

This is to thank all of our visitors for the co-operation extended during the website accessibility issues you may have encountered recently. The extended downtime of 7-10 days suffered by the Dirjournal.com server was due to a data center outage in the network operating center of our hosting provider, Hostgator, where our server is hosted.

In fact, this upset us so much, all efforts to switch to another hosting provider began and finally we decided on another hosting. We were actually thinking of switching the hosting provider from Hostgator to Rackspace, as we felt that was the only way of getting our website up fast in order not to cause any further inconvenience to our visitors.

However, at that point, Brent Oxley, the owner of Hostgator, came forward and extended his help in getting our website up as soon as possible. We decided to give Hostgator a chance as we never faced any problems with them prior to this.

Brent managed to resolve the issue by instantly moving the server to their new data center and the server was brought up immediately, and we decided to stick with Hostgator.

Directory Journal sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience this incident might have caused, to all those that may have attempted to access our website and failed. We also thank all visitors who contacted us during this downtime for their unconditional patronage.

We sincerely hope this has not affected your experience with us in any way and appreciate your understanding, patience and continued business.

CNET.com is the definitive online location for gadgets, internet and computer news, tech information and reviews. CNET.com is also the primary destination of online enthusiasts seeking the latest downloads and trials of new or popular programs. With so much to offer on a single website, could it possibly be easy to navigate? Oh yes – simple to navigate and much more.

A Classic Example of Web 2.0 Design

The colors, clean design and simple layout of CNET make it easy to follow and even easier to find what you’re looking for as you navigate the site. Tabs for the different areas of the site are a bright green in contrast to the pale yellow and white of the content and listings sections. The homepage is primarily comprised of listed stories, blog posts and review categories. The site is designed with an emphasis on showcasing a clean list using plenty of white space rather than attempting to cram every article onto the home page. The starkness of the pages is a welcome respite as there is little fluff and virtually no descriptions or teasers for the stories that you often find cluttering up other news related sites.

By keeping the story list to headlines, CNET allows visitors to skim the topics quickly without getting tangled up in related sub stories and photojournalism enhancements. Reading through the latest topics takes just seconds. Most of stories listed CNET’s homepage are breaking news or thoughtful, well-researched discussion of the technology industry happenings, the bottom half of the homepage showcases the almost endless number of CNET blogs covering a wide range of topics and industries.

A Wide Range of Technology Blogs on CNET

The latest blog posts are listed on the bottom of the homepage and featured post titles are pulled and rotate through the homepage list keeping content absolutely up to minute. All CNET blogs are listed on the homepage making it simple to find what you’re looking for in a single step. The CNET homepage also contains special offers and promoted articles on the right and bottom edges of the page, but these don’t make the site feel cluttered. In fact, you almost don’t notice the extra content. The ads and boxes provide a visual border for the crisp white areas which are so effective at showcasing the deceptively simplistic lists of content. Read the rest of this entry »

Forbes.com does what many other news websites fail to accomplish. Forbes.com brings you a complete source of both online information, discussion and commentary on how that information affects the marketplace and you. Forbes.com is not only news, but thorough analysis of what that news means to the markets, the economy and industry and services. Very few websites offer this much information, and only one can claim to be the business information leader Forbes.com.

Overflowing with Information

Forbes.com is a site simply bursting with information. To view the complete homepage you must scroll and read quite a bit, but the sheer volume of insightful articles more than makes up for the required scrolling. At least the most important and most recent of the many articles are listed at the top of the homepage making navigation a bit easier. On the homepage, ads and the many other Forbes business lines compete for space with seemingly every article written on the site in the last month. The homepage is long and saturated with articles and content, but there is not a single wasted area.

The content of the site is divided into related areas of business with new stories being featured each week or sooner for each category. Within each grouping, the feature story and related stories are listed for easy navigation along with teasers for each. Content is divided into sections such as Business, Tech, Markets, Leadership and Personal Finance. The feature story of each section and related stories are provided in boxes on the home page, and again on the sub page for the section. Sub pages are easily accessed from a menu bar at the top of the page. Read the rest of this entry »

At first glance, the Environment Web Directory at www.webdirectory.com has something to be desired. The site is first a collection of links in manageable categories related to environmental issues. Underneath the neatly arranged categories, however, are a rather odd assortment of links with descriptions. Some are related still to the environment while others, such as payday loans, seem completely out of place. The extra collection of links are almost missing a title or category such as “Featured Links” to let the visitor know what it is he’s looking at.

At the very bottom of the homepage is yet another list of links only marginally related to the site purpose. These lists are site wide as well, appearing as a separate list even on the “Other Places to Search” page which does contain quality environmentally related links. If these questionable links were removed leaving only the bona fide categories and related searches, the Environment Wed Directory would be off to a much more authentic start as a quality directory. As it is, one can only hope that the links are providing the financial backing for the site allowing the owners to pull together a terrific collection of environmentally related links.

The Environment Web Directory fills an obvious niche as it seeks to collect authoritative links on various aspects of the environment. According to the information page (also flooded with unrelated links) the staff of the Environment Web Directory numbers twenty-three and comes together in the basement of a music store to search out and list the best environmental sites available.

In the actual directory portion of the homepage, the environmental links are broken down into the same kinds of categories present on most directories. Only with the focus on the environment topics for the categories have a decidedly greener feel. In fact the entire website is green – in every sense of the word. Categories range from weather to energy to pollution with an impressive collection of sub categories under each. Read the rest of this entry »

The sister site of DMOZ, Open-site.org, is an internet community project designed to accumulate and distribute trusted information with no charge. Open-site is a collection of articles on everything from dust mites to SEO with editors checking to ensure the content is of the quality required by the site as well as being free of slant or propaganda.

While this concept sounds a lot like the overwhelmingly popular Wikipedia, there are critical differences.
Open-site.org is set up on a CMS platform, not a wiki. The open-site framework is much closer to that of a true online encyclopedia, not a wiki. Open-site.org does make it clear that they are neither a dictionary nor an encyclopedia, however. The site considers itself a “informational, volunteer-based web-site”.

Of course, it may not be written by scientists and specialists in the field, but editors must be approved before they can add or change content and even then, that content must be approved by a senior editor. The public can’t modify information at all without applying and being approved as editors. The site is also organized by category, much like a print encyclopedia might be making it simple to browse from one category to another and find related information. Read the rest of this entry »