Link:
http://dot-tel-domain.tel/
Enjoy!
Monday, 30 August 2010
Sunday, 29 August 2010
How to spice up your Dot Tel domain:
Here are the available templates, from which you can select:
How to set colours for the header and background for Dot Tel domains, using the .tel control panel:
When you are at your controll panel, respectively, dashboard, you go top left and click on the card "Design", and go from there. It is self explaining...
Which brings you up this controll panel:
Select a colour space number (1, 2 or 3):
The colour customising mini panel, that will pop up, looks like this:
In the vertical colour bar, you select a basic colour, for aditional fine tuning:
Then (within the left window) you place the cross on the ring, and move the ring to the right area, that brings up the colour you wish to have. Your selected colour then shows in one of the two small windows, top right within the small controll panel. --> Save your colour choice, with the "save" button, bottom, right side.
To add a logo, you must go back to the main control panel.
However, there are two tutorials. One in french, and another one in German (which will be continued):
1.) http://www.toutpointtel.fr/index.php...mode-d-emploi/
2.)
http://www.tel-blog.de/domaingestalt...reigeschaltet/
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And this is what is possible to create, within the limits...:
We are all aware of the major design shortcomings of Dot Tel Domains. I, for example, will not use anything but the single colour Retro template. However, this Dot Tel Domain organictea.tel, is an excellent example of what can be achieved. It's the best one I have seen yet. Click on the image to see it full size. I like the attention to detail, the rouge on the girls face is the same colour as part of the template. 10/10!
And the following example is shown, if you prefer the "classic" template:
How to set colours for the header and background for Dot Tel domains, using the .tel control panel:
When you are at your controll panel, respectively, dashboard, you go top left and click on the card "Design", and go from there. It is self explaining...
Which brings you up this controll panel:
Select a colour space number (1, 2 or 3):
The colour customising mini panel, that will pop up, looks like this:
In the vertical colour bar, you select a basic colour, for aditional fine tuning:
Then (within the left window) you place the cross on the ring, and move the ring to the right area, that brings up the colour you wish to have. Your selected colour then shows in one of the two small windows, top right within the small controll panel. --> Save your colour choice, with the "save" button, bottom, right side.
To add a logo, you must go back to the main control panel.
However, there are two tutorials. One in french, and another one in German (which will be continued):
1.) http://www.toutpointtel.fr/index.php...mode-d-emploi/
2.)
http://www.tel-blog.de/domaingestalt...reigeschaltet/
.
.
And this is what is possible to create, within the limits...:
An Example of a Beautifully Designed Dot Tel Domain
We are all aware of the major design shortcomings of Dot Tel Domains. I, for example, will not use anything but the single colour Retro template. However, this Dot Tel Domain organictea.tel, is an excellent example of what can be achieved. It's the best one I have seen yet. Click on the image to see it full size. I like the attention to detail, the rouge on the girls face is the same colour as part of the template. 10/10!
And the following example is shown, if you prefer the "classic" template:
Monday, 23 August 2010
Dot Tel Domains – A Green Technology
What is a Green Technology? It is technology that minimizes the impact of humans on the environment.
Traditional directories such as the White Pages and the Yellow Pages, although they have a web presence now, produce contact directories that use up enormous numbers of trees. These trees, of course, are used to make paper for phone books.
These books are usually thrown away after just one year and the whole tree cutting process starts again.
A Dot Org website called ‘Ban the Phone Book’ estimates that 5 million trees are cut down every year to make them. This is a stunning number of trees. This website has been covered in major US Newspapers such as the NY Times.
Although tree felling provides jobs it severely damages the environment even if the forests are so-called renewable. Waterways, wildlife, and ecosystems are affected badly.
This problem with paper directories is solved by the Dot Tel Domain. There is no paper in a Dot Tel Domain. There are no phone books. If you want to look up something you open your web browser, and enter the directory’s address, and you are there.
Any device with an internet connection can find a Dot Tel Domain. This includes web enabled mobile phones, and PCs.
Dot Tel Directories can be for products, people, businesses, or anything else that has contact information. Another major issue is that anything that updating a Dot Tel is nearly instantaneous.
With a phone book you don’t get updated until the following year when the new one comes out, although the companies now have website presences as well.
There are technical reasons why the traditional phone directory companies operating on Dot Coms or top level domain country extensions can not compete with a Dot Tel. These are to do with the location of the data. A full explanation is beyond the scope of this article.
With the internet continuing to grow in use we can hope that this Green Technology grows with it, and that eventually no trees are cut down to make phone books.
For more FREE information please see Dot Tel Domains Blog.
To see this technology online please go to this Squidoo Page and follow the links
Tags: Domain Country, Dot Coms, Dot Org, Ecosystems, Enormous Numbers, Forests, Green Technology, Internet Connection, Ny Times, Paper Directories, Phone Book, Phone Books, Phone Directory, Presences, Stunning Number, Top Level Domain, Traditional Directories, Waterways, Web Presence, White Pages
Source:
http://www.toplifedomains.com
Traditional directories such as the White Pages and the Yellow Pages, although they have a web presence now, produce contact directories that use up enormous numbers of trees. These trees, of course, are used to make paper for phone books.
These books are usually thrown away after just one year and the whole tree cutting process starts again.
A Dot Org website called ‘Ban the Phone Book’ estimates that 5 million trees are cut down every year to make them. This is a stunning number of trees. This website has been covered in major US Newspapers such as the NY Times.
Although tree felling provides jobs it severely damages the environment even if the forests are so-called renewable. Waterways, wildlife, and ecosystems are affected badly.
This problem with paper directories is solved by the Dot Tel Domain. There is no paper in a Dot Tel Domain. There are no phone books. If you want to look up something you open your web browser, and enter the directory’s address, and you are there.
Any device with an internet connection can find a Dot Tel Domain. This includes web enabled mobile phones, and PCs.
Dot Tel Directories can be for products, people, businesses, or anything else that has contact information. Another major issue is that anything that updating a Dot Tel is nearly instantaneous.
With a phone book you don’t get updated until the following year when the new one comes out, although the companies now have website presences as well.
There are technical reasons why the traditional phone directory companies operating on Dot Coms or top level domain country extensions can not compete with a Dot Tel. These are to do with the location of the data. A full explanation is beyond the scope of this article.
With the internet continuing to grow in use we can hope that this Green Technology grows with it, and that eventually no trees are cut down to make phone books.
For more FREE information please see Dot Tel Domains Blog.
To see this technology online please go to this Squidoo Page and follow the links
Tags: Domain Country, Dot Coms, Dot Org, Ecosystems, Enormous Numbers, Forests, Green Technology, Internet Connection, Ny Times, Paper Directories, Phone Book, Phone Books, Phone Directory, Presences, Stunning Number, Top Level Domain, Traditional Directories, Waterways, Web Presence, White Pages
Source:
http://www.toplifedomains.com
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
The Love Train
Adding to the Dot Tel launch hoopla was the infamous Ben.tel video depicting two hormone-laden Brits fighting for the attention of an uptown blonde – all while riding an intercity train. The one who scribbled “Ben.tel” on the window with his opponent’s latte won the girl.
Preselecting phone numbers: Calling from a mobile website integrated .Tel sub domain, via a main .Tel domain. Prior to calling, watch a slide show.
The basic idea:
Viewing a related slide show, prior to making a phone call. Something like this (App.: "Ting!"):
Going from the "Ting!" concept, I suggest the following idea, for a preselect phone dialing:
1.) A Dot Tel domain.
2.) A mobile website.
On that mobile website you have the following:
3.) A slide show, about yourself or your company.
4.) A integrated Dot Tel sub domain which only displays your phone number and email:
(This would better be a sub domain, for economic reasons, as you will want have more contact information on your main Dot Tel domain.)
Conclusion:
Before dialing a number, the potential contact person, can learn a bit more about your company ("mycompany").
Basically, you only provide your phone numbers, on such mobile websites, with a slide show, each, and don't only publish a single phone number on a .Tel.
Because you have a integrated Dot Tel page, in a website, you can do "click to call", from that website.
So, instead of providing a phone link, you would be providing a web link ("Go To my phone number") to a mobile website, that has a mini slide show, providing some specific info about the owner of the phone number, which you might want to contact. This info, will make your decision, weather to call, or not, a hole lot easier.
Can you see, where I am going?...
The smartest thing, would be, to create a mobile website with contact info, as well as a integrated short slide show about you or your company, and have a link going to it, from your Dot Tel domain, instead of providing single phone number links on a Dot Tel domain.
On that mobile website, you would integrate a sub domain of that Dot Tel domain.
Does it sound complicated?:
Well, here is a mind map:
Link to mind map:
http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=701414&pw=ya5GnofBhbpYAMjJlWUw4Wm0zWHpWbw
www.mycompany.com/mobile
includes:
www.subdomain.mycompany.tel
(from where you can "click to call"),
as well as a
mini slideshow about "mycompany" (which you look at, before you decide to make a call).
The call, is two clicks away, as you click on the link to the (other) mobile website, and from there, you click on the phone number, which is a link on the displayed .Tel sub domain of the .Tel domain, from where you started navigating.
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Monday, 26 July 2010
Add-ons for Firefox: .tel Info 0.8.1
Add-ons for Firefox:
.tel Info 0.8.1
Works with Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6.
This extension will find any .tel addresses on a webpage and if any are found it will display a purple icon in the status bar and tool bar which can be clicked on to display the .tel information. If the tool bar icon doesn't display it can be added by going to View > Toolbars > Customise and selecting the .tel icon from the list.
Arthur Guy has basically created a simple way for people who are browsing websites to quickly pull .tel contact information from .tel names linked to the site. The first is for Google Chrome and the second is for FireFox. Both plug-ins are easy and quick to install (with Firefox requiring a re-start). Both have an icon that shows that .tel name information is available (Google’s indicator is in the browser bar, whereas FireFox’s is down in the bottom right-hand side of the browser window) and both list all of the .tel names available having automagically verified that they are indeed real by doing a DNS lookup. Both of these plug-ins make it really easy for people to find and utilize contact information from .tel if website owners have linked their websites to this contact information, providing a really easy display of a live ‘contact us’ page integrated with a website but without the user having to navigate to another page to find the information. We’re really pleased that developers are starting to take an interest in .tel and really getting the idea of simple-to-pull contact information being useful to end users.
Download source page:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/107869
Info source (main text):
http://www.telnic.org/blog/2010/03/23/saving-customers-time/
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