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Here’s a great comparison analysis by one of our ezdia’s very own Associate, Sulabh Jain.

Limited Number of Bids :

There are numerous projects posted on all these websites. The freelancers have to apply their bids, in which they state their price and time they will take to complete the project. The employers selects the best bid according to his requirement and allot the project to the selected bidder.

Different sites placed a limit on this bidding in different ways. Using one account, they do not allow users to put unlimited bids. One have to be very specific about the project’s requirement while bidding.

Bidding Limit Comparison

At eZdia, initially the Users are given a privilege of unlimited bidding. They can bid on all the projects falling under their area of expertise.

Project Fee taken by the Websites :

While freelancing, you are never going to get the whole cake alone. All the freelancing sites takes their share from the Experts earnings. This amount varies from website to website and is always some percentage of the budget of your project. One can save some of this money if he purchases the membership, or in other words if he upgrades his account. There could be monthly charges you have to pay the website for getting this kind of membership.

Many websites not only charges the Freelancers but also charges the Project Posters, since the site is providing service to both of them. The following chart compares the project fee deducted from Expert / Client account on different websites.

Where some websites are charging Clients on posting their requirement, eZdia is providing incentive to employers in terms of the monetory benefits. Anyone who posts a project and gets it done by ezdia expert is awarded incentive based on the budget of his project.

For more details, please check out

http://newonezdia.blogspot.com/2010/06/ezdia-against-other-freelancing-sites.html

Experts!! Experts!! Experts!!

Almost everybody has started labeling themselves as experts thereby making it a very common term in today’s world. We have definitely come of age in terms of science and technology. But, with internet joining the world in a seamless stage experts are coming from everywhere.

Though, it’s heartening to see so many experts in different disciplines which also increases out options as solution seekers. But, now the nature of the problem changes in terms of that instead of quantity we now seek quality and credibility of experts.

We know that there are hundreds of experts out there in the virtual world whether its web designing, answering a database query, implementing an open source solution etc but how do we trust them especially when the only thing we know about them is their virtual name and their profiles.

So, how do we select? Who do we trust?

We now have an option. A trusted partner called eZdia which does all this work for us. eZdia selects the right expert with the right skillset and puts its stamp of approval before presenting it to you as Solution Seeker.

eZdia has hundreds of experts registered and they have carefully vetted and with a democratic mechanism to weed out the bad apples based upon input from people like you in real time. This will ensure a robust knowledge marketplace over time and you get the best of both worlds in terms of quality and quantity.

So, what are you waiting for? Try it out today and start by posting a few small queries to walk through the experience and ezdia team guarantees a successful experience.

Ezdia is pleased to announce launch of new methods of withdrawing payment. Users can now withdraw payment using paypal and google check out.  Earlier,  the payments were being sent to user using postal checks.

Please allow upto 48 hours of the request to have your payment processed. All payment request are checked manually to detect any potential fraud.

Ezdia is also please to announce new incentive to the experts by refunding the 15% project fee. This incentive is available to all projects completed and paid before June 15, 2010. To use this feature please use the coupon code JUN152010 in the coupon field while withdrawing the payment.

How will the incentive amount calculated

The incentive amount will depend upon the amount of the project completed and paid and not the amount of the withdraw request.

Example - Expert A has $150 in his account. He requested withdraw of  $120 from his fund. On May 10, 2010 he completed and was paid $70 for a project. How much does he get paid ?

Expert A will additionally be paid 15% of the $70 – the value of the project he completed and was paid before June 15, 2010 . He will therefore be paid $120 + $10.50 = $130.50

Ezdia has also  updated its index page which helps a new user understand its function intuitively.

The ezdia team matches the companies requirement with right expert in the areas of technology, law, finance, marketing, sales, business and more.

All you need to do is navigate to  Find Expert , fill up the form which can be as simple as – My problem   is ________ and I am looking for _______________. Ezdia team then uses its own network to deliver the right talent to solve your problem.

Why use Ezdia to Find Expert ?

Saves Time

Ezdia team does the work for for you. When you post a requirement at Craigslist you are inundated with emails with unknows quality of the experts.

Costs nothing

It costs  absolutely nothing. You are under no obligation to take services from the expert we suggest. We however, recommend that you allot a project to the expert and take his service using ezdia platform and rate him. This helps the expert to secure more projects. It helps you to make connection to the expert and with the ezdia team.

Why are we providing this service free

Ezdia is committed to make its platform useful for the executives in their quest for the right expert. Even though the platform provides ability to search for the expert from the tool itself, ezdia is providing additional facility to make in even easier for the executives to get services of the experts. Ezdia feels that this free service helps in strengthening its recognition as a platform for finding right expert.

How is it different from Freelance platforms

Ezdia is different from eLance, Odesk, Guru and Freelance, rentacoder and similar other platforms. Ezdia adopts an open policy to allow communication between the expert and the explorers. The Experts at ezdia has detailed profile, associated content, rating which helps executives evaluate them before they hire them for the work. You can search for an expert using ezdia’s expert search tool.

With the launch of the project posting ezdia is providing employers an excellent platform to take expert’s help. Ezdia expects that the chat facility at ezdia will help employers evaluate experts even before they take the help of the Experts.

Employers can also ask experts to complete their profile and associate a content to show their expertise. Ezdia is providing incentive to employers in terms of the monetory benefits for early birds. Anyone who posts a project and gets it done by ezdia expert will be provided incentive as listed below

Project Value Incentive

$30 or more            $5
$10 to $30               $3
$5 to $10                  $1

The projects must be real and should be executed before April 30, 2010.

How to redeem the incentive

After getting the project successfully executed, please contact ezdia at info@eZdia.com with the following details

1. Project Number
2. Value of the project.
3. Your Paypal address

Once the email is received, it will be verified by an eZdia executive. The incentive amount will be paid manually using paypal at your paypal address.

Terms and conditions

1. Posting of the project, solely for the purpose of getting incentive is not allowed. If ezdia finds that the project is not genuine, the incentive amount will not be paid.

2. Only one incentive is allowed per empolyer.

April 5^th, Houston TX:

eZdia launches the updated version of eZdia platform which includes the online payment and project posting features. This release also includes some of the newly redesigned user interfaces based on the feedback from the beta test by a selected set of users. These changes make the site user friendly to navigate, search for the needed information, and also to interact with the experts to get their customized answers and solutions.

The platform now offers a way for experts to monetize their expertise and at the same time provides an efficient way for solution seekers to get their questions answered and have their projects executed by experts.

eZdia Inc.

eZdia is an online platform that brings together seekers and providers of knowledge and contract services – which can be provided for free or sold for a negotiated fee. By leveraging its proprietary technology, eZdia not only ensues that the sellers of knowledge and services are reliable, but also presents the most relevant providers to individual solution seekers. In addition, the eZdia ‘Knowledge Bucket’ feature allows users to post propriety & web contents for providers/knowledge seekers to identify and address.

eZdia’s patent pending technology provides a platform that validates and ranks the reliability (expert level) of knowledge and services providers. The validation/ranking technology is able to not only deliver experts related to specific subjects, but also factors in the relative degrees of separation of the expert from the buyer.

The eZdia platform has been built with completely open source software, and uses open standards for seamless integration with various customers and third party applications created by users.

EZdia will have payment system soon.

A great article by Sulabh Jain on how to share your expertise with your friends and colleagues at a click of a button “Content Forwarding”.

Every time we find something interesting on Internet, the first thing comes to our Mind is “Who else must know this ?? Whom should I forward this ??”

Yes it happens, as the world is still full of great men who believes in sharing. We now need an easy tool which helps in forwarding our content to our network. eZdia supports forwarding Content from your Knowledge Bucket to our friends as soon as we come across it.

With every content you associated to your Knowledge Bucket, you find a link for forwarding it.

“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.”

So Just forward the Content you like, Sweep out your network with your Knowledge, add value to your network.

Visit eZdia.com

One can also forward contents to friends who are not currently using Ezdia ,

Enjoy Sharing on eZdia, Happy sharing ..

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Knowledge never decreases by being shared.”

A great article on Browser compatibility issues by Chaitanya Goyal, Senior Software Engineer and eZdia’s very first employee.

As developers and designers all are facing many browsers issues while running website on different browsers. Most of these issues are with Internet Explorer rest browsers having better look n feel. If someone ask me to suggest which browser should be taken to authenticate uses worldwide then I must go with Mozilla ….. but as its not possible we must follow the browser compatibility.
Its gr8 to use Mozilla b’coz it gives developer toolbar called firebug which work very efficiently for finding any element of HTML Tag with applied class & style, I really appreciate and recommend every developer to use it.

Validate your code:

Run your HTML and CSS through validators before uploading your site. Valid code might not make your page magically work in all browsers, but invalid code can produce all sorts of unpredictable and hard-to-debug problems.

The W3C HTML Validator and CSS Validator are good places to start. You can also use browser plugins, such as the Html Validator Firefox add-on, to check pages automatically while you’re viewing them in the browser.

Use CSS reset rules:

You’ve probably lost count of the number of times you’ve had to add margin: 0; padding: 0; to a CSS rule to make it consistent across all browsers.

Make IE6 work with transparent PNGs:

PNGs are very big issue for IE6 b’coz it showing some background color if png image is transparent. Transparent PNG images are wonderful things — they let you have up to 256 levels of transparency in an image, which means you can do neat tricks like translucency and smooth borders on any type of background. However, Internet Explorer 6 doesn’t properly display transparent PNGs by default, instead displaying ugly boxes where the transparency should be.

Its good solution, with a bit of tweaking, you can get transparent PNGs to work perfectly in IE6, without having to make major changes to your markup or CSS. A good solution is IE PNG Fix from Angus Turnbull.

Code by hand:

My personal preference is to code all HTML, XHTML, and CSS by hand. That way I have full control over what I’m creating, and can easily fine-tune the code as necessary to work in a range of browsers.

If you find coding by hand tedious, there are many excellent text-based Web page editors out there to make your life easier. Take a look at CoffeeCup (Windows) or Coda (Mac).

Wrapping up:

Use wrapper class for as much as possible for code reusability.

Micosoft IE Tool:

Microsoft is now offering the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (beta) – Here is info on the toolbar from the Microsoft site:

Overview

The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages.

1. Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page.
2. Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques.
3. Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
4. View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
5. Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
6. Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
7. Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
8. Immediately resize the browser window to 800×600 or a custom size.
9. Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
10. Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
11. Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align objects on your pages.