New art by Ramesh Thorat

Samsara Art has recently updated their catalog with paintings of Ramesh Thorat. For more details, please click here >

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Signet Website Relaunch

Signet, The Complete Excipients Company, has recently launched its website. CBO had the privilege of working on the CSS integration for the website.

INFO: An excipient is an inactive substance used as a carrier for the active ingredients of a medication. In many cases, an "active" substance.

The website is build on the Joomla content management system. For joomla customization, contact CBO Technologies.

Sneha Mumbai Website Launched

SNEHA believes Every Woman and Child Counts.

...in Sanskrit it means “Love”
...it stands for Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action

A voluntary, secular, non-profit organization, SNEHA addresses the special needs of slum women and children in Mumbai by working to improve their health.

For an NGO website like this, get in touch with us.

IBH Launches its new website

India Book House, the premier wholesale book distributor of India has just re-launched its website. CBO had the privilege to work on the website integration for IBH.

For assistance with a website design similar to IBH, contact CBO >

Realm of the Gods - Art Exhibition by Samsara Art

Samsara Art, a seller of contemporary Indian art, just announced an Art Exhibition titled Realm of the Gods.

Including the work of Ramesh Gorjala, the exhibition is a must for art lovers.

Catch the exhibition from 7th May to 20th May online.

Branding is the new advertising!

For those who are looking for answers to their brand questions, Mumbai based Brand Consultancy - DMA Branding, rolled out its new branding micro-site to address such an audience.

On the heels of this roll-out comes an overhaul of their own corporate branding website. CBO assisted DMA in with content architecture, website development as well as content management.

Step 1 - Wireframes

Step 2 - Hoarding Reference

Step 3 - Graphic Design

The wireframes and the hoarding were combined into a web template design by the team at DMA Branding.

Step 4 - Website Integration

The website was integrated using a content management system by CBO.

If you'd like to get something like this done for your organisation; give us a shout.

Design Bazaar Website Launched

Design Bazaar, the The One stop Shop for all your design needs has just been launched in Mumbai. CBO had the privilege of powering the Design Bazaar website.


Design Bazaar promises to offer high end design to customers at affordable rates and quick turn around time. Customers can choose from a design menu and pick and pay their services from a easy to use order cart.

Begin design specialists, Design Bazaar hopes to extend value added design services to its privileged shoppers.

To juice up your site like Design Bazaar contact CBO >>

Indian Tigers website launched

The website integration for Indian Tigers Football Association was awarded to Cyberbackoffice. ITFA has a clear focus to be the most effective and 'value added', training school for India's future football talent.


Our objective at ITFA is to establish a 'schooling Academy' whose focus is to identify, train and develop Youth football players who will in turn grow to be great Indian football talent. ITFA has already set up a football academy and conducts international football camps.

To get a website like Indian Tigers for yourself, contact CBO >>

ABPS website

CBO latest finished website project for ABPS.

Please visit : http://www.abps.in/

Market Gate website

CBO latest finished website project for Market Gate.
Please visit : http://www.market-gate.com/

Three Dimensions in Art

Samsara Art has recently announced a new art exhibition titled "Three Dimensions in Art".

Join them for a Visual treat on the 13th , 14th & 15th June 2008 at the Out of the Blue Gallery.

Find out more >

Church at Powai (CAP)

CBO latest finished website project for Church at Powai (CAP).
Please visit : http://www.churchatpowai.com/

SWEstates

CBO finished another prestigious website project for SW Estates (Arabella Residency).

Please visit : http://www.swestates.org/

Swami Shri Prempuriji Ashram Trust

Preamble :-

CBO has just finished a prestigious website redevelopment project for Prempuri Ashram Trust of Mumbai.

The trust runs Prempuri Ashram, an age-old institution of great repute, dedicated to the promotion of Indian spiritual learning in the revered Vedantic tradition.

Innumerable wise scholars, philosophers and saints of contemporary India have resided, lectured and an taught in the august precincts of the Prempuri Ashram over the last three decades.

The Ashram is a prime centre of Bharatiya Sanatan Dharma (Eternal Religion of India) in the city and the spiritual lectures and discourses on Vedanta philosophy that take place there on a daily basis are held in high regard by the Satsangi fraternity not only in Mumbai but all over India.
Since about a decade, the Ashram had been recording these lectures and discourses on audio cassettes which today run into thousands in number.

About a year and a half ago under the advice and guidance of a senior member of CBO, the Ashram took up the herculean task of conversion of the audio cassette collection into MP3 format that could go first on CDs and finally to the internet.

Project Obective and Focus :
The Prempuri Website project is the logical culmination of this ambition to make the knowledge and wisdom that is preserved in the custody of Prempuri Ashram available anywhere in the whole world at any moment at the click of a button.

As per the revered Indian tradition, the proper and prescribed way to gain spiritual knowledge is not reading, but hearing. "Guru-vaakya Shravan" (Hearing of the words uttered by the Guru) is a sine-qua-non of the process of enlightenment. So the singular focus in this project has been on delivering the Audio archives of Prempuri online, to a world-wide audience via the medium of the Internet.

The Main Challenge:-

The main challenge of the project lay in setting up not just a website but a bi-lingual content management system, that was easy enough to be used on a day-to-day basis by the staff of the Ashram who have just basic computer literacy.

The only way to get daily discourses and lectures online on a timely basis was to train the resident service staff and non-resident administrative staff of the Ashram in the process of digital audio processing and conversion and then to equip them with an absolutely user-friendly yet powerful online web-authoring interface that would allow categorised uploads of the daily audio files to an ever-growing online database. CBO rose to this task and delivered a working solution that has been well received by the Ashram administration which decided to launch the site right away.

Significant features of the site are :-
Streaming online audio and video; Automated and controlled User registrations; e-commerce enabled subscription plans for different types of membership; e-commerce enabled web-shop for selling MP3 CDs, Bilingual site structure and content with possibility for multilingual extension; Front-end content editing with access control; Comprehensive backend administration panel.

Launch :
The site was inaugurated on the occasion of the commencement of the annual Bhagwat Saptah function at the Ashram premises at Babulnath, Mumbai, on the 30th of November by the honourable Shri Morari Bapu.

Please visit : http://www.prempuri.org/

Remember to keep your computer audio switched ON at an audible level before visiting the site else you will miss something wonderful :-)

Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi !

Badrinarayan - Famous Indian Artist

Art by Badrinarayan, one of India's foremost illustrators and artists was added to the Samsara Art online art catalog.

Enjoy.

Marine Drive Article on Times of India

Plan was originally ours, say Marine Drive residents

Ashley D’Mello | TNN
Date: 24th Oct 07

Mumbai: Marine Drive residents are upset by comments made by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, who has said that the MMRDA wants to pull out of the Marine Drive makeover due to interference from residents in the area.

Gaikwad told mediapersons that the residents were finicky about the colour of the paint being chosen for the benches and regularly interfere with other aspects of the project. “We are fed up of interference,’’ he emphatically said.

But the residents say they had long planned their own makeover—albeit on a smaller scale—so the MMRDA should have no problem if they offer suggestions to the MMRDA’s grand plan.

President of the Marine Drive Residents Association, Anil Bhatia, said the refurbishment has been discussed by residents for the past 16 years before the government came along and offered to execute a larger plan.

Neera Punj, a member of the Marine Drive Council which represents nine associations in the area, concurred that the refurbishment had been discussed by residents and added that they were also going to finance a smaller, more basic upgrade.

“We are stakeholders in the area and so we also have some suggestions for the way the area is being beautified. There is nothing wrong in discussing issues before you go ahead with execution,’’ she stated.

Bhatia added that the problems being faced by the MMRDA are mainly due to glitches inherent in the plan itself. The committee which changed the design of the road medians was appointed by the government, not us, he said. The problems faced by engineers due to three water pipes running under the drive are also not caused by residents, Bhatia said.

However, there are a few changes along the stretch, like where the gymkhanas are, that residents asked for. Locals also opposed some tree felling.

The heritage committee of BMC had also raised objections over the makeover, saying its approval had not been asked for despite Marine Drive being a heritage area.

Ratan Batliboi, state-appointed architect for the project, said the website, www.marinedrive.org, had been started so that all plans could be accessed by the public. He said the website ensured that there is transparency in the project and that residents are informed every deatil of the plan and the changes made in it.

Samsara Art crosses the 500 mark

Great news folks!

Samsara Art crossed the 500 paintings mark last week. On the web content is king and our best wishes go out to them. We hope that they become India's premier site for contemporary Indian art.

Samsara Art is also conduction an Art Exhibition called An Arrangement Of Colours. This is not only an online exhibition but also on being displayed at the Taj Lands End Hotel in Bandra. We wish them a grand success.