My thoughts on i.ph (as part of the blogger program)

It’s amazing how DotPH was able to come up with this blogger program.
Instead of spending on expensive advertisements, they decided to give the
opportunity to its users. Genius! Who would better know about the great
service of DotPH than its users.

What one can put in advertisements is so limited; too much information may
make the ad too crowdy. The ads would simply not be able to contain all the
information. Through information dissemination to other blog users, people
become aware of DotPH’s wonderful service.

This is precisely what MCI and Sprint did that significantly affected the
market share of the leader in the industry. They simply informed the current
consumers of the good and cheaper service; and people switched. Why? Because
it is their friends who say the service is good. Given a choice, who you
believe, a saleslady or your friend?

It’s also good for the company, less cost for advertising the service.

Just like when you watch a really good movie. You would recommend it to your
friends. You know it’s good because you yourself watched it. The difference
is that the moviehouse did not pay you to do so. Here, it’s a bonus that
DotPH gives incentives to its users.

To me, there’s nothing wrong with that as long as you do not lie just to say
something nice. It’s not difficult at all really, because users are
satisfied with the service and cool features.

My thoughts on i.ph (as part of the blogger program)

After quite some time now, I’ve posted a new set of photographs. I went to
Bacolod. And my camera is fixed already! Perfect timing. I placed over 400
(resized) photographs in a cd and the next day, I went to Ateneo (I had
class at night) to upload them to my site. The computers were very picky,
actually, they were programmed to be. I mean in some computers, you cannot
view the CD drive. In others, the drive A is not connected. In many, no
pop-ups were allowed (for safety reasons of course). The site of DotPH’s
photo gallery was designed in such a way that if you add photos, there’s a
new window that will pop-up. Same thing if you edit the title, delete a
photo, and the like. I couldn’t right click and open in a new window because
the option was in a drop down box. This almost made me go nuts. I was so
excited and yet I cannot post my photographs?!

No way.

I went back to i.Gallery and there I saw an option to add photos. I knew
there’s probably a window that would pop-up but I took my chances. Hey, I
could right click the link and open it in a new window. I can actually add
photos in another way! That’s what’s so great about DotPH. I appreciate the
way it was designed. With the different computers set up differently, I
still get to have more than one option to go through the services. If the
settings of a computer is limited and if DotPH didn’t have more than one way
to, let’s say, add a photo, then the user wouldn’t be able to add that
photo. DotPH was able to design the site in such a way that it’s flexible to
different settings.

They are able to make things more convenient for their users.

For this, I am grateful.

While uploading, I was given two options to upload the photos. I tried the
first option. to drag the photo file to the box. I didn’t count how many
exactly but I can add more than ten photos per upload. The uploading was
fast, mind you. One problem though, there was no caption registered. Or
maybe I just didn’t see it.

So I decided to use the second option. This time, there is an option whether
to put the caption below the photo uploaded. This was more simple and easier
to use. And so I did. Using 10Mbps, uploading was fast. There was automatic
resizing of the photos using my specified file size. So I didn’t have to
resize everything all over and re-upload.

DotPH continues to make the service more user friendly each time.