rtCamp

rtCamp’s New Site “works” in IE6 now! :D

Rahul Bansal — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:46:09 +0000

After launching new design few days back, many users asked us to fix our new design IE6.

We deliberately left our design broken in IE6 as IE6 irritated our web-designers for years. It was kind of our revenge.

Anyway… keeping in mind user feedback we decided to spend some time today to fix our site in IE6.

If you have any IE6 around you, just open our site in IE6. For those who are lucky enough NOT to have any IE6 in their vicinity, you can check the following screenshot…

p.s. This post is filed under achievements. Yes, its an achievement for us, to give IE6 treatment it deserves!

rtCamp Reincarnated!

rtCamp Reincarnated!

Rahul Bansal — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:40:04 +0000

Hello World!

After more than 6 months hard-work (in chunks, of-course), rtCampers together managed to launch rtCamp’s new portal!

We have finished most of work sometime before, but as we have used many Wordpress 3.0 feature is this new theme/portal, we had to wait till final & stable Wordpress 3.0 gets released.

Till date, needless to say, this is our best work, in terms of creativity and technologies used. jQuery & CSS3 is used extensively but special care has been taken to make sure that site works well enough on pathetic browsers like IE7.

The beauty of this entire new look is that the almost entire site works even if javascript is disabled. And nothing looks ugly even if you open this site in a browser with no support for CSS3.

Above all, this new site scores Grade-A for more than 90% pages in Y-Slow tests. And for rest it scores Grade-B.

Credits…

As a matter of the fact, every rtCamper contributed in someway to the new portal but there are some people whose names deserve special mention here.

The whole project could not have been complete with our graphic designer Umesh Katkar. His amazing photoshop skills helped us go through many alternative ideas and rough drafts.

Thanks to rtCampers and specially to our COO Ashish Singh, we got too many creative ideas for design of our new online home.

Then comes our senior developer and founding member Satosh Kamble. If you like flying clouds on our homepage or most of javascript in site, they are all done by Santosh.

If you are viewing this site in IE7 or Opera or any not-so-cool browser, they credit goes to Saorabh Kumar.

We have used many wordpress 3.0 features in this theme. I, Rahul Bansal, will keep credit for adding custom post-type support which we are using to manage our portfolio with some help from Pragati Sureka, our senior developer who is famous for staying up to date with WordPress world.

Finally, special thank to Nitun Lanjewar for spending time in adding content to our portfolio and Parshawa Nemi Jain for proof-reading as well as cleaning up my mistakes in entire web-sites content. It must have been frustrating for poor Nemi to read and correct my english on so many pages!

You can see all rtCampers here!

No donut for IE6 users….

Our team-mate Saorabh who took care of cross-bowser compatibility for IE7, opera and others was interested in taking some efforts to make this portal work in IE6 also. But since long time, we wanted to stop providing support for IE6.

As this is not a client project, we thought this is right time to join the revolution!

Leaving IE6 behind so feels good that we will definitely stop supporting IE6 for all our internal projects and we will try our best to pursue our friends, clients & associates to do the same.

Things to do…

Adding all great work we did over a year will take some time. So keep watching our portfolio here.

There may be some minor tweaks and a bug or two that we will find and fix over the time.

Then there are ongoing task of keeping our official blog updated and optimizing this site for search engine (SEO). We don’t care much about SEO in general but this new portal has very less text so doing some SEO will be good idea.

Finally…

Thank you world for giving us plenty of opportunities to server you.

We hope you like this work and will spend time to give your honest feedback. Comment form is awaiting you below!

MediaBp.com – Our New Portal for BuddyPress Media Component

Rahul Bansal — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:02:09 +0000

We are glad to let u know that we are launching a new portal for our award winning BuddyPress Media Component plugin which uses open-source Kaltura platform.

Due to growing popularity of this component, we are launching this on a dedicated domain – MediaBp.com.

Latest version of BuddyPress Media Component is compatible with BuddyPress version 1.2.x and WordPress MU version 2.9.1 or higher.

You can read complete release post here!

Links: BuddyPress Media Component | Release Post

BloggerToWp – New Portal To Help Bloggers Get Going With WordPress

Rahul Bansal — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:03:08 +0000

After helping hundreds of bloggers migrate from Blogger.com to self-hosted wordpress blogging platform with our free plugin and free tutorial, we are glad to announce launch of our new portal – BloggerToWp.com, Blogger To WordPress Migration Professional Service.

Apart from 100% search-engine friendly migration, we will be giving premium services like migrating images from Blogger.com to your WordPress server.

Check out portal itself for more details!

ILoveThisDomain.com – rtCamp is in domain business now!

Rahul Bansal — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:12:02 +0000

With launch of ILoveThisDomain.com today, rtCamp has entered into domain registration officially.

We wanted to launch this domain sometime in May-June 2010, but we received an email from our service provider mentioning that they are running a promo till March 31st, during which many gTLD’s and cTLD’s will be available at discounted price.

We thought its good to pass-on this to our readers so we launched this portal in hush-rush. You can get discounted pricing like:

.COM for $5.99
.IN, CO.IN, .ORG.IN for $3.99
.INFO for $6.99

You can check complete pricing table here.

In near feature, we will be relaunching it with added features like payments via netbanking (specially for Indian customers), better user interface, etc. Accounts created by you will be moved to relaunched portal automatically.

Link: I Love This Domain

rtCamp is a winner of Kaltura Contest!

rtCamp is Celebrating its 1st Birthday!

Rahul Bansal — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:56:55 +0000

Last year we announced the foundation of rtCamp. rtCamp is a web development company started by Rahul Bansal and later on I (Harsh Agrawal) joined rtCamp. In this one year we have covered lots of milestone and lots of new services and products are in the development stage.

For people who don’t know about rtCamp, it’s a wordpress development company based in Pune, India. We are specialized in Wordpress theme, Wordpress plugins, Buddypress, Wordpress MU and anything you can imagine with Wordpress.

Apart from this, rtCamp runs a blog network – rtBlogs, which runs popular blogs Devils’ Workshop, Shoutmeloud, Themepremium, Orkutdiary, Cricktalks, facebooknol and so on. Our motto is to provide a platform where any one can come write and make money for it. We already introduced revenue sharing model for everyone.

We are increasing our editors and writers list and we are still in the process of hiring many new authors and bloggers around the globe. You already know our Chief-editor Aditya Kane and newly joined editor Ruchi parikh.

Talking about achievement of rtCamp, we have done a great business and some killer products has been developed by us. One of them is Buddypress Kalture media component. We also win a prize for our BuddyPress media component.

We are partnered with some big companies for Wordpress theme development, but due to NDA, we can’t disclose their names and products which we have created.

What’s in the future of rtCamp…

Talking about rtBlogs and rtCamp together, we have some big projects and ideas in the pipeline which we are working on and some of them are on the edge of finishing curve.

Blogging community for bloggers
Different Blogs on all niche
Domain Provider
Web hosting provider
Wordpress maintenance service portal
Wordpress SEO
Advertisement solutions
Wordpress and Wordpress MU support portal
Buddypress Themes and plugins development.
Various Wordpress related services

We are going slow, but we are building strong foundation so that we can maintain our work-quality with increasing number of client base.

Right now we have a team of 20 members. We wish to have 100 members in our rtCamp family on next anniversary.

Thank you all for helping us “camp” successfully!

rtBlogs Will Blog With ShoutMeLoud Blog Network

Rahul Bansal — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:29:41 +0000

Its pleasure to announce merger of top Indian blogs as well as officially introduce rtCamp’s new CBDO (Chief Business Development Office) Harsh Agrawal.

Harsh Agrawal who is famous for his blog ShoutMeLoud and already inspired many bloggers around the globe, will now lead rtBlogs network with following blogs in network:

List of blogs in our network is expected to rise soon.

Apart from leading rtBlogs – Harsh will be leading lead business development at rtCamp.

Sounds like a lot of work, huh! Yeah it is!

Hope with this association, we can prove instrumental in growth of blogging as matured industry in India.

rtCamp is a winner of Kaltura Contest!

Rahul Bansal — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:07:14 +0000

Its great new year start for rtCamp!

Our developer, Kapil Gonge’s hard-work has been paid off finally! He has been working on buddypress-kaltura plugin from last 4-5 months.

Today Zohar from Kaltura officially send us email notifying about us on being winner of Kaltura Frenzy Challenge.

If you want to see plugin developed by Kapil, check this!

Wish u all a happy and rocking new year btw!

Welcome to rtCamp!

rtCamp’s New Office Pics!

Rahul Bansal — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:18:12 +0000

Vivek Jain & Ashish Singh

rtMeeting!

Rahul Bansal - Pretending to work!

rtCamp - Developer Room

Aditya Kane - Editor-in-Chief, rtBlogs

Vijay - A unique rtCamper!

rtCamp - Devil in his workshop!

rtCamp - Server Room

rtCamp - Mini Kitchen

rtCafe - Lunch Time

rtCafe - Waiting for hungry rtCampers!

rtCafe - Graffiti Board!

Our "still" under-construction office… :|

Rahul Bansal — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:14:28 +0000

It took longer than expected… Hope all work will be completed soon in a week…

For Deepak, DW fans and everyone who requested latest pics of our new office, here they are…

Our under-construction office…