Website Name Change, Search Engines and Quick Quest

Hello, In this post, I would like to share 3 major updates with you and here they goes.

Change in Website Name
SrushtiSoft.com is now Srushti-Soft.com. However you should be able to access the new domain even if you enter old URL. Thanks to domain transfer setup. One thing to note that domain name in email IDs are changed to 'Srushti-Soft.com'.

Search Engines Rank for 'Quick Quest'
If you use search keywords “question paper generation software” on Google, Bing and Ask, they rank ‘Quick Quest’ at number 1 position. Whereas Yahoo puts at 10th. I am also trying search engines to suggest Quick Quest with high recommendation for other question paper related popular search keywords (Thanks to Anil, Vishwa and Priya for suggesting some on FB).

Redesigned 'Quick Quest' Product Pages
Quick Quest product pages are now with brand new look. They are now more informative with user-friendly URLs (means you just have to type 'srushti-soft.com/quickquest/story' to see success stories section) and hoping to be search engine friendly as well. When I was thinking of revamping Quick Quest product pages, from technology stand point, I wanted to use only HTML (no Javascript, flash..etc). I first thought of outsourcing this work and contacted some good web designing freelancers and companies. Their cost estimates overshoot my allotted budget. Then decided to design my own and get paid myself :) The web pages may not be fully compatible with IE6 and before, versions before Firefox 3.

So, finally, the outcome is hosted here: http://srushti-soft.com/quickquest and hoping for more and more visitors and customers for Quick Quest.

Thank you!


 

3D2F.com Editors Review Quick Quest

3d2f.com editors called Quick Quest as "the best among the like" software. Here is the full story:
http://3d2f.com/smartreviews/1-351-quick-quest-a-powerful-educator-s-tool-for-generating-question-papers-read.shtml

Quick Quest 2.0 is set to release

'Quick Quest 2.0' is ready to release for its paid customers.  The new QQ is having performance improvements over questions and answers management and few bug fixes. Below is the quick list of updates

Change Log

- The screens are more responsive (multithread) and shows proper message if any task taking longer processing time.

- The installer is smart enough to instruct users with suitable caution notes and company name is attached in all the screens (all footer line of installer screens will have 'SrushtiSoft' name) to ensure customers have got genuine product setup copy.

- The application updater is now using high responsive internal components for effective utilization of internet bandwidth to download application updates from SrushtiSoft server.

- User activity tracking and maintenance section is added (go to Admin Tools->User Accounts and click "Show All users activity" button).

- Few defect fixes reported by our customers are included.

• 'Unable to cast object....' error during question paper generation.
• Branch rename option is not rolling back if modify option is canceled by pressing 'Esc' key.
• Spell checker does not work properly if operating system language setting is other than US English (en-us)

New version will be made available soon. An update email with download link will be send to our new and existing customers.

Existing promotional customers get this new version of 'Quick Quest' completely FREE!

SrushtiSoft thank all its customers for their interest and support.

New Home Page - An attempt to move away from treditional web design

www.SrushtiSoft.com is now showcasing with new home page which is way far from traditional website design. The new page is with bigger words and it is intuitive. For simple animation, we used Microsoft's latest and growing technology 'Silverlight'. This is just a beginning, we are planning to roll-out more rich user interactive web site in future. So keep visiting us and let us know what you think at team@srushtisoft.com. 

Thanks!

SrushtiSoft Open Source: AppUpdater 2.0

Its been observed that there were quite less Application Updater components available for DotNet developer community (perhaps, popularly only two such components, Microsoft Updater Application Block and WindowsClient.net component). so we worked-out little extra and open sourced our in-house AppUpdater component on codeplex.

http://appupdater.codeplex.com/

Why should you consider to use SrushtiSoft's AppUpdater 2.0? (No, we are not competing with anyone, we are just excited to highlight AppUpdater features here.. :)

- Configuration driven: That means it does not require to study its complete architecture and write lot many lines code to integrate with your application. You just have to understand AppUpdater's 2 configuraton files. That's it!

- User Orientation: Download your update files from online in asynchronous mode along with  advertising your web site pages on updater window. 

- Integration: You can tweak AppUpdater demo modules and quickly-easily integrate with your dotnet desktop application.

- Extensible: Write custom Pre and Post update actions in your favorite dotnet language and publish, AppUpdater will run it on client machine software update is taking place.

- Simple: Yes, we follow 'Keep It Simple and Stupid (KISS)' programming approach.

We are keen to know what do you think. So download AppUpdater 2.0 and let us know your thoughts.

QQ OCR Feature - Extract Text from Scanned Images

If you have text content scanned as TIF image, Quick Quest can read it through its OCR feature integrated with question entry window. This post walk you through on how to accomplish this.

Go to question entry window




Look for an OCR button in the location shown below and click it.




OCR window will come up




Click Browse button and select the file from which you want to extract the content




Once the image is loaded, hit “Extract Text” and you are done!




You can edit extracted text if wish and finally click “Export Scanned Data” to get scanned content on Quest entry area.

Question Paper Compose and Generation

The Quick Quest window has several important yet simple to use features and this post try to highlight those in brief. You are always encouraged to reach us on our support email ID: quickquest at srushtisoft dot com to avail more help and assistance.




Generate Question Paper
Step 1: Select a subject for which you want to create a questions paper by properly choosing Faculty, Branch and Course from the drop down boxes.
Step 2: Chose one pattern from “Question Paper Pattern” list.
Step 3: Click “Generate” green button to create a question paper.
If you are able to see question IDs populated in the chart located next to the green “Generate” button, that means a new questions paper is generated and ready to secure or publish!
If Quick Quest Engine encounters any error while generating questions paper, it will show you a clear error message stating what went wrong. Please read it carefully to fix it.

Compare with Old Question Paper.
The drop down box labeled as “Compare Old Paper Dated”, lists out all previously generated and saved question papers for a selected subject. Otherwise the drop down box will be empty.
Choose a paper from Old papers list. You will see set of question numbers populated right hand side of the new questions chart and repeated question are marked with red background color.
The old papers drop down list displays previously conducted exam dates. Choosing a date entry from “Compare Old papers date” list will populate question IDs used in the questions paper distributed in the exam halls.

Create Question Paper
The “Create” button generates questions paper with the format designed in Pattern Editor and displays it. The display window allows you to apply font, size, print previewing and other formatting as per your requirement.
You can also edit the bare question paper in your favorite word processing software like MS Word. To do that, copy (CTRL+A and CTRL+C) the bare question paper, open your favorite word processing software and paste the content in a new document. Once you finish doing all formatting your word processing software, copy the whole content and paste back to Quick Quest question paper window and press OK.

Protect Question Paper
When you are done with questions paper formatting, you can now lock the paper to avoid questions paper leak.
Check “Protect Question paper till date” and press “Save”.
Now, only admin user can only able to view the question paper.