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Ecommerce Website Design: General Awareness

Aaron one of my good friend and colleague has started his own ecommerce business having more than 5+ years of experience and need to hire ecommerce Website Design Company that helps in growing his business within short time in order to get good global presence and visibility too.

After analyzing and searching a good website design company he has decided to hire a company who is professional only in giving ecommerce website design with a good reputation. That helps in getting good ROI from ecommerce website.

Aaron being smart enough made one silly mistake, he had given full authority to website designer to think over his website and design for him, with every aspect needed such as marketing, hosting and many things. As you know professional person is a person who is having expertise in only one thing on which he/she is working on. Professional can never be professional other than his/her profession.

Being not professional other than ecommerce website designing he failed to deliver good result in marketing. Designing is apart from marketing job, once the designer has given design layout of website, marketing person will approve this layout and further designing process will carry on. Good and professional website needs proper planning and implementation to get success in every means. As old saying, designers can never plan as much as marketer can plan. Here are some points that marketing person should be clear with before handling over to web designer.

1. Ultimate Goal

2. Secondary Goal

3. Major Areas of Website

4. Targeted Region and Audience

5. Mandatory Task performed by User

6. Unique Display of Your Companies Product

I had mentioned points that are not sufficient, but some of the important point that are to be kept in mind when you plan for your ecommerce website.

What are the reasons behind the popularity of the smart phone application?

As per present situation, smart phones are now affordable for most of the people. The interactive and useful application of the smart phone makes it more popular in the market. When its application by downloading comes with smart phones then smart phone is not becoming the device for only telecommunication because most of the people are using smart phone especially because of its fantastic application to treat it as a marketing tool for them.

Because of below popular trends in most of the smart phones, makes them in demand in the people :

Application for the gamers :  This is the most favorite application for the young generation but also for gaming lovers because it helps to remain fresh and relax by playing games because this application is always help to do fun anytime.

Affordability : As  per today situation, many of the different companies are manufacturing the smart phones so it is not too hard for the customer to buy it.

Companies as trend-setters  : Before some time, very few countable companies were available in the market for the smart phone application but as per current situations, now lots of web development company including corporate company are involved in creating smart phones application as per business requirements.

Increase in the growth level : Smart phone application business is increasing day by day because as per current time, the developing and downloading rate of smart phone application has increased three times in the comparison of the last few years.

Website Designing Company and Their Growing Importance

Website Designing and Development is one of the booming activity of globalization and it is needed too. When you are creating website for your business you should keep two things in mind.

1.       Choose right Website Designing Company

2.       Utilize Maximum Marketing Strategy

Points mentioned above is very much important and should be taken seriously. When you are aiming to get high ROI and want to generate much revenue from it, you must hire professional website Development Company in order to achieve desired goal. Some of the points to be taken care off are mentioned below.

1.       Experience and Work Portfolio: - When you choose website development company you must see companies experience and work folio in order to get and idea whether they will be able to fulfill your business needs effectively?

2.       Fundamental and Base of Company: -Whether the company you are hiring is using upto date tools and method for designing or not? Website Designed is SEO friendly or not? If they won’t be able to provide same you can leave that company and search for another company that fulfills these criteria.

3.        Company’s Repute: - Reputed Company will more focus on after service facility in order to maintain strong everlasting relationship so as to capture market as much as possible. So analyze their past client that helps in getting review of the company you are deciding to hire.

4.       Services Offered: - You must see what how good services they are providing once after completion of website designing and development. Because good and reputed company will definitely offer well after service facility, so as to maintain your website.

I want to say one thing that well reputed company will cost high, but it will be the cost for first time only. Considering above mentioned point you will be able to judge and selection of the company will be much easier and you can go for that company.  

How to test Android Apps on Virtual Device - Emulator?

Android is the popular software source for mobile device which includes an android operating system. It is an open source program. Android platform is using the JAVA programming language and it also make the use of Android SDK for the development of applications. It becomes necessary for the developers to get android SDK without which performing the task of android app development is just impossible.

Android SDK contain a virtual mobile device called emulator which can be operating on the computer. This android emulator replicates all the features and functions of android mobile phones but you cannot able to operate it as an actual mobile device. As same the mobile device, it has also options of control keys and navigation and a developer can operate it through computer mouse or keyboard. It allows a developer to type, develop and main test the applications without using the physical device.

In android emulators also, there are different versions available on many website. And such websites, platform versions are shown along with its version code. For instance,

Android 2.0 – Eclair,
Android 2.3 – Gingerbread,
Android 3.0 – Honeycomb,
Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich (latest).

For testing the applications in easy and appropriate manner, a developer can make changes in configuration of Android Virtual Device (AVD). He must create more than one AVD configurations and in each configuration you need to indicate android platform for operating emulator and also need to indicate the hardware tools and emulator cover that he wants to utilize in application development. Once when developer’s app is operating on the emulator it can utilize the service of android platform to raise other android apps, access browser, enjoy music and audio and lots more. On commencing this emulator, a developer needs to indicate relevant AVD configuration.

While developing and testing an application, a developer can install and run an application in Android emulator. Or he can indicate the loading AVD configuration and he can establish the alternatives he wants to apply in this regard.

Website Development Company: Key Success in Ecommerce Solutions

Website has become a convenient display window for your business products and that too globally. As you know physical global marketing is an expensive way and every business owner can’t afford to do that, so website is one of the best source through which you can get global presence and can sell your business product.

Business website represents your business impression, so in order to make good impression your website would be capable enough to make good impression. In order to create good impression and to make good impressive website you can hire Website Development Company that designs and develop impressive website for your business and helps to achieve success.

When you start with website design you should have specific goal and scope decided, and accordingly you should design and develop your business website by doing this you will get maximum benefit from that. Here are some points that are to be considered while designing your website.

SEO Friendly Design and Development: - When you design a website you should validate your website design whether your web development/ design  is SEO friendly or not. Because when you are creating online store you need to do SEO for same so SEO friendly web development / design is must. There are many benefits of having SEO friendly website design, so you must implement SEO friendly design.

Navigation: - Navigation is one of the important parts of your website. It should be easy enough to find something that user wants. General tendency of user is to surf website that are easy and simple, not difficult enough to find something.

Content Management System: - At the time of designing you should choose appropriate content management system that help in improving your website and user friendly navigation. It will be easy enough to maintain website if you use Content Management System for your website.

It’s very simple if your want good website to be developed and want to have standard ecommerce solution then you can hire ecommerce website Design and development Company who have enough experience in providing ecommerce solutions for various business needs.

Efficient Usage of Ecommerce Website

When business owner creates ecommerce website his main goal is to generate traffic on his site and after generating huge traffic his next step is to convert those traffic into sales. So aiming traffic, business owner can either go for various kind of marketing strategy such as Internet Marketing, so that he can get desired amount of traffic.

Next come conversion, from traffic to sales. This step is very crucial in ecommerce website because the ultimate goal is sales. You can increase sales by proper usage of design elements and providing wide range of products on your website. Because if once user doesn’t find the needed product on your site then they will divert from your site, so you should take care of this point very seriously.

Your ecommerce website design must be attractive and eye catching. You need to place right product at right place with enough explanation for same product. Because image only won’t work to convert product into sales, so along with image put enough description explaining the product displayed in image. Some points that are to be included while designing ecommerce website are:-

1.       Include Feedback form after transaction.

2.       Ask to give Reference

The advantage of keeping feedback form is you can improve your website and what the user is facing you can come to know, so according to feedback you can fix the issues and can get hassle free operating to your website users.

Advantage to ask for reference is to increase popularity of your website. At initial level you need marketing but after some time reference play an important role in spreading you website and even you can get benefit of mouth publicity.

Increase your sales by online website

Today, the website has become an important part of any type of business whether it is small of big. It is the moral fiber of any online business. If you really want to spread your business all over the world, you first need to have online business website. Effective website design can give global exposure to your business and increase the traffic gradually on your website. Regardless of your industry or the size of your business, you can force your website to find more new customers, hold your existing customers and convert more leads into sales.

First of all, you must have professional looking website with good and prefect navigation type and faster loading time because it will create positive impression of your company to your visitors. You need to inform them about who you are, what your business offers and how you can help. You need to provide your visitors with fresh content on a continual basis. It will be beneficial to create a steady stream of traffic to your website. Providing some helpful instructions or information about the products on your website, you can convince your visitors that you are offering the product or service they need. People always keep you in mind if you will keep in touch with them. So regular newsletters and updates to your website can help you better communicate with your customers.  It’s much easier to sell to customers who already know you and trust on you, so keep in touch with them and on stay top of their mind. Your website is open 24/7 hours, so your customers can interact with you at any time they want.

Having a website for your small business is great thing, but make sure your website has an easy navigation and quality content that makes communication with customers easy and still have it better.

Word press web designing - A trend to get most out of search engines

Word press being an open source is one of the best platforms to publish content. Though started as a blog publishing tool but now emerged as a platform to even host online store or even run entire corporate website, which can be accomplished through word press web designing. Nowadays many templates entirely build for word press is made available that can make the entire process of customization as an ease. One can even get the template customized in accordance with their business or personal needs, it offers unique and creative ideas of designing, one can even expect all functionality of content management with many lucrative features from the same. Recently I have seen many of corporate websites even integrating their website on word press platform, there seems Google and major search engines have shown positive sign towards such companies. Even the Google spam head Mr. Matt Cutt has shown positive sign for those word press users, though it don’t mean that if you switch to word press you will be at top of search the next day. But the architecture of Word press is such that facilitates various search engines to easily get through those websites. This is the major reason some of webmaster have seen to switch to Word press.

Apart from that stuff, there are people who use word press due to following reasons:

Themes: This is one of the most important features of word press, as being an open source many developers are involved in creation and distribution of those colorful themes, by integrating their signature in terms of resource links. Here one can get number of free themes along with some premium options too.

Customization as an Ease: Customization is what each web designer desires for and those stuff is made available at Word press. One can easily change the look of the entire website by making necessary changes with their programming language and CSS.

Free plug-in and Applications: Again at word press you can expect free plug-in which will increase the effectiveness of the platform. Free plug-ins such as Meta tags, 301 redirection and many such plug-ins will facilitates all those server and search engine related things as an ease, whereas in another case you must have some technical knowledge to handle those situation.

Let us conclude the talk by stating that Word press should be utilized more than for blogging purpose if you don’t hold enough technical skill. It can provide you with more than content publishing.

What to consider while hiring magento developers

Magento is considered to be one of the best ecommerce platforms to manage and operate an online business successfully. Though there are number of magento developers are available but selection of skilled, experienced and professional magento developers is must.

Some of the below listed things will help you to find a magento developer whom you can entrust your development requirements:

You can always find and judge the best magento developers from online source. Make a Google search by any of relevant keywords which will fetch you with number of magento developers in terms of listed companies. Make sure to select few good looking companies and start looking to their portfolio. Such things will help you to better judge the core capabilities of the developer and you can even expect same level of commitment for your project. Once you have a filtered list of developers, all you can do is start looking for some of reviews and accordingly try to approach developers, if possible arrange a personal meeting with them and try to gather some of information about their past records. Let them know what you want in terms of development process and what you want to accomplish from the same, here you can get an idea about the possible strengths and weaknesses of those developers.

Once you have come across with 3 to 4 magento developers, now all you can do is ask for references, this will help you to discover the most trustworthy among all; even you can go a step ahead to compare their charges with level of service provided by them. Here never try to compensate quality for low cost as this will lead you to increased maintenance cost.

If you have low budget for your entire development process, all you can do is you can very well go for freelance developers. There are number of such developers who provide you with quality development services at affordable rates as they don’t have to follow any strict management policies or even not have to incur additional infrastructure cost. Posting in Job listing websites such as Freelancer, Odesk can even help you to get things done within budget and that too without compromising the quality.

 

Three Brainstorming For Hiring iPhone App Developer

Along with iPhone, the iPhone application development is also growing at an exponential rate just because the number of iPhone users is increasing and this rate is increasing because of the user friendly feature and functionality as well as the amazing internet accessibility of iPhone. The iPhone users are interested to access internet through the iPhone device that they have.

So, having a website compatible with the operating system and platform of the iPhone is nowadays becomes the first priority otherwise it is not going to be displayed on the screen of the iPhone. This clearly implies that better is to have iPhone application instead of losing customers and this is where you need to hire the services of an iPhone app developer.

Prior to put step forward, there are some key points that should be considered first.

• Prior to discover appropriate iPhone app developer, it becomes important to analyze and study the need and demand of the application. One should need to understand from all the aspects such as, is the application going to be of any specific need to the iPhone users? Is this application going to be an appealing in future?

• One must see the mirror application of the ongoing application such as is there any other similar application already on the internet? If it is so then you need to make an ongoing application extra weighted by putting something more than the current application. So, the application should going to be as unique as possible.

• Don’t step up in haste for selecting an iPhone application because there are many phony developers in the market who make big claims of offering the best service but you double check the testimonials provided on iphone app developer site and ensure that he has genuine experience of application development and also have sounds technical expertise.

Thus, before jumping into the pool of hiring the iPhone app developer, given three recommendations must be satisfied.