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Magento Customization Services – Spinx Web Design LA

Magento is rapidly growing open-source platform aimed to provide full control and flexibility over online store with efficiency. It has many advantages such as multi store facility, multi-lingual and multi-currency, single order to multiple addresses can be served, included SEO features and many more advantages. I would like to discuss Customization services of Magento

1. Magento Website Development: - When it comes to website development, Magento is the preferred platform by online store owners. As it is open-source, it is cost-effective. The main advantage of developing website in Magento is you can build easy, efficient and secure online store.

Development becomes easy, as magento offers functionality in the form of extensions and plugins, so whatever the functionality is needed you just need to download extension or plugins and install it. You will be able to use same functionality within few minutes. You can even develop online store but if you need secure enough website then you need to hire professional magento developers that helps in giving full secured website but before that need to consider things before hire magento developers  is also important.

2. Magento Plug-in Development: - As you know magento functionality can be availed using magento plug-ins and almost all the functionality plug-in is available and if not then even you can develop magento plug-ins easily. I would like to list some of the plugins that are useful.

• Canonical URL
• Fooman GA Plus
• Auto Cross Sell Products
• Rewards and Points
• Shop by Brands
• Advanced Sitemaps
• Lazzymonks Twitter

3. Magento SEO: - Global presence and visibility is must when you aim to success in online business. You should undergo optimizing online store with proper SEO strategies that helps in getting global presence and visibility. You should focus on product display & presentation, structure of website that helps in getting good rank in search engine. Here are some SEO plugins lists

• Yoast MetaRobots
• MailChimp Ecommerce360 Reporting
• Category Admin Product Tab
• Product Gallery Importer
• Lazzymonks Twitter

 We also offer customization of

• Theme & Template Designing
• ERP Integration
• Wordpress Integration
• Store Development
• Migration Services
• Maintenance of All Services

We are experience magento web development company having expert team of programmers and developers that helps us in delivering efficient and on time delivery of product.

Features Provided by Magento Hosting Companies

Day by day popularity of Magento Platform is increasing as ecommerce website is being developed more and more. Magento being popular they started Magento hosting services that helps to host Magento website on Magento hosting. There are many companies who provide this hosting but that thing is you have to choose the wise hosting company to get success in online store.

When you are running online store you need to have quick and fast hosting for the transactions to be completed quickly. So you need good hosting, when you use magento as platform it needs dedicated servers to get quick response for transactions to be happened. Here are some features that are provided by Magento Hosting

1. Reliable Hosting: - With reliable hosting you can assure your availability 24*7, because you never know when customer opens the store to buy the things and so availability is must. To achieve key to success there should be 3 good software systems, up to date hardware and dedicated hosting if you are using Magento Platform.

2. Security: - There should not be loop holes in ecommerce website and each page should be secured with SSL to ensure secure transaction process and that helps in building trust in customers. One way is to secure is PCI scans using anti virus software. Another way is to opt for dedicated servers that help in securing financial as well as personal data of customers.

3. Payments Options: - Magento hosting offers multiple payment options that help in paying for several currencies that makes online shopping internationally. Payment methods are constantly updated to give flexibility to the users, so that user doesn’t bounce back due to payment methods are not available.

4. User-friendliness: - Provide user friendly website so that there are chances to convert visitors into consumer. User-friendly store will help in getting success; key areas are open cart system, product appearance, easy and secure payment methods.  User must not be prompted till he/she desired to pay transaction amount otherwise there are chances to bounce back leaving the cart intact.

Secret behind every successful online business owner is its platform and hosting of same. You can go for Magento Development to build you online store and efficient hosting.

Guidelines offered by Third-Party Developer for Android App Development

The way of using mobile or smart phone of every people is totally changing as the new and advanced technology developed in the mobile industry. Nowadays, these mobile and smart phones are not remains only the communicable devices as after the introduction of mobile applications they can be used for diverse purposes. For instance, a user can go for entertaining app in his free time and a strange can use GPS based or travel app when he wants to search or reach to particular place.

Many people have heard that the app developers are making good carrier within short time by performing the task of Android application development and they thought that this is possible because the app developers had good technical knowledge and skills for application development but they were wrong. The fact is that they have capacity and organized to create apps that become popular as installation of such apps adds extra value to users mobile users. On the other side, you don’t need to concern about the task of android applications development if you are not enough expert and efficient in same regard. This is because the app developers or experts can efficiently handle this technical task and they can implement your concept in application development.

If you are going for the selection of experts or developers who can implement this concept for you, then it is better to go for the developers or experts of some professional company. If you are giving any project to the company, you must be ensure that there will be someone who can help in your query and report to you on completion of every small task in case when the developer or technical expert is not available. Moreover, well-managed companies or firms are organized to attain extra in limited period of time as each and every task is distributed to different people according to their skills and capacity.

While deciding a company, you must be careful because there are also some companies which only give only fake promises and try to cheat the company. Along with this, you must be careful about the financial condition of your company or firm.

Web development as per SEO requirements

Wait, are you going for developing your website? Do you have any plan of its promotion in your mind? Are you developing it for your targeted users? Are you developing your website for increasing your revenue through online medium? If all this questions related to answer of “Yes” then you have to develop your site keeping those Search engine requirements into consideration. This means you have to develop your site which is search engine friendly so search engines can find your site and get listed in their database and by the way helps you to reach your targeted users.

Web development is now become so easy in this raising technology era. You can simply create your website through many CMS platforms but if you don’t create it SEO friendly then it is totally worthless for you. Your website is the medium to reach your prospective customers so if you have a website; you definitely need it to be a friend of search engines. Search engines increases visibility of your site to your prospects and give you a global presence. Hence it is quite necessary to make it search engine friendly. Following are some key aspects for making your website search engine friendly.

• Domain name selection – This is the first key features for getting good ranking in search engines. You have to choose a domain name according to your targeted industry and product; even you can choose a domain name in accordance with your targeted keywords.
• Content – After buying domain name you have to be ready with your website content. Content is the king in SEO so make sure that you have a unique content because if your content is matching with your competitor’s website content then you never get ranking in search engines because search engines believe that you copied the content of them. Let’s create your content by professional content writer.
• Headings – In web development, Headings plays a big role. By using proper heading in your content you can make it aesthetic. Also, proper headings make the job easy of search engines spider.
• Website structure – Your website structure can affect your optimization a lot. Your website structure involves your website’s font, color, navigation and many other things. Prepare a well structured website so search engines can easily recognize your content and get it properly indexed in their database. Also, create an easy navigation throughout website, this will help the users to easily find the information and also gives the right direction to search engines.
•  Graphics – Finally, a good looking website attract the users but keep in mind that search engines doesn’t like the Flash. Yes, search engine doesn’t index the flash content so if possible we have to avoid flash coding in web development. Also, in each images we have to put <alt> and <title> tag so search engines easily identify the images.

All of above components are using in SEO friendly web development. As content is the king in SEO you have to update your website content repeatedly so search engine’s spiders come back to your website again and again and by the way increase in indexing process will help you to provide updated information to search engines.

A journey from Simple web design to Custom web design

The history of the Internet is short, but so much innovative within short time. It has drastically changed how the days have changed. A good thing, internet has created thousands of profession like SEO marketing, online telemarketing, freelance writing, blogging and affiliates and web design. It is true that web design has been with us from past few years but at present it becomes a most important factor in the internet medium and in our lives as well. Can we imagine the internet without any animations, graphics, images, fancy text, and background music? It’s look scary when we imagine it for a while.

With the great innovation of HTML in 90s, we were being able to see the website with some graphics. Once upon a time, developers would create HTML pages by typing in code for each page that was to be part of a web site. This type of website called a static website which has to be developed only by web developers. After this era there are so many improvement has been done in the web development sector and nowadays Dynamic websites capture the market of web development. First of all we must have to understand the difference between Static and Dynamic websites. In a Static website, Developers have to create HTML pages one by one and all the pages are interlinked to each others. In a Dynamic website, developers have a more flexibility means if they want to change something in website then they have to only change a single file and output reflects to entire site.

This journey becomes so much interesting while it drives us to the simple view to aesthetic view. By developing website which is most attractive and easy to use, can boost your business and also creates a good credibility of website in the users mind. All those stuffs can be possible through custom web design implementation.

Make Some Time To Look At Crowd Pleasuring Android Phones

Android application is gradually becoming more and more demanding and therefore android phone is housing in the most of the top selling mobile phones as a primary fuel of the cell phone working.

Here some of the top phones are introduced which use android as a back end platform.

Motorola Quench:

The Motorola Quench is one of the top android based phones in the series. Basically this is the later model of Motorola but has been re-introduced with the Android operating system. There are total of 8 Motorola models and quench is the one from them in which android system is run with the amazing features and functionality.

Features & Benefits:

• High definition 320 x 480 screen
• Use Motorblur Technology
• Better social networking experience
• Equipped with Wi-Fi & GPS facility
• Five Mega Pixel Camera
• Numerous user applications

HTC Desire:

This android based phone is well loveable by people and one of the best pleasing phone in the series. The handset used in this phone is Nexus One which is developed and designed by Google. Actually this phone is the improved version or upgrade model of the original one.

Features & Benefits:

• Amoled WVGA enabled 4 inch display
• Android enable snapdragon processor
• Ability to use Adobe Flash
• Touch screen technology
• Optical joystick & Track pad

 T-Mobiles G2 Touch:

This mobile phone is the outcome of G1, which was the first mobile phone with Android operating system by Google. With Sleek, stylish, intelligent and customizable screen features this has become more demanding than its former model.

Features & Benefits:

• Pop-out physical QWERTY keyboard
• 320 x 480 multi touch TFT display
• Android 1.5 & Qualcomm MSM7200A  Technology
• 5 Mega Pixel Capacity Camera
• Long lasting battery

So, you can be availed with this current flow of android and can be beneficial by offering android application development service that is best compatible on these crowd pleasing android smart phones.

Beneficial Magento Plugins for Business

Time and technology is running fast now days and people too are running behind them, to have their presence in the market. If they will not run along with time & technology then they will be out of the market. Business areas are diverting to online ventures and grown importance of having global visibility and presence. You need to have strong presence when you are dealing online and to get the same you can get using Magento Ecommerce Solutions. I would like to share some of the important features that Magento CMS offers many unique features that are beneficial for business. They are as follows.

1. Manage Multiple Store: - If you are having multiple store in multiple city and country you can easily manage, all stores using single admin panel. This is one of the major benefits of Magento CMS. Even you just need to have single database for all stores that are connected. This helps in maintaining easily & flexibly.

2. Payments Gateways: - Magento Development offers more then 50 payment gateways through which you can complete payment process. This offers more flexibility to customers in transaction payment. Recently Magento Enterprise has also integrated PayPal and Authorize.Net payment methods.

3. Plugins & Themes: - Magento has huge collection of plugins, you can just download and install according to your needs. If plugins are not available you can hire Magento Developers and get it developed. Design themes are really very easy to install or you can even customize according to your need.    

4. Order Management: - This is the new feature that Magento has just released in Enterprise edition. Magento has changed order management, so as to get transparent control over online store. Many options are also extended such as you can add product to wish-list and wish-list to cart and same in reverse manner. Order management has also improved status of transaction such as new, pending, payment, cancelled, complete, waiting and many more, so that admins can have good control over orders.

There are various Magento Plugins available in Magento Open Source CMS but these 4 are the beneficial plugins for every business dealing online.

How to develop the website that to attract attention of the people?

As per current situation, to develop the website with attractive design is little bit challenging work to grab the attention of the visitors / people on the website because there are lots of websites are available in the market but few are succeeding to gain attention of the people. Website will be personal or professional one, there is not a matter for the attention of the visitors.

Owner of the website feel very bad when any of the visitor come on the site and will immediately leave the site. The reason behind it is because of the duplicate and non relative content, bad clarity of images as well as for un unique layout of the website. So by changing them in to unique and fresh content, sharp images and unique format of the website design will help to increase the click of the visitors on the site.

Always, the format and theme which you select for the site will remain based on the website’s main purpose because people/visitor always expects to know website’s purpose from its homepage. Some of the web development company or web designer makes mistake by putting so many banners, links and blinking text on the website to grab attention of the website because sometimes these things irritate visitors on the site. Simple website will gain more attention of the visitors on the site in the comparison of the overloaded website. Always try to make that type of website which looks interactive with the help of its fantastic functionality.

Iphone Game development – An innovative gaming platform

Iphone Game development looks more likely to rule the next generation of mobile gaming industry. As per research it appears as many of them have first adopted Iphone mobile device in which they ever have played mobile Game on go. Besides these iphone is considered to be versatile platform where many task can be accomplished as an ease. One can have an access to phone, music player and game player all at one platform – this may be the basic reason for its wide adoptability. Now those end users don’t have to carry more than one device. Such proud owners always have an access to gaming platform while they are waiting either for bus or are traveling a long distance, they can always take benefit of their iphone device.

Looking to this wide adoptability of Iphone mobile device number of iphone game developers are now actively involved in iphone game development as they find it lucrative market. They feel there is huge prospect in future for all those iphone game development and even they believe Iphone mobile being already ruling the market it will be wise to target this platform. Many such research has been done in iphone gaming industry and accordingly they found that all such games which requires huge time span are not being played more instead of games requires less than 30 minute. Looking to all these number of attractive games available on app store is keeps on increasing for all those Iphone mobile users.

Businesses on one hand finds it profitable to advertise through this medium as such mobile device is sure to be carried by owner every walking minute of their day. So it seems only a medium by which a business can reach those customers throughout the day. Looking to all these I can definitely say there is always a huge prospect for all those iphone game developer and even business involved in providing services of iphone game development.

How to select a true Company for the Development of Android App?

Every technical person knows that developing an application or software for any mobile platform is not so simple. The user-interface functions and programming languages are different for diverse mobile platforms, moreover every mobile apps development services requires sufficient level of knowledge and skills for the successful accomplishment of this task. Fortunately, there are lots of companies introducing in the mobile market who are offering the application services for every mobile platform such as iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Symbian. In this post, we are going to make discussion which helps you in selecting the best and true company which is sufficient in handling the charge of Android application development.

Before outsourcing the programming service, you need to make sure about whether the internal programming or app developer team will be able to complete the task of app development or not. In this regard, you may be able to save money if you are appointing the internal app developers or programmers who are aware of programming language of this mobile platform. Nowadays, there are many mobile applications development companies which are providing the best service for every platform. Therefore, you can easily figure down the list of companies and use it as guide to select one who is ready to undertake your task in your budget.

If you have decided to develop an application for Android platform then have to consider some points then you can get through your best application very easily. One can check which having best features and offer easiness for users. Then after you can go and search for those companies who already developed or can able to develop such apps and complete your project task as per your requirements.

It is not so complex to find the list of companies on the internet that offers the application development service for android platform. This can be considered as supportive elements for those who don’t have any idea about which company is the best to appoint. There are many websites which helps you in this regard and which also provides references for such companies. In this way, you will be able to visit the official sites of some companies and able to see their past performance and can select accordingly.