Category: Web Development

As we all know, WordPress is the most preferred platform for creating blogs. Every new release of WordPress versions comes with new features that make blog creation an easier process.

What we will discuss is about the latest feature of WordPress 4.0. Yes, recently a new feature is added to this current WordPress version. This feature is Language Chooser. Now, it becomes easy to use WordPress in n number of languages with this feature and any one can select the language that is easily understood.

A WordPress user just needs to select the language and WordPress will do the rest things including the installation process as. Here are some functions that will make this feature easy to use, some are newly introduced and some existing features are updated.

A list of these functions is given below:

• translations_api(): This function relies on plug ins API or themes API function and generates transalations from WordPress Translation API. The first command $type must be either core, a theme or a plugin . For additional arguments, $args command is used.

  Let’s understand this with an example:
  $args [version], this command applies to all types. An attribute “slug” must be set to different theme and plug in types.

• wp_get_available_translations(): Another function used to get multiple translations for is wp_get_available_ translations. This is a wrapper for translations_api and provides basic translations for the latest WordPress version that you have installed. The API result is available for 3 hours.

  When the language button is selected and Continue is clicked, the selected language pack is downloaded by the WordPress in the background. This is done with a function called wp_download_language_pack() with the support of Automatic_Upgrader_Skin & Language Pack Upgrader.

  Translations are installed very soon so it is necessary to improve the existing “load_default_textdomain() functions. It supports an optional $locale parameter to constantly switch among various transactions.

• WPLANG Option: This option is set in single sites and is populated on upgrade that is based on the value of WPLANG constant which is now disfavoured. This new function wp_dropdown_languages() has taken the place of mu_dropdown_languages() that have many issues such as no support to the variants of the same language. ( like English UK, English USA) . The new drop down menu has lots of language translations with translation API.

Other Translation updates:

In the previous WordPress version 3.7, Language Pack Upgrader was the new feature introduced for the first time. Using this feature, unparalleled translation updates were made to run once a theme or plug in was installed or upgraded. Now, why these updates are required?

The main purpose is to get up to date translations for the theme or plug in you have installed. All out dated translations are updated to the new ones to stretch the fact that you have a file system connection.
In this WordPress version 4.0, asynchronous updates are unavailable and these can be manually disabled using this function async_update_translation.

Take Away:

We strive hard to keep our visitors updated with the current updates of the IT sector and our today’s blog, we believe has provided an in depth information about the new feature of newly released WordPress version. In order to get familiar with this current version, you can get in touch with our WordPress development professionals at Softqube Technologies.

Every year we see some changes in the IT industry as well as its related sectors such as Web development, application development, eCommerce etc. 2014 has been the year of constant updates , more unique ideas and trends that help any business to connect with its customers in a better way and provide better user experience.

Let’s Have Glance on Web Development Trends in 2014

• Mobile Cloud Technology: This is one of the top trends of 2014. Even though, mobile technologies have limited memory, storage capacity as compared to laptops & desktops when combined them with cloud computing, the storage as well as data processing occurs outside the mobile device.

  Mobile devices lack in storage i.e. they provide less storage as compared to other devices and this seems to be one of the greatest barriers whereas cloud computing renders unlimited storage capacity in terms of gigabytes and terabytes and it can be any storage form including Google Drive, Drop box or Sky drive.

  The combination of cloud computing with mobile provides better data synchronization, enhanced reliability and scalability. It will also increase the ease of integration and gives the benefit to access the data anytime anywhere.

• HTML 5 – the Most Preferable Web Development Platform: Among various app development platforms available in the market, HTML is the strongly preferred application development platform useful for developing complex as well as simple web applications. Customer centric, Highly Interactive Web Applications can be created using this platform along with JavaScript and CSS3, two most well known programming languages.
• Mobile Device Management: It is an estimate that till the year 2018, number of people handling business on the go via mobile devices will increase to an extent. Not going so far in the future, here we can see most of the employees perform their daily tasks via mobile devices.

  So, it is apt to have mobile device management as a solution that helps to secure, administer and render assistance to wireless devices that are used in the entire organization. There are some organizations that are already using such Mobile Device Management in the organization; it is to be aggressively adopted in 2014.

  Mobile device management offers a secure environment for sensitive and confidential corporate data as well as resources.

• Robust & Perceptive Web Design: As per a traffic report, it is seen that website traffic has increased by 28% more in 2013 as compared to 2012 and it will still increase till the end of the year 2014. Compared to mobile websites, responsive web designs have taken the charge and as result, responsive web designs are in huge demand.
   
  Developing a responsive web design is a cost effective way to develop websites that respond to various screen resolutions. It simply means that a single website is developed that can be displayed on various devices.

  2014 is the year that will see extreme growth in the development of responsive web designs for all platforms as this process of creating a website design saves time, money and resources.

Conclusion

Now, it’s time to act and get involved with the latest technology trends to meet the customer demands. So, if you are the owner of any business and wish to get a Responsive web design developed on any platform such as PHP then experts at Softqube Technologies, a Reputed PHP Web Development Company are always eager to help you. Discuss your needs with us today !!!

In the huge crowd of eCommerce softwares, it is difficult to select the one that can be useful for developing your online store. This is a more difficult decision for those who are new to this field. Our today’s blog is for those who are eager to have an online store yet are confused about which platform will suit the purpose.

It will also provide guidance to those who wish to try some other eCommerce softwares apart from the ones they are currently using. So, let’s discuss about some of the top eCommerce softwares used to create a business oriented feature enriched online shop.

Especially for newbie’s in the field of eCommerce who are just thinking to do online business and are employed somewhere at the moment, it is a completely new field and for them all things seem to be really new such as developing store, uploading products , creating a good website and much more. However, some of the eCommerce platforms make these things really easy.

Ways to develop an eCommerce store:

Generally, there are two ways to develop eCommerce stores:

a) Hosted shopping carts
b) Self hosted open source shopping carts.

Let’s have a deep insight about them:

1. Hosted Shopping Carts:

   These are very user friendly compared to the later ones. For such eCommerce shops, website builders provide a complete eCommerce package and they will take care of all technical aspects which help people to quickly create an online store and kick start the business.

   These are very easy to use especially for those who lack in technical know -how. Yet, it provides less flexibility and modification of functions can’t be done easily. However, it is a fastest way to involve in the field of eCommerce business as it removes hurdles of applying codes.

   Some of the well known eCommerce platforms that provide hosted shopping carts are:

   • Shopify
   • Bigcommerce
   • Square space Commerce
   • Weebly commerce
2. Self Hosted Open Source Shopping carts :

   These are recommended for experts in the industry and are much technical. This can be difficult for those who are not much computer or tech savvy. These is a need to be installed on your own host server. This means first of all you must have a self hosted website developed before adding a shopping cart to it. Developing self hosted websites is technically difficult.

   The benefit of using these open source shopping carts is that they can be configured and altered as per the need. This is the biggest advantage here while the main disadvantage is you must be tech savvy to get them installed and set up in your computer.

   Some of the self hosted eCommerce platforms are :

   • Magento
   • Open cart
   • Ultra cart
   • Zen cart

So, choose any one of the advanced eCommerce tools that will make it easy for you to manage your business. In case of any query or confusion related to solutions for an eCommerce software, get in touch with expert eCommerce developers at Softqube Technologies.

WordPress is very easy to use for those who have good knowledge of PHP as well as those who have proper design skills. Yet, to get real expertise in this open source blogging tool; you must be an over achiever. Industry is lacking professional WordPress developers and you have the opportunity to fill the vacant place.

Search Engines provide ample amount of information which you can utilize and move ahead from basic to advanced level in tweaking your website. Web Developers!! Mold yourself in such a manner that you must be called a full- fledged developer.

Here are some excellent resources for a custom WordPress website developer:

1. WordPress Codex: We can say this is a WordPress bible, an online manual that trains an individual to be an expert. This is a very helpful guide for every new user as well as experts. This guide can be easily used for installing multisite or learning any function in detail.
2. WordPress TV:  The most important yet useful thing that provides recorded videos from all the word camps held around the world. You can get video on any topic and it is very interactive. This makes understanding things easier.
3. WP Beginner: For new users of this tool, this is most useful website to be referred for gaining expertise. Even though it’s unofficial, it is updated regularly with how to do relevant video tutorials. These tips and tricks are useful for developers.
4. Smashing Magazine:  This is one of the website development blog having latest articles that contain all the details about developing a smart website with WordPress. These articles are of moderate level giving more emphasis on practical discussions about this tool.
5. Manage WP Blog:  This is another regularly updated blog focusing all the tips and tricks, tutorials, reviews for this popular tool. It contains mixture of all intermediate level articles as well as details about third party plug ins that are very well used with this web-based software program.

These and many other tools are available to gain expertise in building and maintaining a website or blog with such tool. You can use any or all of them to get relevant knowledge regarding WordPress web developing services. Being a jack in the development process is like having half knowledge that is dangerous. So, always try to be an expert and acquire complete in depth knowledge so that you know every corner of the development process.

Many companies also train their employees and help them to be experts. This is beneficial for both employees as well as company and in return Custom WordPress development Companies like Softqube Technologies can easily fulfil client’s needs using such latest and innovative web development tools.

Be a part of huge clientele base and speak to our WordPress experts today to successfully develop your own appealing website.

Before creating any website, it is necessary to peep into Google and have a look at latest updates so that it can help to create a top notch websites as online assistance is easily available for open source web development.

We love to share and discuss latest updates with our visitors and so today we are going to share some popular web development scripts that are widely used in website development process.

Best open source scripts for web development

There are lot of web development scripts available however; we have mentioned the scripts used mainly for:  a) eCommerce b) Blogging software c) Content Management

a) Ecommerce:  Developing eCommerce websites is the first step towards commencing an online business. Below mentioned some of the popular scripts used for eCommerce web development.

1. Os Commerce:  With OsCommerce; an open source eCommerce solution used to build eCommerce websites, we can create various online eCommerce websites having feature rich shopping cart functionality. These websites are easily to setup and maintain without any fees or limitations.
2. Magento: Another useful platform for developing online business websites is Magento. This is widely used to develop your online business and bring to the next level. With Magento, all website features can be easily controlled as it is very user friendly.
3. Agora Cart: Similar to Zen cart & Open cart, Agora cart is free powerful open source website development software solution that provides wide range of features including a simple shop layout to a multi-featured one useful for developing elegant storefront for an online shop. If you don’t wish to use the templates offered, then you can also integrate your own web design templates developed by web designers.

b) Blogging Software: Blogs are an important part of getting required information. Apart from companies, individuals also prefer to develop blogs for publishing their own articles, details etc. Here, we have listed few open source scripts mainly used for blogging.

1. Movable Type: A very well known blogging platform that can be used to create blogs, websites, social networks all at one place with trendy layouts as well as other out of the box features. It is a platform where you like to work with your blogging software and you can also create a community of readers and customers
2. B2 Evolution: Similar to word press, this is blogging software that can be easily integrated with your website. It comes with all the required features available in a normal blog tool and also has some extended features such as file& photo management, multiple blog support, enhanced skinning etc.

c) Content Management: A website owner with less knowledge of coding language can easily update the website with the use of content management system. Some of the well known systems are Drupal and Joomla. Here we have listed two more open source web development scripts used to develop a CMS :

1. Pligg: Pligg is  a CMS that provides social networking software through which visitors can enroll on your website and submit content with will be  useful to other users as well thus all users on your website stay connected with each other.
2. Mambo: A full featured award winning CMS useful to develop everything from simple to complex websites. It is widely used by government portal, corporate intranets & extranets, schools, NGOs and many other sectors as well as community forums.

With these many scripts available in the market, you can easily get the benefit of developing your own website on an open source platform. Of course, you can get required assistance from skilled open source website development professional at Softqube technologies.

Popularity of ecommerce has hugely grown over the last few years across India. It is moving forward quite rapidly. Today almost all kinds of businesses are using eCommerce as an opportunity to achieve wider coverage of customers and increase the profitability.

The changing trend of eCommerce has lead to rise in the online shopping services in order to sell products and services. Convincing the customers to buy your product or use your services is daunting task, because they are not able to physically see or touch the products. But your user-friendly delivering, reasonable cost of product, overall personalized experience can catch attention of your customers to buy from online. Here, having a powerful eCommerce solution has become vital for your website to stay ahead at the high levels of competition.

Today an eCommerce is not simply limited to selling business products and services. It is also medium to:

• Promote and build your Brand
• Expand your market geographically
• Attract more customers

Create Value for Online Stores

Many of business owners do not unaware about that creating an e-commerce website is not just integrating a shopping cart software but also great understanding, how it converts visitors into customers and then customers into orders. In such case, a reliable eCommerce web development company can help you grow your business wider than you think, by creating a web site that has all the ingredients required for running an online business efficiently with safety and quality.

When we look at the current market, the big boys like Amazon, Myntra, Snapdeal have widen their room as online stores. So if you want that your customers will love you, then you need to raise your standards and provide an user friendly eCommerce store just like them.

Well, before you finalize an e-commerce development company for your business, take a time to go through the following checklist:

• Dynamic and interactive web design
• Easily searchable and navigable website
• Rich User Experience
• Hassle-free checkout experience
• Clear product pictures and descriptions
• Integration of m-commerce facility
• Utilize your Social Media channel to spread the word

As a conclusion, there are also another few things that need to be considered when doing eCommerce web development. The important thing is to know the needs of your eCommerce tool. After that, need hands of an expert developer. Our recommendation is to find web development company in India, which offer quality eCommerce solution at affordable cost. You will then need to arrange a proper time line as per your requirement.

Keeping abreast of the fast changes happening in the business world, we at Softqube Technologies offer a range of inexpensive eCommerce solutions across India and also worldwide. Our preferred choice of software for building the perfect small business website is all about giving you the solutions to build, manage and market a successful online store. So why not get in touch with us and we will talk about how we can help you!

Developing a business website was not so easy before as it is today with the help of well known platforms such as WordPress that assist in creating user friendly websites that too with very less knowledge of coding languages such as html.

Websites created with WordPress are easy to use and can be edited as and when needed. If you are the owner of any website created on WordPress then you can edit the content as per the need, update the content on regular basis as and when required, alter, change images, urls as needed.

It allows to manage the website without very less or no knowledge of any coding language. Furthermore, websites prepared here are user friendly as well as search engine friendly which means chances are more that your website can be available among top search results.

Moreover, it also provides different themes that can be suitable for the business that makes the website lay out relevant to the business field. With elegant lay outs, your website is sure to attract the visitors thus tempting them to visit your website atleast once.

Next is the website content that prompts the visitors to stay on the website for long as they get the necessary information as per the need. Websites should have informative content. Over and above this, you can also get an option to create custom website templates and web pages.

If you are expert or have good knowledge of html 5 and other coding languages then you can create attractive website templates as per your need or you can hire any WordPress developer who can do this task for you.

Many website development companies offer WordPress website development services with fixed packages or hourly rates or custom packages as per the need. Rates vary as per the service. You can approach any well known WordPress website development company that can help you create an elegant business website for your online business fulfilling all of your demands.

Furthermore, different plug ins are also offered by WordPress to make your website easy to use. Some of these are mentioned below:

a) Designing Component:  Different widgets offered by WordPress help to use plug ins in an effective way. These designing components are used to insert functionalities such as slide show, new sliders, banners, links to social media and much more. 

b) Top Mega Menu:  Top navigation bar is most useful in the websites . It makes your website attractive as well as helps to identify links quickly. It provides easy access to all the menus. It is a highly customizable menu having drop down functionality. It is most useful for an ecommerce website that saves time and provides quick navigation to different web pages.

c) Live Chat Plug ins:  These are most useful for live chat related to sales and support. This plug-in allows you to chat with your customers free of charge. WordPress offers its own chat plug in as well as aids third party tools. These plug ins can be downloaded easily from search engines. 

Apart from these three, there’s a huge list of plugins used in WordPress website. You can choose one as per the need. If you find installation of plugins difficult then you can take assistance of any well known web development company having expert resources to tackle your issues.

Softqube technologies; a well known website development company is one of the leading firms providing expert WordPress developers to fulfil your tasks with ease.

To have a successful website is not a enough up to spin logos and funky animation. A strong website is one that effectively communicates your purpose to your customers and works along with your company’s strategic plan. In today’s economic environment, a website becomes an essential business tool for promoting and marketing small business. It has the power to reveal a business, in the eyes of a potential customer, and communicate essential information easily.

Importance of a Website For Your Small Business

At the starting point of your small business, you might not have your own particular shop or office. This is, where a great website will play an important role with a specific end goal to promote your business services and products. Whether your website is presentable, accessible, and user friendly, more people will most likely find out about you online. Developing a website for small business is one kind of smart investment, it will be beneficial to you for a long period and support your sales and marketing efforts.

As a proficient web development company, we recommend below key pointers to consider while building a strong small business website and promoting it online.

Simplicity – Keep your small business website as simple and clear as possible:

• Clear and descriptive navigation
• Match your business logo or colors/industry
• Well-arranged appropriate graphics
• Intuitive interface

Promotion Plan – Make use of SEO services & Social media marketing:

• Use content that’s appropriate your small business
• Keep the paragraphs short and simple
• Use effective meta title & meta description
• Use Headings & sub headings
• Images of the business services or products
• Set business profile on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
• Place videos of your product or service on YouTube

Target Audience – Determine Your Target Audience Well:

• Know your target audience and promote to appeal to them
• Mention your website on your business cards, public profiles
• Refer your website to dealers from whom you buy products or services

About Softqube Technologies

Softqube Technologies is the professional web development company, well-known for offering high-quality, customized and professional web solutions to worldwide customers. Our knowledgeable web developers’ team can help you to build and promote the best website for your small business. Contact us today to know how we can help you.

Web development is most significant element in the IT industry. That gives a better platform to the businesses to develop at a brisk pace. In then ever increasing and competitive market where the web plays the most paramount role in individual communication and business, demand of professional has massively increased. Today the web industry offers numerous web designing jobs. When you search a keyword “Web Development Company India“ or “Web Designing Services”, you get millions of results in search engine. But you have not any idea how many companies actually in reliable position to accomplish the IT requirements of your company and offer satisfactorily services in coming years.

On web, there are a lot of companies which are just developing their websites just to attract the publics or present themselves. Their main aim is to make just their presence on we, they don’t care what the customer need or want. The web designing is not as simple as it looks. A skilled web developer has the deep understanding of all the designing skills properly. Since the greater part of the customers wish for a site to be built from scratch and in this way the web developer must prove as a fire fighter for the service company.

Today the web development companies work on one or another kind of designing tools such as Microsoft Expressions, Adobe Master Collections. That’s why the company expects that a new developer must be aware of latest tools and must know how to use them. Moreover, the company might want that its developer to have a complete knowledge of HTML, CSS and essential programming skills.

When it comes to worldwide web development, the changed scenario of business promotion has opened the door to the web designing firms in India. Whether it is needs of business, education and public sector the web development are used effectively. The positive website results in a short time, every business is looking for a website development. This has made a tremendous growth of web development business in India. And day by day the trend of web development in India has been mounting the graph and come with new prospects for the web designing firms.

To be able to in today’s world of competition is not a child play. For making your business successful, there is great need of the experience and professionalism of a reliable company that meet your IT needs which is customer oriented, innovating services and upgrading technologies. If you give good services that your customer demands, you can get prominent place in this ever changing marketplace. By hiring services from Web Development Company, one can get on time deliveries and best return on investment. In India web development industry is likely to grow at more speed in the years to come. That day is not far away, when the India feel proud to expand new horizons with consumer centric approach.

Our Softqube Technologies is the reliable web development company in India, where professionalism, creativity and talent are combined to offer web design, web programming, web development solutions on various platforms like PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, and AJAX. We believe in developing not only a result-oriented website but more than that. Our company strives to meet your business demands by building an appealing online presence and long-run success. With experience and expertise, our professionals have been helping clients in receiving huge bang for the buck.

Whereas the internet is the smart way to promote your business, it becomes important for entrepreneurs to use professional services that build corporate identity and stand their business ahead in this competitive environment. Do you also want to be the leader in your niche industry? A corporate website development company can help to go a long way with a killer first impression about your company through proper strategy and execution. They know how to design an impressive website and promote it to create the best impact on visitors.

A strong and unique website conveys your business character, personality, values, its products or services – that excites the customers, employees, partners, suppliers and investors to trust. Generally, it is time taking procedure to develop. However, if done well then it is surely worth the strength.

How the Corporate Identity beneficial?

In the ever-changing marketplace, clients have unbounded choices available to set up a robust presence in the marketplace. Remember, a solid corporate identity design does your business site a huge success:

• Build Corporate Persona: Usually, customers have a tendency to judge a service, product or a business from what they see and feel. Each business needs to possess an effective identity to stand out from their rivals and to make the great impact on the customer’s mind. That’s universal – first impression has the big reflection.
• Business Development: A strong, extraordinary identity encourages customers and their purchasing appraisals. A corporate identity with an effective and positive impact creates a constructive image of the business in a customer’s mind.
• Consumer Dedication: A steady identity reflects the personality, values and goals of the business. And that’s philosophy which customers find to be as per theirs, feel more associated are more likely to make dedication to the business. As often as possible, these sentiments keep going a customers’ lifetime.

The business world is quickly evolving;  on behalf of that, many of the companies take their interest to make corporate identity design as one of the key factors for a marketing management and long-term business success. Businesses need to have their own particular corporate identity. Just need expert hands to plan consideration snatching logos, noteworthy business cards, eye-catching brochures and more identity essentials. In order for a business to achieve success, businesses should invest in corporate identity, to be fruitful in the long run, drive sales, improve communication and create  a higher level of collaboration between you and your customers

Visit our Softqube Technologies Web Design Company and find your best outsourcing partner for all your corporate website development needs. With us, you can get your project completed within a short period of time at cost-effective prices. We have a skilled team to accomplish your branding design requirements. You can see our portfolio to have an idea about our corporate web design solutions we offered to our clients.