Category: Web Development

We always keep on saying; website should be professional, must look attractive, must have this; must have that and what not. But, it is only in mind till the time we are reading it because you know giving advice is easy than applying it on our own.

Same is the case here; whenever someone asks you: What should I do to give professional look to my website? The lecture begins; use this font, use that font, use these many sentences, use less sentences and what not.
But, when your time comes to get a website developed; you will again repeat the same mistake of asking others what should be done to create a professional website. You will find yourself searching in Google “Steps to make a professional site” etc. etc.

Now, when it comes to website; things that play an important role are: a) Programming language b) Website Colours c) Website Content d) Page Speed e) Easy Navigation Process. These are just the main factors; there are several others that also play an important role.

Selection of Programming language comes under web development section and so we will discuss it later on. Today, here in this blog post; we will discuss about “Colour combinations to be used in a website to give it a professional look”.

So, let’s not waste our precious time and begin the discussion:

What Colours can be used in a Website to give it a Professional Touch?

We all know that along with content, website must look attractive. Hence, it is mandatory to have good colour combination as these easily get related with the emotions of website visitors thus delivering them a necessary message.

While selecting colour scheme for any website; it is necessary to choose them in a perfect manner with the main principles of colour theory. So, let’s begin:

How to create Good Colour Combinations: Website colours must be selected keeping in mind the web design principles instead of choosing them based on one’s own colour and taste.

First of all; let’s understand all about Colour Wheel (one of the basic principles of web design)

Colour Wheel: Invented by Isaak Newton in 1666. The colours are defined based on the passage of light via a prism and then changed into a segmented circle where the size of every segment is different as per his calculations.

This colour wheel is the role model of all designers and artists over the entire world. It helps to choose the colours that look harmonious together. The wheel has six basic colours: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

In order to get a perfect harmonious scheme; choose any two colours which are opposite to each other on the colour wheel. Choose any three colours that share equal space around the wheel forming a triangle or any four colours that form a rectangle.

We all are aware that Red blue and yellow are primary colours while all colours other than this are secondary colours which can be easily obtained by mixing two primary colours.

Apart from Primary and secondary; there are tertiary colours that are formed by mixing one primary colour with one secondary colour.

Then there are Complementary colours which are situated directly across each other on the colour wheel. Here, you can see Red-violet tertiary is complementary to Yellow- Green Tertiary. These when used provide a striking contrast. Such colours are used to make some website elements stand out.

Other types of colours are Analogous colours which are located next to each other in the colour wheel like as Violet secondary and Purple secondary. Such colour combinations are used to make visitors feel good and comfortable when they visit your site.

Now, let’s see meaning of Colours in Various Symbols:

A website is made to get audience from all over the world. Hence, colour selection must be done keeping in mind the meaning of colours in various cultures because a single website will be viewed by people of all castes, creed and religion. Hence, no one’s feelings should get hurt.

So, here we will throw a Limelight on different meanings of same Colour in different Countries:

Red Colour:
• China- Good luck & Celebration
• USA- Christmas and Valentine’s Day
• Christian- Love, Passion, Sacrifice
• Feng shui- Good luck, protection, money
• Japan- Life
• South Africa- Mourning colour
• India- Purity
• Cherokees- Success, Victory
• Hebrew- Sin

Blue:

• Cherokees- Defeat, Trouble
• China- Immortality
• Iran- Heaven and Spirituality
• Judaism- Holiness
• Hinduism- Shree Krishna’s Colour
• Middle East- Protection
• Feng Shui- Water, Calm, Peace, trust, adventure, relaxation, healing
• Western- Depression, Sadness, Corporate

Yellow:

• Egypt- Mourning
• Japan- Courage
• India- Merchants
• China- Royalty
• Buddhism- Wisdom
• Feng Shui- Earth, Sunbeams, Warmth, Motion
• European- Happiness, Joy, Weakness, Hazards

Orange:

• European- Creativity, Harvest
• Ireland- Religious
• USA- Halloweens, Cheap goods
• Hinduism- Sacred Colour
• Feng Shui- Earth, Improves concentration

Brown:

• Colombia- Reduces Sales
• Feng shui- Earth, industry

Green:

• USA- Money
• India- Islam
• Islam- Hope
• China- Green hats show that wife is cheating to her husband
• Japan- Life
• Western- New Birth, Saint Patrick’s Birthday, Environmental Awareness
• Fengshui- Growing Energy, Refreshing, Nurturing, Balancing, Healing, health, Calming.

Purple:

• Thailand- Mourning colour (Windows)
• European- Royalty
• Catholicism- Death, Mourning
• Feng Shui- Physical and Mental Healing, Spiritual Awareness

White:

• European- Marriage, doctors, hospitals
• Japan- Death, mourning
• China- Death
• India- unhappiness
• Feng shui- Death, ghosts, ancestral spirits, poise confidence

Black:

• European- Death, Mourning
• Thailand- Bad luck, unhappiness
• Judaism- Unhappiness, Bad luck
• Fengshui- Water, money, career, success, emotional protection, power, bruises and evil

Meaning of Colours in Websites:

The above all information will now help you to decide the website colours keeping in mind your target audience, region etc. The moment any visitor visits your website; he/she creates some opinion about you in its mind.

Colours play an important role in forming this opinion as this work on subconscious minds of the visitors. If perfect colour scheme is selected to get attention from audiences then maximum work is already done.

So, Here are Some Feelings Generated based on the Website Colour:

• Red: Red colour in any website suggests boldness, excitement and desire. It represents love, strength, power, leadership and excitement.
• Blue: It suggests patience, peace, honesty, trust, truth, love and stability. It is related to professionalism, trust and honour.
• Yellow: Websites with yellow colour showcase liveliness, energy and feeling of happiness along with joy, curiosity, brightness etc.
• Orange: Orange colour in any website suggests cheerfulness and creativity as well as friendliness, confidence, courage etc.
• Purple: It is related to Power, wealth and nobility along with wisdom, royalty, luxury, ambition, dignity, magic and mystery.
• Green: Represents Harmony, nature, healing, life, food and health as well as money.
• Brown: Signifies relaxation and confidence along with earthiness, nature, durability, comfort and reliability.
• Grey: Websites with Grey colour show traditionalism, seriousness, purity and innocence along with security, intelligence, modesty, dignity, old age, sadness, professional, durability etc. It looks awesome when used with orange.
• Pink: Denotes love, affection, romance, truth, positivity, emotional healing, care, peace etc.
• Black: Signifies power, formality, and health. It helps to add mystery to the design. Black can be used to clear your perspective and depth. It is great for art and photography websites.
• White: This colour denotes simplicity, fresh, goodness, cleanliness, purity etc. It serves best when used as back ground colour.

Take Away:

So, next time you are about to create any website and get confused about colour selection then keep in mind this post; it will solve all your doubts.

Let us know how this article has helped you? Stay tuned to Softqube Technologies, a well known Website Development Company; for more of such informational posts.

All those in IT field must be aware about a web server and domain name. One must be aware about setting up basic environment and write a simple web page. These things must be known before you learn to upload files on a web server.

Here, We Will Show you How to Upload Files on Web Server:

So, till now the sample page is ready and it is now time to put it on the web server. Let’s see how it can be done using FTP.

Dig Deeper:

There are several FTP clients available out there. Here, we will use Fire FTP as it is very easy to set up in Fire Fox. If you use Fire Fox then just use Fire FTP’s add on page and get the FTP installed. Open Fire FTP in new tab;
Firefox menu ➤ Developer ➤ Fire FTP; Tools ➤ Web Developer ➤ Fire FTP

Logging In:

Here, we will assume a fictitious company as our hosting provider who has URLs like this: mywebsite.xyzhostingprovider.net.

So, now we have opened the account; we will receive the information about ftp server, account name as well as website and they will also share the details about FTP credentials which includes

FTP Server name: ftp://ugothurt.xyzhostingprovider.net

User: ugothurt

Password: whatsup

To publish the website; files must be added to Public/htdocs directory.

Now, to connect with FTP client to the distant server, press “Create an account… button” and then fill the fields with the required information as provided by the hosting provider.

Local and Remote View:

1. Connecting to the newly created account:
   • Local files will be available on left side and then can be navigated into the directory where the website is stored.
   • Remote files are available on right side. We can get logged into distant FTP root.
2. Uploading to the server:

   The files are available in Public/htdocs directory, so go straight away in your right pane. Now, upload files to the server, so bring them to right pane using drag and drop.

   
3. Check whether they are online or not:

   Double check it here: http://ugothurt.xyzhostingprovider.net/ in your browser.
   If it’s live then you can see it in your browser. Apart from this, there are various ways to upload files on the server which are as follows:

4. Other ways to upload files:

   The FTP protocol is one of the well known methods to publish a website. Other ways are as follows:

   • Web interfaces: An HTML interface that serves as front end for remote file upload service which is offered by hosting service provider.
   • Git Hub: Yes, this is one of the easiest ways to upload files with the combination of commit/push methods.
   • Rsync: It is a local to remote file synchronizing system
   • WebDAV: It is an extension of HTTP protocol that helps to allow more advance file management.

This completes the uploading process. Now, make sure that your website is working properly.

Take Away:

So, finally you have learnt to upload files on server. Follow these steps and let us know how it was for you. Share your feedback with us regarding this post. Let us know how it helped you.

Stay tuned with Softqube Technologies, a well known web Development Company India for more such informative posts.

With Quick2Cart 2.5, there are certain new features that make this extension much flexible in such a way that one can mould it perfectly the way one wants. So, if you wish to start an online Fashion store, electronic gadgets store, Food, Cosmetics etc. Everything can be made easy with Quick2Cart.

New Features of Quick2Cart:

• Attributes based on Stock: This Shopping Cart comes with attribute based inventory useful for Native Product manager. With the help of this inventory; one can keep product stocks for attributes like Colours, sizes etc.
• Quick Product Creation: With the use of Global attributes; it becomes easy to create products. One can create products with one stackable attribute for every product and maintain inventory based on that attribute.
• Easy Sorting: With the advanced filtering option; sorting can be done easily based on colours and sizes or whatever attributes you create for the products.
• Fixed Height Pin Layout: These are very simple, clean and segregated pin layouts that have fixed pin height. For this, it is necessary to properly set the pin height in the backend and you are done.
• Sorting based on category: Sort the products based on categories and prices along with featured products, latest products as well as all other products that are included in the category.
• Include your store logo: Your store must have the store logo as this will provide you liberty to provide consistent branding on every store page.
• Sales and discount can be made visible on all pages: Ensure that the deals are not missed out by the potential customers. Your deals must be visible on all product pages. So, make use of this Quick2Cart to make things easy for you.

These features of Quick2Cart will definitely help you to have a smooth eCommerce experience. This makes easy to create own stores and manage their own products. For every transaction, one can also charge commission or make use of various extensions like Pay Plans to get this feature.

It supports 10+ Payment gateway systems on several common payment APIs as well as developer APIs. Coupons can also be created from store owners. Users can buy products from one or more stores and then checkout with just a single step.

Further, with its multivendor support; store owners can get the freedom to showcase the products using some of Joomla’s best content construction kits. With these integrations; one can easily configure pricing options and attributes from CCK and also offer a nice “Add to Cart” button display at the front end.

The supported Content Construction kits are as follows:

• Joomla Content Integration
• FLEXIContent Integration
• JReviews Integration ( Quick2Cart eCommerce Add On for JReviews)
• K2 Items Integration
• Zoo Integration

Payment Gateways supported by Quick2Cart 2.5:

It supports all common payment APIs for Joomla and these payment gateways to make payment process easy:

• 2Checkout
• Alpha User Points
• Authorizenet
• JomSocial Points
• LinkPoint
• Pay By Check
• Pay By Purchase Order
• PayPal
• Pay U India

Take Away:

With Quick2Cart 2.5, things can be made easy. Use this flexible eCommerce for Joomla and experience the ease of doing online business. Hope this information was useful to you.

For more such details, stay tuned to Softqube Technologies; Joomla Web Development Company.

Joomla, as we all know is the widely used content management system. It is effective and useful however there are many website owners who don’t have much coding knowledge and for them, Joomla may not serve the purpose.

Every content management system, be it Joomla or WordPress; has its own pros and cons. However, the former one is for those who have some technical knowledge while the later one is for all those who have very less or no technical knowledge.

So, what is the better option apart from WordPress? There are several reasons to shift from Joomla to WordPress and these are as follows:

• WordPress is the most popular content management system with Joomla being the second one.
• It has a huge community that contributes whole heartedly. Further, WordPress comes with plenty of plugins that can be used to add extra features to the website or blog.
• Every website hosting service offers one click WordPress installation to begin.

Joomla is one of the feature rich and effective platforms that deliver proper content via website. It also comes with several additional software options. It is very flexible and on the other side, WordPress is very easy to use whereas Joomla is more complex.

It is very easy to move from Joomla to WordPress. There are several plugins that can be useful for this process. This blog post will also be useful to you. Just follow the below mentioned steps:

• Select a host for your WordPress website. If you wish to keep the new WordPress site at the same place where your present Joomla site is located then the need may arise to create new directory, install WordPress in that directory and then change the domain settings to point to new directory.
• Set up a custom URL for WordPress site at this point. Once this is done then after migration it is possible that internal links may fail to work properly and chances are there that site navigation may break.
• Install WordPress. The installation process is intuitive.
• Install FG Joomla to WordPress plugins and activate them.

• A premium version is available with extra features and add-ons; the plugin is used to combine categories, sections, images, media posts and tags from Joomla to WordPress. It is compatible with Joomla versions 1.5 to 3.4 and WordPress 4.3.

It can also be used with multisite installations. At times; plug-ins, themes and modules may not be transferred. Several plug-ins are available to do the transfer however FG Joomla to WordPress is more preferable.

Once this is done then go to Tools> Import, the entire list of systems will be available. This is to be used for importing.

Now to fill in the database details go to Admin Panel of Joomla website and check it under Global configuration> Server Tab. Enter proper login details or you may find database connection errors.
Configuration.php can be accessed easily in Joomla root folder by connecting the website with the help of an FTP client. Log in to Control Panel and then click File Manager icon under Files.

Click + sign against public html folder. Now, click on the file and choose Code Edit.

Always Take Note of these Things:

• Import may not pass through if the web host disables the URL option in php.ini
• Click on Force Media Import option if you wish to import media files.

Now, click on Import Content from Joomla to WordPress. Entire content will be imported and then move to Modify Internal Links button at the bottom of the Joomla Importer Page and click on it. This will fix all broken internal links.

The plugin can be deactivated after installation. Now, once the website is imported into WordPress, the theme can be customized with the plug-ins of our choice.

Take Away:

Yes, Joomla is good and preferable to use however WordPress is easy and convenient to use. For more such updates, tips and tricks; stay tuned to Softqube Technologies, provider of affordable Joomla web development Services.

Wide image is an object oriented library that is used for image manipulation. It offers a simple way of loading, editing and saving images in the widely used common image formats. It needs PHP 5.2 + along with GD2 extension.

It supports all the formats such as GIF, PNG, JPG, GD, GD2, WBMP, XBM and XPM. It supports BMP and TGA.

How to load an image?

Before we carry out various operations on the image with the help of Wide Image Library, first of all we must load the image and to do so, we use load() method which is used to load the image from any existing file, URL, HTML, input file field as well as valid image handle.

This method comes with following syntax:

“static WideImage_Image load( mixed $source)”

This wide image supports cross format conversion.

Implementing Smart Coordinates:

These coordinates are applied for various procedures that include coordinates, dimensions and positioning easier. These can be used with every operation which requires various coordinates like as parameters such as resize and crop.

The numerical coordinates include: $resized = $image->resize (200, 100);

How to Re-size an image?

To resize an image with the help of Wide Image Library; one can use resize() method that has following syntax:

WideImage_Image resize( [mixed $width = null], [mixed $height = null], [string $fit = ‘inside’], [string $scale = ‘any’])-

Cropping an Image:

At times, there’s a need to crop the images. This can be done easily using Wide Image Library. The crop() method can be used here with the following syntax:

WideImage_Image crop( [mixed $left = 0], [mixed $top = 0], [mixed $width = ‘100%’], [mixed $height = ‘100%’])

Combining two images:

In order to merge two images with WideImage Library, the merge() method is to be used with the following syntax;

WideImage_Image merge( WideImage_Image $overlay, [mixed $left = 0], [mixed $top = 0], [int $pct = 100])- This method lays the overlay (watermark) on the image.

How to add shapes and text to an image:

Many times, we need to add shapes or text to an image so as to meet our needs. With Wide Image Library; one can easily draw or insert text as well as shapes in the image with the use of Canvas object that is returned by getCanvas() method.

How to rotate or mirror the images:

In order to rotate, mirror or flip the images; one needs to use any of these methods:

WideImage_Image rotate( int $angle, [int $bgColor = null], [bool $ignoreTransparent = true]) – Rotate the image for angle $angle clockwise.
WideImage_Image mirror( ) – Returns a mirrored copy of the image
WideImage_Image flip( ) – Returns a flipped (mirrored over horizontal line) copy of the image

Rounding Image Corners:

Using roundCorners() method, it is easy to provide rounded corners to an image. Apart from round corners, we can also give diagonal corners, right corners, deep and coloured corners etc.

Take Away:

Like this, we can add images in PHP with the help of WideImage Library. We can also give different effects to the image as mentioned in the entire blog post.

Hope this blog post will be useful to you. For more such tips and techniques, stay connected with Softqube Technologies; well known PHP web development Company offering web development services at affordable costs.

WHAT IS A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM?

When the word ‘WEB’ first came into real existence and the way we used to create web pages that time was using Microsoft Front Page or Dream Weaver and this usually required coding each page of the website, that means for a website like Amazon or eBay the designer will end up having millions of pages and the number of files were unusually high. The content management evolutions and concept of dynamic website there and evolving solutions around the same helped to take over here on avoiding such challenges and Drupal happened to be one of the proven solution amongst latest content management solutions used by millions of websites, corporate intranet and media websites today.

Building an Intelligent and Stunning website with Drupal will not just allows you to manage on traditional challenges but also allows you on certain peculiar website needs where one need to understand website traffic for required adaptation there step by step; These needs might be usually one or more from the following –

• Which landing page elements works best?
• Which topics does our audience want more?
• What keywords drive sales?
• Who all are the Top influencers?
• Are ad buys worth it? Which Ones there and things like that
• Authors that create the best content.
• Do people really need a certain feature?
• Whether we need drop downs or flat menus?
• Is the website design is really working for us?
• What marketing and social channels are really driving towards ROI?
• How intuitive our website or blog site is and what makes it stunning and appealing to end users?

DRUPAL 8 FOR BUILDING REAL FAST WEBSITES

At the simplest level, Drupal is piece of software that allows someone to easily manage the content of the website or blog posts through a web browser;

Web development with Drupal means working around Designing and building sites on Drupal, custom module development, Site Maintenance, Ubercart customization, Audit and Reporting, query optimization and server tuning for Drupal Sites, Drupal Migration Services, Automatic Backup and Restore Services, Site Administration and Server Management Services.

In addition, it can accommodate the following aspects for enhanced performance:-

• Backend optimization
• Boost, Memcache
• Setting up Drupal and using Apache Solr along side
• A/B Testing tools

In this post, we shall elaborate on following common aspects required towards building fast and effective websites with Drupal 8 i.e.

• What Drupal 8 does better and why and how it can be a good fit and where?
• Basic Drupal Concepts
• Aspects of a web application and managing Layouts
• Managing Content in Drupal
• Content Presentation
• Roles and Permissions
• Workflows around Content
• Rules & Business Logic
• Other Drupal Features

When we usually need to build a web application form, couple of things, we always need to do take care of like ease to learn system & technology, ability to leverage on existing systems, so that we just don’t end up reinventing the wheel, ability to quickly customize, build and scale in order to support future growth and things like that.

Drupal is a content management system build on PHP,MySQL, HTML, JS and CSS which allows collection, presentation and management of structured information for building websites or dynamic web applications. Drupal provides API’s to build and extend the application with extensible, modular, pluggable and scalable modules (thousands of them), without even need of writing a single line of code. Drupal is in fact more than a content management system and if we name it a development framework to build applications at rapid pace would have been more appropriate.

Drupal is usually a good fit for out of the box fully functional stable and secure website building needs on top of robust CMS and that too out of the box with ability to build apps using inbuilt workflows, permission sets and rules. It supports out of the box CRUD system for complex data collection, presentation and management needs with control over layouts without requiring any coding effort. All together with out of the box support for future extensibility via strong API’s.

Basic Drupal Concepts include Templates, Entity & Node, Content Types, Modules – core & Contrib, Themes, Blocks & Menus, Roles & Permissions, Administration, Hooks & Callbacks and Form API.

When we need to build a basic web application from a fresh, we usually encounter with need to structure the layout and the information, presentation of information, provision roles and permissions, implement business logic required along with optional workflow provisioning related to collected information.

Managing layout in Drupal means structure of layout, working with themes, regions, block system, customizing HTML, working with Panels, Panes, Landing Pages and Contexts.

Managing Content/Data means working with Entity, Node, Content Types, Fields, Form Edits, Taxonomy, listings and Web-forms.

For presentation of content, we need to abstract data with views in Drupal, working with Views display, pages, blocks, feeds, panes, view theming and CSV/XML exports.

Drupal allows access control via roles and permissions at interface and code levels for users and mapping the same via roles and permissions.

Application which need to be provisioned for workflows around content need to handle views & dashboards, roles & permissions in views, mode queues, flags, bulk operations on views, editing/viewing permissions in corresponding modules including workflow module.

Rules and Business Logic implementation requires working with Events & Triggers, Context & Data, Actions, eMail Sending features, Redirecting users, update content, setting values, creating custom actions and exposing custom events.

On Ecommerce & Payments Drupal provides commerce functionality like Ubercart, PayPal integration, integration with Cyber source and other banking gateway integration provisioning modules.

Drupal Commons is an OOTB Social Site supported by Acquia which is actually a social networking system available out of the box with optional integrations with other prevailing social networking systems alongside ability to extend using modules or via custom code.

Drupal provides few other cool features on multisite and domain handling, Aegir for deployments & PaaS support, third party integration, import and export of data, XMLRPC, REST, JSON support, backend for mobile apps with support on mobile theming.

WHEN AND WHEN NOT TO USE DRUPAL?

Though lots of people believe Drupal can do everything, we should focus on where exactly Drupal should be used and where not at all.

Drupal was originally intended to be a content management system. Every website has content and how you wish to manage it, makes a difference, and also, the overall flow of the software. The Drupal ideally should be termed a workflow management solution for managing content by multiple users for website(s).

As far as static sites are concerned, it can be built in very short time, few minutes in some cases but that is not where Drupal is to be leveraged. A static site generator solution like WINTERSMITH or JACKO should be used.

Take Away:

Moreover, today, when the world is moving towards API first methodology; the mobile and web app needs responsive template leveraged by API to customize quickly in almost no time. Drupal is adapting Symphony PHP framework there to become a good fit by building version 8 and onwards .a CMS backed by API’s. Symphony allows for easy API development.

Hope this blog post is useful to you. Let us know about your feedback for the same. For more such details, stay connected with Softqube Technologies; a well known provider of web development services India.

In this online world, everyone feels that it is mandatory to have a website if you really want to succeed in your business. However, as per recent survey nearly 50% of small firms do business without website.

This is the result derived from surveys in USA. Yes, mobile friendly websites are still a priority. From a recent poll, it is found that irrelevancy to the business as well as the expenses involved in it are the most important reasons that are cited by most of the respondents.

Yes, the statistics says that near about 50% small firms carry out business without website. However, as per the opinion of experts; they should actually get one developed. No matter if it is a simple one with just one two pages.

But, this will help to get greater online presence. The value of online presence is immeasurable as each and every company having a website gets definitely benefitted from it. Let’s say if you are selling something, then it is advisable to reach customers as quickly as possible and through website you can do so.

Mobile friendly websites do not appear to be a priority to small businesses. According to the survey, 23% of existing small businesses have websites that are not mobile friendly and another 9% of respondents were unaware of whether their website is mobile friendly or not.

Today, not having a mobile friendly website is equal to not having a website. It is common to see the difficulties related to the website that is not mobile friendly. Those who don’t have a website can plan to have one this year.

As per the survey, search engine optimization, social engagements, design and content development are the top priorities for 2016. Among 352 survey responses from small business owners to managers throughout the entire US, most of the respondents are businesses with 1- 10 employees and those who have less than $1 million in annual revenue. It is a true representation of small businesses as per the US Census Bureau.

So, Why Small Businesses don’t have a Website?

Well, some questions need lots of efforts to get correct answers. So, among the answers available; the top two reasons are:

• Websites are different from their business industry
• Cost of a website

Various other reasons include the use of social media profiles instead of a website, need for ongoing maintenance and the absence of technical knowledge.

Websites by Industry:

Now, those small businesses that have a website today; either are not satisfied or they don’t have a website that is relevant to their business or industry. Agency leaders say that if you run a business then you must have some sort of information online.

It’s ok to have a single page website that describes your business and contains your contact information. It is necessary to have this information indexed and displayed to those who are looking for the same.

Websites by Cost:

The website cost can vary to an extent. One option is to hire a speciality web design firm to develop quality, custom websites especially for small businesses. Websites with lower cost DIY website platforms, having a brochure or informational website can serve to be a simple and cost effective solution.

With maximum options for developing less expensive and time intensive websites, the cost of a website is one of the considerable reasons on which the decision of having a website is based.

Take Away:

To conclude the discussion, we can say that small businesses can easily benefit from a website, be it a one page site or a comprehensive interactive tool. Cost of not having a website is much more than that of having a website.

For small businesses with websites, there are various areas that can be used to improve the visibility, credibility and usability. Small businesses must own mobile friendly websites and then optimize the sites for mobile engagement.

In a nutshell, we can say that small businesses must possess a website. No matter even if it is a single page. One can take guidance from well known Website development Company like Softqube Technologies where experts can guide you and will provide you what you need.

In the web development industry, it is necessary to maintain the quality of the product. Yes, this is a time consuming task however it is a must as it directly affects success and failure.

Cross-program and cross-stage comparability:

The basic parts of product quality are its cross-program and cross-stage comparability. Testing how your web pages appear on different devices like as desktop, mobile platforms is as important as any other testing method.

Why it is important to check this compatibility?

An image is the key thing a customer sees, and most of people will remain focused on the page if its structure is demonstrated in a proper way in light of a couple of segments of a specific system. A customer leaves the page for various reasons such improper user experience, difficulty viewing the website on mobile devices, improper navigation and more.

Hence, in order to make sure that the website is compatible with most of the devices; it is advisable to have a compatibility check so that before making the website live; one is rest assured that it will display properly on all the devices.

How is cross-platform and cross-program testing normally dealt with?

Normally cross-program and cross-platform testing is conducted using one of the methods which is as follows:

• Testing on physical devices: This framework may not by and large be useful because every time you may have to take new device for testing. This is one of the expensive methods as various mobile devices are very costly and most of the customers may also test the website on something unusual. However, the main thing is it offers accurate results.
• Emulation of the required devices: This system is a great deal less costly than the previous one because here only labor hours are considered for imitation of required devices.

  Associations won’t have to routinely buy new devices or assign separate space for them.

  The disadvantage of this procedure is that the testing is done on emulators, not on physical machines, so here and there the testing results can be invalid. Moreover, if another structure shows up, it should be presented and developed from base.

Using Browser Stack for cross-stage and cross-program testing:

Today, maximum reputation can be grabbed by cross-program and cross-stage similitude testing with online organizations such as Saucelabs and BrowserStack.

The key favorable circumstances of the Browser Stack organization are straightforwardness, settlement, speed, the ability to test on bona fide stages. To start testing with Browser Stack, you don’t need to present or organize anything for a long time.

To improve the solace, and notwithstanding test secretly sent regions, you can present a project plugin. For live testing, except for the latest and out of date system frames, there are pre-release program interpretations of IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.

So, what are the benefits of using Browser Stack?

Browser Stack grants remote testing on physical devices.

• The screenshots created by you start working on desktop where trouble spots can be noted down and testing can be continued without sending the screenshots from tablet or phone to desktop.

  It becomes easy to make edits and share screenshots with Browser Stack using a previously developed command.

• One can easily shift from one platform to another.

  Testing can be done in different resolutions available in a list. This activates responsive design testing with manual window resizing.

More advantages of Browser Stack Testing:

With the help of browser stack, one can get screenshots of entire page. This boosts the speed of testing web pages. It also supports the automated testing function with the use of JavaScript automated tests.

Take Away:

Keeping all things in mind we can say that Browser Stack is vital both for QA analyzers as well as developers since it makes site testing less complex, more worthwhile, and less time consuming.

At present, Browserstack offers 30 minutes of free manual testing for cross browser. Hence, in the initial basis one can give it a try and if it’s suitable then one can definitely go for it.

Hope this blog post will serve as a perfect guide for all developers who are searching for tools to test cross browser compatibility of their website. For more such guidance, stay tuned to Softqube Technologies offering cost effective services in web development India.

Yes, if you are the owner of the web development firm then you might have faced this situation some or the other time. While hiring web developers, it is necessary that you must keep certain things in mind so that you can choose the right ones.
This also is useful for those who wish to hire developers for developing business website.

Hence, let’s begin and take a look on few things that can help you to choose right developers:

• Get through their designs: Website design is the vital part that helps to get more visitors and attracts them; also, it portrays your business picture on the internet.

  Here, the users first see the design and then they go for information as well as selling and purchasing products and services. So, always choose a developer who can easily understand your needs as well as your clients (in case you are running a web development company) and then develop website accordingly.

• Long lasting Performance: Today, most of our time is spent on digital devices. This doesn’t mean that someone will keep waiting for your website to get loaded. If you wish that your users must stay for long on your website them don’t keep them waiting.

  Always have a site that would boost up the loading time and get quickly loaded. In case your website doesn’t appear or start within specific time then there are chances that visitors will leave your site without even looking at it.

  In order to check whether your developer is able to develop such faster loading sites; you can ask for the sample sites developed. In case the candidate is fresher, ask him \her to create a demo page.

  If he/she has previous work to show then Google PageSpeed Insights tool can be useful. This tool can provide perfect score of the particular site as it loads on desktop or mobile device.

  Based on the score, you can check the ability of the candidate.

• Website Functionality: Every part of the website or mobile application must work quickly. Elements with poor design can lead to frustration among users. Everything must work correctly from site to search and then navigation, hyperlinks, registration, checkout, payment gateway system and lots more.

  One of the hard core realities is that even a silly mistake can lead to huge losses. Hence, it is advisable to hire such developers who can easily find quick solutions and succeed in enhancing user experience as well as develop easy to use website applications.

• Easily Accessible: In order to get maximum engagement from users; one needs to develop an easily accessible website. An expert developer can quickly design and develop the website that offers equal access to all the information, functions, products as well as services to sellers and visitors.
• Clean code: So, what is meant by clean code and messed up code? Clean code must be easy to modify and read. Clean code allows the website to work quickly and in an efficient way.

  Clean code makes it easy to update the site as and when needed. Developers can easily modify the websites and one needs to analyze the backend as well as frontend coding techniques.

Take Away:

Keep these things in mind and in case you need any well known Web development company from where you can hire expert web developers or you wish to outsource your web development projects then get connected with Softqube Technologies; Web Development India.

Light CMS is the best cloud CMS that can be used by small and medium business enterprises. It is a cloud hosted website builder that provides blogging and eCommerce capabilities so that one can cover all the maximum points.

It is highly preferable by web developing companies and hence most of them use this to develop client websites and then re-sell it to same clients. In 2015, Light CMS was in the self development stage.

Then they released new features and bug fixes every month along with small or we can say minor changes.

So, what new changes are to be seen in this Light CMS?

• Completely Flexible: If we compare Light CMS with various other website builders then we can say that Light CMS is incredibly flexible. Various page elements like as blogs, products, calendars, forms and galleries that can be added anywhere on any page without limit.

  With drag and drop interface, it becomes very easy to do so. The user friendly interface as well as good looking templates means the website design newbies, small and medium sized businesses as well as freelancers can jump in, drag and drop and then upload the way to a perfect website.

  It possesses strong file as well as media management features that are necessary to develop a successful blog which has all the required blogging functions. Further, this can also function as an eCommerce platform.

  Products and catalogues are also created. Users can now even register and develop their own profiles. Light CMS can develop websites that can host communities of people thus encouraging them to participate on blog post comments so to easily track store purchases and access member only content.

• White labelled Web Design: Everywhere we can see new web design agencies developed today. One of the biggest concern is to manage all these different types of client needs in such a way that it doesn’t clutter up everything at the last moment.

  The Developer Programme of Light CMS was developed to streamline the complete industry of web developers. One can white label the platform and use it to develop unlimited websites.

  This can then be resold to the clients and then it can also use the platform to manage websites. The developers of Light CMS can also manage all of their websites from the similar area.

  Further, monthly price points for the clients can also be set in exchange of the support provided. One can get deeper into Light CMS developer platform during the entire week.

  So, always stay tuned with the latest CMS news and updates.

Take Away:

Hope this blog post helped you to understand Light CMS in a better way. For more such details about CMS; stay connected with Softqube Technologies; a well known IT firm offering web development services at nominal costs.

Get in touch with our experts who can easily help you out with your web development projects. The expertise will reflect in our work which will completely satisfy your needs.