Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Website Design Upcoming Fashion

Web design world seems never to stop evolving. Every second or every minute there is something new being brought to the world of the internet. Since websites are the passport to this virtual world, web design has become indispensable. With the development of technology, web design seems to grow in complexity from the designer's perspective and simpler from the buyer's perspective.

The ability of the mobile device to make the internet accessible has drastically changed the way the businesses and consumers used to look at the internet. Earlier the businesses were just concerned with developing website that were compatible with the operating systems and platform of the desk top PC or lap top. Now as the number of people accessing the internet through the smart phone is increasing, the websites need to be designed in such a way that they are compatible with the platform and operating system of the smart phone device.

There are various brands of smart phones such as BlackBerry, Android and iPhone. The operating system and platform of these smart phones vary. It is usually seen that the application that runs successfully on one smart phone device does not run on the other smart phone device.

Some of the coding languages are not supported by some brands of smart phones. For example websites based on Flash do no run on iPhone just because of compatibility issue. This implies that in the future if one wants to make the website compatible with iPhone device, the use of Flash should be avoided.
The future websites will have to be made more interactive not only between the buyer and seller but also among the buyers and seller. The businesses and buyers have realized the importance of social networking websites and the way they can be used. In future providing an outgoing link to social networking sites like Facebook is going to most probably become necessary.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Professional Ecommerce Website Development


E commerce website or electronic commerce website is a kind of website where any item or service can be sold or bought. Now a day's almost everyone is hooked to internet and sometimes it is really really easy to shop online rather than shopping from a physical retail outlet. Development of ecommerce website also called online shop, e shop, online store etc does require expertise and experience. Only an experienced web programmer and a designer can make a good and totally functional ecommerce website. Ecommerce websites can be developed totally bespoke and so in this case you can choose the color scheme of your outlet plus the different functionalities you need to administer your website/online shop.

It is imperative for a developer to design/develop a very user-friendly website as visitors on the website should not feel lost when browsing through or when shopping for a particular item. The website also must be search engine optimization friendly so that more and more customers can be driven to the website for shopping. A good payment processor must be integrated. Now days there are different payment processors/gateways available to choose from. Some of the popular ones are sage pay, world pay, PayPal, Barclay's epdq and many more. These websites must also have an SSL (secured socket layer) certificate which guarantees that the website is hosted on a secured server.

Proper terms and conditions must be displayed on an ecommerce website- as these are quite important and also are a part of UK ecommerce rules and regulations. If a business is registered, the registration number must be displayed properly along with vat numbers if applicable. Also giving a cooling off period of 7 days to the customer of the website is very important.

Decibel Solutions is one such company based in UK providing powerful and affordable ecommerce solutions. They have efficient team of programmers, designers, graphic specialists, flash specialists, software engineers, SEO specialist etc. The beauty of the development process is that a website is developed with combined effort and expertise of all rather than being developed by one programmer. So basically the ready solution is really stunning when it comes to design of the website and really powerful when it comes to functionality. One must also run these kinds of websites on a good domain name and must take good product pictures so that people can view all the collection on the site properly. Some of the features/functionalities of ecommerce website are stock control, stock updating, report generation, shopping cart software, customer management software etc. Other exciting features include integration of promotion codes, discounts and newsletters. Newsletters are a fantastic way to do online marketing.

Building an ecommerce website is quite different from building an ordinary site which only provides information of company's products and services. An ecommerce website is like a virtual market place aimed at generating good monetary returns. So if you are considering the development of ecommerce website, now is the time. All the big brands have already developed ecommerce websites for their products and are witnessing very good traffic and sales through their websites.

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