Open Source Development

Expression Engine is Web Publishing Multisite Manager

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:40:00 +0000

ExpressionEngine is a CMS (content management system) developed by EllisLab and written using PHP programming language and MySQL database. The “Core Version” of ExpressionEngine is available free, and you can get “Personal” and “Commercial” versions by paying onetime fee.

The core of this system is highly flexible because of the multiple site manager ExpressionEngine on which all the websites in EllisLab network run.
In brief ExpressionEngine alone take cares of our membership, blogs, contact forms, community forums, wiki, knowledge-base, everything. These days it is fondly used for websites and blogs management. Because of its rich features and flexibility ExpressionEngine is becoming popular these days and easily acceptable among developers compared to CMS like Joomla, Drupal.

The full featured Tag module for expression engine provides a "folksonomy engine" that can be well integrated with ExpressionEngine.

Features of ExpressionEngine can be categorized into: Web Publishing, Template Engine, Add-On Modules and Plugins, Communications, Commenting and Trackbacks, Typography, Tracking, Utilities¸ Member Management, Search, Spam Deterrents, Utilities, Data Caching, Security. Multi-site concept, multi-lingual support, custom module development, blacklist feature implementation, search engine friendly URLs, inbuilt powerful search engine, versioning system etc are some of its interesting features.
The ease with which a user can configure this site and the extent to control things make it most popular.
Expression engine web sites benefit your clients because it is an integrated system. Non technical users can edit site from web browsers directly. ExpressionEngine solutions are reliable, repeatable.

Advanced E-commerce Platform Magento

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:24:00 +0000

Magento is the advanced e-commerce platform that enables web traders to remove possible obstacles in the way of business process implementations. This application tool increases the downloading limit up to 600,000, making it the most convenient commercial tool for getting user-friendly online business solutions.

The software tool has outshone all the leading e-commerce and portal-building platforms. It can be further used for managing and implementing heavy-duty enterprise-level content management system. However, it is important to notice here that Magento application is not meant for all and diverse requirements. But, Magento is the most used and compliant e-commerce platform to be used in the online marketplace.

How it differs from other applications? You can easily download Magento and use it in your website. It enhances the ability to create customized themes and module extensions. It helps a webpage to gain desired popularity level that leads to a stable growth for the company. Being a product of Varien - a type of e-commerce design house, Magento is benefited by offering the traditional web agency services.

By using Magento, you can easily get a theme based framework that offers individual layouts, skins, and templates in order to gain customized look and feel. Get your e-commerce shopping cart website design and development using magento ecommerce customization.

Static versus Dynamic Websites

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:03:00 +0000

Websites are of generally two types; static and dynamic. Both the websites are quite different from one another. Let’s discuss the difference between the two.

As it name suggests, static websites usually consists of web pages arbitrarily put together. Usually, these pages are stores on a server and they are displayed in the same format when you click them. However, dynamic websites have more functionality and they are formed on the foundation of many different underlying technologies. Dynamic websites have their own database and they store all the contents there only. They can be viewed by using a script when it dynamically retrieves and packages the content into a web page.

Static websites have very limited functions whereas a dynamic website has better functionality. However, dynamic websites can become really complex and can be difficult to use. Dynamic websites can be broken into two main categories;

Certain web environments have come into use to deal with the complexities of the dynamic website. In terms of functionality, these could be broken down into:

• Content Management System (CMS)
• Shopping cart or ecommerce system

Money Making with Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:05:00 +0000

24.com (South Africa) conducted a blog survey (1000 bloggers were surveyed), it was largest blog survey and its statistics were finally manipulated on 10th of December 2008 and few amazing facts and figures came out (Author of SA Blog Report - Mandy de Waal). Most bloggers are of age group between 25 and 44 and blog was just for fun not for commercial value to earn money, very few bloggers make money and that too very low amount.

Blog research results showed only eight percent of surveyed bloggers have a commercial motive, and out of this number around 85% earn between R1 and R1,000 while 15% (or 12 surveyed bloggers) earn between R1,000 and R3,000 each month.Some 43% of respondents earn more than R20,000 monthly, while more than 15% earn over R50,000 per month. Interestingly, 58% of local bloggers are married or cohabit, and 46% of them have children. There is an even split of men and women blogging and 58% are between the ages of 25 and 44.Some 95% of respondents said English or Afrikaans was their first language. Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria are blogging epicentres and account for more than 75% of surveyed bloggers.

Survey result also says that blogging has lot to do with bloggers online and offline lives. South Africa capital Cape Town appeared to be blogging capital as most responses were from there.

On an average 1 to 5 blog posts per week was calculated to be done, blogging platform is considered and taken as an outlet to express personal, pen down individual ideas thoughtfully. Graph showed 50% bloggers posted just 1 post per week, only 15% posted 4-5 postings weekly. Another interesting fact was that 65% spent 1-10 hours average weekly on their blog.

I would like to conclude by saying blogging provides open platform for individual to contribute and share information, experiences. Internet Blogging is self empowered. We need to become more aware and utilize blogs as revenue generating model that involves larger audience, diverse participants from all over the world and easy integration and mobilizing people to think and act.

Dedicated PHP Developers

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:50:00 +0000

To ensure top class PHP development services to the customers' worldwide open source development company in India utilizes its resource pool to provide custom web design services India, custom web application development services, CMS development, CMS customization India, ecommerce website development, B2B open source solutions, B2C web portal development. Our dedicated team members have extensive, hands-on experience on website development using PHP MySQL as programming language. Our work areas include these segments:

Open source consulting; web site design, website development, website integration, website maintenance, custom web application development, custom software development, custom software solutions, CMS development, CMS integration, CMS customization, social network application, vBulletin, workflow management, tracking software solutions, discussion board, forums, Wikis, blogs, portal development.

Open source web design development is able to achieve php web development using open source development capabilities:

• Methodologies: extreme programming, agile development, Rational Unified Process (RUP) , Model View Controller (MVC)
• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Web 2.0
• Skilled in a variety of DBMS platforms such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server
• We have set of PHP coding standards and practices as well as software development methodologies in place. The coding standards well define the conventions, techniques and styles to be followed during every aspect of project development from design to coding.

Open source Development Company dedicated php team, joomla developers, drupal developers, Ruby on Rails programmers, sugarcrm consultants, open source developers solely work on clients projects to meet their needs and fulfill their requirements and specifically work your projects.

India ranks first in outsourcing because of its rich resources, uninterrupted good quality services it has been providing to its partners globally without any failure. Indians are well-known for their entrepreneurial skills, technical skills, expertise and in-depth knowledge and innovative nature. Software development or web development companies in India offer affordable, dedicated and expert programmers, developers, consultants to customize the client’s requirements and provide bespoke solutions. Either you can outsource to India or can hire Indian web developers, PHP programmers, they are well trained, they attend seminars and workshops on latest design tools and development technologies. It is really essential to remain up-to-date with new tools and technologies and have enough knowledge to upgrade the existing ones. Starting from requirement gathering to final delivery of project these dedicated php developers work under guidance of senior developers, programmers, project managers and get full support from them. Our programmers and developers and web designers are very innovate, think in broad way, they inculcate and explore to add value to your services. Most important point based on which you can select a web application development company or company for outsourcing PHP is spectrum of services they are offering and experience of team members.

Is your website down? Know and Recover – Why and How???

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:21:00 +0000

What if a well designed and developed website does not load fast. I am sure your visitors will be taken to your competitor’s website and may be those visitors do not visit your website again as time is money and to view a website nobody would like to wait and gaze. So why not check for few factors which will speed up your website load time. Few points are: number of objects your web page has as objects overhead dominates web pages latency. CSS techniques are recommended for any website rather than using graphic techniques. Every net surfer hates website which doesn’t load. What if this is our own website? Before coming to reasons for website going down let me discuss few important things which I think needs to be considered at the initial stage. Do not use multi-threaded html; images could be in more compressed form; HTTP compression is recommended for java script.

Very common problems seen for websites down time:
• May be server problem; DNN error or network issues;
• Error in your website’s application
• Web space limitation.

Outcome of server downtime: Decrease in traffic; Less Visitors; Downtime in your ROI.

There are many companies providing website monitoring services, we have been using InternetSeer that sends error alert showing at what point of time your website goes down and type of error, reason behind website downtime, also sends error alert when website is up. It is all upto you to select website monitoring service provider.
Website Monitoring is integral part for website maintenance and website owner must have strong foot hold on monitoring important ports.

Before hiring a web monitoring service provider check list of services they provide like whether they provide multi protocol support (FTP, DNS, HTTPS, Ping, etc.) ; downtime notification (SMS or Email); global monitoring, uptime and performance report, multi-lingual support, maintenance.

Get open source consulting, your website designed and development by open-source-development company located in India.

Joomla CMS Customization India

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:38:00 +0000

We expertise in Joomla CMS development, Joomla CMS customization, state-of-art custom web design with Joomla CMS, e-commerce application solutions with open source CMS features and search engine friendly urls and search engine optimization coding.

Open-source-development.com offers comprehensive one-stop web solutions for your website and it is your words and our work put together turns dreams into reality. Do you have an existing Joomla extension that needs modification?? Are you thinking of redesigning your existing website and moving it to some interactive Joomla template and customize it???? ready to have Joomla template for your website? Then you are at the right destination, we will develop a Joomla website, add new themes and functionalities to existing Joomla extension to make it more interactive, enticing and easy for users to manage.

Main features of Joomla are:

Authorized access to different modules based on access permission is possible.

Real time content updation is possible. It is very simple and easy similar to word processing, no prior HTML knowledge required.

Creation of content menus dynamically can be done.

Polls creation is easily possible.

Managing all types of file and file formats from multimedia to audio and video files, text files, pictures in different formats like .png, .jpeg, .bmp

Managing News Feeds, from different news source web sites

Managing built in RSS, search engine friendly URLs and search engines.

Since Joomla is open source off-the-shelf-application it is cheap as code is free, only cost of customization is involved. Maintenance cost is reduced as it is easy and simple to manage for those using it, no extra employee is needed. Mere knowledge won’t work; you need to be purely tech savvy to modify the core source code of Joomla CMS. There are different modules and components which are available by default, come along with Joomla CMS. All you need is to choose from them as per your requirements, also you can add new feature on your own. Do not worry! customization of footer, header and advertisement banners can be done. Joomla programmers and developers develop new design, theme and template and integrate on the existing script. Enjoy custom Joomla CMS development, Joomla CMS customization, Joomla website development, Joomla web design, outsource Joomla development services to India.

Drupal Web CMS Development

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:24:00 +0000

Drupal web content management system made a bit simpler and easier for you. To avoid head over heels in development, developers, designers and programmers put heads together to savvy with code and module configuration.

Drupal developers and programmers can combine various modules of Drupal and its features to create a variety of community based sites with minimal code manipulation.

O’Reilly Media has been putting out media in regards to technology and tech community; chronicling new developments and staying up on tech trends has kept them at the forefront of the industry.
Comprehensive knowledge about core Drupal framework, which all modules to select for certain websites and certain modules not to included as best development practices. It is really enjoying if you are overly tech savvy and know to use Drupal to fullest for a range of situations and styles; just utilize your knowledge and share your expertise.

If you are thinking of developing a dynamic website full of interactivity with less coding and custom template and themes Drupal Web Development is one of the preferred options. Why Drupal content management system for your website:

Reliability: Drupal successfully runs on thousands of websites across the globe and because it is open source CMS it is easy to track bugs and fix them. There are many Drupal communities which are working to help Drupal developers and programmers share their knowledge and improve performance of websites by managing codes. Dedicated team of Drupal developers are working to keep every thing right way.

Maintainability: Drupal CMS provides tool sets to customize your website requirement, whether you want to upload text, image or audio, video files or product catalogue there are different modules to upload these easily. Drupal Content Constuction Kit (CCK) similar like SDK (Software Development Kit) helps to build forms and controls as you desire.

Adaptability: Developers from Drupal communities contribute to make Drupal more organized. Drupal is widely acceptable by SMEs (small and mid sized enterprises) and media corporations for developing e-commerce websites, discussion boards. Drupal is easily and readily adaptable to myriad of web development needs.

Customizability: Interactive websites are pleasing for users and provide users real time updation facilities. Drupal “off-the-shelf-application” provides templates and themes to customize appearance to meet your particular requirement. Drupal comes with lots of built in functionality which can be customized to provide interactivity to websites.

Outsource Drupal development services to open source web design development company in India. Whether you need small scale Drupal programming to develop small websites, great look websites with usability and interactivity or e-commerce websites, media corporations open-source-development.com will build complete website including Drupal coding modules and custom themes.

Issue Tracking Software Eventum

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:23:00 +0000

Eventum issue tracking open source off-the-shelf application is available under General Public License (GPL) and is developed by MySQL AB Team. Eventum has been written in PHP language and MySQL is used at the backend for database. Whether incoming technical support requests or software development team bugs and tasks request eventum is used to track and manage various issues.

Below is summarized system requirement of open source off-the-shelf application Eventum:

PHP Scripts handling web server is required.
PHP5.1 and newer version is needed with following extension.
• PCRE Extension
• Session handling enabled
• MySQL Extension
• GD Extension
• IMAP Extension (c-client imap library)
• gettext support if you want to use localization
For email support SMTP and POP is server is needed.
MySQL database server is required.

Installation is very simple and easy as Eventum bundles the libraries, but eventum file should be placed in directory.

User Management by creating users within application; multiple projects can be defined and accordingly we can set categories and priorities; issue creation by login in the application; custom search options, external e-mail account integration; e-mail alerts to set notification alerts; integration with source code management software and time tracking are important features of Eventum.

Advantages:
Cost effective product, can be easily customized, it is simple and easy to use and eventum provides effective issue tracking.

Any enquiry from you will receive our prompt attention. Open-source-development.com could provide you with latest web design, web application development based on latest technologies using off-the-shelf or custom application development solutions. Your early positive reply is most awaited. Thank you!

MVC web application development India

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:50:00 +0000

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is architectural design pattern for interactive web design applications of software systems that separately defines each layer. The interactive application is arranged in three different layers: Model, View and Controller. Using this style or pattern software is separated into model representing core functionalities, the second module is view that is used to display model to users and controller lets the users control the model. Model or application model consist of data representation and business logic; second module is for views that offers interface for user input and third is controller that is used to dispatch request and control flow. This programming model and implementation infrastructure allows developers to use the application source code without changing in different client-server environment. Since model, view and controller are used in single, non-partition space they can be easily deployed.

Ruby on rails technology uses this model view controller (MVC) architectural design framework fore creating database driven websites using Ruby programming language. MVC reduces code complexity by avoiding developers to write code again and again that is code redundancy. All this is achieved by making complex web application easy to handle by dividing the web application into simple layers.

This programming model or methodology is not suited for systems with many domains but is well suited for single domain system because of its simplicity. Modification is easier as model, view and controller are separate. This allows easy modification of data and reduces code duplication as all the three data behavior, data presentation and data control are separate.

Application operates on this domain specific information Model, database interaction and business logic are handled by the model, also multiple views may exist for single model (these are user interface elements), these are actual HTML code that are displayed in the browser and controllers manage web server interaction, these are user actions that may lead to changes in the existing model.

MVC makes the complex web application developmentsimple to mange and implement. Controller lies between model and the view and is responsible for extracting objects from database using model and giving it view for user. It is view that takes data given by the controller and produces the HTML output for the web browser, at the same model and controller are set free to do their specific jobs while view is busy generating HTML codes. The view is added sum of HTML and Ruby and adds dynamic content from model without relying on third party for formatting. Rail framework captures HTML and sends to web browser. Ruby on Rails development takes these concepts and bundles into single pack.

Measure your website performance

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:48:00 +0000

Is your website ranking good in search engine result pages (SERPs) for all your main services and products?? Just online visibility of your website will do or brand making essential these days??? Competition is very high, there are websites that are good look wise, have thousands of daily visitors and still there ROI is very low, why have you every thought what all factors are accountable for no sales. Our approach and strategies should be very practical and based on niche results associated with customer satisfaction in current secnario. Web effectiveness can be determined by prioritizing our objectives and concentrating on our goals to improve web effectiveness and ultimately improve ROI.

Along with the wide range of industry verticals and challenges we face day-to-day we do not need to make a hasty move, rather we need to concentrate on web effectiveness. Your business online, business through your website is the path that defines your website growth. Website is the channel for creating brand, visibility and generating traffic and converting good share of it into sales. Today we are facing new challenges every day and it is really very difficult to differentiate unique challenges that really are metrics and measuring gauge for your website. Measuring customer satisfaction for customer retention with the website is the proven methodology that a website, online business owner should keep into consideration. We need to keep check guard to find that are our customers and visitors able to find what they are seeking. Website product and services should prove itself for brand commitment and sales loyalty. Every website has its weak areas but one should know on which segments to focus for maximum return on investment. Enhancements that will have greatest impact on customers’ behavior need to be prioritize. Analyzing visitors segment will foster brand loyalty; keep regular check on performance analytics for best results.

Web 2.0 application development India

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:01:00 +0000

Web 2.0 by its nomenclature appears to be a new version of the World Wide Web. Some users perceive it as another version of the web with added technical features. In reality, Web 2.0 actually refers to the paradigm shift in the way end users and software developers use the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 reflects the changing face of the web; from its earlier read only version it is slowly and steadily becoming more participatory in nature.

Earlier versions of popular websites on the net were read-only with users having only a limited choice in terms of customization. Only the owners of the websites could modify/change the content of the websites. These days’ they have the power to change the look and feel of the websites they frequent and modify their features according to their convenience. One can say that web 2.0 has ushered in a revolution by enabling collaboration amongst users through information sharing capabilities. The emergence of wikis, blogs where users can not only read what others have written but also post their comments have led to the development of theme-based communities.

Web 2.0 with its interactive features has led to enhanced creativity in the online space. New tools, applications are being released into the online space helping users to entertain and enjoy themselves. Some of them can also be used to enhance personal productivity. Web 2.0 has ushered in new possibilities for the software developer’s community as well. Software applications can now be run entirely through a browser, which means that the network can now be used as a platform. The participatory nature of these applications allows users to add value to the application as they use it.

Web 2.0 provides much more functionalities to users as compared to Web 1.0. Presently users can host web casts, podcasts, blogs and access RSS feeds something which was unthinkable in the days of web 1.0.Websites with such in built functionalities have given great freedom to personal expression and have become very popular among the web surfers community. The immense popularity of photo-sharing sites is an example of this. These websites have also managed to generate enough traffic by giving an opportunity to users to express them. Community based social networking sites built on the Ajax, Flex framework offer interactivity through a rich user-friendly interface. These portals contain applications created by users, developers that are free to use and help in visitor retention and brand loyalty.

Open Source Software Solutions will improve your web presence!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:48:00 +0000

Remain up to date with the help of latest tools and technologies, if still having a static website with gloomy look, no need to worry!! Just you need to migrate your existing static website to an interactive, user friendly dynamic website with open source customized solutions and using off-the-shelf applications that use PHP programming, web scripting language and MySQL database. Open source web design development companies are basically using LAMP (Linux operating system, Apache server, MySQL database and PHP programming language), Web 2.0 or Ruby on Rails technologies and the methodologies followed in open source web development are either extreme programming, agile development, Rational Unified Process(RUP) or Model View Controller(MVC).

Why open source solutions are gaining popularity and wide acceptance worldwide, main reason behind is that open source is free and the users are free to manage the code, change the code, developers and programmers get chance to learn more and innovate. Open source software solutions allow us to constantly change websites in real time, changes are reflected dynamically and this gives open source users best experience. I have found that open source has gifted us with the opportunity to remain up to date and by constantly updating content; websites are not designed for only visitors but readers who will visit your website and really like to go through it. The open source flexible models this gradually improves your traffic and sales.

Open source software development companies in India are providing open source consulting, business ready solutions, offshore and outsourcing customized solutions to server your clients. Open source web development, software development does not require very high level of expertise. Open source customized solutions and off-the-shelf applications has provided a real development model that engulfs users providing them freedom to use code and manage code make a comprehensive business sense because of its inter-operability, interactive, robust, cost-effective. Open source developers and PHP MySQL programmers with flair of professional output assist in building quality systems that are web based using open source technologies like Ruby on Rails, Web 2.0 and LAMP.

I would like to add a note that outsourcing enterprises outsourcing PHP, outsourcing Ruby on Rails and other applications in India have been moving from staff augmentation to well managed services to improve cost margin. But, with the growth and maturity of open source market some risk will automatically sprout in the industries.

Outsource PHP development in India

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:05:00 +0000

Once again back, as I have been discussing in my another blog "Offshore IT Outsourcing Company India" http://offshore-it-outsourcing.blogspot.com/, offshore outsourcing; this time I am here to share my views on outsourcing PHP to India. Offshore and outsourcing have become IT business buzz word and business lexicon. I would really appreciate if my blog readers actively participate and share their views and post comments so that these can bring us together to improve our knowledge base. I have been repeatedly describing offshore and outsourcing, how they differ and how they are inter-related.

Now, talking about offshore development center, India ranks number one and is the centralized hub for offshore outsourcing, software development, web application development, PHP programming and PHP web application development. India is the kernel of wide range of technology services, business processes, consultancy, re-engineering, software outsourcing, customer relationship. By offering slew of services that spans across diverse industries, India draws on core capability of process expertise. The technology based solutions give competitive edge in this IT driven and techno savvy business world. Open source developers, programmers are moving ahead by crossing all the barriers, resolving development problems, removing bugs as open source is available free. Dedicated PHP developers, skilled PHP professionals, devoted professionals in India have geared up the PHP outsourcing application web development market in India. As the source code is open for developers, they can make real time updations, modify content, add new categories and also delete existing one, all depends on their accessibility permission granted. This has resulted in better and best utilization of resources and cost reducation.

Developers can easily modify different applications using PHP programming language and MySQL database, the off-the-shelf applications can be customized to meet clients' requirements. As PHP source code is open to developers they can modify the source code to provide custom application solutions. Apart from PHP open source code available, third party integration is available with PHP. Clients willing to migrate static websites to dynamic websites or migrate websites from PHP4 to PHP5, it is really simple and easy to do. PHP web development provides with more interactive, more user friendly, interactive websites so that the website visitors stick to your website. Also, different content management system can be developed using PHP server side scripting programming language and MySQL large database.

The greatest achievement is ecommerce websites that run online storefront, sitting at your home or whether at your workplace you can browse the online virtual store catalogue and do shopping and pay online, these ecommerce storefronts payment gateways are completely authenticated. With user based communities soaring high, social media optimization usability model is the next generation business model. Many applications can be developed dynamically using PHP and MySQL like discussion boards, user polls, blogs, forums, social book marking sites, tagging, online storefront. Open source LAMP tool is of great help for PHP application development and custom application development. India is growing as PHP outsourcing and development center and is growing as is outsourcing and hiring PHP developers and programmers.

PHP website optimization

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:38:00 +0000

Could anyone give me answer to the question why do we optimize websites?? I found website optimization and SEO interlinked. Even though your website has excellent look and feel, your website is not found and as a result you loose your customers. So where lies the flaws??

I am sharing my personal experience with you. I have been into search engine optimization from 2006 and got chance to optimize lots of websites. I started up with static, in-house company's project and today I have slew of in-house, on-site and offshore clients' projects; static as well as dynamic.

By optimizing a website you sharpen its edges so that it can effectively serve its visitors, search engines and professionals who are developing and maintaining your website. I believe, websites are for promoting services, products or just for information. So, have a checkpoint to know whether your website works?? I mean is your website driving traffic. Only, when there are visitors then there will be sale. To have good website traffic your website should be listed in SERPs for the work you are promoting. This will check how efficiently your website works. Target right keywords and market area.

Website optimization and SEO techniques will ensure to generate highest possible conversion rate from visitors and sales.

Coming to dynamic websites, the benefits of dynamic websites out-weighs the problematic areas. Ethical SEO and ROI is essential for creating brand awareness. Now coming to dynamic website optmization for Google, it is really a hard not to crack. Your website may end up without ranking if you make hasty move. So make strategies!! Dynamic websites like e-commerce and portal websites have lacs of URLs and hardly are indexed by Google. Since, the pages are generated dynamically or on-fly - the dynamic URLs have characters like ?=! in URL encoded, as suggested by SEO experts by reducing these characters from the URL your ranking is pushed forward. Really, fruitful but only to certain degree. Next, I can to know about URL re-writing to remove the URL-encoded variables that were generated by scripting languages that dynamically append links with session id variable to keep state with visitors blocking cookies. The session id is long and unique each time google comes to the page. URL re-writing provided amazing results, all dynamic pages getting indexed.

PHP programmers need to turn-off the link appendage, PHP.ini file, this will instruct server to turn off session.use_trans_sid and turn on session.use_only_cookies. In case you do not access to PHP.ini file you can turn-off link appendage by writing an .HTACCESS file and adding "php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off" and "php_flag session.use_only_cookies On". I have not used but I am sure other technologies must be using similar logic for allowing and disallowing session ids and cookies files.

I am sure this will help you to improve your website visitors and generate business leads and sales and also maximize your profit.

Sun Microsystems accquires MySQL - expected make billion dollor database market

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:47:00 +0000

MySQL, the most popular open source database will be soon acquired by Sun Microsystems and brisk up Sun growth strategy in Billion db market.

In SANTA CLARA, this week Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) declared about its explicit agreement to acquire MySQL AB, open source icon and developers of one of the world’s fastest growing open source database.

Acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems will augment Sun’s stand in the global IT market as will include $15 billion database market. Sun is declared to be the largest contributor in the commercial open source market and pioneer web economy platform provider.

With SMO i.e. social media optimization, expanding social networks, sprouting new social communities, increasing number of user driven social communities and their integration has really helped web technology to grow rapidly and move ahead from web 2.0 to web 3.0 and now to semantic web and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing). With slew of web deployments globally, aficionados of Facebook, Stumbleupon, Twitter, orkut, Chinal Mobile, LinkedIn, Baidu,
With millions of global deployments including Facebook, Google, Nokia, Baidu and China Mobile, MySQL will synergies to Sun. This will transform the software industry landscape by driving new adoption of MySQL's open source database in more traditional applications and enterprises. The acquisition by Sun and then integration with Sun will intensify MySQL commercial appeal that it has been offering to IT sector and also ameliorate its value proposition with the addition of Sun's global services organization. Also, MySQL will find a new distribution channel through Sun's channels including its OEM relationships with Intel, IBM and Dell.
Sun’s MySQL acquisition reaffirms Sun’s global web economy position. Talking about the growth plan, we find a very firm base to support as acquiring MySQL amplifies investment in technologies manifolds. Supporting our overall growth plan, acquiring MySQL amplifies our investments in the technologies demanded by those driving extreme growth and efficiency, from Internet media titans to the world's largest traditional enterprises," said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president, Sun Microsystems. "MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network innovation. And most importantly, this announcement boosts our investments into the communities at the heart of innovation on the Internet and of enterprises that rely on technology as a competitive weapon."
MySQL's open source database because of its flexibility, inter-operability is successfully and widely deployed across all major operating systems, applications, myriad industries, slew of hardware vendors. The complementary product line-ups will extend MySQL's database reach and are expected to bring new markets for Sun's systems, virtualization, middleware and storage platforms.
"The combination of MySQL and Sun represents an enormous opportunity for users and organizations of all sizes seeking innovation, growth and choice," said Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL. "Sun's culture and business model complements MySQL's own by sharing the same ideals that we have had since our foundation -- software freedom, online innovation and community and partner participation. We are tremendously excited to work with Sun and the millions of members of the MySQL open source ecosystem to continue to deliver the best database for powering the modern Web economy."
MySQL's open source database is the "M" in LAMP - the software platform comprised of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl often viewed as the foundation of the Internet. Sun is committed to enhancing and optimizing the LAMP stack on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows along with OpenSolaris and MAC OS X. The database from MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish, together with Sun's Java platform and NetBeans communities, will create a powerful Web application platform across a wide range of customers shifting their applications to the Web.
More than 100 million copies of MySQL's high-performance open source database software have been downloaded and distributed and an additional 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. This broad penetration coupled with MySQL's strength in Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), enterprise, telecom and the OEM embedded market make it an important fit for Sun. With MySQL, Sun will have the ability to deepen its existing customer relationships and create new opportunities with companies seeking the flexibility and ease-of-use of open source systems.
Following completion of the proposed transaction, MySQL will be integrated into Sun's Software, Sales and Service organizations and the company's CEO, Marten Mickos, will be joining Sun's senior executive leadership team. In the interim, a joint team with representatives from both companies will develop integration plans that build upon the technical, product and cultural synergies and the best business and product development practices of both companies. MySQL is headquartered in Cupertino, CA and Uppsala, Sweden and has 400 employees in 25 countries.
As part of the transaction, Sun will pay approximately $800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assume approximately $200 million in options. The transaction is expected to close in late Q3 or early Q4 of Sun's fiscal 2008. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions. The deal is expected to be accretive to FY10 operating income on a GAAP basis.
The management teams of both companies will host a media and analyst conference call today at 10:00 am EST, 7:00 am PST. The call can be accessed at http://www.sun.com/investors. For those unable to listen to the live conference call, a telephone replay will be available for one week following the call by dialing (888) 566-0103 or outside of the U.S. by dialing (402) 998-0958. No passcode is required to access the replay.
About MySQL
MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company's flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise', a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube and Booking.com. With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
MySQL and the MySQL logo are registered trademarks of MySBL AB in the United States, the European Union and other countries.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, OpenSolaris, GlassFish, Java, Netbeans and The Network is the Computer are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the United States and other countries.

This Sun Microsystems PR contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the expected benefits resulting from the acquisition, Sun's strategy and commitments, Sun's integration plans for the acquisition, the expected timing for closing the acquisition and the impact on Sun's financials of the acquisition. Such statements are just predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such that actual results and performance may differ materially. Factors that might cause such differences include the failure to (1) receive regulatory approval, (2) successfully integrate MySQL and its employees into Sun and achieve expected synergies, (3) accurately forecast the acquisition-related restructuring costs and allocation of the purchase price to in-process research and development, goodwill and other intangibles acquisition related inventory and other asset adjustments, as well as the impact of equity-based compensation expense associated with FAS 123R, (4) compete successfully in this highly competitive and rapidly changing marketplace, and (5) retain key employees. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in Sun's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Sun's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2007. Sun assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update these forward-looking statements.

Source: Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL

CMS Solutions India

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:13:00 +0000

In very less time CMS industry got associated with the IT industry and has become integral part of development. CMS has made its separate position in the market and holds good share of open source development to provide customized solutions at minimal investment. Content Management System is a software system that helps user to manage slew of content on their desktop and web. Content covers computer files, documents, video, audio files, electronic files, records and web content that can be efficiently managed by categorizing and sub-categorizing. All updations occur in real time and changes are reflected dynamically.

Whether a company is looking for a simple website design or a complex website solution, CMS will help you make your own website. Most important is deciding which CMS to go with, the most crucial step. If you have bit knowledge of website, no need to study or learn new language, it is user friendly and very interactive. You have secure access over the internet and also the admin has the right to set access permission for users. No need to worry, no need to hire a technical professional you can do on your own and once you implement it management is very easy. Adding new content, categories, deletion or updation is successfully reflected across company’s boundary. The entire chain enjoys the real value of business. CMS solutions provide your website with complete interactivity, basic features and advanced features that you are looking as a part of your procurement process. These features can be customized as per your need.

Blogs, forums, RSS, support, vBulletin, helpdesk, groupware features are of great interest for user and clients that help you to remain in the chain. Many new CMS communities are growing and emerging that provide online code and support for further development of community.

Main open source CMS includes:
Portal CMS – Joomla, Typo3, PHP Nuke

Blogs – Wordpress, Nucleus CMS , Simplog

e-Commerce – osCommerce, Opencart
Groupware – eGroupWare
Forums - phpBB
e-Learning - Moodle
Image Galleries - Gallery 2
Wiki - MediaWiki
Lite - phpCMS
Miscellaneous - SugarCRM

SAP PHP framework for you!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:14:00 +0000

What's this? Seems that some folks over in the SAP Developer Network (SDN) are working on a new framework for SAP and PHP, the SAP Network Wiki is a being developed as complete transaction based framework around the SAP transactions.

As you may see...My main goal is to develop an SAP PHP based Framework, name it SAPHP, or something else. Of course, a lot of work must be done and a lot of things must be improved...For example:

* SE11 --> Be able to create Tables, Domains, Data Elements.
* SE10 --> Be able to create new Transport Orders.
* SE38 --> Be able to create programs and save them on SAP.
* ST22 --> Be able to read the Short Dump information.

Something to take a peek at and maybe keep one eye on for awhile to see where it goes...

For more information on open source development, Outsourcing PHP Development, Joomla Development, Drupal Development India, SugarCRM Consulting, RoR Outsourcing India
Source: New SAP PHP Framework, IT toolbox

Effective B2B Marketing Strategies

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:43:00 +0000

B2B is exchange of information, product or services between businesses, Business to Business. According to figures published in 2000, B2B exceeds e-tailing by 10 to 1and is expected to have a compound annual growth of 41% in next few years. Its strategies and models are still evolving and changing. Business To Business (B2B) is electronics online commerce between businesses.

Business to business online commerce is liked by all businesses and those doing b2b commerce. The expanding B2B online commerce is going to be very big and really it is difficult to estimate any size of it. It is not easy to nail precise market size figure of B2B business. Talking about B2B companies, there are basically 2 types of B2B companies: vertical and horizontal.
Vertical B2B companies work within an industry vertical to make money from advertising on specific sites that are specialized in different sectors. These industries may earn from e-commerce websites they host on their server in form of transaction fees. Largest vertical B2B companies include Internet Capital Group, VerticalNet (Nasdaq). Horizontal B2B companies follow different procedure and operate at different levels across slew of industry verticals. Apart from other product services, core concentrated industry include IT and software related services. You need to create efficient market and streamline business, supply and demand should be continuous that will create better price market.

If you really posses marketing skills then you can draw niche business solutions, you need to integrate effectively scattered market elements. Create a competitive advantage, long term relationship with your customers, integrating all the resources and monitoring the pricing strategies. Know your business to proceed on B2B marketing pathway, best fit of B2B into your business will bring you closer to success strategies. Marketing to business is becoming more viable in comparison to marketing to consumers (B2C). Proper mixing and use of tools and pricing strategies will help integrate marketing with sales. Effective B2B marketing involves clinching over sales elements and marketing elements together.

For nay kind of B2B e-commerce website solutions, shopping cart solutions, you can contact us, B2B Companies in India

When and Why Joomla or Drupal??

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:52:00 +0000

Joomla vs Drupal which way to go??

Lots of emerging communities of Drupal and Joomla are rocking the social media network. The community members are increasing every day. Don’t get overwhelmed which to choose; first you need to keep your vision clear, look for your general and specific requirements, and move ahead keeping in view that success and quality is the bottom line of the website development. You need to be very focused on your goal and objectives should be very transparent. I have done lots of research on internet and played putting combination of keywords, key phrases in the google search, delved into the matter which to choose, also read forums, blogs and discovered few important facts, which I am going to discuss in my post.

Joomla has proved to be the best to work providing rich and colorful templates, customization option, extensions and components available really boost your website functionalities but these are true for web designers; web developers are not so happy working with Joomla; Drupal is preferable for web developers.

Drupal provide flexibility to SEO executives as it is more search engine friendly, because it provides SEO friendly URL re-write module. Drupal’s feature to install several sites with one set up in comparison to Joomla one set up for one site installation and multiple set up for multiple site installation is really tedious and you need to update components one by one. Also the same login detail can be used for different sites in Drupal. Granting access permission on Drupal is fine tuned. Distributed network approach of Drupal makes is best CMS for online community development. Drupal supports ensemble of inbound feeds, supports blogging, non-exclusive tagging, ubiquitous outbound RSS feeds. Drupal has developed distributed community features for community networking, content creation and distribution.

When Joomla?? If the user is non-technical Joomla is better choice, no need to have earlier knowledge of the tools. Easy installation and set using mouse can be done. If you are least bothered about Joomla users of your website and access permission is not at highest priority, Joomla is best. Again, if you do not need SEO out of box, Joomla is preferred.

Power of Rich Internet Applications

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:09:00 +0000

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for desktop, web applications and your web browsers can enhance their productivity by helping to build Ajax applications. Create and deploy RIA; RIA can be built using AJAX and Flash technologies.

RIA is a web application with features and functionalities similar to desktop applications. It provides good user interface, transfers processes to web clients and retains bulk data on the application server.

Implementation of Ajax RIA can enhance value of service oriented systems. Open source developers can combine and leverage the powerful capabilities of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Rich Internet Applications technology. Developers can use many available free components, use to use layouts, data management tools.

Dealing with number of people in business ride is actually a roller coaster ride to retain your business and customers, RIA provides flexibility to users, developers, companies who ever wants to roll out. Good RIA can switch between the web and desktop.

Features of Joomla Open Source CMS

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:07:00 +0000

Joomla came into begin on 17th August, 2005 as a result of Mambo’s fork. It is licensed under General Public License (GPL), is free an open source content management system. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL database. Joomla in general means ‘all together’. It has proved to be a strong tool for information dissemination.

Flexibility and use of plug-ins, other extensions like components help to extend the functionalities and also add other new functionalities. Integration of these components and extensions with the existing modules makes Joomla more popular among its community members. Joomla forum has more than lakhs of threads and millions of post from more than lakhs of registered members in 40 languages. Easy installation and management makes Joomla most reliable tool for content management of simple website, corporate website, intranets, e-commerce solutions, communities, blogging, forums, social networks and many more. Its important features include page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, blogs, polls, language internationalization, flash features and printable version of pages.

Joomla facilitates building of highly scalable websites, with better interactivity and dynamic database driven websites, technical and non-technical users of Joomla can exploit Joomla for their use. The myriad of free components, theme and template available are available for simple website development to complex applications. The Joomla! project continues to serve as a model for community-focused open source software development." says Christopher Justice, sponsor of the Joomla!

Joomla is an open source software for website development accepted worldwide.

CMS Software Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:27:00 +0000

Choose the right content management system for your organization – whether proprietary CMS, Open Source CMS or Hosted CMS.

From content creation to content maintenance and content access; content organization, its placement and up gradation all are well defined and modularization of segments. Understanding your requirement and emphasizing the business needs will help you choose the right CMS.

Content Management System is a system used to manage a web site content.Contents are categorized, organized and managed for interactive use by contributors. Content includes computer files, audio/video files, documents, electronics files. World class CMS deployment with the open source CMS!! CMS is a collaborative creation of community members and workflow process is one of the most important feature of CMS. Workflow process is the flow of document in order to publish the content on the web.

The flexibility to assign and define categories and sub-categories, identification of users and assign users with their role and responsibilities, incorporate custom search, multilingual support and ability to track and manage multiple version of single instance of content; customization using components, theme, template and plug-ins are some of the other important features that makes CMS best system to organize content on web.

Drupal Solutions India

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:02:00 +0000

Drupal was a bulletin board system that became an open source CMS in 2001. Drupal is a modular open source CMS written using a programming language PHP. It is environment friendly and is well off with all operating systems; runs well with both the servers (Apache, IIS); MySQL database is used for storing the content. Complete content manipulation is in your hand. The basic functionalities available in default configuration are of great help to developers, designers; they can extend the functionalities using plug-ins. It provides a modular approach for developing your website, you can add, edit, and delete content. Content may be a computer file or other audio/video files, web content or an electronic document that can be managed easily by the owner himself/herself – no need to hire a technical person if you have the basic knowledge, a user friendly interface.

Drupal originated from a Dutch word ‘druppel’ which means a drop. Offshore Drupal development and outsourcing of these services have provided bigger opportunities for Drupal developers to outsource their work to global IT players. Also, open source nature of the software makes it user-friendly. Content can be customized as per individual need. Drupal kernel callbacks allow modules to insert functions into Drupal’s path of execution. Drupal 5.3 was released on 17th Oct 2007 and a month ago in November beta version 6.0 was released with featured freeze feature.

The modular approach provides Drupal with greater flexibility. It provides with the ability to categorize content, post and review comments, custom search is also provide, build multi-level menus, can actively participate in forums, blogs, RSS feeds, grant user access and access control, caste polls, add new content, updated existing ones, can re-write search-engine friendly URLs, generate reports.

Drupal community has contributed by providing many free modules that can be shared among the Drupal and other users of the community. Few successfully developed and most widely used modules include workflow features, organic groups, Google sitemap, Integration with CVS, e-commerce, photo galleries, and mailing list management. Icreon Open Source Development is a leading Drupal Consultant and provider of Drupal solutions in India and to offshore clients too.

Open Source Solutions

noreply@blogger.com (Rakhi) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:48:00 +0000

Open source provides transparent model for distributed system. Indian companies are able to successfully deliver PHP mySQL based free and open source software solution to clients worldwide. If you need to enhance your online activities, marketing sales and traffic and promote your website and company brand choose from the range of open source CMS solutions. Quality portal development or osCommerce store development, web development services, Indian open source developers have expertise over open source portals (Drupal, Joomla, Typo3, Mambo), Blogs, eCommerce, Groupware, Forums(phpBB, SMF), e-Learning, Image galleries, Wiki, Lite, Miscellaneous services that comprehensive services.

Open source provides flexibility, interactivity, user friendly interface, cost effective solution, modular approach, open source code to add and manage, exempts from vendor lock-in for your website. Number of open source communities are emerging with social media gaining strength and huge communities are backing it up. Interaction between end users, customers are improving that will help to have long term relationship with client.

Huge communities are backing up open source CMS and people are glued together, this has improved communication network, channelizing flow of information dynamically and world has come closer. Open source technology has help you garner price saving and accept new upgrade that come to the market. Open source solutions have touched many industry vertical.