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Why frequently website updatingis important?

Your website design is outstanding and it contains best features but your website does not have better traffic. Well the question rise definitely. Designers and developers can’t figure out the reason of low traffic and why people aren’t paying attention on their website. Well, the reason is that your website is not meeting to the nature of the internet implies that the latest thing and latest information is available at any hour of the day.

Your website must update regularly with new useful information every day. An up-updated website is same as old storage room of particular information. And the people don’t like to read or see same thing or information which they have previously watched or read. And because of this reason you may loss your potential customers. Suppose you generate high ranking and be on top of world. But you are not frequently update your website with fresh content, eventually your ranking will fall as other competitors move past your stale offering.

Not only content on individual page of website but you should also add new pages and section to your web site. The internet is quickly moving to most dynamic nature.

Frequently updated website provides many new facilities and latest information to your visitors. So if your website is updated and they find some thing new they will come back repeatedly and rapidly to your website and this way you can increase traffic of your website. It results in better of your product or service.

Website which is regularly updates their content gain more traffic over the long haul. Most important reason to update your site is to get search engine spiders crawling to your page. Each time the spider visit your website page it will find a new content. This will get your pages indexed and lead to higher rankings and traffic. Remember thing that every pages that added to your website increases your opportunity for sale. This is so because additional pages allow for more indexing.

If you want high page ranking and want to keep concentration of your visitors on your website. You have to introduce fresh and useful content on your website keeping up with the trends. You also have to design your site as per the trend, as people don’t like the boring plain or outdated designed website. Try to keep your site updated with interesting, exciting content and the rankings will not fall and you can get more traffic.

Search engines don’t pay any attention to the websites which are no regularly updated. This is the most important reason that updating of website regularly is most essential thing. Search engines programs search the web and analyze websites based upon a wide variety of factors. One of these factors is how frequently sites are updated and with what kind of content. By updating your site frequently, you are effectively telling these search engine programs, often referred to as spiders or bots, that your website is dynamic, moving, ever-changing and interesting. Clearly, a website that is updated frequently will look as though it has a good deal more to offer potential visitors than a site that is updated once every six months or once a year.

There is so many techniques available in the market like magento customization, wordpress customization, joomla customization etc for your website updating and development.

What is magento customization development and PSD to magento services?

Magneto is an Open Source Web Application. In some measures it is afresh than others and it is an Ecommerce which represents Web 2.0 structure. Its growing features like facilitation and bluntness has made it current predominate Open Source Ecommerce System.

PSD is the photoshop extension which is used to save the file from the photoshop application and it is used by website designer. A good website design is essential but it is not enough at present time for giant competition. Websites must have a good design with better usability, and for better usability web designers have to convert their PSD.

Magento Ecommerce Platform combines the tractability of open source technology with industry leading features to allow for merchants exceptional control over online store operations and get the online sales successful through magento customization.

Magento is a very new Open Source system for E-Commerce. Magento is freely available under GNU license that you can use to start an Online Store with features such as catalog browsing/management, customer service/accounts, mobile commerce, order management, payments, shipping, etc. There is an enterprise version of Magento also available for a fee.

Main goal of magento customization is to provide store owners a remarkably wide range of flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of an Online Store.

PSD to Magento conversion and integration is needed as only design is not enough for booming business website. Suppose you have ecommerce website which customize in magento and your web designer make excellent and eye catching PSD for your website design but your website is being tedious for your users if it not provide better usability.

You conversion from PSD to Magento should be in high quality, hand coded, SEO optimized, cross browser compatible, XHTML/CSS markup ready magento theme. It is important that the time of conversation you should be careful for your design also. You should deal with both things, website design and its usability at the time of conversation. It is important to have pixel perfect design for your magento theme.

Try to make your renewed magento theme browser compatible. PSD to Magento conversion made by your web developer should be friendly to most commonly used, because if your ecommerce website is not cross browser compatible then its result in the uselessness of conversion. It is necessity to have W3C validate website design. Make sure that all PSD to Magento converted code are written manually by your web developer to ensure highly optimized code.

Original design of PSD should not be change after the Magento conversion and integration. All the conversions are done maintaining the originality of the design of structure. PSD to Magento conversion and integration is not an easy task so you can hire magento developer for magento customization, PSD to Magento conversions.

BigCommerce Template Design

In the world of open source application and ecommerce solutions, BigCommerce is the fastest growing ecommerce platform in the world because it provides entrepreneurs like you with an affordable, enterprise-grade ecommerce platform that’s easy to manage and provides a rapid ROI. BigCommerce has built in lots of features which make it unique among all other ecommerce solutions like magento or opencart. If you are looking for an e-commerce store that you can set up straight away, this is an awesome solution. BigCommerce has lots of features which allow store owner a great flexibility to manage his store front. Here is a small list of features which ranked BigCommerce to top

1) No Design Limit: BigCommerce has no design limit. Store owner has creative control of redesigning layout as per his wish by just drag and drop. It does not require any technical skill to do so. BigCommerce itself provide more than 50 default nice store layout to choose.

2) Sell on eBay: Right from your store’s control panel you can list your products for sale (BIN) or auction on eBay. You can see live listings and when an auction is won or a product is purchased, an order is created in your store automatically. No extra work needed.

3) Email Marketing: BigCommerce comes with built in integration of iContact which allowed store owner to send periodic newsletter to all their prospective buyers.

4) Fancy Photo Zooming: BigCommerce allowed unlimited number of product photo upload with auto cropping features. Visitors can click a photo to see the larger version, which you can display in a popup window or in a light box-style window

5) Mobile Commerce: BigCommerce includes native support for the iPad as well as a shopping experience that looks beautiful on all web kit-enabled mobile devices including iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Palm Pre devices. A complete browsing, shopping and purchasing experience takes just a few clicks.

6) Sell on Facebook: BigCommerce also support facebook shop to sell your product on facebook. By displaying a “Shop” tab on your Facebook fan page, BigCommerce SocialShop lets your fans, prospects and customers click on a product to purchase it from your BigCommerce store

7) Custom Product options: BigCommerce allows you to create as many custom options as you want for your product set. You can also create configurable fields which the customer has to fill in when purchasing, such as engraving text for an iPod.

8) Search Engine optimization: BigCommerce includes all what you need to be ranked top on all major search engine like Google, yahoo or bing. It provides a feature to write custom Meta title, description and keywords for each product, pages and categories for better search engine optimization.

There are so many other features are available in BigCommerce which itself a long topic. you can read more BigCommerce features list at their website.

Why ecommerce website is more important to grow business?

In the field of online business, ecommerce website development is demanding by every businessperson. If you are providing services to your customers through internet then ecommerce website is most important part to grow your business. The Internet has changed greatly over the years. While at first it was only a tool for sending e-mails and sharing information, today it does much more than that. Internet is perfect way for sharing information, files and online business trades information from business to business and business to customers.

Ecommerce website used to get flexible solutions for selling and buying products over the internet and this is very important part for any company, which gives services to their client through web. If you have already ecommerce website and want to customize it then creative glance technologies provide unique solutions for custom ecommerce development.
There are many open source tools used to develop web2.0-based website but mostly businessperson like to use Magento theme to create website. Magento programmers provide perfect solutions from website designs to development to clients.

Ecommerce Website Development is well known solutions for online business management and services. Creative glance technologies develop ecommerce website for their clients with many open source web technologies. Clients need many kinds of requirement according to business services so there is need to use appropriate open source customization techniques during website development.

Ecommerce web solutions can make your business more popular on the web by giving flexible services to users. Now, people search everything for their requirement from internet and they find best information from search engine. If they get website related to their requirement then now doubt that they analysis that website and take its services. Therefore, if you want to make your website more popular then you can also use search engine optimization to grow your business.

Whats new in magento 1.4.1.0

Improvements

  • Added ability to use static URLs for media in WYSIWYG or image browser. Added ability to enable parsing store, skin and media directives on catalog frontend.
  • URL rewrites history: ability to auto-generate custom rewrite with redirect from old to new URL when changing product URL-key
  • Added ability to exclude a category from navigation menu
  • Various improvements in system configuration UI. Introduced ability to make actual configuration structure to be independent on the system.xml structure
  • Added “Only X left” inventory feature
  • Implemented Centinel functionality in iphone theme
  • Upgraded TinyMCE to v.3.3.2
  • Improved PayPal integration, includes:
    * Recurring payment profiles entity and purchasing of “subscription” products. In checkout they are treated as “nominal” items.
    * Billing agreements
    * “Pending Review” order state, “Pending Review” and “Suspected Fraud” order statuses and logic related with this. Triggers by PayPal IPR, FMF and Unilateral payments.
    * Functionality of transactions listing/searching and fetching from gateway
    * Fetching PayPal settlement reports via SFTP
    * Various improvements of PayPal integration on the frontend and admin UI
  • Added notice about creating offline creditmemo from order view page.
  • Added getter for recurring payment methods in payment helper.
  • Implemented abstract block ability to have arbitrary groups of child blocks and a method that returns such a group. Implemented a method that fetches data from child block by specified alias.
  • Implemented ability to specify “sort_order” instead of “before” and “after” in the totals declaration. All nominal totals declaration utilize “sort_order”
  • Added getter for specified object data by key in core/template block: method getObjectData()
  • Defined payment methods grouping, implemented getter for payment method list (with option to group them). Added ability to render grouped options in the “select” grid filter.
  • Moneybookers: utilized the payment methods grouping for all its methods; removed redundant “translate” attribute in the methods definition in config.
  • Utilized payment methods grouping for PayPal peyment methods.
  • Added more verbosity to PayPal NVP and IPN debugging

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Creative Glance has started to provide OpenCart Integration and Customization Services

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system and its designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

As we all know Magento is a popular ecommerce solution now a day, but the main two disadvantages of Magento is(1) It is so slow (2) Magento is very hard to customize, These two points make people move from Magento to OpenCart.

OpenCart is very easy to customization. And it is also very fast. Another advantages of OpenCart are as follow.

1. Very Faster.
2. Much Easier.
3. Great Scalability
4. Very Affordable.
5. Safe and easy online payment.
6. Non-programmers like anyone can easily understand the code and make their own changes.
7. OpenCart has pretty templates.
8. More standard modules.
9. Shopping Cart Simplicity.
10. B2B and B2C in one eCommerce shop.
11. One Back Office in your language.
12. Affordable.

You can checkout its admin panel and front end Demo at
http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=demonstration/demonstration

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Wow… Magento Launches Ver. 1.4

Today it was nice start of the day when i seen that magento has launched latest stable version that is 1.4.0.0.  In new version,

* They have provided most awaited WYSIWUG editor with easy static block implementation for CMS and product pages.

* They also have now support “media” folder browsing to select existing file or upload images from admin panel itself rather then uploading images through FTP.

* From the first use of this latest version, I feel lots of speed improvement in website loading. Now they have started supporting indexing

There are other lots of changes they have made like

  • Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
  • Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes
  • Full review of frontend themes, introduced design cross-package fallback and the base/default theme. Includes SEO and accessibility enhancements. Changes are oriented to dramatically reduce themes maintenance.
  • Added ability to define arbitrary cache backends
  • Optimized performance of sales reports, added new sales report types
  • Added image/media uploader/browser, that can browse entire media folder
  • Optimized performance of search indexer
  • Made order processing workflow more informative and severe
  • Reimplemented 404 and report pages, introduced 503 page, specifically for maintenance purposes
  • Improved javascript files merging, added CSS files merging
  • Added Widgets functionality, added several widgets out of the box
  • Added Custom Variables functionality
  • Added lot of new System Configuration options
  • Improved order placement reliability
  • Added WYSIWYG for CMS and Catalog
  • Optimized cache initialization during startup
  • Optimized export from grids in admin area
  • Improved tax and discount totals calculation
  • Replaced admin notification flash popup into a simple HTML overlay
  • Implemented product and category URLs per store view
  • Added ability to configure entry point using virtualhost environment configuration, rather than creating another physical entry point
  • Optimized simple product view without custom options

Now we are very excited to start working on this latest version. we shortly add our latest portfolio website in magento 1.4 version.

Why to choose Magento Commerce for ecommerce website?

Since new technologies arrives to the internet market, Online ecommerce store owner moving towards to change their ecommerce store with new look and functionalities. There are many open source are available to start ecommerce website. Among them Magento is one the top rated open source for ecommerce store setup. The reasons are its vast set of functionality and reach administrator control over the store. Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of an online store

Here is the list of functionality that magento have

  1. Analytics and Reporting
    • Integrated with Google Analytics
    • Admin Dashboard for Report Overview
    • Sales Report
    • Tax Report
    • Best Viewed Products Report
    • Best Purchased Products Report
    • Low Stock Report
    • Coupon Usage Report
    • Total Sales Invoiced
    • Total Sales Refunded
    • Best Customers Report by Total and Number Orders
  2. Catalog Browsing Reporting
    • Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products
    • Static Block tool to create category landing pages
    • Configurable search with auto-suggested terms
    • Recently viewed products
    • Product comparisons
    • Cross-sells, Up-sells and Related Items
    • Popular Search Terms Cloud
    • Filter by Product Tags
    • Product Reviews
    • Product listing in grid or list format
    • Breadcrumbs

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How to avoid common website design mistakes?

Your Website is the showcase of your business. So your website should appeal to your visitors. But there are some mistakes of website design which scare visitors away than luring them.  Every website designer should avoid those mistakes. Here we explain some of them mistakes.
1)    If visitors can not find what your site is about in a few time, they will be probably just go somewhere else. Your site must impress for what this site is being here in a few seconds.

2)    You should avoid the use of fancy and unreadable font.  The Font looks good and fit in your site design but if they are not readable for users then it is meaningless. No one can read your message which you want to deliver to the users. Must follow web 2.0 website design rule for designing website.

3)    You do not resize your user’s browsers window, the user should be control of his/her browser because If you resize it you will risk to mess things up on his side, and what is worse you might lose your credibility in front of him.

4)    Never subscribe the visitor for something without his consent it means does not automatically subscribe a visitor to newsletters when he registers up on your site. Sending unsolicited emails around is not the best way to make friends.

5)    Try to avoid overuse of flash because apart from increasing the load time of your website, too much usage of flash might be irritating your website visitors. Use it only when you want to offer some features that are not supported by static pages.

6)    If your website requires an audio file in your website so let the user start it like if you want to deliver a speech to the user or your guided tour might have audio component. That is fine. Just let users push the “play” button.  Otherwise when user starts to access the website the music will be block on user’s face.

7)    Make sure to include anchor text on links because it is easier to tell people to “click here”. But this is not efficient.  Make sure to include a relevant anchor text on your links. It will ensure that the reader knows where he is going to if he clicks the link and it will also create search engine optimization benefits for the external site where the link is pointing. A skilled and experienced website design company can help you for avoid your mistakes.

8)    Website designer should try to avoid complex url structure because a simple, keyword-based URL structure will not only improve your search engine rankings, but it will also make it easier for the reader to identify the content of your pages before visiting them.

9)    Website designer make sure that users can search whole website. Most of people are going to search for any thing they want in search engines. So try to make your website search engine friendly.

10)    Try to avoid the complex navigation structure because it confused users where they should go to find the information they are looking for. Because of complex navigation user not stay to your site for long time they leave it in short time.

Useful Open Source for Website Development

Open Source solution contains the code, which has already been written, by the open community and it is freely available for general public use people can also modify it as per as their need.

If you are going to developed your website for business purpose, for personal blog or for new publishing website you can use following open source.

WordPress
wordpressWordPress is the most popular web blogging software because it provides platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress API allows creating unlimited plugins to extend the impressive standard functionality even more. WordPress is blessed with an active community, which is the heart of open source software. It comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. Check out our wordpress customization service for more details. Continue reading