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Friday, May 18, 2012

Interested Resources of Web World

In this huge world of web day by day new things are coming such as new trend of designing, new web technology, popular web blog updates, and the increasing world of social networking etc....

These changes affect lot on webmasters as well as affect on general users. General people are waiting for use latest technologies, gadget, applications, social networking websites etc... for entertainment and webmasters are continuously use new technology in their work and makes available new applications, new designs for users. Webmasters are always ready to grab opportunity to use latest technology in their work of web designing, application development and internet marketing; bloggers are also waiting for new updates and news launch by technical communities than share all on their blogs for their users, they work for aware people by giving them latest update about latest technology and designing trend.

Here, designers from Spinx - web design Atlanta company trying to explain how each and every person in this world is connected with web and also going to provide interested resources of web world.

W3C - Web Technology and Standards:

World Wide Web Consortium, International organization that develop web standard for World Wide Web. The whole web world is connected with W3C. Webmasters must have to follow different web standards define by W3C. All updates in web technologies, new standard in existing technology are describe by W3C.

Stay tune with this link of W3C to get all updates about different web technologies and standards bit.ly/KnZqSJ

Google Algorithm Updates:

Google, a famous search engine across the world provides opportunity to get online business and earn money in different ways. Google continuously try to make their users happy by giving them most relevant result, make business men happy with their huge list of applications used by different businesses for promotion. Internet marketers and SEO persons are widely get affected by the single update of Google in any of their application or in their search engine algorithm.

Take a look at list of Google Algorithm Updates mz.cm/AlgorithmUpdate

Social Media and Social Networking:

Social networking and social media covers 50% in web world used to promote business, entertainment, gaming etc... Business men can get opportunity to create a huge group of business as well as they can do free and paid promotion on social networking websites. Different popular social networking and social media websites like Google+, twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc... are booming world wide.

Let’s have a look at latest update on rising world of Facebook bit.ly/RisingFacebook

Friday, May 18, 2012 by h4ck0lic · 0

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Role of UX Expert in Different Types of Website

There are certain restriction on improving the user experience of website as per the type of website and its purpose to convince users. Along with restriction, there are specific things which we must integrate to improve overall usability of website which is specific to that kind of websites only. Here we would talk about the main three types of website and related points which you can consider in deploying good user experience.

Working with small static website, website offers limited functionality and it is also built for specific one or two purpose only, either for business introduction or basic website to get online inquiries through contact form. As the objective of websites are limited, UX expert need to focus on certain things only which are related to color used, font used for content, theme of the website to represent business objective and speed and performance of website over different browser environment. One can improve the speed by enabling the caching of static resources, compressing the images and elimination the components which takes more time for loading. A professional designed theme, contrast color usage and good header design for call to action would do the fine job. As in static design, designer has freedom to place different objects, make sure white space has been used to enhance the visibility of different section.

There are mainly two option for delivering good experience to mobile audience, either you develop separate mobile website hosted on .mobi sub domain or implement different CSS standard or visual theme of website detecting the User agent and reflecting the changes as per environment in which it get viewed. In both way, UX expert have to analyze the structure of the layout, performance, visual appearance over different screen size & mobile device and ability to detect user agent and reflecting changes in design. If you have mobile application, you need to check the connectivity issue with main server, simplicity in use of apps and capability to provide advance performance for specific platform on which it has been built.

In kind of dynamic website or ecommerce website where users need to follow certain process to complete the task and need to learn certain things on their own for successful completion of processes on the site, UX experts need to put maximum efforts for improving the UX of design. Here UX expert require evaluating different module of website, evaluating goals of successive steps in process and usefulness of design in getting visitors closer to each goal along with maintaining the UX standard described for static website in second paragraph. In kind of websites help from web analytic expert is require to measure the actual performance of website in website statistics and improvement in those statistics driven by changes suggested by UX expert.

Thus, above approach is requiring to deal with different types of websites and its UX design. The ultimate goal of UX expert is to recommend changes in website functionality or visually to improve the performance of website which contributes in generating good business through website. Above post is contribution of our UX expert at Chicago web design & Development firm improving UX design of various site designed and developed for our clients.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 by h4ck0lic · 0

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Pros and Cons of ASP.NET for Web Development

For development of web application or website, there are different options available based on programming language based on which any web development software works. From premium web development platform like ASP.NET to free open source platform like PHP are being widely used. Here we would look over some advantages and disadvantages of ASP.NET.

Advantages of ASP.NET

A first advantage I must discuss is flexibility on use of various supported programming language like C# and VB. If you feel that specific requirement seems to develop easier with in VB than C#, you can get flexibility to avail all features in your preferred language. This way it attracts and provides platforms for programmers with experience in different language rather than relying on one.

It provides large group of controls which you can drag and drop in your web pages easily. Along with use of component library provided by ASP.Net, you can also integrate third party controls or give advance level of customization to specific control to fulfill your website requirement.

If you prefer to code manually without use of any Framework, whenever you drag and drop any component on page, it generates coding for function which is associated with that control. For example, if you use button or list box control, basic coding for button click function or list box selection would get generated at back hand. Thus it reduce the amount of code developer suppose to write manually compare to other platform.

To use the power of JavaScript, it provides readymade group of controls like Ajax which you can use to implement complex JavaScript functions to synchronize with live connection server to retrieve and update database without making any external post back request to server.

When developing large websites or web application with good level of complexity, ASP.net Provides more flexibility to make your process smoother compare to other platform. Online travel booking engine, local search engine, flight booking , stock exchange sites where continuous interaction require with third party web service for retrieving data along with managing large no. of users, ASP.NET seems to be more promising and robust for development.

If one prefer to work with Framework or content management system for mid level website development, both premium and open source framework and CMS available which you can utilize as per your needs.

Disadvantages of ASP.NET

As you have to purchase license version of software, it is not suitable for small size organization with requirement of simple web development. Developing website with open source technology would give equal facility hence reduce considerable amount of development cost.

Integrating with CMS or relying on framework, there are only few options available compare to options available with open source development on use of CMS or framework.

Clients with confusion on selection of specific platform, our Chicago web development expert at Spinx explain advantages and disadvantages of different web technology for building websites.

Sunday, May 13, 2012 by h4ck0lic · 0

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Takes Care of Your Visitors – Keep Them Away From Frustrating Designing Rain

Website visitors are precious for online business to increase business sales, and leads. Every website visitors are business potentials so it is a duty of every web designer and website owner that they should take extra care of their website visitors by creating a user experience design.

Designers from Spinx – Florida web design said, to establish a great user interface designer should have to avoid some common web designing inaccuracy that frustrate the visitors of the website.

Make it Load Fast: Slow loading website is the most frustrating thing for website visitors, no one like to wait for a long because in this tough competition of internet business there are to many competitors websites are their so rather than wait they like to switched to others website.

Too Many Popup Windows: Too many popup windows mystify the website visitors, in some designs we found new popup window open on every click, in this condition visitors got confuse or irritate because they are going to click on particular web page to get some service and they land to other webpage in new popup window. To design a proper website designers should avoid these things.

Links That Are Not Working: Visitors surf website in intention of getting some information but at the same time when they click on any link and found the broken links and 404 pages than it become headache for them. They close the website and never come again on the same website that is not fulfilling their requirements.

Intricate Navigation: Navigation is a way to go throughout the whole website at the same time intricate navigation system on website confuse visitors and they feel like they reach at unknown place and can’t find the way to go.

Over Flashy: Here, we are talking about the website that only believe on presentation and striking look but never provide much information or any other useful data but every website designer should keep in mind one thing that attractive look catch the user’s eye but at the end 90% people are seeking for information so only look without any useful things waste the time of visitors. More flashy websites takes a long time to load and I is not search engine friendly so with the over use of flash designer never create a proficient user interface.

Over Information: It is good to provide necessary information on the website but some webmasters put more than enough information without properly organized it and cluttered the whole design with too much info which annoys users to read.

While design a website, designer should think like a visitors and than try to keep them visitors away from the frustration of messy design.

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Thursday, May 10, 2012 by h4ck0lic · 0

Monday, May 7, 2012

Wireframes-Definition, Benefits and Resource

A simple definition of wireframe can be given as a rough scratch which demonstrates the position of different elements of website and how data is going to be displayed in website. It can be built with any professional tools or can be painted by manually on paper to illustrate the design of the website. Many web designers prefer to implement it where many ignore to spend time and start design directly. One can include small things like placement of social media icons or sign up button to placement of promotional banner, what things to highlight in wireframe solely depends on web designer. Building complex web application or website, it is preferable to start design with prebuilt wireframe which leads you accurately to design different parts of website and give clear ideas to your clients about design process and outcome he would get.

Working with clients who are too specific for their website design and ready to pay good amount for customization of design, working with wireframe would be good option to build a website which is perfect as per his needs. As web designer, it would help you making your presentation more professionally and would help you elaborating your concepts, thoughts and ideas clearly for design. A good wireframe is one which built with attention to detail about each and every components of website from deciding its height, size and exact pixel location where you would place it in website. In other words, it is solution through which you can solve all doubts of your clients regarding the design of website. Once you start building design, you can use the same wireframe for reporting as well explaining your clients which part of it has been finished and which have remained.

If you are thinking about the time it takes to create wireframes, it depends on the complexity of customization in design. If you prefer to draw rough diagram manually, it wouldn’t require more time if you prefer to draw with some tools, you may need time to get aware about that tools and features you can use. Drawing manually or with tools again depends on the client’s requirement, budget and other needs. There is software available in the market which you can utilize to speed up the design but have to take care buying any premium one as you would use the same software regularly for future projects as well, should prefer to use demo version and get aware about the features. MockFlow, Axure, Pancil Project, Mocking Bird, Cacoo, ProtoShare are some well known tools for wireframe design.

At Spinx, Chicago web design service provider, we have gained many benefits on use of wireframes which helps us building presenting and reporting easier and faster.

Monday, May 7, 2012 by h4ck0lic · 0

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Open Sources for Services Base Website and Ecommerce Website

Today, because of the increasing popularity of open source CMS, majority of business men and professional web development companies like Spinx - Atlanta web development prefer to make their website with selected open source such as wordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, osCommerce, OpenCart etc... These open source CMS are freely available to download by open communities and helpful to develop different types of websites whether it is for develop shopping cart, ecommerce website or service based website design.

Open Source CMS Used to Develop Service Based Website

WordPress: WordPress is a most popular CMS used by wide range of people around the world, the multi blogging functionality and useful features and plugins support make this CMS more admirable. It is easy to customize and also you can use ready wordPress templates and different widgets and customize it fully.

Joomla: Joomla is also one most popular open source CMS prefer by many web development companies, different modules available in Joomla give best opportunity to develop most proficient website, the built in features of Joomla is very flexible and easily used by different web developers.

Drupal: Today Drupal is become most famous CMS because of its functionality. Developer can easily customize Drupal website. A website develop with Drupal has many features and functionality such as it enhancing performance, different modules code are available which can be extensible, easy to integrate, obedient with different security standards.

Open Source CMS Used to Develop Ecommerce Website

Magento: Magento is and open source ecommerce platform use to develop fully functional ecommerce website. With the Magento ecommerce any time you can expand you business. It allows you to create multiple store under one administrator control panel. Through a Magento ecommerce developers can create great and user friendly shopping environment on the ecommerce website.

osCommerce: If you are going to create your first online store and wants to make it simple and easy to use than osCommerce can become first choice for you. There are big developers community available for develop ecommerce store with use of osCommerce.

OpenCart: OpenCart is also one open source online shopping cart which has been written in PHP language. It is helpful to create easy online store which become a best solution for merchants in internet world, the inbuilt features of OpenCart useful to make search engine friendly online shopping cart system.

These are the small list of open source CMS, there are more feature rich CMS available in the market.

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Thursday, May 3, 2012 by h4ck0lic · 0

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Designing Creative Twitter Background and inspirational Examples

For the last couple of years, Twitter and Facebook are one of the most used social websites people use to share and connect with people. People share the things which they like with their friend which get shared by their friends and cycle continues. This way an effective utilization and promotion of these two sites can distribute your content to millions of people automatically and these are the sites which you must not ignore to include in your social media strategy. Search engines also considers crawling these sites frequently to collect real and fresh data shared by people and also consider signal from these sites to give authority to sites for ranking.

For efficient social media promotion in these sites, it is necessary to have custom background designed with keep in mind the purpose of your social media marketing. If the purpose is branding of your business, you should clearly highlight the brand name, business logo, services you provide and website URL in your background. If the purpose is making distribution of your content, you should keep light background which give priority to your tweets rather than your background. If your purpose is personal promotion, you need to add your photos and your profile name of other social media sites like FaceBook, Mashable or Stumbleupon and need to highlight your contact detail. You need to give special attention on what things to add in your image background and what not to.

When it comes to designing custom background, you can utilize the space at left and right side bar for promoting your business. A good background is one which utilizes these two spaces and filled up with the things which add information users can use to get aware of your business. If you are into web design and development business, highlighting all the service in left sidebar and contact information at bottom to the service and including the small images of website from portfolio at right sidebar is an ideal option to consider. You also need to design background with care that the content you add in background image must not be overlaid by space used for displaying tweets and other widgets and also need to check visual clarity in different browser. To give you clear ideas, Chicago web designer at spinx has chosen some of the best Twitter background which has been highlighted in below embedded video.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 by h4ck0lic · 0