Map your travel info with this City Mapper App! – City Spot

Never mess up with your direction and never drive for miles down the wrong road. Get to your important engagement or a gathering faster and on time by never losing your way. Navigate your world and explore your favorite hangouts around you. As rapid increase in time, we must update our self with latest tools to keep up with our rate of knots.

City Spot – a world map application for mobiles will make you explore new things in the place where you live and wherever you progress across the globe.

Now, are you sitting at the edge of your seat to know more about the interesting facts of this fantastic app? Let us spot out all the most amazing features of this map application in this below section…

City Spot
K2B Solutions, a company into and web and mobile app development feels great to launch the mobile app ‘City Spot’ which goes well with Android and iPhones.
 
If you go crazy in exploring the renowned and famed amenities in a particular place, then get a friendly companion – City Spot to be installed in your handy device. This great app lends a hand to you in finding out most famous restaurants, theaters, banks, ATM's, stations, educational institutes, parks, hotels, bars, malls, home appliance stores, travels, health and fitness centers, holy and devotional shrines, buildings near the place where you’re.

System-based specifications 
This city map application for mobile entails iOS 5.1 and it effectively runs in most recent versions of it. At the same time, City Spot for Android runs successfully in Android operating system with versions 2.3 to 4.3. This IOS app or an Android app is also compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. This mobile app helps you to spot the approximate network-based location and precise GPS location.
This striking app works effectively on all network connections like Wi-Fi, 2G and 3G networks.

Features

1. Location based augmented reality
The most striking and grand feature of City Spot is the ‘Location based augmented reality option’ in that app. This option will redirect to the camera in your friendly and handy device. Viewing the camera on a particular side will gives you a list of amenities you’re looking for. It may be a restaurant, hotel, ATM, devotional shrine, and so on.

2. GPS tracking
This location-based Android app comes with GPS tracking – a satellite based navigation system which gives the information on all the amenities like tourist spots, fuel stations, restaurants, hotels, lodges, etc. This trait gives the shortest path between two places.

3. Google Maps
If a user searches for a particular destination to travel through, City Spot will redirect to Google Maps to offer the utmost accuracy of places across the globe. This gives the speed map access and all the categories or the amenities that are in or nearby a particular place can be viewed easily and rapidly.

4. Social media
The trip details from a particular source to searched destination can be saved for future purpose and it can be shared through email, Facebook, and Twitter with your beloved buddies.

5. Trip Duration
The ‘speed of travel’, ‘distance covered’, and the ‘time duration’ taken for reaching a particular target can be measured. With this, the user can measure the time duration while on the go. By tapping the ‘Refresh Icon’ in this app will fetch the accurate current location and proceeds with your further searches.

Once an amenity is clicked, it will point out the intact list of services in that location. By clicking on the place-marker, the user can get the precise route to the marked target. Then the user can navigate in the route map by clicking the place-marker (Car icon) again to watch the current route activity.

Other Features

• You can listen to music while using City Spot 
• While using this app, the mobile users can place or pick a call. 
• All the search locations and the trip details are saved for your future purpose. 
• Covers all the countries across the globe
• This app is upgrade to its newest versions. 

Ease your voyage as much as you can and ensure that you travel in a correct pathway while on the move. Spot your preferred spot across the globe at ease with City Spot!!!

Why X Cart is preferred over Magento for eCommerce solutions?

Got drained with your unprofitable business in some other field? Come out from that and kick-start your eCommerce online business.

Develop a site using X Cart. The visualization of these site gives the paramount viewing experience to all their valuable clients by presenting a number of product catalogues in their devices wherever they’re. This helps you to deal with thousands of customers, picking many preferred products of their choice by simply adding them to the shopping cart. Placing orders at ease using this method earned a good retorts from the users of these eCommerce sites.

After selecting the web layout for your eCommerce website, next choice should be of shopping cart as they hold a vital role in them. Let us see in detail how X Cart is effective and widely used more than Magento in most of the eCommerce websites.

Magento and X Cart 
Magento – Magento Inc is the developer of this open source eCommerce web application which uses EAV model for the data storage.

X Cart - open source software developed using PHP as a base

Why X Cart not Magento for Ecommerce?
Organization Features

• X Cart is a robust open source app, and it can multiply the prospective of shopping carts persistently through consistent resources and services.
• This app always comes with substantiate user manuals and technical support. 
• Step-by-step runs the system instantaneously once the installation gets completed
• Easy to modify and competitively priced, hence it goes well with any kind of business despite of its size
• More insightful and user-friendly solution when compared with Magento 
• Cost-effective solution to meet up the budget 
• Online Store Manager can keep track of the inventory to know the remaining stock at any time.
• To facilitate the sales, it gives the detailed reports, statistics, catalog manager and much more.
• Administrator can limit the access of a user to certain goods or products.

End user benefits

• It is a search engine friendly app. 
• Before buying a product, the customers are open to the options like ‘compare’ and ‘review’. This assists the buyers in getting the best from a number of choices.
• Customers can rate a particular product. This in turn results in knowing the additional features of that product and results in high productivity.
• Integrates with the famous social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, etc
• Once the product is added to the shopping cart before checkout, it leads to the payment gateways that are more secure. The most famous payment gateways that act as a mediator between the banks and the online stores are also integrated with this app. 
• Responsive interfaces provide mobile compatibility despite of the sizes of the devices. (Either desktop or mobile)
• Customers are given 24/7 assistance via Live Chat or through phone calls. 

System-based features

• It can be easily set up at shared server, because of its less resource consumption 
• As PHP Smarty Template System is used by it, programmers love to design the layout of the website. 
• Huge amount of data can be stored in MYSQL database. The database can be extended or customized as the complete source code and SQL are given.
• To make use of the static HTML and dynamic content, it has incorporated HTML Catalog functionality. 
• Increases performance and customizes uniquely to gratify the needs of the diverse online stores 
• Highly reliable and rapidly fast without any extra optimization
• A robust online store management system to store thousands of products
• Being an open source app, it can be downloaded for free of cost. At the same time, the products at the online store can be added, edited and deleted as per the convenience of the vendor of the online store. 
• Provides maximum flexibility, hence it is preferred by most of the developers. 

App’s added features

• Inventory is controlled directly and informs the purchasing sector regarding the time of restocking goods. 
• Provides hosted and self-hosted services
• Being a search-engine friendly app with rating features, the company websites are rated in the renowned search engines. 
• The online stores can be customized to be more attractive as per the choice of the online store manager to present a gorgeous site to grab the attention of more visitors or buyers.

Have the best feasible shopping experiences with X cart!!!

Is Xamarin a better choice for cross platform Mobile App Development?

iOS and Android are the most used platforms in Smartphones until the preface of Windows platform in them. Objective-C is used for iOS and Java is used for Android phones. As there are most exclusive features in each platform, the users of respective smartphone cannot avail the added feature in another platform. The mobile app developers felt hard to write code for multiple platforms. They found code replication in all the platforms. So they wanted to develop a toolset or an app which supports all the three mobile platforms and to reduce the repetition of code. As a result, Xamarin has invented to work successfully with the cross-platforms in the mobile devices.

Let us see how Xamarin supports all the three Smartphone mobile platforms with all its attractive features…

Types of Mobile Apps

Before getting started to know what is Xamarin and why it is the best option for the cross-platform mobile app development, let us take a short of different types of mobile apps.

There are three types of mobile apps that can be written by mobile application developers. They are:

1. Native apps – runs reliably and solidly on the mobile device. These apps are highly interactive. The language codes are not portable and it is difficult to retain different codes for multiple platforms and it costs much. 
2. Web-apps – run within the confines of the Web browser. There are some restrictions in accessing the parts of the hardware. As their codes are written once, they can be accessed anywhere. They are less expensive and the codes are written using CSS, HTML, and Jscript.
3. Combination Apps – A blend of both native and web apps is called as ‘combination apps’. For hardware access of the mobile, native codes are used and for web access, web codes such as CSS, HTML, and Jscript are used. Due to performance issues and poor scalability, these apps are used rarely. 

What is Xamarin?

It is a product or an app that selects the unique features of the mobile platforms and persuades the mobile apps developers to take benefit of those features offered by each platform. They can share the code across any mobile operating system without affecting the systems’ quality or performance.
It is used for designing mobile apps, testing them and categorizing them to iOS App Store and Google Play. As most of the .NET developers prefer C# for its simple mode of learning and it reaches the skilled mobile apps developers, it was chosen by Xamarin.

How it works?

The mobile app developer writes user interface code on Android and iOS separately. Then they can write reusable business logic, database codes, web services codes only once on both platforms.

Platforms supported

It powerfully integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio. The developer can choose their preferred development environment to construct mobile apps. The platforms that are supported are:

• Visual Studio on Windows
• Xamarin Studio on Windows
• Xamarin Studio on Mac

Why Xamarin for cross-platform Mobile apps development?

• If a developer is well-versed in (.NET/C#) or (JAVA/Objective-C), they can easily work with Xamarin. The reason is code of .NET and C# is compatible. 
• Developers are given complete access to all the user controls and native application programming interfaces that are available in the existing OS. 
• Less code - less errors – less bugs 
• Creates reusable components that can be reprocessed by any of the mobile platform
• Code for accessing any services can be used again smoothly on iOS, Android and Windows platforms.
• Integrated Development Environment Xamarin Studio is a top-notch IDE. This IDE develops tests, debugs, and much more operations in the cross-platforms. 
• iOS with UI and Android with SDK features creates distinct platform for each other. It take hold of the distinctive features of each platform making the apps native to their platforms. 
• Xamarin core .NET classes = Platform specific .NET classes (iOS-specific .NET classes + Android-specific .NET classes). This helps the applications to share the core logic across the different platforms
• Writes user interface code for Android and iOS, then share the business logic that can be reprocessed in both platforms
• Highly transferable database code
• Reduces development time – writing few code that are unique to each platform 
• Xamarin apps are assembled to native binary and always execute without any performance degradation.
• Application portability gives amazing user experiences
• Writing single set of code reduces the amount of testing and validates them for both platforms. 
• Working with .NET/C#, helps the developers to focus completely and develop efficiently with the best support. 
• As the shared logic created for both Android and iOS will be applicable to Windows phone and it supports them. 

Benefits of using CiviCRM for Drupal based websites

Having a huge list of appointments, meetings, and conferences is always hard to handle. Do you want to put an end to this issue by scheduling your valuable appointments, meetings, and get-togethers in a hassle-free way?  Here is the effective tool called CiviCRM helps to record and organize your important conferences, events, group activities in a structured way. Above all, you can access them wherever you’re, if they are integrated with the Drupal websites. Let us have a detailed information of Drupal based websites and the benefits of using CiviCRM in them.

Before going deeply into CiviCRM, first let us know what CMS and CRM are?

CRM and CMS

• CMS – Content Management System 

CMS is an efficient system helps in creating, organizing and managing the website contents effectively in a structured way.

There are three most popular open source CMS. They are:

1. Drupal
2. Joomla
3. Wordpress

• CRM - Contact Relationship Management System

CRM is same as your personal contacts book with some enhanced features associated with it.

What is CiviCRM?

Do you want to keep track of all the important official or personal conversations and interactions??? You can simply carry out this vital task through your websites to manage your engagements and memberships.
CiviCRM is web-based open or free source software. As its name implies, this software can be used, shared, downloaded or installed at free of cost. This software grants complete freedom to share out the original source code to all any of the employee or a person in an organization. The source code can be viewed and modified.

CiviCRM is a modular system and always works with CMS tool, as both the software tools are open source.  CiviCRM's core keeps track of contacts and groups; activities, relationships, tags and permissions. There are 9 components of CiviCRM. They are:

1. CiviContribute - keep track of contributors
2. CiviEvent - keep track of events
3. CiviMember - keep track of member lists
4. CiviCase - keep track of cases
5. CiviGrant - keep track of grants
6. CiviCampaign - keep track of campaigns
7. CiviPetition - keep track of petitions
8. CiviMail - keep track of bulk mailings
9. CiviReport - keep track of reports

What is Drupal???

Drupal is one among the three most popular open source content management systems. Drupal is back-end framework with pre-built manuscripts. Presently, millions of internet sites are using pre-built manuscripts to grab the attention of new users to have quality traffic for their sites. These pre-built scripts will give you the entire configuration you need for your website. Then, you can customize your website by simply embracing your quality content, personalized pictures, and styles in it.

Why Drupal, not Wordpress or Joomla???

Highly customized websites always entails complex content organization and scalability.This results in producing the advanced sites. Drupal is the most friendly and powerful tool capable of categorizing and organizing complex content with its robust and potent taxonomy. Most of the online stores and community platforms nowadays encompass multiple users. Those sites require complex content organization. Hence, developer-friendly tool Drupal is used.

Wordpress is user-friendly and it is ideal for creating simple web-sites with partial design options. As it lacks content management capability, this is often targeted by hackers.
Joomla allows you to develop a site with complex content and structure flexibility. It lacks SEO capability and at the same time it is not easy and intuitive.

CiviCRM Integration with CMS or Drupal

Being a free or open source software integrates with CMS (Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal) to bring in a set of useful possibilities to the websites in which they’re being used. This helps the users of the websites to carry out many activities on their own. The users can request for email updates, renew their memberships, sign up new events, share the data, edit and modify the data and so on.

Benefits of using CiviCRM in Drupal-based Websites

Drupal being a developer community contains a lot of modules which goes in hands with CiviCRM. CiviCRM and its components keep track of the contacts, member lists, relationships, activities, groups, events, tags and permissions, petitions, grants, contributors, cases, campaigns, reports, and bulk mailings in the Drupal-based websites.

Benefits of using CiviCRM in Drupal-based websites are listed below:

• Expands your website’s operating capabilities.
• Scalability and Security
• Views: display website content. 

CiviCRM integrates with Drupal Views and allows CiviCRM data to be shown on your website. One can create CRMData using views in structure section which is located in Drupal Administrative menu

• Calendar Module: displays calendars on your website
• Webform Module: offers extensive options in form submission. 
• Organic Groups CiviCRM module: after integration of Drupal Users with CiviCRM, the Drupal group can be used for mailings, tracking address information, tracking activities or anything else normally done with CiviCRM contacts.
• CiviGroup Roles Sync module: allows Drupal Websites’ administrators to update their user experience for donors and staff. 
• CiviMember Roles Sync module: allows Drupal Websites’ administrators to update their user experience for organization members.

Stop worrying in handling the bulk of contacts and records!!! Create an effective and powerful planner cum organizer and pre-built website to efficiently handle your private conversations safely using Drupal integrated with CiviCRM!!!

Are Native Mobile Apps Really Better Than Web Apps?

In general, there is a perception that native mobile applications can be directly downloaded from the Play Store and easily installed on your mobile devices. Therefore, native applications are considered as more user-friendly than web applications, especially in terms of their general features. Moreover, the higher sales figures of native apps also give great evidence for this view.

Are native mobile applications really better than web applications? Let us take a look:

Creation:
When concerning about the process of mobile application development, native applications do win hands down. As the native apps are customized for various mobile platforms, the entire coding is usually done by the in-house developers of mobile app development companies. Therefore, finding out bugs and releasing updates, and also monitoring the application analytics are easy and guaranteed.

Speed:
If you buy and install an application from an iPhone or a Blackberry application development company, it automatically becomes a part of your mobile device’s built-in features. Also, launching the applications on compatible handsets generally takes only a few seconds. However, web applications are typically slower as they require strong internet connectivity all the time.

Cost Factor:
From the perspective of professional mobile app developers, the cost of native mobile app development is considerably higher than the cost of web application development. On the other hand, the applications that are compatible across various different platforms can be rather pricey. Also, the time taken to build prototypes of native applications is also higher.

Usability:
According to the professionals from leading Android or iPhone mobile application development company, both web applications and native applications can be user-friendly. However, the native applications seem to have the edge here, as they can be seamlessly integrated with the mobile camera, audio/video recorder, and another handheld device features.

App Store Approval:
Suppose, if a mobile app development company has developed a new mobile application, then the company has to get approval for that application in order to display at the online app stores. Even then, there is no guarantee that the new application would be able to gain the interest of many numbers of users. However, web applications do not require such store approval; hence it is easy for the development company to promote the web applications.

Security:
As mobile applications are tested for their quality and approved by leading app stores, they are completely bug-free and secure. However, no such assurance is available for web applications, even though the popular web applications can be easily trusted.

Requirement of Internal Memory:
Native applications usually require a certain amount of memory space in handsets, especially for functioning in an efficient manner. This is the reason why a great importance is given when selecting a mobile application development framework that never consume too much of memory on mobile phones. Conversely, web applications do not require any extra memory space to be launched and operated.

Monitoring Application Performance:
A mobile app development company that is expertise in native application creation would generally have to build multiple versions of each application, depending on the platform on which it would be used. Also, the analytics for each and every native application must be tracked in order to get an idea about how the application is performing. When concerning about web applications, they generally have only one version that makes performance tracking every easy.

Finding the Necessary Applications:
With the range of web applications available, sometimes it becomes little tricky for users to find the ones that they generally need on their mobile phones. There is no confusion regarding native applications as they are systematically displayed on the Apple Play Store, Android Store and the Blackberry App Store. Choosing and downloading native applications are not very difficult than searching for appropriate web applications.

Maintenance:
Since native mobile applications basically require customized coding for various different platforms, their maintenance seems to be a little more challenging than web applications. As web applications have a cross-platform single coding involved, making changes or modifications is easier. Also, the maintenance cost of web applications is also lower compared to the cost of native applications.

In terms of both performance and quality, the native applications are mostly better than web applications. Also, native applications offer more user-friendly advantages when compared to web applications even though the later have several positive points of their own.

HTML5 and CSS3 – Lift up your web design to next level

HTML5 and CSS3 are the new techniques which are considered as the future of web development. However, you don’t have to wait to start using them for your web development. Because, even though the specification is still in development, most contemporary browsers and mobile devices already support these techniques.

Gone are the days when adding additional markup just to design a button in a different way or stripe tables. Now, you have to learn how to use HTML5 and CSS3 new markup to create a better structure for your website content and also better interfaces for your forms.

Using HTML5 and CSS3, you can able to embed audio, video and vector graphics into your web pages without using Flash. You can find how web sockets, cross-document messaging, client-side storage, and offline caching can make your modern web development easy, also you can discover how CSS3 makes it into style sections of your web page. You will get a clear idea about both the developing solutions that are backwards compatible and accessible.

HTML5:
HTML5 is the most recent version of Hypertext Markup Language or HTML. This technology is currently supported by only a few numbers of browsers, hoping to see more in usage by the next year. However, the features that are available now are a best possible way to become acquainted with HTML5 and add some fantastic elements to your website.
To avoid many bugs and crashes, refuse to allow Flash on the iOS and also learn how to use the more intricate features of HTML5 to develop apps and iOS-friendly websites. As Google is rolling out an HTML5-friendly version of YouTube, many web and mobile app developers have started to see how important this technique will become in the near future.
Every browser may support various features of HTML5 that makes it mandatory for those interested in programming to figure out which features they require and which will be supported by various different browsers.

Features of HTML5:
• Any HTML5 syntax needs a doctype that must be specified, so that the browser can provide the web page in standards mode. One important thing is that the doctype declaration has also been made simpler from previous HTML. Hence, it is now just: <!DOCTYPE html>
• HTML5 provides an outstanding support to both audio and visual. As soon as all browsers support HTML5, you can be able to easily add audio and video to your website without the need of other plugins.
• Using HTML5, you can easily edit the content of your website. Use the attribute “contenteditable” to effortlessly change your content on your website. To do this, just add contenteditable=“true” to any element.
• You can use the canvas element to bypass Photoshop in order to make your 2D images and directly add them in your code.
• The application cache allows you to easily navigate web applications, even though you are offline.

Why use HTML5?
• HTML5 gives you more flexibility when creating your website.
• As HTML5 generally implements Web sockets. Hence, it will load much faster than its older version.
• Using HTML5, you can create universal applications for all mobile devices. Therefore, mobile phone applications will become much more accessible if they are written in HTML5.
• Audio, video and images are all effortlessly written perfectly into the code. This eliminates the need for any other third-party software like Flash.
• HTML5 is growing more rapidly and this will be resulted in a number of features that will leave traditional websites looking outdated.
• As HTML5 is generally built on HTML4, the old markup can able to stay in place as you develop the new features.
• Both HTML5 and CSS3 together will provide some great designer credibility.

CSS 3:
CSS3 or Cascading Style Sheet 3 is a style sheet language that specifies style formatting, such as color, font, size and layout, for websites. This technique is mostly used in HTML pages. However, unlike HTML, CSS mainly focuses on the design and style of a website rather than its content. The main purpose of using CSS is to make changes on every page on a website without rewriting the code.
Even though CSS3 is not supported by all browsers that are available now, it is becoming very popular because it makes website changes so much easier, when compared with its previous version or JavaScript plugins.
CSS3 provides many exciting new features that help you to enhance the appearance of a website. Using CSS3, you can able to improve the functionality and appearance of your website exponentially.

Features of CSS3:
• Using CSS3, you can easily create a shadow around an element by using the same code, and also be able to change the color, position, and blur of that shadow.
• Rounded corners appear more user-friendly than square boxes. Using CSS3, you can apply this effect to HTML elements.
• Just like normal text, you can be able to add a shadow to HTML text that can be highlighted. Using CSS3, you can change the shadow blur, the shadow angle, and the shadow color in CSS.
• The property “opacity” can make elements more transparent. You can set the opacity of an image in an image editor and then save it with transparency enabled.
• With CSS3, you can create gradients right in the browser as soon as you load the web page.

Why use CSS3?
In fact, there is no high demand of innovation that CSS3 was developed, however, the possibilities that CSS3 could be able to provide for us. Before CSS3 has been introduced, web designers can able to create CSS to meet the expected result using images and markup. But, now, with CSS3, they can be able to create the same effects as layout images and extra markup with less effort and more dynamics. This not only helps in making changes easily, but also decreases the size of a web page with less number of images.

Conclusion:
Hence, the combination of both HTML5 and CSS3 are very powerful and can create incredible, high-quality solutions. So, it is mandatory for you to learn them and start using them from today, otherwise you will fall behind your competitors.

What are the most popular magento eCommerce plugins?

Magento eCommerce is an open source web application used mainly for eCommerce websites. Users prefer Magento for their websites because Magento eCommerce platforms provide flexibility, scalability and features for their online business growth.

As Magento provides feature-rich eCommerce platforms, it provides merchants with a complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content as well as functionality of their online channel. Hence, around 2, 00,000 merchants are reported to be using the Magento platform now. Also, there are more than 5000 plugins available to extend the merchants’ eCommerce experience.

Some of the most popular Magento eCommerce plugins are as follows:

• Canonical URLs for Magento: It is a free module for Magento that  not only allows you to add ”rel” canonical URL to the head of your website pages, but also enables you to manually set custom canonical links for products or services.
• Yoast MetaRobots: This plugin allows you to easily add the appropriate meta tags to your web pages, disable unused archives, and nofollows unnecessary links.
• Remerce CMS Meta Robots:  This module adds the option to set the Robots Meta for CMS web pages.
• MailChimp ECommerce360 Reporting: This plugin helps you to measure the rate of return of email campaigns that you have created. It aggregates the information and display the information on your campaign report.
• Auto CrossSell Products: By using this plugin, you can automate your product cross sell maintenance. Suppose, if a customer checks out, all the products that are chosen are linked as cross sell products.
• Lazzymonks Twitter: This plugin displays Twitter updates in the menu. It also allows updates from within the admin panel, whereas the number of updates is also adjustable.
• Product Gallery Importer: This plugin enables you to import more than one product images from a CSV file.
• Lazzymonks Google Ads: If unnecessary ads need to be blocked for better viewing, then the Lazzymonks Google Ads is the right plugin to use. Using this plugin, you can able to add the Google Ads blocker.
• Auctionmaid Matrxrate: Suppose, if your operations are global, then it would be useful to add the plugin “Auctionmaid Matrxrate”. This plugin enhances shipping fee details specifically for international shipping.
• Category admin product tab: edit product link: Another useful plugin is the Category admin product tab. This plugin helps you to add a product edit link in the category tab.
• Change Attribute Set: This plugin gives you the ability to change or modify products attributes after your product registration is done.
• Fontis WYSISYG: This is a Magento plugin that ensures that the features or descriptions of your product match the product received, i.e., ads what you see is what exactly you get feature in the product description.
• Mass Product Relater: This is a useful plugin for registering connected products and to up-sell and cross-sell products.
• Fooman Google Analytics Plus:  This plugin is useful for tracking every individual page as well as the details about the keywords typed by the users.
• Advanced Sitemap: This plugin helps in listing the products in the current store.
• Post Affiliate Pro Connector: This Magento eCommerce plugin helps in managing the click and sale affiliate details automatically. It also helps in tracking them by using either PHP API or JavaScript.
• IW PayPal Standard Currencies: This plugin lets you choose the currencies supported by PayPal, and also directly adds them to your shops admin panel.
• J2T Points & Rewards: This plugin is useful for customers to gather points on products they purchased. Subsequently, these points can be used for discounts on their other purchases.
• Fontis SecurePay: This plugin is primarily a payment module, mainly used for processing of payments through SecureXML gateway.
• Checkout Newsletter: This plugin helps you to send newsletters to registered customers about your latest promotional offers, sales, products, etc.
• Events Calendar: This Magento plugin is used to display your events on your website.
• Exploded Menu: This plugin helps in replacing the standard menu with a multi-column drop down menu system.
• Magento EasyLightbox: This plugin is used for displaying the images of your products as a lightbox.
• Teaserbox: This Magento plugin shows the teasers of your products if they are available.
• Magento EasyTabs: This Magento plugin adds extra information tabs on your product page in your website.
• MostViewed module: This plugin automatically generates a list that shows the most viewed products in your website, and also displays the list at the homepage in the customer area.

SEO tools that assist you to optimize your website

Are you thinking about managing your website? Have you even been spending few hours in a day to optimize your website? Are you not getting close to the results that you are expected to achieve?

Yes, these are definitely the challenging tasks that most SEOs have to meet in their daily activities. There are so many things to do that it seems you have to do them by yourself, or you need to hire an SEO agency to do the job for you.


If you are planning to do it by yourself, you need to get some good SEO tools that will help you to optimize your website more efficiently. SEO tools are very well known for assisting you in your SEO campaign in a more relaxed and convenient way and also in a quick manner at the same time.



The following are some of the tools that assist you to optimize your website:

• AdWords Keyword Tool
• SEO by Yoast
• Majestic SEO
• Google Analysis
• Google Drive
• Advanced Web Ranking
• Google Webmaster Tool
• Ahrefs

AdWords Keyword Tool: This is a great tool to start with, especially for the beginners SEOs. This tool is an external keyword suggestion tool provided through Google AdWords. It provides detailed information about the competition in the industry and about researching keywords whether locally or globally.

SEO by Yoast: This tool is really an efficient tool for optimizing your webpage effectively. It works perfectly when you optimize your website content with the help of different steps of SEO.

Majestic SEO: This tool is a beginner-friendly tool for SEO, helps you to determine the backlink strategy from competition by comparing them with your business. This tool will also show your backlink’s history, and also can gather information from others into your own tools through API as the Link Intelligence.

Google Analysis: This is a handy tool for SEOs in their SEO campaign, as it helps in getting you informed of the URL as well as blog analysis including its traffic, target audience and conversations.

Google Drive: This tool is formerly known as Google Docs. It has the ability to use XPath that will allow you to inspect and verify the external web data such as web contents, Meta descriptions, page rank and titles.

Advanced Web Ranking: This is an SEO tool that will help you to search outranked keywords. It also assists you to evolve in the SEO proposal that supplies the most top Return on Investment or ROI. This tool will also analyze your steps in link building, and shows your search ranks and also produces an automatic operation of reports.

Google Webmaster Tool: The service provided by this tool will help SEOs to track their website’s indexing status, sitemaps, most keyword hits, and a loop of links into their website including both external and internal.

Ahrefs: This tool will help you to find out what keywords your competitors are targeting. Also, it will investigate links in which the database can boast over 50 billion URLs.

Meta Tag Extractor: This is a strong tool that will extract any website’s meta tags, useful information in decisive that keywords area unit serving to the rivalries website rank higher than yours.

HTML Optimizer: This is a handy tool that helps you to remove all the extra white spacing in your HTML website. It also helps in optimizing your websites for faster load speed.

Web Design Trends in the year 2014

As the World Wide Web continues to evolve, new web design trends, techniques and ideas are also surfacing constantly. To ensure that your website is effective and reaching your visitors in the best possible way, it is necessary for you to analyze your website design, content and features frequently. Some new trends were arriving in 2013; however, some among them have been faded out and others are stuck around and still having a strong presence.  While in 2014, these are some of the web design trends that have started to emerge:

Single Page Websites
A single page web design is great for small websites that don’t have too much of the content. It helps you to keep your content easy to navigate while heavily relying on scrolling.  The single page design technique enables you to convey linear and controlled information to your visitors and makes them focus on important details.

Scrolling
Today, website visitors are used to scroll down a website to read more information that leads to more possibilities for the layout of your site. A lengthy homepage with many web design elements can help convey more information to the visitor; however, longer pages can also overwhelm visitors if they are cluttered with website content. In 2014, keep an eye out for lengthy and considerately designed web pages, and also consider about how you might engage your visitors by encouraging them to scroll.

Flat UI
Flat user-interface or flat UI is an up-and-coming concept in web design, which is being implemented on so many websites. This is a technique that focuses on website content and provides a fundamental design with less distracting elements. Flat UI takes a much more basic approach, mostly with a less image-intensive web design. Less number of images and simpler web design elements enable faster load times and thus help those who will load the website on a slower internet connection.

Fixed Header Bar
Previously, menu bars are placed in the header of a website, mostly near the logo. As the users scroll down, the navigation would disappear with the header. So, if the users want to navigate further on the website, they have to scroll back to the top of the web page. To avoid this, many websites have now fixed the header bar at the top of the browser window, allowing it to follow users as they scroll down the web page. This allows users to easily access the menu, and thus improves navigation and serves as a subtle prompt for the users to drive deeper into the website.

Large type
If your web page consists of too much of the text, then your visitor might choose not to take the time to read it. Large type can help you to make headings that draw the attention of the readers and make them to read the rest of the content. Generally, the average reader decides within a few seconds whether your website is worth exploring. So, these large headings can help you to grab the attention of the readers and pull them into other content on your website.

HTML 5 Animations / CSS 3 / JavaScript / Flash / Silverlight
For so many years, Adobe’s Flash plug-in is dominated video, games, and other animations on the World Wide Web. However, recently, Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in helps to cover much of the same ground similar to Flash. Both Microsoft’s Silverlight and Flash are rapidly fading due to the emergence of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, which help bring a website to life and create an excellent and unique browser experience.

Parallax Scrolling
Parallax Scrolling is a special scrolling technique that helps in animating both background and foreground images as you scroll. This not only creates depth but also the web page to life. As you scroll through the web page, both text and other graphics will become animated, and they also move on the web page to help create scenery and change content.

Large Backgrounds
In the past, having large background images on a web page is hideous as it takes too much time for loading. Also, it makes a website look horrific, distracting and annoying. But, nowadays, large background images are no longer an issue of loading time. But, the question here is whether the background image fits with the website. With the perfect web design and image, the web designers can easily connect large background images into the rest of the web design, helps in enhancing the user experience.

Video Backgrounds
In previous days, the browser limitations and the low internet speed connections prevent video backgrounds from being easily implemented within a website. However, the newly introduced browsers can able to seamlessly play video that can ingeniously augment a website’s design. This is because video backgrounds are generally designed to support the website design and content.

Responsive Web Design
The best way to implement a mobile website is a responsive web design. It helps you to avoid having a completely separate set of content and a new web design. Using responsive web design, you can utilize existing content that perfectly responds to the resolution of any devices, such as mobile, tablet or desktop, whichever your visitor is using. Within a responsive design, you can accentuate website content important to mobile users, such as time, location, or phone number.  The responsive web design has been very helpful to maintain mobile websites effortlessly; Instead of just having to persistently change a second set of website content, the responsive web design will integrate with your already existing content to provide a flawless browsing experience for your mobile visitors.

High-Resolution Screens
Due to the adaptation of Apple’s Retina screens within the iPhone, iPad and MacBook products, we have seen the requirement to have high resolution graphics integrated into websites. Hence, high-resolution screens are doing a great job of reducing pixilation and making websites look exceptional.

Third-Party Services
Third-party services are available in handy, helps in showing video on a website, implementing a newsletter system, or collecting stats on visitors to a website. Using third-party services, you can get your website access to fantastic and robust software that can satisfy many expectations.

Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software as a service or SaaS allows you to integrate with a service that is already being developed for solving a problem. These services are free for a certain amount of usage and then they charge for additional usage or for more features. Examples for Software as a service are MailChimp, Post Kudos, etc.

Open Source Software
Open source software helps you to build and implement so many features faster than ever, as it is developed by a large community to solve most common problems. Today, many websites are relying on content management system for adding, updating, and maintaining the content on the website. These content management systems are often open source platforms that have a community frequently adding new features, fixing errors and creating additional plug-ins to enhance the system.

Conclusion
The above mentioned web design trends are booming in this current year 2014. It is nonetheless agreeable that many of these web design trends are going to set solid foundations for the future. Also, there is no doubt that there will be even bigger and industry-changing web design trends will take off in the next coming years.

Digital Marketing Helps You To Stand Out In The Online Market

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In these days, digital media has become ever-growing source of entertainment, shopping, news and social interaction. Therefore, the consumers are now exposed not just to what your company says about your product or brand, but also what others saying as well.

Therefore, the use of digital marketing enables you to measure quantitative results, providing you information about exactly who was exposed to your message, and also when and which actions the viewers performed as a result.

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