Responsive Websites Design to further promote users viewing experience

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Mitali Sharma

In the world of web development, Responsive websites are getting more and more popular. This technology is expected to get more refinement in the year 2013 as well. The growing popularity of responsive websites is very much justified as well in light of the fact it offers a more satisfying user experience to the internet users. Although there will be very few who yet to know what exactly responsive website means, but still who don’t know they can understand Responsive website as a website design which has the capability to adjust itself to the screen of any device or any browser, so that readers can have a better viewing experience, easy reading and smooth navigation. Responsive website takes away the need of panning or scrolling.

The definition of responsive website design itself explains why these are getting so much popular and useful. At present time not just the users of the internet have increased, but also the means of access to the internet have got to diversify. If in the office we are using desktop, then while on board we use Smartphone or tablets, then at home we prefer to lay back and use laptops for handy access to the internet or its websites. As  through different devices we are accessing the websites, so it is important we have something which can also us to have a user friendly viewing and usability experience of the website, irrespective of which screen or device we are using. That is what responsive website design offers us.

Responsive website design capability to adapt the layout with the viewing experience is made possible with the use of  fluid proportion based grids and  flexible images. This is a great technological innovation which is yet to flourish further at the time to come. Responsive website designs have multiple fixed layout widths and multiple fluid grid layouts which give the users the benefit of flexibility in viewing.

 

 

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IPhone apps are the emerging tools for business promotion

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Mitali Sharma

IPhone is one of the most used gadgets owned and craved by the modern gadget freak consumers. In an amazing rate, IPhone has witnessed a growth in its acceptance in the market. We all are aware of the craze that the youngsters keep for I phones. The phenomenal popularity of this device oozes from its high functionality, good performance, great looks, a wide screen, smooth internet accessibility and of course a perfect mobile phone. Further, the device in every way reflects sophistication and elegance.

 

The growing popularity of the phone has definitely influenced the application development sector. Mobile app developers have got deeply engaged in developing I phone supporting apps. Not just these apps are used by users, but are also highly used by the corporate houses as an influential tool to promote their businesses. Anything that is very much utilized by the public is sure to become an effective marketing tool, and the same thing has happened to I phone apps as well.

 

Corporate houses are hiring dedicated app developers to develop unique user friendly apps to trigger their marketing activities.  The amazing growth in the development and acceptance of apps for I phone is remarkable and getting universal all over the world. In fact, I phone app development has become a fascinating tool for any business house to stay ahead in the race. Just as a mobile responsive website is one of the best ways to promote a business, so having an I phone app can also be very benefitting for a business if they really want to get an extra edge in the market.

 

But to get a good I phone app that can do benefit to the business firms, it is very required that a good and knowledgeable I phone app developer is hired. Not all can develop relevant apps, which can really do some good for the host company. Besides, before getting an app I phone developers, the company must check out that whether its majority of targeted customers are I phone users of not, and if its customers are I phone users then getting an I phoebe app developed is an effective step towards further business promotion.

 

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A Complete Overview of 2012 Cloud Computing Trends!

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Nidhi Bajaj

 

With the end of year 2012, many changes have been taken place blowing the cloud to a higher level. Some studies have been conducted to see the consequences of this rising cloud. It forecast that the cloud will be on high for a longer period. As per their prediction, by 2015 cloud computing will be one of the major sources of employment and revenue worldwide. Even many experts across the globe agree to this fact and add that in the coming years all the things will be in the cloud. It will revitalize all the physical hardware, platforms, services, processing and software. There is no doubt in the fact that this years the cloud computing has witness many changes.

Courtesy: thecloudcomputingaustralia.com

Here are some of the changes that have been observed in this year.

• According to the second annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey, increase in the confidence level in cloud for mission-critical applications.

• Cloud-based business process management (BPM) on the high. According to a recent research by Gartner Inc., more than 40% of companies with BPM schemes use the concept of cloud computing to strengthen minimum of 10% of the procedures engaged in those hard works.

• Market of public cloud services is rising much faster than what it was expected. In September Gartner reported by IT researcher states that the market of public cloud services is predicted to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to total $109 billion globally.

• Most of the big companies are accepting the structural design of the cloud computing because of its scalable and consistent qualities.

• According to Delloite Tech, wider acceptance and increase in the use of hybrid clouds can be seen because of its speed, reliability cost-savings, and security.

• When we talk about monitoring, data management and support, cloud computing is the best option available. It allows enormous datasets to be processed and created easily and quickly.

• Currently, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the most required category of cloud computing. Undoubtedly, cloud will contribute its part in further advancement in technology and be a major player.

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HTML5 Still Not Ready For Cross-Platform Application Development

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Mitali Sharma

App Developers and app users are interested in developing and using, respectively, an app that can be supported at different platforms. This is the need of the hour that an app must be compatible with different platforms, because, the modern gadget freak consumers are in the habit of using  different platforms such as desktop, tablet, laptop and Smartphone as well. So it’s important that they must be provided with apps, which are easily compatible with all kinds of platforms and different operating systems like iOS and android. In this regard HTML5 is the upcoming boom in the markup language over which the developers are putting their hope. Estimated to get released in 2014, HTML5 is likely to support mobile and web app development for multiple platforms without any limitations.

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But, many IT industry experts are citing that HTML5 with its capabilities will not being able to meet the high expectations it set last year. The loopholes with HTML5 programming is mostly being measured in terms of Design & Development, Slow HTML5 games on the Android Platform and the incapability of JavaScript for games.

The screen size and keyboard for a mobile and desktop varies vastly; an app is designed and developed considering the specification and functionality of the platform and it’s very hard to develop an app compatible with the small mobile screen and the large desktop screen, as the two platforms varies immensely in terms of functionality and specification as well. However, with the growing popularity of the smart phones, it has become important for the developers to develop apps keeping the mobile user in mind.

Further, it has also come into notice that HTML5 Games are slow over Android Platform; whereas the same game is tend to be fast on the iOS platform. Moreover, many big name browsers have still not made their browsers fully compatible with HTML5 technologies.

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Essential Elements For Designing Great Websites: Are You Aware?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Nidhi Bajaj

In today’s digital era, almost all the businesses get their website design and developed to grab the attention of potential buyers located across the globe and generate more sales. This way, they can hold a considerable share in the competitive market. As a business owner, you may have already spent a significant amount on your website’s virtual design, but just imagine if still your website fails to help you in achieving the desired results. Undoubtedly, it will be really upsetting for you as well as your business.

Most of the web designing and development companies fails to recognize the fact that they can grab user’s attention if they are offering a good functionality and usability. If you have ended up contacting any such company, then your competitors might get a chance to topple you from the market and search engine rankings. So, it is very important for you to be aware of all the elements essential for designing great websites.

User Friendliness:

Get a responsive web design that will give much required aesthetic appeal to your site. This way, you can get a website that will structure in a manner making things easier for your customers. Your site’s visitors can look at various product categories without clicking on several links. Make sure that the structure of your website gives a clean look and allow customers to easily search for the things they want.

Fresh and Meaningful Content:

Make sure that your website content is fresh and meaningful in order to hold visits attention and read all the information given on the website. Remember a good content can allow your customer to spend some hours and getting the required information. Also, it can influence them to again come back and increase the website’s credibility.

Hassle-free Navigation:    

Ensure hassle free navigation on your site so that the visitors can access all your pages easily. Make sure that your website’s navigation is designed in such a way that visitors can simply get the information required without any confusion.

SEO-friendly Website Design:

Drive hard to get an SEO friendly web design in order to achieve high ranking in famous search engines result pages. Check that the Meta tags for your website pages are created correctly that suits your business domain.

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Google Urges Developers to Develop Android Apps for Tablets

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Anuj

Why will you prefer iPad over an Android Tablet like Samsung Galaxy Tab or Google Nexus? A reason can be the number of apps available. While iPad has a huge base, Android tablets are really lagging behind.  The total number of tablet optimized apps for Android is unknown as of now, but take my word for it, those are not many.

Google has released a tablet app quality checklist in a visible effort to promote Android for Tablets.  This is a clear guideline to develop standard and quality apps for Tabs. It also points out, how your approach should differ for Android phones and Tablets.

But why would the developers bother? So, Google has also released the sales pitch. According to Google, there are 3 major reasons why you should make apps for tabs.

1) Bigger screen, more options, more engagement from readers. Thus, either they purchase goodies from the developers or they click on the ads more than others.

2) Android tablets are picking up the sale (due to many reasons, low price being one) and thus the apps are going to get exposed to a bigger audience. Big names are shifting towards Android, like Instapaper.

3) According to Tiny Co, a source Google apparently believed, gamers from the Tablets of the same game will return more than the Android phone users.

Mobelux, another source Google seemingly trusted, that half of the Instapaper downloads has been for Android tabs. Fact is, we don’t have any data to compare the download for android tabs vs iPad downloads which would have been a handy table but the signal is clear from Google. “Develop apps for Android Tablets dude, we are going to let Apple win this battle either”.

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Application Craft ‘ s App Development Tools Supports Easier Mobile Apps Development

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Mitali Sharma

Though in its infancy, but mobile apps have become the way of business, as more and more business houses are realizing the benefits of mobile apps in supporting seller-buyer interface. Considering the demand for mobile apps, the market has also got over flooded with the supply sources, which are offering a wide array of mobile app development platforms. But, development is a hard process, and hence the app market is trying to bring out such platforms, which can support easier development of mobile apps. One such platform is Application Craft, which has recently announced the launching of its apps development tools. Its development tools are designed to reduce the “unnecessary complexity”, involved in app development, so that those with minimum technological knowledge also can readily develop the apps. The tool kits are available in three tiers: AC Free Platform, AC Pro Platform and AC Enterprise Platform. These tools are compatible with various platforms; so that developers can easily cross publish their Application Craft-built apps across native and hybrid mobile, tablet, desktop and even web. Application Craft has designed its tools keeping in mind the developers of all skill levels, so that they can simply but professionally create their customers’ app and quickly market those. These tools run on drag-and-drop interface of HTML widgets. Using the tools, the developers can create apps for services like Geo-targeting, analytic, social media sharing, etc.
These application development tools have already received mass acceptance among its thousands of beta users. Among its noted users, one is Coca-Cola; it used Application Craft to develop a data collection program for the 2012 London Olympics. The development tools were effective enough in transforming the initial concept to the finished product very promptly as compared to the time required by traditional tools. The company is not only targeting the business houses but also aiming the Student communities. In fact there many pleased customers from the student communities, who have acknowledged that the Application Craft development tools are simple to use.

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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 of Microsoft Released: Developers Get Ready

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Nidhi Bajaj

Recently, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, which are considered as the major development tools for Windows 8. Microsoft has introduced it even two months before the release of Windows 8 so that developers can get ready for making applications for the new available platform.

All the MSDN subscribers can now download from the MSDN subscriber download page and volume licensing users can now download Visual Studio 2012 from the Volume Licensing Service Center said by Jason Zander, Microsoft’s vice president of Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 2012 will be available in stores or online purchase directly from the website of Visual Studio products for the next month. Web developers can also download the free version for trial confirmed by Zander.

S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division said, “With Visual Studio 2012, we’re delivering a productive and a powerful development experience, one that makes it easy to develop on your own or as part of a collaborative team, all the while building apps that target the latest platforms”.

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Multiple Opportunities For iPhone Application Developers

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Anuj

These days, a constant growth in the iPhone application development market can be well analyzed and observe. A growing tendency can be witnessed from both an iPhone user as well as iPhone programmer perceptive. All these have given new opportunities to the professionals associated with iPhone or mobile application development. An increase in the demand for iPhone software programmers and mobile application developers is a common scenario of the market at present.

If you are a an iPhone programmer and are having a flawless idea, then you can anytime sell them at a good price directly to a company required such application. On the other hand, if you want to develop your application, then you can get registered with Apple and sign in to iPhone developer account. In this way, you can publish your developed app for a private or a public utility. You can aware the word about your program utility and influence them to download your app only if you are a passionate iPhone programmer. For that, you need patience so that you can start with your project with a rough outline and end up coming up with a useful product.

To undertake an iPhone development task in the best possible manner, you need to have a detailed approach. It is further important for you to take your iPhone app development project seriously. Remember that if you think you are not capable of handing your task along, then it is always better to look for a company that is interested in hiring iPhone application developers. With the multiple utilities, a rise in new chances and opportunity for iPhone programmers is also occurring. You can get huge appreciation by associating with a mobile application development company and developing an exclusive iPhone application

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Are Responsive Designs Truly Responsive?

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Anuj

With the launch of variety of devices today, the popularity of responsive web designs was inevitable. It’s undoubtedly the current fad in the industry for various responsive reasons too. However, I am afraid the concept of responsive design is no longer the best option amid so many devices being launched. In fact, working on smallest denominators isn’t feasible at all on all every devices with various browsers and screen resolutions.

More and more designers are increasingly opting to work on designs with basic small websites and further change it accordingly. I believe the designers must use more of a device’s capability. In other words, the design itself must respond to the devices used by the users to access the content.

Undoubtedly, responsive designs are popular and effective in their various approaches. But my findings have rather been quite weird about their so called concept so far. I believe that the designs shouldn’t actually respond to the devices but to the end-user themselves.

Let me draw some strong explanations from an example. I happened to review an airline’s responsive web design which was adapted effectively to all browsers. For iPad the buttons were bigger and other irrelevant contents were placed below the fold when the screen resolution wasn’t big enough. UI was inherited automatically.

However in context to responsive design, it doesn’t make any sense to show ‘how to park cars’ to someone who doesn’t have one. There’s no point of removing flight arrival information if the user is to pick passenger at the airport. Moreover, there’s no point to show them flight reservation if they have just booked one.

Responsive designs are good. However, it’d have been better if they had responded well to the end users themselves. I will suggest designers to better design something for the kind of visitors using the sites not merely for devices. The designers should have more focus on the specifications, the preferences, and other important features.

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