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CMS For Ecommerce Website Development

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Open Source Development since its inception in year 2000 has grown manifolds and remains at the forefront of IT and Web Development industry using latest web development tools and technologies. Web developers, coders, web programmers, open source consultants all are experts in their work and they find solution to every problem, delivering best-fit custom solutions to their clients globally across wide range of industry.

Where online shopping has become way of life, every product needs online presence not only to reach global market but to reach at faster pace. Now comes the question of security for both the seller and buyer. SECURITY remains the topmost question and you need to find answer; before a seller proceeds with development of ecommerce website for selling products and for seller how is going to make purchase online, make transaction through your website.

I would like to share few Content Management System which can help you to reduce your programming effort for developing e-commerce projects:

Magento has been my all time favorite ecommerce platform for e-commerce website because of its modular architecture and flexibility. Ultimate one, Drupal ecommerce module would let you develop your online store free of cost, as Drupal CMS is open source its immense flexibility cannot be denied and easy integration with Paypal, eWAY, Authorize.net, etc makes Drupal complete ecommerce solution option for online storefront developers. Available under the GNU General Public License osCommerce features rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved. Another useful ecommerce solution VirtueMart component available with Joomla and Mambo is used for delivering ecommerce solutions and robust applications to clients to easily manage storefront. Open source free shopping cart software Zen-Cart (branches from osCommerce) is used for online store management that would put your business online and let you accept payments securely.

Yocto CMS

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I am coming posts I would like to talk about different interesting Content Management Systems (CMS) available. Hey! have you worked with Yocto CMS it is smallest CMS available today, but it is worth using and do not under estimate. Available in two versions v1 and v2, v1 contains all files needed for CMS and v2 contains the installer that can get for you latest version from Internet. Most interesting you need not have to store anything in database, no admin panel is there and all data are stored in flat files. URLs are search engines friendly and is written in PHP.

Other small CMS are: CMS Mini, Nanomus - these CMS do not use database and use flat files to store data. If you are looking for a small website you can use these and remain care free.
If anyone of you have something to share about Yocto CMS you can post as comment.

PHP Developer in India creates Simple Clean Website Using PHP

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Dedicated PHP web developer in India are involved in PHP development services that is developing websites using server side scripting language PHP. Whether it is static website or dynamic website, data driven website for e-commerce business PHP can do wonders. PHP code is embedded in the HTML source code and the source code is compiled on-the-fly.

PHP acts as an interpreter and can be deployed on most of the web servers, operating systems and platforms. There are several benefits of PHP over other languages: most important is it is open source so no tension of license and developers are free to use in their own way. PHP can run on Windows server but is best suited for Linux and Apache as the upfront and ongoing cost is zero which otherwise would be very high in Windows servers. Migration from other language to PHP is easy and does not cost much. Rasmus Lerdorf who developed PHP has really done a great job! You can find free tutorials online, PHP is easy to learn.

Offshore Outsourcing PHP

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Outsourcing PHP to a leading custom web application development company that too in India would be an added advantage if you want to focus on core activities of your business and get most out from your web development services.


Are you looking for web application development at reduced time and cost?? Open Source Development can help you set up your offshore development center in India with promising resource pool, best infrastructure that would help deliver high end web development solutions on time, quality and time is never compromised.

You can also outsource your custom web application development needs to us and we would revert back with a custom web solutions based on your requirements.

You can Hire Indian developers, Indian programmers - dedicated web developer, software developers and iphone mobile application developer on monthly / hourly contract. We are leaders in offshore IT outsourcing services and provide turnkey custom web PHP solutions.

Virtualization Kills Traditional Outsourcing Model

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Offshore Outsourcing or Offshoring has been buzzword in the Indian IT industry but the trend is changing in year 2011, why and how??? With companies ready to invest their technology budget in strategic projects and are moving up the value chain this is threatening the traditional outsourcing model. It is not just control over the projects and cost benefits but high quality, cheap and best huge work force, better infrastructure compared to other countries has generated lots and lots of job opportunities in India.

"We consider the U.S. to be the hub of innovation and have recognized that there is enough talent here that can bring tremendous advantages to our existing skill set," HCL America president Shami Khorana said in an email to InformationWeek.

Global staffing would increase to grab the best at minimal investment and timeline remains the bottomline. Change in outsourcing model would effect India and India needs to think for cloud computing for secure growing India. For offshore outsourcing projects free feel to contact Open Source Development.

Custom PHP Web Application Development on LAMP

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LAMP is a software bundle and acronym for Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, that would lead to creation of a web server. At Open Source Development a proven application framework/ MVC framework is available like Zend framework, cakePHP for rapid application development.

At Open source off-the-shelf applications and custom web solutions are available, these include CMS solutions like Joomla, Magento, Drupal that has reduced the operational cost and has simplified web development because several interactive features and management functionality. Template engines that we use are Smarty and PHP.

From our pool of talented web professionals you can hire dedicated developer for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs), business that need access to exceptional talent while minimizing risk and operating cost.

With years of experience in custom application development, open Source Development can develop custom web solutions for your business that can give you a competitive edge, improve your bottom line, and significantly reduce your IT costs. We are custom web development company and hiring php web developers / programmers would be find the best fit solution to tailor individual business needs. Our web developers and software programmers provide you the exact customized application and solution that suits your requirement most.

With Open Source Openness Microsoft Rigidity Tends to Flexibility

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How and Why Open Source Openess is bringing Microsoft close to it?? Are developers and programmers really ready to work in the environment and we can discuss the pros and cons here. No big enetrprise can deny the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing and slowly cloud is going to touch the boundaries of SMBs with a blend of Microsoft and Open Source Technologies.

Both the technologies have their standards and transparency and commitment to build consumer trust by effective collaboration at every level is important.

Designing a new protocol has been trending at Microsoft but using the existing code is implemented at Open Source. Microsoft creation of OpenNebula clouds on Windows Server Hyper-V is a live example of amalgamation of Open Source Microsoft. So, it customers today enjoy heterogeneous mix infrastructures and workloads in their data centers that include a mix of Windows and open source based software.

Open source holds a public and shared software development model and an open source initiative has said "The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing." - Open Source Initiative

Open Source keeps you away from legal worries and expensive royalties. Also, Linux/Unix if once used for server by a developer then think it would be hard to switch to Windows server. Both the technologies have their own benefits and pitfalls and I respect both equally - Proprietary software or GNU.

PHPFox Social Network Script Solution

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Build your own social networking websites and online community with social network script. Once you join phpFox a large community base is there to help you actively. Source code can be edited easily as it is not encrypted. The Over 1,300 plug-ins/ mods are available for purchase or download. Remember phpFox is not free; is a featured packed social networking solution.

Also, the website you create using PHPFox CMS is search engine friendly. Also you are given full control of website layout through AdminCP. Multilingual facility is another important feature offered through AdminCP that lets you run the community in the language of your choice as well as include other languages of your choice as you want. Various monetizing tools are available with the phpFox product that would help you in integrating online payment options. You can monetize your social network with our advanced ad campaigns that gives you full control to who can view each specific ad based on a users location, gender and even their age group. Option to sponsor items on the site is made available and to sell marketplace listings. In order to access various modules and features user can upgrade to subscription plans by paying charges. For mobile version of the website default theme is available free of cost with phpFox product that would provide mobile users easy access to website on mobile devices. Facebook connect and scalability are other important features that a social networking website should have and is easily available with phpFox product.


For social networking website development you can call us at : +1 120 4030001 or drop us an email at: solutions@icreon.com

Moodle Learning Management System

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Originally created by Martin Dougiamas to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content, Moodle is continually evolving.

Moodle (abbreviation for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System,
Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). As of October 2010 it had a user base of 49,952 registered and verified sites, serving 37
million users in 3.7 million courses.

The Moodle software is supported is : http://moodle.org/

Moodle Service Network: http://moodle.com/



Moodle is open source and so is free to use. It is widely used by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers, educators willing to to create quality
online courses. Important features of Moodle are: Online calendar, assignment submission, moodle instant messages, discussion forum, grading, files download, wiki, online quiz and online news and announcement.


Moodle support plug-ins for specific functionality like activities (word game/ math game), question types, content filter. Also, new modules can be added to Moodle using PHP. Moodle includes the TCPDF library by default that allows the generation of PDF documents from pages.
Deployment of Moodle requires technical proficiency. Free Moodle hosting providers allow create Moodle-based online classes without its server knowledge or installation and paid providers may provide more flexibility in customization and content-development.
You can run Moodle on any system that supports PHP without modification. Moodle's interoperability features include: authentication, enrollment, quizzes and quiz questions, resources, integration with other CMS, syndication.

Joomla VirtueMart E-Commerce Development

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Virtuemart is best for excellent shopping cart solutions. Virtuemart is not standalone e-commerce solution, it is add-on and must be used with Joomla or Mambo CMS. The extensible CMS Joomla/Mambo can be upgraded by adding and installing 3rd party extension VirtueMart. VirtueMart developers at Open Source Development provide you with a full range of Joomla and VirtueMart Customization services. Virtuemart e-commerce development service includes consultancy, development, integration, training and support.

VirtuMart is among top 10 Joomla components, it is most successful CMS add-on for shopping cart because of the following features: it is light weight; fast and secure; object oriented and clean; easy to learn, maintain and extend. VirtueMart developers provide you with a full range of Joomla and VirtueMart Customization services. Our Service includes consultancy, development, integration, training and support.

The industry we have successful delivered solutions are : real estate, enetrtainment, tarvel, B2B, B2C, education. Solutions provided help in effectively managing stock management, order management, sales management, billing and shipping.

Features of VirtueMart in Detail:

General features available with VirtueMart are multiple currencies, multiple languages, flexible tax models with multiple options for tax calculations, https encryption, shipping address management, options to view past shopping history and also there is option available to customers to manage user accounts.
Product Catalogue features include management option for unlimited products and categories; powerful and user friendly web-administration interface, advance search features, product rating and testimonials, notifications.

Administration module features include multiple files attribution and multiple images attribution, multiple product attributions, stock level control, statistics, order management, history management, managing currencies, also reporting of products.
Payment module features include all credit card processing that would include Google Checkout, Paypal, PayMate, and others.

Shipping Modules features are flexible shipping carriers and rates configuration, other shipping modules available, live shipping rates availability.

Custom eCommerce Magento CMS Development

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Open Source Development is an expert in providing eCommerce solutions to wide range of industries in Australia. Business focused e-commerce solutions provided by our e-commerce web developers designers have resulted our customer's online business grown manifolds. Our team of dedicated php developers, Joomla developers, Mambo developers, e-commerce designer developers, open source consultants’ work in close coordination and in consultation with our customers throughout the project delivery providing optimum customer service and ensuring service delivery is done on time and quality standards are maintained throughout.

Starting from designing to developing a e-commerce shopping cart to integration of secure payment gateway and then moving to driving traffic (doing SEO) of the e-commerce storefront can all done by us.

Our magento CMS development and customization services include: magento themes, Payment Gateway Integration, Shipping Method Integration or Configuration, Buttons and Widgets, Custom Landing Page Design and lot more.

Multi-Site, Multi-Domain, Multi-lingual Web Sites

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I was wondering what and how these multi-sites, multi-domain and multi-langauge sites actually differ.

First of all I will talk about multiple sites and multi-sites.

In Multiple Sites, apache control the one to many relationships between a single IP and many "websites" using virtual hosts.

For Multisite deployment Drupal approach is best where the same codebase and database to host multiple instances of drupal is used.

I have read the write-up:

http://lno.lternet.edu/node/192
http://drupal.org/node/1105042

Do the development of these sites have to do with creating a sub-directories, sub-folders or sub-domain and how does these approach effect SEO??

Could anyone please share views or personal experience on this, your comments are awaited. Keep the ball rolling!

White Label Website Development

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Let us first of all discuss what is a White Label Website/Product/Service??

A product or service produced by one company that is the producer that the other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they made it is a white label product or service.

A white-labeled website is eCommerce website which sells the products online just like the main site but, under a different domain name, brand or company name. Different storefronts are used to sell same products and services to different set of audience. Do not get confused with affiliate websites, they carry some traits of the producer.

White label sites are good from SEO point and would help your website gain ranking, as with each specific keyword rich domain you can also focus on targeted keywords. If your eCommerce storefront requires a local presence in a particular geographical area, then another brand or website which is a white label can be created having the local touch focused on localized audience. This will also help in ranking in geo-specific search engines and local search engines.

Get a white label website designed and developed for promotion of your products and services locally and globally. White Label Website Development

Dynamic Websites Development

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Your business success depends on your websites look and feel, easy of accessibility, attractiveness, easy navigation, quick search options and lot more. The dynamic website are built with the purpose of automation. The two main dynamic activities involved are code and content. A dynamic website can operate more effectively, be built more efficiently and is easier to maintain, update and expand. Software systems available to generate dynamic web sites are Java Server Pages (JSP), the PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby programming languages, ASP.NET, Active Server Pages (ASP), ColdFusion (CFML) and more. Plug-ins like Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave or applets written in Java, Dynamic HTML are available for real time element updating within web pages.

Dynamic code
Web page with dynamic code is built dynamically on the fly using programming language on the particular web page. Codes and routines on the web page are grouped together and call information from a database and assemble in a pre-defined format to present the reader. Dynamic code can interact with user by reading cookies, session variables, history.

Dynamic content

Dynamic content is offered in plain view and the Variable content is displayed dynamically on the fly based on specific criteria, generally by fetching content stored in a database. It is concerned with content change at particular point of time and display of messages, text, images on the web page. Examples are RSS sites, product driven site where a user enters product content in search and dynamically result is displayed.

PHP is one of the best programming languages used in developing powerful web sites and dynamic applications. Open Source Development understands the essentials of your business. Your website needs to load quickly, be found easily (visitors and search engines), be linked well (pilots) and generate real business leads (maximize ROI). PHP Development Company provides professional, high quality web development, dynamic web solutions to clientele globally. Our dynamic website development portfolio includes customized web solutions from various industries like real estates, legal, manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, education, travel, mobile, IT.

The dynamic page generation was made possible by the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), stable in 1993. Also, SSI is a direct approach to handle server-side scripts at web servers. Flexibility, stability, automatic updation can be provided to dynamic websites using PHP and HTML along with CMS. Dynamic websites may be client-side server scripting or may be server-side scripting.

Client-side scripting and Content Creation

Client-side scripting languages like Java script, DHTML and Flash technologies use rich interfaced pages technology to generate client side content on the user computer . A web browser retrives page from server, processes code on the page and displays page redable content.

Server-side scripting and Content Creation

Server-side scripting the program running on web server that can change content on various web page.

Examples of dynamic websites are product and service based sites like e-commerce sites, auction sites, content based sites selling advertising space. Hire dynamic website developers to cut your business operation cost and to get highest quality custom web application development services.

Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions

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Enjoy the endless features and functionality of your shopping cart.

For a growing business small or large, e-commerce websites allow your company to market products or services at affordable price. E-commerce website design end e-commerce website Development Company offers professional web design, quality web development and search engine optimization all together for your business growth so that you are found and reached by your potential customers and also visible in search engine result pages for respective searches.

E-commerce web development company design and develop e-commerce shopping carts and offers best e-commerce web solutions for business growth. The online shopping carts and websites developed are easy to navigate, simple to manage and allow your company to sell products or services online. Each website is professionally designed & programmed to match your business' needs & goals.

E-commerce website development team is ready to help your company find a custom ecommerce web solution for your business website needs. Web developers and designers work together to come up with best custom web solutions. They work hard to develop custom web application solutions that will best suit your business needs. These ecommerce websites are built to perform and provide results that make for a successful website.

E-commerce shopping cart Development Company aims to provide the best professional e-Commerce web design solutions at an affordable price. Do not hurry in choosing a company as you can find number of e-commerce development companies online. The best of all provide quality web solutions with features such as unlimited products and categories, proper information on the website before you proceed to promise security and ease, a secure one page checkout, these professional e-commerce web development companies make online transactions easy for both website owners and customers. From selling a product or subscription, to taking payments for a service, e-commerce design development team can develop the custom eCommerce website perfect for your business. There's no limit to what your eCommerce site can achieve providing your products or services online.

Also these companies have e-commerce SEO team generally that ensure visitors will find your website and products, making your website a success. Experience of these companies let them place your website in top ten search results for most competitive keywords. Ultimate result is increase in traffic and new potential customers coming to online shopping store; visitors’ patterns can also be analyzed and website's user experience can be optimized with sales as top priority. So, if you are planning to have your own online shopping store for your business then, consult a shopping cart or e-commerce application development company for best results.