How to plan a website re-designing?

Posted on September 13, 2014 by admin

A website is like an online face of your business. Certainly it’s the very first impression, which is placed on the visitors and prospective clients. This impression lasts for a long time whether it’s good or bad. The website owners should make sure that the first impression which is given by their website should be very good. This will help in growth of their business through their website. A good website should be able to attract new prospects, educate them through its content and finally be able to convert them into loyal customers. Also the website should be a complete assistance package for marketing and sales process. Unfortunately this is not the case with several websites; they are static, have very little or no content and do not contribute any assistance to the sales and marketing process.

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If you think that you also own such a non-functional website then don’t worry, below you will find step-by-step ways to plan a website renovation.

1.) Create your Customers Facade

An effective starting of anything requires pre-planning and here also, the situation is similar. Before starting with an effective re-designing of your website, a thorough knowledge of the customers for whom your business is, should be garnered. This is known as ‘Buyer Persona’ and thorough knowledge of buyer persona will lead the web designers to create the entire design of the website starting from the page layout, to site maps in the most customer-friendly way.

Before you think about adding colors or formatting for the re-designing of your website, ask yourself the following questions:

  • What type of customers will be visiting your website?
  • How often they will be visiting it: on daily, weekly or monthly basis?
  • How big your business is, is it small or big?
  • How will your website be helping the customers who are coming to it?

Now before any re-designing work starts, take a pen and paper and draw a rough sketch to get an idea how would you like your new website to look like? If needed you can call up the most loyal customers of your business and take their views. Try to collect as many views as possible and these views will act as blueprint for your web site re-designing.

2.) Conversion Path development

Once you have an idea about your customer base and their requirements you can move on to the next step of conversions. As a business owner your main motive of building a website should be business enhancement. The website should constantly attract new leads and also be able to convert them into prospects and customers. The website designing should be done in such way that it is able to perform the following functions well:

Capture new prospects

An attractive website should be build in such a way that the visitors coming from various channels like search engines, blogging, email marketing etc. are converted into new leads.

Educating Visitors

Moreover a good website should be having a self-educating feature on it so that the new leads get complete information on products and services on the website itself. The website should be equipped with the following contents:

  • E-books & guides (top-of-the-funnel)
  • Recorded Webinars (middle-of-the-funnel)
  • E-brochures & Comparison Sheets (Bottom-of-the-funnel)

Strengthening relations with customer

Finally, a good website should be designed in such a way that it strengthens the relationship with the customers. It should help the customers to educate themselves just by looking at it ultimately expanding the use of your products. It should showcase the potential opportunities for cross sales and up sales.

Just analyze your existing website and check how many leads it is capturing in the present. Also check how effectively is it educating the prospects and engaging existing clients. If these activities are not at all happening on your website, just think on how will the “Conversion Path” look like? It means that just find out what all activities in the website would: generate new leads, educate the prospects and keep the customer engaged.

Once you have made up a mind for the ‘Conversion Path’, start re-designing the site with new pages, exclusive content and other major functionality to navigate easily and to the most appropriate content.

3.) Create a Design visual

The final and most essential stage of website re-designing is to create the ‘Design Visual’. As the name suggests, the ‘design visual’ should be a representative of the entire business you own. It will be virtually representing the goals of the organization, experiences of the users and rate of conversions. Few of the major Design visual items are addressed below while re-designing the website.

Choosing Typeface

Selecting the most appropriate typeface for a website is the most essential component. The typeface will greatly affect the perception of the audiences, so a lot of time should be given in selecting the most appropriate typefaces. How it affect the visitor should also be given importance.

Color Combinations

The color combination of the website design plays an important role in attracting the visitors; hence choosing the colors should be done carefully. They should be able to deliver the message of your website correctly and should not distract the users.

Images

Proper selection of images can enhance the aesthetics of your website or if the selection of the images is not proper it will cheapen the look of the website. Be very choosy in the case of images to deliver the correct message to your audiences.

Make use of the generic images from some good sites like: www.istock.com, www.gettyimages.com etc. and provide professionalism to your website.

Whitespace

Using white space correctly in your website will help to create visual hierarchy on the page and provide emphasis to other designs in the page like images, headlines etc.

Icon Use

The web designers should be imaginative about the way they use the icon inside their designs. The icons should visually convey the message if the visitors are surfing the website in a hurry.

By now it is understood that how proper planning can help you in re-designing your website to extract maximum benefits from it. Start deep analysis now and plan a website re-designing.

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Which would you give more importance to: website’s responsive design or speed?

Posted on September 9, 2014 by admin

Remember those days of dial-up Internet connections? No matter Internet brought a revolution and amazing experience to the people, using it at that time was like a nightmare. Few years back, the speed of the Internet was extremely slow and the download used to take several hours. However as the discovery of Ethernet cable took place, there happened advancement in the Internet speed, as well as the methods of using it. Thankfully now the speed of the Internet has increased to manifolds and we are able to download files in seconds instead of minutes and hours.

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The importance of speed of the website

Most of the people are nowadays using their smartphones and tablets to search online. Just imagine that you are waiting for a site to load and it’s taking too long; what would you do? Certainly you would press the ‘Back’ button or switch over to some other site or simply close it.

There are some useful numeric facts that further illustrate how much effect the loading time has on the usage of that site.

  • 73% of mobile users, browsing Internet said they came across an extremely slow website.
  • 51% of mobile users, browsing Internet said they came across a website which crashed, was frozen or ended up with 404 error.
  • 38% of mobile users, browsing Internet said that a website was unavailable.
  • 47% of users wish that the web page should load within two seconds.
  • 40% of the users immediately discard the websites, which took3 seconds or more to load.

These stats were based on the usage experience of the users;the delay in page loading also has adverse affect on sales. It will be surprising to know that each second of delay in page loading has 7% diminution in conversions. Like for instance if an online shopping site is making $100,000 each day, the page delay of one second can cause a loss of $2.5 million each year. If an e-commerce site is making $100,000 per day, a one second page delay could potentially cost $2.5 million in lost sales every year. Moreover delay in loading of the page also has an adverse affect in the Google page Ranking and this has been announced long back in 2010 by Google. For the marketers it is important to know that the site speed will also affect the Adwords Quality scores. Google, the Big boss believes that the loading time of the home page of any website is like the first experience of the users so its performance should be good. Better the performance of the landing, better will be the scores and ultimately a lower CPC (cost per click).

How important is a responsive design?

Before we talk further on this topic it is important to know what a responsive design is? If you walk up on a street you will find several users using their smartphones and carrying on their tasks which means it has become extremely important for the website developers to build a website that is mobile friendly. The websites can have two types of designs, mobile and responsive. By responsive design we mean that only a single website is made and it is designed in such way that it fits any screen size, whether its a mobile, a tablet or a desktop. A mobile design is different. In this case two websites are being made, one for mobile users and another for desktop users. However if your budget allows you to make a good investment, it would be better to go for a responsive design. However it is not much important that which type of design you adopt for your website, it is more important that how mobile friendly a website is. It’s a known fact that the use of smartphones is taking a bigger shape each day; the stats below will clearly illustrate this fact.

  • The number of Google searches performed through mobile has exceeded 20% of the total searches.
  • Almost 50% of the local searches were performed via smart phones in 2012.
  • 25% Internet users in the US use their mobile for accessing the Internet.
  • 61% of the users made better opinions for brands when they get a good experience from mobiles.
  • More than 25% of emails are surfed through the mobiles only.

Most prominently, a website that is mobile compatible will certainly provide a better experience to the mobile users. If there is any type of deformity, the users will simply switch over to another. When both types of designs are compared it is found that Google has stated that it would prefer a responsive design to a mobile template because it is easier to crawl than a single website. Responsive design has become industry’s practice and practically it is also easier to manage a single website instead of two.

So what’s more important…Responsive design or site speed?

It’s not at all surprising to know that both site’s speed and responsive design have quite a lot of things in common. Because Google is ruling over 67.6% market share of all search engines, it needs to be pleased by the website owners. It has given a serious consideration to both the loading time and mobile performance of the website. If any one of the two is not proper, the Google ranking of the website can drop.

Don’t be doubtful about it. It is expected that by the end of the year 2018 there will be 10 billion mobile devices using the Internet. It means mobile is the future. At present the responsive design is fulfilling the requirement but it may not be able to do so that time. It’s a great idea if there is lack of time to manage multiple sites and from SEO viewpoint it’s also good. If you have not used a responsive design for your website, there is nothing to worry about or bother if your site does loads properly on a mobile. Its better to be on the safer side rather than feeling sorry over the responsive design of your website. On the other hand, responsive design can be useless if you have established certain goals that can be achieved only through a smartphones and mobiles. Some businesses ought to have a mobile website separately to capitalize on their loyal customers.

It can be said that even if the responsive design gets extinct from the online scene, the speed will always be important no matter what. The sites that are using the responsive designs and overlooking the speed of it should get concerned of it. The website is burdened with numerous CSS files certainly it will take time to load. The concluding part here is that it does not matters whether the site is surfed through a desktop, mobile or tablet, speed is the deciding feature whether the users will stick to it or not. The site’s speed will certainly increase the sales and will ensure that the users come back to it again. Lower loading time also has a positive affect on Google ranking. No matter if your site is having an excellent responsive design but is loading too slow, it is likely to loose visitors and also Google ranking.

To check the loading time of website, you can use some handy tools available online.

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How business owners can benefit through Search Engine Optimization

Posted on September 1, 2014 by admin

Almost all the business owners, irrespective of size and nature of their businesses are building up a website. They think that building up a website will take their business to advanced level, which is indeed true, but will be possible only if proper search engine optimization (SEO) of their website is done. It’s a simple technique, which is available at a very nominal cost to popularize the websites of brand owners and building a prospective customer base for their business all across the globe. However there are other traditional methods of advertising of a business but search engine optimization is relatively easier to implement and be done by any SEO company. It simply gives high return on smaller investment. If we look back and pick up some popular examples we’ll find that these brands made it big using the SEO technique only.

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Search Engine Optimization explained in simple language

While the term Search engine optimization has become quite popular amongst those dealing with websites and Internet, there are still several business owners who are still unaware of this term. In simple terms SEO technique is a way to ensure that your website or your brand names is figured in the top position when the potential users search them on the search engines like Yahoo, Google etc. There’s nothing here to wonder about because proper SEO techniques and experts from web development companies will find out the most relevant keyword (search query) for your business and popularize it using them.

This way whenever anyone will put up the keywords in the search engines, the website will appear amongst the top results. Before starting with SEO of any business, the business owners should be clear with their goals and also with the basics of this process. They should very well understand the need of effective SEO to popularize their business in the virtual world. Mostly a proper optimization is all about the content of the website and the experts focus on content by spreading it all over the Internet by choosing the most relevant keywords.

How do SEO benefits?

There are numerous advantages of getting this technique done for the business websites and the most important one is that it is extremely cost effective. However the business owners can benefit in many other ways through it.

Once they start investing in optimization of their websites they will find that there is a considerable increase in the number of visitors of the websites. It can be expected that if the number of visitors are increased the business is reached out to more number of people and they are likely to be converted to loyal customers and reaping profits for the business owners. If proper SEO of the website takes place there are chances of increase in the Brand credibility. SEO makes the website popular amongst the people globally and having a functional and popular website creates a trust in the hearts of the people towards the business. The business owners can easily measure that how much benefit are they reaping in their business through their website over the traditional methods of publicity. The results can be easy measured.

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20 things to look around before Starting website development [Infographic]

Posted on August 25, 2014 by admin

As Ferris Beuller said, “Life moves really fast and if you don’t stop to look around what’s happening around, you could probably miss it out.” He said this long back, when there was no Internet or technologies and life wasn’t that fast, as it is now. This simply means, what Ferris said, should be done more often now, because nowadays life is running at a lightening speed. This also implies more or less accurately on the web development process.

Web development is a simple process indeed, just hire a good programmer, tell him your basic requirements and you are done, isn’t it? Just stop and look around, do you really think web development is that easy? Well certainly not.; then what’s the best way to get the desired results? How to built a website which is useful today tomorrow and scalable for the updates which will be coming in future. What will make your site popular and properly optimized? Its better to start correctly from the very beginning and avoiding the re-work, which is generally done by most of the developers

1. Keyword Exploration

If you haven’t done a proper research on the relevant keywords before staring your website development, then you are leaving all means to attract any customers. It simply means that you are building up a website for your personal use. Proper KW research not only gives a meaning to your website but it also provide a treasure of information to the users.

2. Wire Frames Installation

Don’t ever make the mistake of building up a website design without putting up wire frame together first. Missing this essential step will get you the designsooner than the usual but without wire framing the website design will miss essential elements or have right functions at the wrong place. The deformity can be fixed with simple steps, but it continues to distract the users with some unwanted things. It is advisable to build up wireframe for each important section of your website to ensure that everything is on the right place right now and in the future too.

3. Grayscale& Color Comp

Gray scale comps are quite popular in the printing design industry. But it is useful in the other areas as well. Many times it is seen that the client rejects the website design because they don’t like the color combinations. With Grayscale Comp a design without colors can be build just using the relevant contrasts and it can be shown to the client. There will be no worry about the likes and dislikes of the client for colors. Later on the design can be filled with colors.

It might happen that the Grayscale comp is selected and colored comp is rejected, but it nothing to bother; the colors can simply be re-arranged or changed without creating the complete design again, till the color comp gets selected.

4. Coding & Application

There are many web designers who won’t be doing coding of the website, you will probably have to find another person to do that. Well its perfectly fine and can happen quite often, that you need to hire two different persons for doing these two tasks or just one; in either ways coding is very important to accumulate the design together and have the desired functionality in your website.

5. Validated HTML5

Believe it or not some developers are still using HTML4 for development. No doubt it still works but using the old HTML will make the website obsolete sooner or later; whereas the HTML5 will not only make the site sleeker, clearer and faster it will also make it scalable for adding the most advanced functionalities in future & new media. However it is important that validation is done while using 3rd party tools with HTML5, because it is considered as an essential feature of good coding.

6. Validated CSS 3

HTML and CSS3 make a very good combo. CSS3 offers several handy tricks which are used when too much JavaScript code or too many images are used (which slows down the site’s downloading speed); CSS3 play a very important role in increasing the downloading speed of the website. Also it gives a fresh and interactive feel to the website. Make sure that the CSS3 is validated.

7. Search Engine compatible Architecture

Coding a site can be a tedious job specially when additional functionality has to be added, but coding a website without keeping the search engines in mind is of no use. The web developers need to understand the fact that the website is made for the users and unless the site is search engine friendly it won’t be visible in the search results. They need to remove the architectural obstacles, which adversely affect the sites performance like bad navigation, too many internal links, readable URLs non-crawlable pages and links, slow loading of pages and similar problems.

8. Omitting Duplicate Content

Along with an architecture that is Search Engine friendly, the web developer should make sure that there is no any type of duplicate content before any search engine crawls over it. There are many tools and websites for checking up the duplicate content but it should be done at the time of the site development and not later on when the site is build. A good developer will make sure that this happen while the development process only.

9. Styling off-page

This is also a very essential feature of a search engine friendly architecture but it has its own importance. The theory behind this styling is “ lesser the code on a page, better the performance of the site for the visitors”. This is not because the visitors are bothered about the code but this theory works because these codes can hinder the navigation experience of the visitors. The JavaScripts and styles should be moved to external sheets, off page as much as possible so that the browser can download them separately. This will certainly increase the speed of the page and there will be no need to download the codes of entire page.

10. Media Size Optimization

A very important consideration while development of a website but often ignored. If any type of media is used for a website it should be properly optimized. Many developers failed to look onto this aspect, but the good ones keep this in mind. Every media file whether an image or a video, should be optimized for search engine compatibility and download speed. It is very easy to compress most of the media to become smaller in size and reduce the download time. There is also a keyword optimization feature in Alt tags, which can be used along with the media created. The videos can be optimized for YouTube search and images for image search.

11. ALT tag for images

It’s a common practice and mostly the developers are aware of it, but it should be done at the time when the site is building and not when the site is done. Again there is no sense in going back and re-doing the work, which could have been done at the development stage.

12. CSS image sprites

Using images sprites can reduce the time of page loading: meaning consolidating several small images into one big image. This way the stress on the server will be reduced. This is especially applicable when images are used on multiple pages. Use of CSS can be done to display appropriate portion of the images.

13. Mobile Friendly

Are you concerned about your website’s working on a mobile device? If your answer is yes, its great but if your answer is ‘No’ you should immediately work it out. Mobile devices are the first place from where branding starts so never ignore your website’s appearance on a smartphone. If the site fails to work properly on a mobile device it means it is losing out its very first chance of leaving an impression. With an increasing number of mobile searches, a website should be ready for it. If not today it willbe searched tomorrow, but certainly it will happen.

14. Accessible at various resolutions

Not Just mobile, there are other types of screens on which your website should fit perfectly, iPad, Iphone, Ipad mini etc. The site needs to work well with all screen size.

15. Optimized site speed

While there are many factors which decide the speed of the site, the speed has its own theory. Even after you have checked everything else for speed it could be possible that it is slowing down. Just look upon again, what exactly is slowing its speed. Use an appropriate plug-In if needed. Remember speed is very important factor and ignoring it means losing visitors.

16. Analytics Installation

Adding up all the best ingredients in a website and not adding analytics code is like shooting in the air. You would never know how your site is performing. Analytics code installation is an easy process and should be done while the development process only; it shouldn’t be an after work.

17. Checking Broken Links and Custom 404

It’s the duty of the developer to check for broken links in a brand new website. No matter how carefully the website has been made, before its launch, a test should run that checks all the broken links to avoid later avoid customer frustration. If by chance there is a broken link in the site, it should end up on a custom designed page and not with a 404 error page which simply says, “ Page not found”. A custom page will keep the users engaged with the website while the 404 page will distract them.

18. Exclusive testing

No matter how urgent it is the duty of the developer to test the site completely before making it live for the audiences. As each part of the site gets developed, it should undergo testing and at the end of the development it should be re-tested altogether and bugs should be removed. A site full of bugs should not be handed over to the client.

19. Favicon Branding

Another minute task, which most of the developer’s ignore!It involves adding up a small image that appears on the URL bar when the site is opened. Its known as a favicon, the size is small but impact is huge.

20. Printer Friendly

It would be great if the website is printer friendly. The pages can be printed and used for reviewing later. If the site is not printer friendly it would be difficult to read the text and blank pages will be printed causing annoyance in the users.

That was quite a long list, but believe me that’s not all. this list is not at all compressible, but yes it can be expanded further. Saving money at the initial stage of web development can cost even higher later on. Hence it is advisable to look keenly into the development process just when it starts.

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Get awesome ideas to enhance visibility of your Magento online store

Posted on August 19, 2014 by admin

Craze and popularity of magento is going on higher day by day with the e-commerce platform. It has become one of the most search engine friendly ecommerce solutions; that’s why many online store promoters are there to take interest in this program. Making an e-store and enhancing its visibility for relevant stakeholders is not a tough task. Whether you want to enhance visibility of your magento store or you are willing to know some SEO tips for your magento website, the ideas given below are efficient to support you for this purpose. These SEO tips are friendly enough to attract your customers and simplify their way to your websites so that they can land on the right webpage while searching valuable information.

  • Preventing Magento from generation of duplicate content is possible with setting of “Canonical Link Meta Tag” and “yes”. This idea should be implemented at the time when you show single product in various categories.
  • Modification of sitemap is possible at the time you add a new product, page or category in the site. In this way, the sitemap will involve all the newly launched products in your website.
  • Enabling sitemap generation and changing the frequency of same to match the frequency of online store is done with ‘Generation Settings’ box. This tool offers you the way to update the site map that involves new items.
  • Writing catchy and explanatory descriptions for every category and product is one of the most important to do. I always take care to write good product reviews. Especially whenever I work on new product, category and page, I work exclusively for attractive descriptions as it makes search engine to reveal the page on the basis of certain keywords.
  • One of the most preferable ideas I recommend in this direction is to avail the magento store for search engines directly by creation of ‘robots.txt’ file. This file contains commands that direct search engine towards URLs that user want to be visible in search engine.
  • Writing default title and description in default title and default description boxes is good idea to direct yourself towards the pages where you forget to give title to the content. In this way, there will be no page with blank description in your site while this idea will assure you to simplify the index.
  • The last but really an important point in this series is that use only meaningful names for images. This will impart good impression on visitors of your sites.

At the time you put together your site firstly, you should not forget to spare time or good organization, architecture and navigation of your site. The card sorting exercise can help you a lot in this process. Apart from data, attributes and contents, the designing and presentation of the site should also be search engine friendly. For this purpose, I often do research in successful websites in internet while study material on relevant topic and tips offered by researchers are also useful.

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Basic difference between Article and Blog Post

Posted on August 15, 2014 by admin

Since Google has started giving strong signals for quality content in its ranking algorithms, all of us have started concentrating on providing quality content for our websites, weblogs and articles for submissions. However the contents we write have a lot of features in common, but also they also have lots of minute differences which need to be considered to make them differ from each other. To understand the similarities and differences clearly we can add some more information to this fact. If we talk about similarities in all the content types we can say that no matter where you are placing the content, it should be unique, plagiarism free, equipped with sufficient amount of keywords and it should be easy as well as informative.


Now lets talk about the differences; if you are writing an article for submission in an article directory how will it differ from the blog post and website content. Lets illustrate the difference between all.

The foremost difference between the articles of all three types is of word count. There is no limit of the word count you want to add in a website. It can be as less as 150 words of as big as 600 words; all depends on the nature of the website. In a blog post, the word count ranges from 200-250 to 500 words; however in a personal blog, there is no limit that how long or how short the owner wants to make it. It is important for the content to be quality and informative and if you want to make your blog even more attractive you can use media. An article is longer than a blog post and starts with a minimum word count of 500 words.

When anyone writes a blog post he is sharing his personal experience or news that he came across. It is less formal than an article. The blog post can be written in personal pronouns. Use of ‘I’ ‘me’ ‘we’ ‘us’ etc. can be done. If someone is sharing news he can write it as his personal experience and use same personal pronouns. When writing a website content use of ‘we’ and ‘us’ is widely done because it is the website owner who is writing about his own website.

While writing a submission article, one should be very careful. It should be written professionally with an informative tone, because the motive behind writing it is to provide thoroughly collected information. Their should be minimal or no usage of personal pronouns like ‘me’, ‘I’, ‘my’, ‘us’ etc. It should be written with the use of third person pronouns like, ‘their’, ‘them’, ‘they’. While writing an article, the writer should keep in mind that it is informative and it should not appear as if someone is writing about his experience or giving news. As news can be written for an article but then again it should be written with a professional touch.

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Boost your website’s Google Ranking- Enter the Era of HTTPS

Posted on August 11, 2014 by admin

Google is striving hard and investing a lot to provide security to the users; which means visitors coming over to use Google, Gmail, Google Drive etc will now have a safer connection. Recently it had switched over to industry’s leading security measure, the HTTPS encryption automatically. Google said, “Not only is the Google site but it also trying to make the entire internet a safer place for browsing. It has made sure that websites that are accessed through Google will be secure in the near future. Lately it had created ways for the webmasters to avoid and fix safety violations in their websites. Not just this, it wants to move ahead on the safety issues and for this, it had announced “HTTPS everywhere” over the internet.

After this announcement, many webmasters have switched over to HTTPS instead of HTTP which is indeed encouraging. Google has been testing over the sites, taking into consideration that the websites use HTTPS encrypted connections, as a signal to the search ranking algorithms. The test gave positive results; therefore Google had started using the HTTPS as a ranking signal. However the signal is not very strong as of now and affecting only 1% of the search queries across the globe. This signal is carrying very less weight as compared to the other signals, like high level content signal. This will provide time to the webmasters to switch over to HTTPS from HTTP. In future Google has decided to make the signals stronger, so that all the webmasters switch over to HTTPS from HTTP and make this internet a safer place.

For those webmasters, who would be interested in switching over, Google will be publishing a detailed plan in the coming weeks to make the TLS (transport layer security) switching easier. Below given are some basic points to start with and common errors which need to be avoided:

• Decide whether you need a single or multi-domain certificate.
• Better to use the 2048-bit key certificates.
• Make use of relative URLS for assets which lie on the same domain.
• For all the other domains use protocol relative URLs.
• Don’t use robots to block your HTTPS website from crawling.
• Check out more options and procedures on Google, on how to change the website’s address.
• Let the indexing of your pages happen where-ever possible. Avoid adding any non-indexing Meta tag.

If a website is already having HTTPS on its server, its security level can be tested using the Qualys Lab Tool. If the webmasters are concerned about their sites performance and TLS, they can have a look at its TLS first and then contact Google for further support.

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Five awesome Joomla extensions for advertisement and broadcasting

Posted on August 7, 2014 by admin

Joomla is an excellent content management system to support users for web development deals. This award winning CMS is known well for helping in strong online applications. Many features of the content management system are there to offer easy to use interface and extensibility to customers for making this outstanding software special. The best thing about this free of cost program is that it is an open source solution to be available to everyone. As the program is simple and easy to install one need not to be very much advance and techno-friendly to run it. There is no lack of good features in the program for which it is preferred by most of the web developers.

Here is the list of five awesome broadcasting and advertisement extensions –

Broadcast

It is a social synchronization tool to work awesome for CB and social websites. Jomwall is also a good option for CB website. Well, Broadcast can support you for pushing activities and updates for maintenance of a variety of social networks. As nobody can stay away from certain social networking sites such as twitter, facebook and LinkedIn etc, Broadcast helps one to push the updates of websites directly to social networks. Various plug-ins in Joomla are there to support Broadcast.

Social ads

Being a really strong and effective advertising solution, this program helps the user a lot for online advertising. It introduces great innovation in the system of internet based promotion in the Joomla world. Set up of social ads is as simple as anyone can install the program within a few minutes. Superb ad designing feature, instant checkout and flexible targeting options are the special features about this advertising extension. Certain special facilities with the program are ad performance dashboards; intuitive ad designer and capacity of offering improved ROI together make this system outstanding.

J Give

J Give is an extremely popular ‘crowd funding’ extension that support the user to create fund catchy projects, acceptance of donations and upgrading projects as per requirements. In this way, users can easily raise fund for school events, charity, causes, personal projects, business deals, health services etc. This type of extension simplifies the deal of online promotion. Boosting traffic of the website by earning favor of customers becomes easier with this program.

Jticketing

It will be really awesome if you will use Jticketing extension for Joomla to offer the facility of purchasing tickets to users on your website. As the program has been designed with efficiency of scaling and assisting numerous event systems, users love to prefer it for selling tickets online.

JBolo

This exciting add on for Joomla features for live chat in social networking. Whether you talk about the help desk system or social networking site, the Jbolo extension works always to offer immense value of the work. Groups chat and pretty templates in this program works perfectly to meet the demand of customers?

I tried all these extensions in Joomla and they have been proven unbelievably awesome. I am sure that all of you will also find them interesting and beneficial.

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Let Your Online Business Reach New Heights with New Features of Magento

Posted on August 4, 2014 by admin

There is a constant competition and considerable amount of rivalry between online stores to be on the top in the e-commercial center. Magento is one such great platform of magnitude and perspicacity put together to generate something beyond imaginations. It is an open source e-commerce development platform built to cater to the needs of building web applications, websites and other tools at enterprise level. The extensive range of Magento tools and its wide-conceptual thinking to provide multidimensional functions for e-commerce development has increased its importance in establishing the powerful solutions for e-commerce platforms.

However, the success of any online store relies completely on the fact to attract new clients and retain the present ones. The number of online-buyers has increased tremendously within last couple of years and the expansion in the number of new buyers is ongoing. The revenue generated by the online retail and wholesale stores has raised the bars of world economy. Such instances also have raised competition level and it cannot be dealt in a casual manner. The businesses both flourished and new are witnessing new challenges every day.

The secure and attractive options that are a feature of Magento have managed to attract new businesses to establish new e-commerce websites and benefit from online features. To be at par from other open source platforms, Magento has updated itself with some new features such as:

• New modes to authorize .Net payment component– Magento stores are updated with three new features that are related with the compliance of Authorization of .Net payments. The three nee features are:
o Reversal of Authorization
o Balance response
o Limited authorization

With these new features, now clients can use numerous prepaid cards, blessing cards or charge cards for online payment.

• New payment gateway – Magento has also introduced another payment gateway with the help of Authorize.Net and PayPal. With the help the new payment gateway; admin have the feasibility to add and customize new payment modes. These payment modes include gift cards, debit cards, pre-paid cards and credit cards. Admin now can select the payment method depending on the regulations of their country.

• Easy product configuration – The feature assists in providing better customer experiences. It enables the ability to implement easy changes in custom product selection and configurations with improved shopping cart facilities.

• Improved order status tracking –With Magento Enterprise, it is easy to track and mange orders. Now you can assign order status with the states of the order in an easy manner. Admins are able to manage the orders statuses more effectively and efficiently.

• jQuery JavaScript – Magento now uses jQuery JavaScript library that major content management systems are utilizing nowadays. Individuals who keep a deliberate distance from backend advancing makes use of this default library to be more effective in their workings.

• Gift features – The gift option provided by the Magento has enabled vendors to provide their clients with the facility of product wrapping facility. The price range for different types of packing can be defined through ‘Gift Option’ available in Magento platform.

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WordPress Version 3.9.1: What You Get

Posted on July 28, 2014 by admin

After the smooth sail that WordPress v.3.9 offers a maintenance release version- the WordPress 3.9.1 is here. This new kid on-the-block has confronted and fixed some of the bugs- about 34 of them that were troubling users of the popular WordPress 3.9. While you’ll find most latest and major updates in the v.3.9 there have certainly been some issues associated with it, which now have suitably resolved in the v.3.9.1. So go ahead and revel in the convenience and power of WordPress v.3.9.1!

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WordPress 3.9: Scoring On Features

Remember that WordPress v. 3.9.1 is just a maintenance release specifically for v.3.9. The WordPress 3.9 has already registered over 9- million downloads and its roaring success to gain a strong acceptance is attributed to a sturdy set of features topped on by a bagful of awesome surprises. So you now have the ability to upload any and as many images as you want by drag-dropping them from the desktop to the WordPress Editor. Editing images becomes easier and scaling images can now be directly achieved. The widgets have been further customized and users can preview themes for performing customization as they want.

WordPress 3.9.1: What’s In the Kitty?

While the background updates for the next in line- the version 3.9.1 begun as soon as WordPress 3.9 aka ‘’Smith” was launched in May 2014, it’s been some time coming for the entire maintenance version of the expected facelift to burrow out. So what do you have in the WordPress 3.9.1? For starters a large number of fixes, covering bugs in encountered while working on multisite network and improvements to the all-new feature of audio-video playlists. You can also enjoy a better level of performance in every aspect. The previous version can be updated via the options available on the WordPress Dashboard.

Issues Resolved?

If you’re one of the numerous users of WordPress v.3.9 and have faced any of the frequently encountered issues in it, WordPress v.3.9.1 comes as a relief. It takes care of some very important hiccups. Some of them are:

  • Disappearance or breaking down of visual editor
  • Breaking down of visual editor on using of Zedity v3.1.0
  • Visual editor becomes disabled preventing text entry during use of SoundCloud Is Gold v.2.2.1
  • Visual editor getting disabled on use of MailPoet Newsletters v.2.6.3 owing to the outdated and obsolete TinyMCE plugin.
  • Issues in link insertion in Ultimate NoFollow v.1.4.1, admin tweaks in v.2.3.8 and Qtranslate v.2.5.39.

Excellent Media Editor

While WordPress 3.9.1 is just right if you want to create portfolios or work on a huge volume of images on the cloud one notable improvement has been in the forte of media editing. The current updates available on both, the v.3.9 and v.3.9.1 for image editing, managing audio playlists and gallery are just a few to name. Overall the experience is far more effective and enriched. A great add-on is the added ability to drag images right to the ‘Post Editor’. Resizing of images is now also possible from within the WordPress Visual Editor. This really makes the entire process for composition much simpler!

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