Archive for December, 2010

E-Commerce Website Designers

December 30th, 2010


Websites designed for Internet marketing demand something more than informational sites. One requires shopping cart, appealing design, good product display, use of appropriate colors and best web development services. Across the world there would be various companies offering web development and designing services. But only few countries have talent for designing your online site which provides the perfect ground for buying and selling products. India is one of them. There are many web design companies in India who offer offshore web development services. For your convenience, they combine various services like social media optimization tips, java web application development services, web site development, etc., to provide the a complete user friendly design.

There plethora of quality and timely services offered them that have benefited people in various industries. Depending on the needs of your business, they design the site and see that it is at par with the current trends of the industries. A web design company in India renders mainly following services:

* E-commerce web design
* Payment gateway integrations
* Online selling solutions
* E-commerce admin panels
* E commerce shopping carts
* Virtual shopping carts and much more

There services would be very helpful in

- Building a website keeping in your business model, hence will help in improving sales.
- Visually attractive website
- Easy to navigate with the right pointers,
- Easy to load site
- And provides complete functionality in terms of applications

A good web design means great shopping experience for the customers. Not only search engines but visitors get attracted to the site and like visiting again and again. So when you get a site designed put yourself in the shoe of the customer and see what you would like to have in the website. A good web designer will do this and see that how site can be further improvised from all angles.

Note these are just few things that give you an overview of what web design companies do.

By: Mohita Bhargav

About the Author:
Web development India [http://www.developmentindia.com/] offers web development services & ecommerce website development [http://www.developmentindia.com/] and other basic e-commerce web site design and development services.



Great E-Commerce Solutions For Online Retailers

December 30th, 2010


The art of web development is becoming increasingly granular with 3rd party widgets, applications and specialist tools being developed for very specific functions. As a result, the focus is on the development of E-commerce software on ‘core platform’ functionality which harnesses a range of other technologies and tools to create rich functionality websites from that base.

E-commerce Solutions should support a wealth of website functionality including:

•Shopping Cart – with ’save and return’ functionality and rapid checkout.

•Wish list – saving and sharing baskets for future checkout.

•Transactional content management – centralised management of all products, groups, pricing and offers.

•Non-transactional content management – WYSIWYG page editor enables distributed and secure editing of site collateral.

•Stock control – real time presentation of stock levels and reservation of items at basket and checkout.

•Pricing and Offers – create simple or complex pricing and promotional offers to increase spend and conversion.

•Loyalty Management – run online loyalty programmes to increase spend and customer retention.

•Self Service Centre – enable customers to manage their own contact data, preferences, transaction history and enquiries.

•Carriage system – intelligently calculates least-cost carrier route and service provider for each transaction.

•Payments- direct and secure integration of card payments with merchant service providers.

•White-Labelling – quickly create cloned sites/domains using logic control console.

•Advanced Search – harnessing the power of SQL to present fast site search results

•Email Notifications – order confirmation, back order updates, password resets, etc can all be setup within the platform

•Best sellers and spotlight products – definable listings and index using product region functionality

•Linked products – used to present alternatives, related, addsell and upsell product options

•Multi-currency – platform supports conversion or base currency method

•Reviews – enhance content and user interaction with product review database

•PAF integration – for rapid identification of address and checkout process.

•Matrix/Variant system – for management of clothing and variation-on-a-range products

By: Kirsty Chase

About the Author:



Real Benefits of E-Commerce Software

December 29th, 2010


It is good to have the power of technology by your side and leverage its advantage to grow your business. The advent of Internet has changed the whole practice of commercial businesses and has made it more accessible at a much faster speed.

Now businesses are not limited to a certain geographic boundaries and are free to stretch their legs far across the globe. Online transactions, purchasing & selling of goods online, transferring funds, online bookings and many other such activities have made the whole world as a prospect for one or other business.

With the introduction of e-commerce, each business is trying to encash the opportunity provided. Let’s hear some benefits of e-commerce and discuss how an online shopkeeper can bring this technology into his use.
Benefits of E-commerce:

1. A significant drop in cost, related to inventory management, customer care, marketing and promotion. Good e-commerce software comes with these inbuilt features.

2. Online shopping is much more convenient than the traditional one. There is no time bound and you can shop whenever you feel like.

3. People can search for the best deals in a lot easier way than otherwise.

4. E-commerce provides the opportunity to expand globally at much less expense.

5. Setting up an online business also has an advantage of bypassing the business barriers of the real world.

6. It allows real time communication with the customers and data exchange facility with internal departments such as inventory and increases the efficiency of supply chain process.

Software for setting up an online shop:

1. Magento: The fastest growing e-commerce platform. A free to use software, which is ready to get customized according to your requirement. You will get all the features required to set up a strong online shop.

2. osCommerce: Another open source ecommerce software. osCommerce is supported and accepted by a large community of online merchants and developers. Its features are based on user experience with considerable amount of add-ons present to make it a robust e-commerce platform.

3. Volusion: An award winning e-commerce platform whose codes are free to use and customizable according to the need of the merchant.

There are many more advantages and e-commerce platforms as well. One should pick his/her choice of e-commerce platform and e-commerce service provider after a proper research and knowledge of its requirement.

By: Manish Chauhan

About the Author:
PixelCrayons is an industry leader in providing bespoke ecommerce website development solutions. Here, you can hire dedicated Magento Developer and OsCommerce Developer on hourly basis.