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Article on E-commerce Website Development

August 10th, 2010

Electronic commerce enablement widely known as E-commerce website development is one of the most common software development activities in IT industry. Most of the businesses are moving towards e-commerce model to expose their products to wider customer base.

E-commerce website can be realized through custom software development or using off-the-shelf e-commerce products. There are number of open source (freely available) and commercial e-commerce products available.
Some of the widely used e-commerce products are:

osCommerce: osCommerce is freely available open source PHP based solution under General Public License (GPL).
Some of its main features are:

* Browser based installation and upgrade procedure
* Allows easy integration with existing sites
* Support for multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default.
* Support for most of the payment gateways like PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment.
* Support for shipping integration with real-time quotes available from UPS, USPS, FedEx etc.
* Support for different taxes for different products.

VirtueMart: VirtueMart is another open source PHP based e-commerce solution that goes well with Joomla content management system.
Some of its main features are:

* Support for multiple currencies, languages and countries.
* Support for shipping management.
* Support for flexible tax models include EU Mode (Store Owner based Tax Calculation when Customer comes from an EU Country).
* Support for online-catalog by turning off price display.
* Powerful web administration.

Zen Cart: Zen Cart is another freely available e-commerce shopping cart
Some of its main features are:

* Support for multiple customers mode
* Unlimited category depth
* Support for multiple advertisements management
* Support for gift certificates
* Support for featured products and quantity discounts

Magento: Magento is another poplular e-Commerce solution available. It comes with three editions: Magento Community, Magento Professional and Enterprise with annually subscription fee. Professional and Enterprise versions provide some crucial features
Some of its main features are:

* PCI Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) Compliant
* Strong Data Encryption
* Private (Club) Sales including Events, Invitations and Site access permissions

It is always wiser to decide upon an e-commerce solution that suits your requirements as closely as possible as no off-the-shelf solution will suit all of your requirements. If the gap is too much, a custom solution can also be developed using suitable technology.
Some of the important areas that should be considered while developing e-Commerce website solutions are as follows:

* Provide Helpful Customer Review and Rating System for products: In order to help customers make decision faster, enable customer reviews along with product information so that customers can share and view opinions about the product.
* Security and reliability: It is one of the most important aspects for e-commerce solutions. Keep your site secure and reliable in order to make sure customer feels comfortable in providing sensitive information (e.g. credit card, personal information etc).
* Shopping Cart Visibility: Shopping cart should be visible to customer all the time on every page. This is to make sure that customer can view his shopping basket with single click.

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Joomla CMS Development

August 7th, 2010

Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that helps in building websites and web applications. Joomla also comes with a user friendly administrative system that allows a patron to alter the content and the layout as and when required. Joomla is coded in PHP programming, which makes it sturdy, open source and highly customizable. Managing the website based on Joomla just needs an acquaintance with a browser and any office application like Microsoft Office or Open Source Star Office. Custom Joomla Website development is very easy to install and does not entail major help. Joomla Framework provides an advantage of not making the application restricted particular closed application or organization. The Joomla administrative interface is browser based and users can add/update content, add/update news, event, products, services etc.T hey can add unlimited content and pages and also facilitates community & social networking portals. It can be used for developing different aspect based application like – E-commerce, catalogue, Estate agency, Property rental, job portal, Business Directory, Project management, Forum, Guest book, News, Comments, reviews, photo gallery, Events calendar, support, Extended user level access, Newsletter with subscribe and unsubscribe, Chat room, Google map Newsflash scrolling etc.

Using Joomla Custom CMS development services you can create anything from personal homepages and simple websites to complete web applications such as eCommerce and content managed sites. Small, medium, Corporate and non-profit organization’s portals and websites, Online applications, Government needs, Websites of Educational institutions, churches and other religious institutions, Personal homepages with CMS, Community portals, Portals of newspapers, magazines, etc. The services offered by Joomla cms are Multi Lingual Content Management System development, Creating Product catalogues Shopping Carts, payment solutions, Image/product Gallery Management, online Showroom Management etc, Third party template integration, Banner Advertising systems, Organizational and business directories, Custom extension development, Blog development and maintenance, Data Collection and reporting tools, and much more. Joomla can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.Some of the powerful plug-ins and extensions available at the Joomla community are User Management and User Register, Blog Management, Form Builder, Form Management Extension, Forums Extensions, Advertising system, Ecommerce Extensions

Mindfire Solutions is one of the pioneers in Offshore Custom Joomla Development services in India . It has also gained adequate expertise in this field. Our software development team has years of experience in developing the above mentioned applications and projects in various industry domains.

Be it the dedication to serve, be it the exceptional transparent dealings or be it the personalized client centric focus, Mindfire has always shown the passion to create a long lasting business partnership with customers. Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold certified partner, an Apple developer connection premier member and has business partnerships with big names like IBM, Adobe and others.