Archive for March, 2010

ASP Net Developers Can Do Miracles For Your Software Company

Monday, March 15th, 2010

With the passage of time, demand and expectation of business has changed drastically. Before, people put emphasis on desktop applications but now they run after web application development!

With laps of time, Microsoft has changed its gesture and developed an especial language for web development that is ASP. As offshore software development company, hiring remotely, an ASP developer is greatly beneficial to your business.

Benefits of ASP development

Benefits of ASP development are immense and some are illustrated here:

1. With ASP, you need less code as compared to other languages to build up enterprise applications.

2. ASP has advantage of early binding, just-in-time compilation, native optimization, and caching services right out of the box. Thus, it can give better performance.

3. ASP framework is a rich toolbox. WYSIWYG editing, drag-and-drop server controls, and automatic deployment are just a few of the features this powerful tool provides.

4. As a simple platform, it can perform simple tasks such as form submission and client authentication to deployment and site configuration.

5. ASP pages are easy to write and maintain because source code and HTML are together. It is powerful and flexible to the web pages because source code has executed on server.

6. ASP application is constantly available to handle request because if one process is dead a new one created to replace it since all the processes are closely monitored and managed by ASP runtime.

7. ASP is purely a server side technology so codes are executed on server before it reaches to browser.

8. It allows you to choose language that best applies to your application that means it is language independent.

9. With ASP, there is no need to register components, as the configuration information is built-in. thus; it is easy to make deployment.

10. Web server is smart and continuously monitors the pages, components, and applications running on it. If there is any memory leak, infinite loops, other illegal activities, it immediately destroys those activities and restarts itself.

11. Using data binding and page formatting features, ASP easily works with ADO., an application which runs faster and counters large volumes of users without any performance problems

Once you realize these benefits of ASP you may think of your next project in ASP and definitely you will try to hire a good ASP.net Developer who will do miracle by developing robust application on behalf of your company.

Web Designers Are Made In Heaven

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients.

The intent of web design is to create a web site—a collection of electronic files that reside on a web server and present content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested. Such elements as text, bit-mapped images, and forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins are also embedded into web page by using HTML/XHTML tags.

Once you understand the term web design you might be able to differentiate between website graphic designer and web designer. Another thing is clear that web designers have acquired skills which they are not gifted so naturally; some have acquired good and some have less skills. Now, as a project owner, it is your job, to decide who is good for you.

Let us see qualities of good web designer. Here we will see interpersonal skills of web designer, not technical aspects as technical aspects depend on the nature and demand of your project.

Good Planner

Good web designer need to plan ahead the goals of website they are going to build it. Web designer can put focus on possible people who might be interested in website.

Good Organizer

Web designing needs to deal with lots of stuff at a time. Designer should organize code files, images, texts, videos, audios, and a lot more. If designer don’t put all in well-labeled folders and organize it in a good manner then some elements might be misplaced.

Good evaluator

Your web application is one kind of sales representative for you; therefore it needs constant faultfinding eyes so that final shape would be a robust design. Your web designer need such eyes so your site can catch maximum traffic and you get maximum customers for your business.

Good Partner

Your web designer should have proper understanding of your business just like a partner so he/she can formulate effective design strategy that gives your business a maximum benefit.

Good Portfolio

Your website designer should have good a portfolio means he/she should have past experience in related fields or technology so he/she can perform challenging tasks with a confidence. For instance your project need Ajax based application and designer’s portfolio don’t  see any usage of Ajax at all then there are less chances to implement it correctly.

Good Relationship

Once your web design project is finished and after some time you may require updates or your business improves due to website and now you want to expand it. In such scenario, you again need the services of your previous web designer because he/she is the person who is most accustomed with your project. In short, your web designer should be relation oriented and believe in long-term relationship.

Good Communicator

Finally, your website designer should be good communicator since communication is a vital aspect from the beginning to end of the project. Project designer should extract all needed information from the clients, convert it into coding, and deliver results as per clients’ desires.

All of above the qualities of good designer or rather a good professional, that’s why I believe that good web designers are made in heaven.

Full Time PHP Programmer Or Fixed Cost? What Model is Good For You?

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

There are numerous companies in developed world which have explored Indian software developing companies for their outsourcing work. According to prevailing standards, they may have chosen one of the model for hiring PHP programmer or developer, either Full time or Fixed cost means contract based. Both have their own pros and cons. Let us see it by its various aspects and see that how is it useful for offshore companies who are seeking outsourcing work in India.

Job Duration

Fixed cost project in programming industry are of various duration it may last up to one month, 3 months, 6 months, one year or more. Fixed job are likely prone to end at any stage and that depends upon the service obtaining company. This does not happen with full time hiring model. They are more likely to move to another project if one project is finished earlier or terminated unfinished.

Job Satisfaction

PHP programmers are expected to deliver good and standard coding even within the time limit and within a budget if the cost of project is fixed. If PHP programmer does this, he or she will be rewarded with good feedback. This way fixed cost developer has to live for the satisfaction from being good at what he or she does.

In full time model PHP programmers are expected to love the company. Dedication is demanded here. Therefore, job satisfaction comes with working in team of other programmers with some common goals. With time bonds, affection and ties with each other programmer grows and company deepens. So outsourcer builds a long term relation with the outsourcing company in India as well as developers.

Income

There are chances that fixed budget projects may totally earn more than full time PHP programmers do. But there is uncertainty always lies ahead and the offshore company has to find constantly search for next assignment after 3, 6 or 12 months. Bench time or unpaid time is proving a litmus taste for fixed cost programmer as well as outsourcing company. The shock of one month sitting without project and payment shattered self-confidence of many outsourcing companies and their developers.

Benefits

Fixed projects come with over all higher amount of money than the full time hiring models. Though the difference between full time and fixed cost is that it is different in terms and conditions for fixed cost hiring because project changes and requirement changes time to time, whereas it is consistent in case of full time hiring programmer model.

Technical development

Fixed cost programming demand sharpest skill and due to these skills only programmer can earn. To get consistent earning fixed cost programmer and outsourcing company has to take many projects on hand therefore, the fixed cost programmer is left with no time to develop skills further or learn a new programming skill. In contrast to this, full time hired PHP programmers have enough facility to go for learning sessions or spare time to advance their skills. In short full time hiring will absorb a PHP programmer with rusty skill but fixed cost PHP programming never allow low skilled programmer to enter.

If you are company and seeking long term association with outsourcing companies in india, hire full time PHP programmers with them. But if you are an individual and you are not sure about your funding sources, rather assign a fixed cost project to a company in India and relax till project finishes.

Change Your Web Development Company Or Be Ready For Less Traffic to Your Site

Friday, March 5th, 2010

When we are designing a new website for our company, we are always thinking broadly and apply all what is new and what is good. But as soon as the time passes by, few of us start thinking that we have done enough on our site so why shall we change. That is true for your web development company as well. But actually that should not be the case in today's changing world. Your website should change something in look and feel as well as content couple of times in a quarter.

Suggesting a change in site and suggesting new technology upgrades to the site is a job of the web development company you have hired. Because you must be busy at business while their business is your website development and upgrades. So they must suggest something that could give you an edge over the completion. Find out here what you should expect from web Development Company of yours.

Have you implemented Div based Design?

It's proved that div based sites load faster and search engines crawl them easily compared to tables. If your site still runs tables, you might be missing few of your possible leads as it has less Search engine exposure. Ask your website developers, when will they do it for you?

Have you implemented AJAX on your site?

AJAX refers to Asynchronous JavaScript, a dynamic effect that can give a great look and feel to your site, that is also called web 2.0 standards. Such standard describes how you can keep your customer focused on landing pages; see lot of things on one page with loading effect and not taking user on different pages for various actions. Find out if your web company knows this?

Can you add your content and images on your own?

If you have a defined content management system for your site, you certainly have a good web developer with you. If your site doesn't allow on the fly changes, you have not hired a good web designing company for you. Change them now.

Do you have Product reviews, Blogs, Forums on your site?

Normally Product reviews, blogs, forums kind of features increase user participation.  All modern sites love to have such features on website. But you might not be aware of such trends, while web companies are. So they should suggest that it's time to change, let's move on.

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