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Why would you create a website?

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December 23, 2015

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Not too long ago, a website was a nice to have list on a business card. Today a website is all addressing system of qualification.

It didn’t take long for the world to say, where is your website?

Nor did they take time to confirm back with you on their expectations and start judging you on the basis of how well your website is made.

Some of the quality websites that remain updated takes hours to make and are made with intense focus on the communication!

Whilst, some are made for a simple reason that there should be a website that talks about you, your services, products, customers and what not.

Then again, there are the transaction supportive business platforms that are mistaken for website, though are hosted and managed in much the same way.

These could your business applications; these could your website that just runs a shopping platform, a community or whatever it can be.

Ever wondered how many types and classifications of business application exist?

Well to be honest, there are no defined systems of classifying a website.

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Nine Questions to Ask Before You Choose WordPress for SME

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December 1, 2015

WordPress 4.0 and Beyond

While WordPress is easy to use and attractive to sole proprietors and small businesses, one should not ignore the value of this framework for small to medium sized businesses (SMEs). A well-conceived and well-designed WordPress site offers an SME the ability to maintain content and update the site using its own staff and resources, thereby saving expense and time. Customers will enjoy fresh content and the business can satisfy its changing requirements and needs.

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The Price is Right: Liferay CMS

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October 14, 2015

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Liferay got created when gods got upset with the general lack of a quality enterprise class CMS. Liferay is a world class Enterprise Content Management framework that allows you to build apps, portlets among many useful, business purpose solutions.

To start with, Liferay is a Portal, a web platform, a CMS, a social collaboration, enterprise 2.0 supportive environment that many of the top companies in the world use.

This can be made in to a product, a solution, a intranet, a knowledge management portal among many, many useful applications for business.

The business potency of Liferay is enormous and hence is among the most desired enterprise class solutions in the world today.

As part of our Price is right study in CMS, we cannot exclude top tier solutions such as Liferay and still find the study to be complete.

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Case Study: eDemocracy Consultation, Deliberative and Collaboration Tools

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September 9, 2015

This Elegant MicroWeb client is a leading internet community and eDemocracy Solution provider in the U.K. The client asked Elegant MicroWeb to design a toolset that would support the promotion of dialogue and interaction, collecting feedback, analyzing public views and helping to reach consensus. The toolset included a Consultation Management Tool, a Deliberative Consultation Tool and a Dialogue and Consensus Building Tool.

The Elegant MicroWeb team worked closely with the client team to understand requirements and put in a place a set of tools that would be cost effective and timely. In order to meet the detailed requirements, the solutions had to satisfy accessibility standards and eGovernment technical frameworks and compliance regulations. The project continuum included conceptualization and strategy, architecture and technical framework design, design, development, implementation, product maintenance and support and product upgrades and enhancements.

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Case Study: UK eDemocracy Co. Event Mgt and Networking Solution

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September 3, 2015

A UK-based internet community and eDemocracy solutions provider asked Elegant MicroWeb to design and develop an event management and networking system to allow users to get information on events, register for events and invite others to events. The primary objective for the software solution was to facilitate event management with easy to use systems to manage exhibitors, event calendars and participants, and promote pre-event and post-event dialogue and collaboration.

The Elegant MicroWeb team worked closely with the client from concept through design, development and implementation to design a framework and solution with robust features and functionality. Elegant MicroWeb provided concept and strategy services, architectural and technical framework design, development, and implementation and product maintenance and support, as well as upgrades and enhancements. Features include new event creation, user management, CSV import, extensive reporting, configurable email templates, administration and password generation, and user communication and registration.

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Volusion® or Bigcommerce? So Many eCommerce Considerations!

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June 18, 2015

Ecommerce

Small to medium size businesses are flocking to eCommerce frameworks to leverage the built-in possibilities of customer interaction, product and service presentation and sales and other features. Many of these businesses look at Volusion® and Bigcommerce as possible solutions but, it is sometimes difficult to decide between the two. As with all other business considerations, the enterprise is wise to consider its unique needs. It doesn’t matter whether your competitor down the street runs the same type of business. There will always be differences between your business processes, software integration needs and business user skills, as well as the product and service mix and the features you want to offer your online customers.

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Responsive Web Design or Adaptive? Cut Through the Confusion and Ensure Success

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June 4, 2015

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There are many articles and opinions about Responsive Web Design(RWD) and Adaptive Web Design (AWD), but one thing is for sure. The business benefits of RWD and AWD are numerous. While the upfront planning process for RWD and AWD may be a bit longer, the payoff in terms of customer and user satisfaction and increased bottom line is undeniable. Here are just a few of the benefits of redesigning or designing a site using responsive or adaptive web design.

  • Reach your audience easily through tablet and mobile
  • Improve conversion and sales ratio
  • Consolidate analytics
  • Improve search engine visibility
  • Save cost and time in mobile development
  • Simplify website maintenance

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Why to opt for Volusion shopping cart solution

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May 27, 2015

Volusion shopping cart

Volusion eCommerce solution has become a name to reckon with in the realm of high-octane, intuitive and versatile shopping sites that engage visitors and turn them into loyal consumers. The catalyst that has triggered the wide scale popularity of Volusion platform is the comprehensive framework that flexibly allows developers to avail a slew of features to facilitate building and maintaining a state of the art, elegant and functional eCommerce site. Volusion integration capability is the driving force behind optimizing strategically important sites.

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WordPress 4.0 and Beyond. A Framework and Market Worth Exploring

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April 28, 2015

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There are many appealing features in the WordPress framework and the WordPress developers recently released a 4.0 version that has enhanced some features and added others.

A 4.0.1 WordPress release addressed critical security issues and closes the gap through which anonymous users could compromise a site. We anxiously await the next generation of WordPress tools and the announcement of strategic market expansion.

There are many appealing features in the Content Management System (CMS) WordPress framework and the WordPress developers recently released a 4.0 version that has enhanced some features and added others.

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