By: S. Reeves
There is a lot that a Drupal web designer can do for you and your website. A Drupal designer gives you all the additional expertise and access to the best the popular content management system has to offer.
The Cost Of Free Programming
The Drupal CMS may be free, but if you do not have the time or skill to devote to it, you may cost yourself more in the long run. Even those who do know how to implement installations to run a Drupal site often defer to the expertise of a true Drupal expert.There is more that a Drupal designer can offer that can't be achieved with a simple cut and paste.
What many people fail to consider when building a Drupal site without securing the services of professionals are the finer points of web design.They look to function, without always attending to the finer nuances of form and aesthetics, or to navigability and search engine optimization, all integral parts of a complete website design. In the end, business and/or function is often lost because the visitors that do get to the Drupal site (if they do...) have a hard time using the site in the way it was intended. Frustration quickly leads to loss of visitors, participation, and conversions.
Do More With A Drupal Web Designer
When you work with a professional Drupal designer on Drupal site development, you build in a system of reliability and guarantee—guarantee that you have done what it takes to build the site right from the bottom up, and the guarantee of reliability that only comes with professional support. By working with an expert Drupal web designer, you attend to more difficult aspects of website design like:
•Graphic design; while you may technically have the knowledge to change Drupal site designs, you may lack the skills and 'eye' of a professional designer. The graphic design and aesthetics of a site are very important to create a fresh, appealing, yet still functional and user-friendly website. Work with a designer who is also an expert Drupal web designer and you will have the best of both worlds.
•Ecommerce and security; your chosen Drupal expert will offer additional knowledge and expertise that will ensure the usability of your site for ecommerce, and ensure that security protocols are in place to make Drupal ecommerce safe for you and your clientele.
•Drupal web hosting services; because Drupal and it modules require more space; an effective design requires that your Drupal web hosting needs have been attended to.Many Drupal designers offer this as an additional service. When you manage Drupal web hosting services through your designer, you can be sure they will secure the space and reliability that you need to keep your website always on.
•Drupal customization; the flexibility of Drupal relies on customizing your website with the many available modules and on customizing the code for your own personal benefit. While many people can manage building a basic Drupal site, customizing a site for maximum performance is something beyond the novice site builder. For a customized website, you'll need the help of someone with advanced programming knowledge.
You can build a basic Drupal site with limited function without programming experience in many cases. But when the functionality, personality, and reliability of your website matters, it is well worth your investment to do it right and secure the services of a valuable Drupal designer.
Friday, May 29, 2009
What A Drupal Designer Can Do For You
What Makes A Hosting Service Friendly For A Web Developer?
By: Jim Hawkins
Developer friendly hosting
Why is developer-friendly hosting important? Given the technical nature of the web hosting and managed server industry, the end client or end user of a hosting service from the outset may often not know what web hosting is or even why they need it. This inevitably leaves what is the first point of contact - the web developer - in the role of organising, recommending, managing or even provider of website hosting.
In the web hosting hot seat, the web developer, whose core business is actually building and developing applications, ultimately spends a fair amount of time working with web hosting companies. With such a central role, making life easier for the web developer would seem only reasonable. So what makes a hosting service friendly for a web developer?
Up to date application support: A web hosting company doesn't really concern itself with the latest application developments, since they need to be able to adapt to all applications, old and new.
The newest releases, frameworks and technologies are critical for a web developer. When you use them you can accomplish more with less and satisfy your clients' needs. You can also stay one step ahead of the competition and design innovative applications. They are also a lot of fun!
Support early on for emerging technology is key. To name but a few that might have existed otherwise, consider Tomcat, Pylons, Zope, Drupal and Ruby on Rails.
Accessible support: Being in control of the production environment for most of the work produced by web developers and being accessible for technical support and resolution of issues is critically important.
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Accessible means: * Phone support - some things are much faster and easier to resolve over the phone than via email. * No phone queues - sitting on hold for 20 minutes each time you need support is a sure way to kill productivity, not to mention causing hair loss. * Email tracking systems - you can't always expect to deal with the same person at your hosting provider but a ticketing system can ensure your request doesn't get lost and more importantly that all requests are dealt with, having knowledge of your support history. * Escalation - if you've got a complex problem there's nothing worse than trying to resolve it with someone that understands less about the problem than you do. Getting to the right person quickly is the key.
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It's the technical competence of your team keeping services online that is ultimately responsible for making your application sing and making your life easy every time you pick up the phone or reach out via email. It's an easy issue to flag, but what defines technical competence in a web hosting team? * Not using CPanel or Plesk is often a good start. * An underlying personal interest in technology and more specifically a passion for Linux and open source technologies. * A desire to implement the best technical solution to the problems presented. * Obsessive-compulsive attention to detail. * Sound testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and analysis skills. Having the desire to drill down to the root cause of problem rather than dealing with the symptoms. * Tertiary qualifications in computer science or equivalent. * An environment which fosters ongoing development of skills, sharing of knowledge and constant improvement of process.
Rapport: Ultimately in any business relationship, when you find that supplier or client that you enjoy working with, you just know it. But what makes it so? perhaps it's rapport - "a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well" - or in simple terms, it's dealing with people that are on your wavelength.
In order to have a connection in that web host - web developer link this is a blend of technological competency, easy to get support and a fundamental awareness and functioning with you to see that your work hums along.
If this kind of developer-friendly hosting sounds like it suits your needs, then you should read our other web hosting articles and then contact us so that we can help you decide.
Choosing A Modern Content Management System (CMS)
By: Roberto Bell
People review and evaluate Content Management Systems (CMS) for a variety of reasons. Perhaps you are starting a new web project for yourself or a client. Maybe you are taking over responsibility for a site and want to improve and enhance it. Or maybe you run a consulting firm and are hoping to standardize on one development platform after having tried or recommended several different ones. In any case, a good CMS can be so vital to the ease and success of a project that it's an important decision, and you need to make a good one.
Of the literally thousands available, there probably is no single CMS that will fit everyone's needs. Various systems offer both drawbacks and benefits, naturally, depending on the precise needs. Obviously, you need to choose the CMS that has the proper set of characteristics to meet your online publishing needs. However, you need to do this in such a way that you also advance your business strategy. The right CMS will support you in these ways, while the wrong one can bog you down and create more problems than you originally had.
What do you expect?
You must carefully and precisely define your needs (and/or your customers') or you can waste time and money. The fact is, there are probably well over a thousand CMS available, from excellent to useless, but they do fall into several general types. The selection process begins with an understanding of what's what and who's who in this game.
You may hear the term "homegrown" applied to products that are developed and supported by individual development firms for their own projects. The big advantage, of course, is the ability to work with the company to customize the system to your specific requirements and change it whenever you so desire. However, you will be totally dependent on that single, often quite small vendor for essential bug fixes, updates and enhancements.
The commercial offerings of CMS offer a range of features, options, customizability and, of course, pricing. A major plus of using a commercial CMS is that you will get immediate delivery of a (usually) proven and (usually) standardized solution. Without a hands-on test or on-site experience with a particular CMS, it is extremely hard to evaluate quality, dependability and usefulness.
"Top dollar" versus "open source"
There are, of course, a few "high-end" vendors with "top dollar" packages that have solid reputations. They have proven their value by offering robust, ready-to-use, "enterprise-grade" CMS solutions. The downside is that they have also proven how much they can charge for the quality that they offer. Of course, if the pros and cons weigh out a certain way for you, this may be the route you will take.
There is an entire range of CMS software called "open source," where the core code is freely available. Some creative vendors have taken the open source code and packaged it into customized packages available at low and no cost. The primary advantages are tied to cost and usability, in that you will rarely be paying any license fees, and you will always be able to customize the system to your needs. There may be occasional disadvantages with some products developed this way, for instance, the lack of commercial-grade dependability, "iffy" security and the absence of support.
Narrowing the field
You will likely end up with a "short list" of CMS candidates after you have defined your needs, listed your (reasonable) expectations and investigated some of the more popular offerings. Perhaps you have even installed a demo, taken a web "tour" or used a full version of the software at the vendor's location (or another company). Whatever the source of the CMS, you should expand the short list by noting the following next to each candidate package:
TCO - Yes, the old "total cost of ownership" calculation rears its head. Whether it's project-based, or your decision is about what your own firm should be using, you need to consider the time and effort involved in custom development, as well as service, support and possibly even hosting. Don't forget one-time costs such as deployment as well as ongoing ones like training and updates.
Licensing issues - Will you be allowed to customize a commercial CMS to fulfill your customer's or your company's requirements? You also need to know if there are limits on the number of concurrent users or sites tied to a specific installation. Don't forget to find out if there are "subscription" costs or other fees.
Technical considerations - If you plan to host your own application, is the infrastructure "install ready" and do you have the expertise to be the system administrator? You might want to consider a CMS that leverages certain components, such as your operating system and web server, that you already use and that you are familiar and comfortable with.
Decision time
The popular online software guide ITerating suggests the following method of weighting criteria to help you determine overall product:
Functionality - 35%
Usability - 15%
Security - 10%
Performance - Scalability - 10%
Architecture - Quality - 10%
Support - Documentation - 10%
Adoption - Community - 10%
This list, of course, is just an example and can be modified however you want, assuming you have the technical know-how. You also need to factor in your own selection criteria, particularly as regards your in-house expertise for installing and maintaining a CMS. By specifically defining your criteria, establishing a relative importance for each individual criterion and creating a customized structure for choosing the right CMS for your particular situation, you will more than likely end up with the right one. Don't be in a hurry, and don't forget to ask questions if you are unclear about anything.
Joomla Web Design - Top 6 Reasons Why Web Design Companies and designers Use Joomla
By: Kunal Singh
Joomla has changed the way web design companies develop websites. Joomla is an open source content management system popular among web design companies and designers. Joomla is used by small businesses as well as large global conglomerates. Recently prestigious organisations such as UN have also chosen Joomla to power their website. Many businesses are also redesigning their static websites into powerful Joomla based websites. Joomla offers many advantages over regular websites.
Joomla is one of the leading content management systems in the world. It is an open source web design platform that can meet the needs of any website small or large. Joomla has been awarded the best open source content management system consecutively in the last few years.
Web designers all over the world have benefited by designing websites for customers using Joomla. Joomla’s popularity has grown exponentially especially in the last couple of years. Today it is one of the most sought after content management systems by website design companies.
1. Scalability
Joomla is highly flexible and scalable. We b design companies have used Joomla successfully to design websites for start-up businesses as well as for established b businesses. The scalability of Joomla makes it equally beneficial for developing small websites or large complex websites. It is open source and can be extended to meet bespoke needs of businesses. Web design companies and web developers are able to easily add new features that may not be available to start with.
#2 Joomla is affordable
Joomla is available on a free open source licence. You do not have to buy the software or purchase any licence or serial number for its use. It has appealed to Web design companies as they are able to download it for free form Joomla’s website and explore possibility of extending it to suit individual requirements. As ut is free and open source, this allows web design companies to develop powerful websites for smaller businesses as well, form whom high costs can be a deterrent.
#3 Joomla is Easy to use and maintain
Joomla websites are easy to administer and use. For the end user, it does not require formal training or technical qualifications to use. Joomla is built with PHP/MySql which is a widely used technology for developing dynamic websites. .Web design companies are familiar with working with PHP and MySql and are able to develop add on features with ease. Most web hosting providers can support Joomla websites within default configurations.
#4 Vast Communities
Joomla is popular and has an established community of developers and end users. The Joomla community are brought together via many developer portals, blogs and resource websites on the internet. The many independent Joomla communities are constantly involved with research and development and new features are released frequently. New features are available as add-on Joomla modules and components and can be installed easily on existing Joomla websites. Web design companies are thus able to offer enhancements to their customer’s websites either for free or at lower costs than what it would if the feature was developed form scratch.
#5 Joomla is Powerful
Joomla is powerful and has an extensive range of built-in features. Joomla’s software architecture and design is robust and it has been developed by a highly experienced team. A wide range of common features are built-in by default and automatically available on all Joomla websites. Web design companies who use Joomla make significant savings on time required to develop customer websites and as a result have more time to concentrate on other critical issues.
6# Joomla websites ate easy to design
Joomla websites are relatively easy to design and update. Managing change or updates are simplified with Joomla. Joomla websites use a template based system for its lay-out and look and feel. A web design company can manage design changes to the website with ease as there is a single point for making all changes. The remplate system provides this ability as any change made to the site template takes place on all pages of the website. Unlike a static website where any changes would ned to be applied independently to all pages of the website; in Joomla only the website template needs changing.
Internet and Web Design Companies
By: Pallavi
Wensil I Technologies is reputed Web Design Company in India. For us web design company does not only mean providing you best designs, we also mean that with the best web designs you get unique and creativity designs which Wensil promises you that we give. Client satisfaction is our motive, if you are happy with our work then we say ourselves we have got the success. There are so many web design companies around the globe and they also assure that their web designs are the best. But quality matters a lot. We do not believe in quantity and we never compromise in quality. We take very less projects and not only give 99.9%, we always assure in 100%. For us .1% means a lot.
With the good quality you must be thinking... we charge very high. But no... Wensil is affordable Web Design Company. Though we never compromise in quality but it is not like that we charge so high.
Important factor of any web design company is providing best website to the client. So now let’s start with the basics... that while designing a good website these factors should be considered. You are an affluent businessman and you know all the tactics of business how to run.... But still somewhere you are missing important thing... which is marketing. These days if promotion of a product is good then it runs superbly and internet is the best source of marketing these days. Like everything in business is important, getting a website is important too. Getting an effective website needs even more planning than running a business.
Basic things which you should know:
World Wide Web
What is internet and what is the use of it??? Basically a network of websites from all over the world you can access via your computer for which you need an internet connection and a browser. Internet connections are available from ISPs, and most of the popular browsers are free downloads from the internet. Just like writing/typing an address on a postal envelope, you type the website address in the browser beginning with http://www. and ending with either .com, .net, .org, .biz, .nz, .uk, etc. So if you want to access the Wensil website, you would type http://www.wensil.com in the browser. You get all the information about Wensil and its services on your browser. Just click on the available links and you are on your way.
Your Website
Your website will be a bunch of pages all linked together via hyperlinks. You can ofcourse have a one-page website or as many pages as you like - depending on the amount of information you want to share with your visitors. Hyperlinks are text or images pointing to another page, just like the heading of this article points to my website.
Your Audience
As the web has grown, so have the types of people who access it and how they access it. As we say, it is impossible to please everybody. It is very difficult to design a website which will be accessible to all. Carefully choose your content and design, keeping in mind who your target audience is and what type of equipment they use. Equipment here means the computer and other hardware and also includes the software used for connecting to the internet and browsing it.
Web Design Companies helps you in creating website for your company. According to your need, they design websites for your company. These days’ websites are really important for any kind of business whether it is small or large. With the passage of time, people have change now using technology is so common that people can get any kind of information by sitting at home and main credit goes to websites and web design companies.
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