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28December 2009

Are you looking for a website that not only shows customers what your company sells but also you need to sell them while they are there? So online shopping cart stores are best solution for this matter. To have online shopping store you can buy a shopping cart and signup for a hosting account. But that way always won’t give the total functionality or fit to your requirements. So that is why open source shopping cart is more important where you can customize the code according to the requirements.

osCommerce:

osc

Magento:

Magneto

Magneto is a professional and latest open source shopping store offering flexibility and control.

With “Magneto” shopping cart..
• Offers professional features, flexibility, content and functionality of the online store.
• Can establish an e-business with convenient product and catalog browser options.
• Can establish extended customer management, advanced analytics, reporting and marketing promotions tools.
• Administrator interface is intuitive.
• Completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network.
• Clean urls which are great for SEO.
• Allows smooth Integration with 3rd party apps.

ZenCart:

Zencart

PrestaShop:

prestashop

Agoracart:

agrocart

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18December 2009

Since a CMS stores the content of site to database, keep separately the design of site from content and modularized CMS s are highly scalable. So if someone builds a search engine friendly web site, mostly it’s better to use a content management system rather than building sites with plain HTML pages or Dreamweaver templates. So “What will be the best CMS? ” is a common question raised from developers for their products. From CMS s’ Drupal and Joomla are most leading CMS that used for development.

These are some pros and cons on these two CMS s.

Joomla:

• Easy install & setup
• Content editing is simple
• Easy modules addition
• Versioning is available
• Easy learning curve
• Only one site per installation
• More intuitive administration user interface
• Some not much important modules like calendars, polls, etc.
• Limited roles and permission allowances
• Modules cost you money.

 Drupal:

• One installation for several sites.
• Learning curve is still a lot more challenging.
• Content editing is simple
• Versioning is available
• Administration area is clunky
• Powerful templating system
• More user groups & user permissions
• Human readable URLs
• Flexible in its configuration
• Adding a visual theme get more time.

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17December 2009

Search engine optimization (SEO) can says as art of attracting visitors to your site. For that your site should be with higher ranking position in search engine results. There can be lots of factors that increase site’s position in search results. So in relevant to have higher ranking position in search engine results, the way the search engine perform their task is important. Most of the search engine’s role goes through following steps mainly.

Crawling the Web- crawl the site’s pages with links from one page to the next and reading the   content of each page.

Indexing Documents-Analyze each page for information such as the page’s topic and keywords and   gives index your pages considering the fact which involves storing information about each page in the search engine’s index.
Processing Queries-When a searching request for information gives to the search the engine retrieves from its index all the documents that match the query.

Ranking Results-Once the search engine processed the query, it sorts the results pages in an order from most relevant to least.

What are the Best SEO tactics can use ………

• Maintain the Continuity relevant to the theme of site
• Maintain inbound links from other sites, design and usability,
reputation (such as referrals from other sites, RSS subscribers,
editorial links from trusted sources or word or mouth) is important.
• Having headlines that compel users to click and read more
• Inter-linking relevant content using your main keywords you want
the target page to rank
• Use keyword research tools and analytics data to craft your
content.

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16December 2009

PRADO is an event-driven component-based PHP framework to develop web applications and services in PHP 5 it stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented.

Anyone can think why it’s better to use a framework in web development applications. For complete product designing and manufacturing process, a framework creates an extensible structure to highlight a set of concepts, methods, technologies, and cultural changes. So framework provide exact way to guide users through proper order of steps, applications, and data conversions via common interface to complete the process.
When Choosing a Web Application Framework, it is better to consider about does the framework cost, the learning curve for the framework, have strong user community to back it. Zend, Prado, CakePHP, Symphony are few examples for PHP frameworks for web application.

The Prado proceed Web application development in terms of components, events and properties instead of procedures, URLs and query parameters. Its component is a collection of a specification file (in xml) and HTML template and a PHP class. Prado focuses more on establishing a standard of reusing codes and event-driven programming. Following are the few benefits of using Prado for developers.

• Reusability
• Event-driven programming
• ease of use
• Team integration.
• Robustness
• Powerful Web controls
• Strong database support
• Seamless AJAX support
• Applications with multiple languages and locales.
• XHTML compliance
• Accommodation of existing work
• Powerful error/exception handling and message logging
• generic caching and selective output caching
• customizable and localizable error handling

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15December 2009

Zend Framework (ZF) is an open  source, object oriented web application framework  for developing web applications and services with PHP 5 and licensed under the  New BSD License. 

What is the Zend Framework, exactly?

 The Zend Framework:

• Is based on PHP
• Is object-oriented
• Has open source contributors
• Uses the MVC paradigm
• Has contributors who take responsibility for the fact that their code is not the intellectual property of someone else

The component structure of Zend Framework is somewhat unique; each component is designed with few dependencies on other components. Its Model View Controller (MVC) implementation supports layouts and PHP-based templates by default. Zend Framework has support for multiple database systems including MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL. This loosely coupled architecture allows developers to use components individually and calls as a “use-at-will” design.

Zend may be the choice for you. if you need a code base to build from on an ongoing basis ..

Advantages of using Zend Framework:
• Completely Object Oriented
• Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies
• Extremely extensible by providing fluent interfaces and abstract classes
• Flexible caching sub-system with support for many types of backends, such as memory  or a file system.
• Rich library for frequent usage in applications
• Future expansion scopes

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14December 2009

Joomla is an open source content management system which allows web designers to build websites by combining modules with minimum  knowledge of programming .The word joomla gives the meaning “all together” or “as a whole” which is phonetic spelling for the Swahili word “Jumla”.

In definition, CMS is a collection of procedures which can be manual or computer-based, used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, phone numbers, scientific data, or just about anything. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage.

The module collection in joomla used to customize websites. There is a wide variety of modules such as including RSS feeds, polls, and language internationalization, which make it easy for Joomla users and used to customize websites even with minimal web design experience. Joomla is released under the GNU General Public License.

Joomla..! Features: 

News,products or services sections fully editable and manageable
Media (images, documents) upload and management
Simple polls, Dynamic Forum/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
Fully customizable layouts including left, center and right menu
boxes
Search engine friendly (SEF) URL’s
Database driven site engines
News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
Pages Caching, Printable Page Versions, Newsflashes, Blog’s,
calendars,Language Internationalization also are some features in
joomla.

Compared to Drupal CMS ..

  If you are not with techniques its good to start
  Cannot integrate other scripts etc. to your site
  Generally you cannot create high-end sites,without investing huge
  amount
  Server resources utilization is more compared to drupal
  Only one site per installation
  No Single Log-in to several sites

Download Joomla: www.joomla.org/download.html

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