Web Design and Development with CMS
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Over the past few years, companies and organizations from the West, both big and small, have been exploring opportunities to outsource their web design work to India, since Indian outsourcing companies have been able to carve out a niche with superior quality products and services at competitive costs.
All companies now recognize the fact that a well-made website with a good layout and simple, smooth navigation structure can hugely enhance the company’s brand identity on the web and establish its corporate presence firmly amongst its target audience within a short span of time.
Question is, how to get a good web site up and running while keeping costs low. Or rather, how to select a web services provider who has the required expertise and knowhow to do the needful.
While selecting an efficient web designing company, especially from amidst the hordes of outsourcing companies vying to catch your attention, keep the following checklist in hand:
1. Check previous work
The company’s competency can be gauged by looking at its previous work. Always check the company’s portfolio of web sites, scan for spelling errors, broken links, unopened images, etc. Also find out whether the webpages are search engine friendly or not and how fast the sites are able to download.
Check further how the products and various services are presented on the web site, paying attention to the layout and the finesse in the production quality.
2. Cross-check with former clients
Read the online testimonials of the former clients and contact them directly to enquire about the quality of services provided by the web design company.
3. Infrastructure and the team
The company you plan to handover your work to should have the necessary infrastructure complete with latest, sophisticated software and equipments.
The web designing company should have a team of talented web designers who are proficient in animation, Flash, HTML Photoshop, Dream weaver, CSS etc. Find out about the team composition of the company, the number of members and their areas of expertise. Not only should they be skilled but also innovative enough to come up with fresh ideas.
4. Understanding your needs
It is essential that the web designers make the web site keeping in mind your particular requirements and needs. A professional web design company will not hand you a gimmick-laden Flash-enabled design just because it is hip and trendy if it does not suit your specific purpose.
For example, if the main purpose of your site is to sell products, then a smart team of web designers would ensure that the product showcase is well laid out with each product getting ample window space, complete with user-friendly shopping carts and other features.
5. Communication
Find out whether the company responds quickly to your queries or complaints. It is important that you deal with a company which communicates with the clients on a regular basis and updates them about any changes or developments made in their web site.
This is all the more crucial if you are say, a US company outsourcing web design services from a country halfway across the globe such as India and depend wholly on emails and phone calls for communication rather than face-to-face interactions.
6. Ensures search engine friendly website
What is the point of spending hours in making a design if your target audience can’t find it? A good web designer is one who not only creates impressive web site design but also makes sure that the web site is high on web usability and is search engine friendly.
7. On-time delivery
What is the use of appealing web design or layout, if the web design company doesn’t deliver work on time? A good web design company must commit to a deadline and finish the assigned task within a fixed time period while maintaining quality standards.
8. Why Outsource to India?
A growing number of companies are out sourcing web design work to India as companies here have skilled manpower at competitive billing rates and provide innovative and cost-effective web designing solutions ensuring high return on investment (ROI).
Moreover, the professionals working in the outsourcing companies here are proficient in English which gives them an edge over other outsourcing destinations. In addition India has the world renowned technology institutes and IT minds.
A top-notch website design company does more than just develop your web site. It makes a web site design which helps you establish a strong online presence, attract new customers and achieve your business objectives.
Keep all the above mentioned points in mind and then outsource your web design work to a professional and experienced company in India which can best fulfil your requirements.
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Can someone give me web design advice?I am new to web design. I created a website with the sole purpose of providing information. I used homestead.com for my template and it is a bit lack luster. My main problem is my landing page. I am having problems with people seeing my home page and then not progressing to my other pages. Would you please take a look and tell me what I can do to improve the image? Let me know if the content on the first page seems inviting or not…just give me an honest critique. Thank you so much.
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Partho Mondal is a highly experienced web developer who runs web design outsourcing firm
– Wisitech InfoSolutions in New Delhi, India. He has a sizeable client base of US and European companies which outsource web design and development
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Nice level of maturity in the last answer… thank goodness people are willing to be sarcastic it is so encouraging. I guess that is why you are on this service, since there is an apparent lack of anything else for you to do…
That said, I think this is an innovative thought, most companies get bogged down by assuming their own expertise. In this case you are willing to take a chance that others might know or being willing to contribute more.
I would suggest Druple as a starting point, it is a good open source tool and has an active community.
A friend of mine used to do a lot of that stuff (viral campaigns/web design/web analytics/general marketing meetings) and his job title was E-Marketing consultant.
In my experience, adding consultant to a job title implies you don't know what to call it or that the job will have some turnover/short-term employment associated to it. I wouldn't get too hung up on job title as long as you're getting paid what you think is a fair amount for the work you do.
IMO, it is an extremely rare individual that can be top-notch in both programming and design. That's not to say that it is impossible, but in my 20 years of professional programming, I have rarely seen it.
I believe there are a couple reasons for it. A programmer is primarily focused on logic, order, precision, consistency, etc. I believe it is that "logic" that makes a programmer a poor designer. Professional designers must think outside the box. For the most part, they can't copy other people's ideas or styles. They have to have innate creative ability and the artistic expertise to realize their vision. It is this "free flowing" creativity that also makes it difficult for a designer to be a good programmer.
Designers work in the "concrete". That is, they use Photoshop or similar tools to realize some vision. They create it and they need to "see it". Programmers work in the "abstract". Creating programming "classes" using abstract concepts, using design patterns, factories and the like, just isn't something most designers can grasp.
Is it *possible* to be both? Sure. But, IMO, the people that do both are usually "adequate" at each, rather than being an expert at one or the other.
I would highly encourage young professionals to get their feet wet in multiple disciplines. General knowledge in multiple areas will make you well rounded. It is a big benefit to have a general understanding of what the people around you do and how they accomplish their tasks. If you can "talk the talk", it will help you be a better team player. But spending the time to be able to "walk the walk" in multiple disciplines is very challenging.
If you think you enjoy web development and programming more than design, then read as much as you can about programming. Simply being "pretty good at php" is not enough. IMO, programming "languages" are actually relatively unimportant. The *concepts* are what is important. You need to understand the concepts of OOP or event-driven programming or databases or whatever. Then, as you work on projects that have different requirements and restrictions, you will ask yourself, "How do I accomplish that concept in this specific language or environment?" rather than "How do I do that in PHP?"
I'm starting to get off topic here, but in my education, I never took a class in specific language. Every class was about concepts and the languages were more of something you were expected to absorb.
You say that you could make a site in Photoshop, but could not implment it with CSS, HTML, etc. IMO, if you want to be a web developer, those kind of things should be trivial for you.
I'm sure there will be designers out there that say, "But I am really great at writing scripts in Flash!" and there will be programmers out there that say "But, I'm great at Photoshop!". I think if they took a hard look at themselves compared to a truly successful designer or experienced programmer, they would be blown away by how much they are lacking.
But, that is just my opinion, formed out of many, many years of professional programming in a multimedia-focused industry..
Pricing by the hour can be very deceptive and I find it to be almost useless. I have had 3 websites built, all done by http://www.samwilson3d.com
this is my latest : http://www.signaturecowboy.com
cost $475
You can describe your project and get a quote upfront. Why guess.
-btw other companies quoted me over $800 for this site
You can give Chitika eMiniMalls a try.
Chitika ads exhibit a lower CTR when compared with Adsense Text ads but the CPC in Chitika is much higher.
Chitika pays by Cheque in India or you can request via Paypal
Use clearcase/bitkeeper for code versioning , follow some ISO standard
you can also register at freelance websites like http://getafreelnacer.com/ , http://scriptlance.biz/ , http://rentacoder.co.in/ and start bidding for all projects posted there.
Hi friend,
I welcome your interest in joomla.I'm a Joomla CMS developer and contributor.It is very easy to install if you carefully follow the installation process, it is just like installing a php script on host machine.
Joomla outputs the web page design on the template system, for developing the template you should have knowledge about local variables in joomla.Don't worry there are lots of website over internet providing free joomla template. You can also get developed Joomla template from some coder from small amount of fee.
Joomla has a flexible architecture and yes you can edit the templates yourself from the admin panel.
Joomla however is compiled with extreme security, but if you are processing the secure transaction over it then you must enable SSL (secure socket layer) on your hosting environment.
If you have any further questions about setting up joomla you can ask me.
Good Luck !
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