Apr 15, 2014 0

What makes WordPress a viable CMS choice?

Online presence plays an imperative role for almost every business, whether you are using it to promote your products and services or want to boost your online fan following by sharing your thoughts via a blog. There are plethora of content management systems available out there that allows site owners to conveniently handle their site content, features and functions. Many developers recommend a platform with which they are most familiar and comfortable without even realizing the needs and objectives of the website. Understanding and knowing a platform that would be ideal for your project will help you save both time and money. To say that WordPress is a great content management system would be too mainstream, but, it has to be said that it has been beautifully blossomed into an open source CMS from a blogging platform. And by observing Google trends, it has been depicted that WP tops the chart and is quite popular among the people across the globe. Whilst there is an intense competition between the available CMS, every platform has certain benefits over the other. The utile features of this CMS have encouraged individuals to head towards WP sites. If we consider top 1 million websites that are using a CMS, it can be observed that WP covers around 14% of the sites while Drupal has only 1.3% sites. This difference creates a big question about the success of the Drupal sites, and this is why people are looking out for significant ways to convert Drupal

Mar 10, 2014 Comments Off on Pitching Your eCommerce Website for Sterling Results

Pitching Your eCommerce Website for Sterling Results

While the eCommerce industry is taking giant strides, what needs to be understood is that there no secret recipe to success if you are stepping into the big and bang world of eCommerce. Getting more and more people buy the stuff you are selling is matter of concocting an ensemble of things, and in the most accurate measure so that there is no overdose or underdose. There is no denying the fact that on this date, more and more people are leaning towards online store to buy their preferred products, because it lets them scroll through the options and make purchases right from the comforts of their homes. Besides, the eCommerce websites give them the luxury of comparing different items, and contemplating on buying them at will. As opposed to the brick and mortar stores, they don’t have to go back and forth between different corridors or floors. Everything is right there for their consideration. Be it as it may, we aren’t really focussing on the benefits of eCommerce business. What we intend to highlight is how you, as an online merchant, can leverage these benefits for the empowerment of your business and how you can glide past your competition which is only mounting up at a breakneck speed, so to speak. So, if you wish to make deeper and more powerful impact on the eCommerce realm, here are a bunch of things to be taken into consideration: Target Your Customers Well When a customer comes to your store to

Feb 20, 2014 0

Why the Switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is Highly Recommended

The sleek features of WordPress convince us effortlessly into believing that when creating engaging, big-scale and pitched-for-perfection websites is on the agenda, WordPress is the natural choice. But then, thee are questions that accompany the same. No, they have nothing to do with doubts, rather, these questions arise in regards to what variation of WordPress should you be using for your website. So we have: WordPress.com: For the folks who want want a free blog and don’t care if they have no customization capabilities on it, WordPress.com is most perfect. WordPress.org: For those who wish to be known as publishers, rather than simply bloggers, WordPress.org is a perfect launchpad, so to speak. Why WordPress.com is Not for the Publishers You Wake up One Fine Morning, and it’s Gone! To begin with, you have absolutely no right on your blog if it’s on WordPress.com. You can lose your blog at any moment, as and when WordPress decides to terminate it. And they don’t have to branch out of their rules to do so, because it is stated in their Terms and Conditions which is a must-read. Since your blog isn’t really yours, they sure as hell have all the freedom in the world to do whatsoever they please with it. The Unsolicited Advertisements Before you jump the gun, I am not talking about adsense or the other zillion ad networks here. Rather, I am referring to the online advertisements that appear on your website and can’t be either removed by you,