What do you have in mind when you are involved in a Web DevelopmentProject or if you have hired a team of designers and developers for your web development project?  Do you merely want “a killer” Websitethat looks awesome, or do you want a Websitethat proactively promotes and conducts your businesson the Internet?  We are positively sure that the latter would be your answer. Read the rest of this entry »

Is your Company overwhelmed by more accounts than you can handle? Or maybe you have a nice Contract opportunity, but don’t have the skills to deliver it…

The trend nowadays, especially after many disappointments of outsourcing to other continents and odd time zones in the past years, is to Subcontractyour overhead Web Development and Programmingtasks to experienced, U.S based Companies that don’t work while you sleep. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you manage a Small Business and wonder whether it needs a Website or not?
Many Small BusinessOperators are faced with this dilemma, especially when they see everyone carrying an official URL on visiting cards and letterheads.  The doubt is greater when most of your customers and clients are situated locally.  You may ask yourself why your customers and clients would go to your Small Business Websitewhen they can easily drop by at your office or outlet!!

A Websiteis not just a fad – it used to be a fad maybe 10 years ago but not anymore.  Your Websitecan be as important as your telephone connection, or even your actual business location. We are not saying this because we are in the business of building Websites; these days whenever people have to make a purchase or hire a Service Provider they instinctively log onto the Internet and try to visit the Websiteof the business.  They simply assume that every business these days has a Website– and businesses that don’t, don’t mean business.  Irrespective of the fact whether you can directly sell from your web site or not, a Small Business Websitecan be an integral part of your Shop or Office.

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Are you ready to move on to the next level of web design and user interaction?

There is a paradigm shift in the way people use the Internet and interact on commercial Websites. Total customization no longer remains in the realms of usability, whitepapers, and web design conferences! Adobe Flexmakes functionalities feel like a breeze. Here are some examples of Flex enhanced featureswe can provide:

• Updating data on the webpage without having to refresh the page
• Dragging and dropping items into the shopping cart along with simultaneous recalculation of the cost
• Rearranging items on the webpage according to your convenience
• Changing the look of the website according to your preferences
• Developing and installing the most complex animations and graphics

The greatest benefit of our experience with Flexis that we can create Rich Internet Applications(RIA) that deploy consistently on all major browsers, and Operating Systems, consequently providing a richer experience for your audience. Flex brings real-time interactivity in your existing Applications, and Ecom Solutions can develop and install completely new Flex Applicationsin a timely fashion!

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I just noticed the news on the AdobeWebsite, about their upcoming North American Event.
MAX 2008 is an opportunity to connect with the Adobe community. The North American event will take place in San Francisco, California on November 16-19, 2008
At the event, Adobewill bring together the most creative and influential minds in the community, from designers and developers to executives and partners, for three days that they claim will shape the future of the industry.

MAX is an Adobe Conferencecentered on the ecosystem of companies, developers, and designers using Adobe Tools such as Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Air, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flex, and other Adobe products .

With more and more people using their Mobile Phones, PDAs, iPhonesand other Handheld Devicesit is rapidly becoming imperative to have a Mobile Web Versionof your Website, so that you don’t lose a significant proportion of your audience that simply doesn’t want to wait to access a PC or laptop in order to browse your website and do business with you.  What if you’re losing business just because this section of your audience cannot access your Website, or faces difficulty while browsing important sections of your Website through their Mobile Phones?

There are many gradual and rapid technological changes that are making it possible to browse the Internet through smaller handheld devices and Mobile Phones.  The screens are coming bigger, the connectivity and browsing speed is faster and the touch screen interfaces are improving day by day. Read the rest of this entry »

You will be surprised to know that the New Yorkarea employs more technology people than any other place in North America. People mostly think that Silicon Valley is the place where everything technological and web development related happens but that is not the case; companies like Google and DoubleClick are managing critical operations from New York.

There is another reason why New Yorkis almost like the technology and Web Developmenthub of the country: almost all conventional companies, organizations and associations like American International Group, American Express, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, MetLife, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Nabsdaq, New York Life, and the New York Stock Exchange operate from New Yorkand they employ a massive technology, IT and Internet workforce.

Even conventional tech vendors like Arrow Electronics, Avaya, CA, IBM, Information Builders, Lucent, and Verizon prefer to manage operations from New York. There are also great universities and polytechnic institutes that perpetually churn out professionally trained people. Since companies often need copious help from lawyers and legal experts the abundance of such specialists in the city gives an added advantage. Therefore, Web Developmentand Website Building in New Yorkcan make for great business in the City that never sleeps. Read the rest of this entry »

There are three different reasons why Apple went this way.

Web Explorer for Mac was dependably somewhat shady. Clearly a bigger number of assets went into the Windows item than the Mac item, and that was reasonable. Yet, Mac clients dependably felt disappointed that many destinations that were composed to work for IE, never worked on the Mac rendition. Pivotal things like web based saving money were for the most part all in or all out.

Albeit numerous option programs began to show up on the Mac after some time, it was no uncertainty one of Apple’s biggest feelings of trepidation that MS would drop IE support and abandon them without access to the most mainstream program on the planet. On the off chance that different programs began to vanish from the stage in general, that would place Apple in an extremely hazardous position.

That dread is the thing that probable drove Apple to make their own program. Safari was a pleasant emphasis for Mac clients as it was more Mac-like, and Apple could attach the program nearer to the working framework in the meantime. Likewise, Safari furnished Apple with a stage for what’s to come.

The issue still has been that not all locales work with Safari. A long-lasting Safari client myself, a year ago I changed over to Firefox just because of similarity issues with blogging stages, managing an account, and so on. Over that Safari, refreshes were rare in contrast with different programs out there. What’s more, despite the fact that Safari had numerous incredible highlights that I cherished, it was likewise a framework hoard that occasionally conveyed my machine to a crawl…and in the event that you over burdened it, it would some of the time crash with no session reclamation.

So at first I was somewhat bewildered that Apple would discharge Safari for Windows , which with all the Window’s-based malware and security issues, would suck more designer time from discharging Mac refreshes and may likewise eclipse the positive consideration with negative.

I think it is absurd to feel that a Windows variant of Mac programming will make new switchers. It simply wouldn’t occur. What will probably happen however are three things:

1. As Safari keeps on being downloaded and develop in piece of the pie, we’ll see an ever increasing number of designers of sites that will test their code to see that it goes along and works with Safari. Useful for Mac users…good for Apple. I don’t think it is difficult to see Apple hop another 5-10% in program piece of the pie in the following a half year.

2. It may spare Quicktime, Apple’s gradually biting the dust web gushing innovation. While Apple may banter about the withering angle (given it goes with each adaptation of iTunes), no site outside of Apple utilizes Quicktime any longer (I seldom observe it) and there is no Windows Media bolster (MS killed it). Also that blaze has made some genuine advances on Apple’s once solid web innovation. However, with better Quicktime incorporation into the Windows-based program, we may see another push to recover lost Quicktime piece of the overall industry.

3. iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. We realize that Apple is discharging a Safari/webdev unit so engineers can create web applications for their new telephone. Why restrain this to Mac engineers? The telephone is clearly intended to engage Mac and Windows clients, so to guarantee advancement for the telephone on the Windows side, they require a stage to expand on. Safari will no uncertainty be the real part that ties the telephone and iTunes together, and we’ll likely observe a blast of web application advancement this fall after the telephone is discharged. Windows bolster is vital to their long haul telephone procedure and that is particularly essential with regards to perusing.

ColdFusion 8 Update 1 provides developers with 64-bit support for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and provides the latest updates to ColdFusion 8. Adobe recommends that all ColdFusion 8 users apply this free update .

There was a time when even simple HTML pages used to make us happy. A few hyperlinks here and a couple of form elements there and you would have an “interactive” presence on the Internet.

JavaScript and CSS improved things to a great extent but still the functionalities on a webpage could never even remotely match the interface of a desktop application. With the advent of Flash things spiced up a bit but they were still on the static side. There was nothing that we could call interactive and dynamic in the Flash animations that the developers created. Although there is a fair amount of “programming” that you can do in Flash, this feature never caught on with hardcore programmers because interface designing skills were always required; they needed something that could help them create Flash applications by simply having to write code. Flexwas developed keeping this in mind. And with this was born the concept of Rich Internet Applications. Read the rest of this entry »