Cakephp Development For Handling Complex Business Operations With Ease

This article explored by Avion Technology explains you about Cakephp Development written by stela robinson

Technology is used by us to make our work simpler and these a need to make complex enterprise level operations and large scale functions is becoming a dire need to organizations. There are various kinds of functions that a company handles that need to be simplified to make the workflow smoother and continuous. This is where you may need CakePHP development, which assures simplifying any kind of complex operation, and allows the organizations to carry it out with maximum ease.

CakePHP development is an MVC based framework and thus it allows for a smoother functioning of the development process. This way you can handle any length of development process with better control and clearer visualization. MVC framework divides the presentation and development part of the application into two separate work modules, which can be individually worked on giving the designers, and the developers complete freedom to work according to their own requirements without having to worry about the others limitation.

This division into Model, View and Controller simplifies the development process and hence makes complex tasks easier. Not only this CakePHP web development helps the developers to build applications that are more robust and scalable. Their representation value is increased as the designers have the complete freedom to experiment and explore irrespective of what the technical part of the application.

Other benefits of CakePHP development:

Compatible with PHP4 as well as PHP5
Reduces Code repentance in website and application development
Fast and flexible Templating
Built in view helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms
Data Validation features
MIT license and thus available for free
Scaffolding
Easy web services integration as well as development

Bigger enterprises and other large-scale industries are taking help of CakePHP development to create efficient applications to manage large scale of work that they undertake. This is especially handy in the current times when all the organizations are looking to expand their operations where managing them can be a difficult task. This is where CakePHP development works out the best for them.



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How Start E-commerce Websites for International Trade: an Introduction

This article is explored by Avion Technology by Dylan Sun.Your e-commerce can succeed only if it meets global sourcing standards of import and export necessities. E-commerce on a retail scale can think of dropshipping instead of import/export chores.


By default, e-commerce expands to international trade involving import and export, considerable global sourcing etc. Obviously e-commerce isn't all about owning an e-commerce website unless your ground preparation is over which means the hands-on experience in import/export, customs, banking in addition to having access to arranged inventories.

-Fundamental Decision about Choice of E-Commerce for International Trade

Begin by deciding who takes care of import/export, global sourcing; if it's going to be you, your experience in international trade (global sourcing and import/export) must sufficiently back you up. Apparently global sourcing experts can pick inadequacies quickly. So your best option would be to be a gateway to multiple dropshippers with huge inventories, import and export licenses and exposure to international trade.

Either way, you need a sound website either independently built or customizing e-commerce sites available with big-guns like Yahoo and hosting with them which is inexpensive and quick. The biggest issue with e-commerce and import & export sites is configuring shopping-cart and accepting payment.

Regardless of import/export, e-commerce sites need to have payment processing and shopping-cart facilities as you can restrict or extend import and export depending on your interest. An e-commerce system like full-featured osCommerce and X-Cart solutions make setup simple. You will be required to buy their hosting, install the package, and customize to use. Another option is from PayPal and with all these you can receive payments from global sourcing or import/export customers. PayPal let's you receive payment from the clients' PayPal account too.

-Tips To Ponder Before Getting On With the E-Commerce Website

Remember, many a times, site design is the decider whether your international trade via e-commerce will make or break. If your ecommerce website caters to global sourcing parties, take extra care to establish credibility using site authentications and SSL certificates. Put-up a privacy policy, helpline and warranty policy pages to drive home the point. Getting an e-commerce website up is not a joke, but is a good energy drainer.

From your point of view, security also means, database security, selection of operating and website maintenance systems etc. No withstanding whether yours is import/export, domestic or even global sourcing, budgeting and monitoring is critical. On a larger scale, your budget must include infrastructural costs, marketing and the running costs apart from licensing fees.



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10 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site

This article explored by Avion Technology will give you information about are the top 10 great ways to create a mobile friendly Wordpress website. Each has their special traits. Personally, I prefer to WPtap. It is really a professional team in designing mobile themes.



Mobile technology is going big. Every other user is now viewing your website from their iPhone or other smart phones. It is essential that you create a mobile friendly version of your WordPress site. Majority of top sites and blogs have already made their sites mobile friendly, but there are tons of other sites and blogs that lacks a mobile friendly version. In this article, we will share some ways you can create a mobile friendly version of your WordPress blog for your users and for yourself.

For Users

In this section we will share all the ways that will create a mobile friendly version of WordPress for your users.

1. WPtap is a WordPress specialist in developing mobile themes/plugins that can instantly convert your WordPress site into web-application experience when viewed from iPhone, iPod Touch, touch-based Blackberry, and Android smartphones.

WPtap offers both free and paid themes.4 fine-designed themes are available at WPtap: Tap News(iPhone App style mobile theme); Video Tube ( for video blogging and content sharing on mobile site); News Gallery(for image-centric and magazine style WordPress websites); News Press(for News, Blog, and other text-centric WordPress sites).

WPtap Pages is another advanced new design from WPtap.With features like elegant slideshow and thumbnail images, it makes a perfect choice for directory listing and product showcases.

They also provide theme customization service for users. So far, they have got a lot of positive feedback from customers. (http://www.wptap.com/)

2. Mofuse has a free option to make your blog mobile
friendly for various devices including, iPhone, Android, Blackberry and others. Top blogs like Mashable, Readwriteweb, Makeuseof are using Mofuse. Mofuse displays your RSS Feeds to your users. Their free option does not give you enough freedom which is why we did not use their service, but it is very easy to setup. They also have a WordPress Mofuse Plugin.

3. WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin by Crowd Favorite. This plugin shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile browsers are automatically detected, the list of mobile browsers can be customized on the settings page.

4. WPTouch is a mobile plugin/theme for your WordPress website. It automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, or BlackBerry StormTM touch mobile device. WPTouch has a very good admin options panel. Make sure you check out their gallery for screenshots.

5. WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

6. MobilePress is a free WordPress plugin which turns your WordPress blog into a mobile friendly blog when viewed on a cell phone. MobilePress also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different handheld devices and mobile browsers such as the iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile.

For Administrators

In this section, we will share how you can create a mobile friendly WordPress Admin Panel for administrators (you). This will allow you to manage comments and create new posts using your mobile device.

7. WordPress for iPhone is the official iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.7 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds.

8. WordPress for Blackberry is the official WordPress for BlackBerry app allows you to write posts, upload photos and videos, edit pages, and manage comments. Both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.7 or higher) sites are supported.

9. WordPress for Android is the official WordPress for Android is an Open Source app that empowers you to write new posts, edit content, and manage comments with built-in notifications. Download it now and get blogging in no time.

10. WPhone creates the option to use a custom admin interface designed for mobile phones. It has two options called Rich and Lite. Rich option is designed for the iPhone / iPod Touch and other phones supporting full Javascript and CSS featuring fancy AJAX and sliding menus. Lite option is a lightweight, simple version designed for all other phone types (no Javascript or anything else required).


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10 Joomla Security Extensions

This article will provide you information about "Joomla Extensions useful for Website Security " written by Jun

Joomla is one of the most popular content management. Here are some extensions you need to consider for your joomla security related issue.

1) JoomlaCloner
JoomlaCloner is a backup and restore component designed for Joomla! User can clone their Joomla installation and move it to another location for backup.

2)Security Images
This extension provide 5 families of highly configurable captchas. It will protect you against most spammers attempt. By using this extension, every user require to type in the captcha image for the registration for or any other form.

3) JUGA – Joomla User Group Access
JUGA is Joomla component
that allows you to set what is available to which users on both your Front-end And Administrator Control Panel. With JUGA, you can assign users to multiple groups. In fact, you can create an infinite number of new groups, so you could assign a single user to a unique group, thereby achieving customized individual access rights for each user.

4) Core Design Login Module
Core Design Login module for Joomla! 1.5 based on Highslide JS. This module displays a Username and Password login form. It also displays a link to retrieve a forgotten password. If user registration is enabled, (refer to the Configuration settings), then another link will be shown to invite users to self-register.

5) jSecure Authentication
Joomla has one drawback, any web user can easily know the site is created in Joomla! by typing the URL to access the administration area (i.e. www.site name.com/administration). This makes hackers hack the site easily once they crack id and password for Joomla!. Information: jSecure Authentication module prevents access to administration (back end) login page without appropriate access key.

6) MetaMod
Control your modules by date, time, recurring time, GeoIP (country of viewer), browser type and language, user name, group, page within other component (e.g. Virtuemart), on-page text, by article keywords, individual article, section/category, etc.

7) Joomla! Authentication Tools
A variety of useful items (mambots/plugins and components) primarily for LDAP, tested in a Novell eDirectory environment. It contains: LDAP User Synchronization, LDAP User Authentication, LDAP Single Sign On. These tools are available for both Joomla! 1.0 and Joomla! 1.5

8) noixACL
Try out and compare it with others ACL like Simple ACL, JUGA, JACLPlus!

9) LazyBackup 2
This plugin will save you LOTS of time! It sends a backup every X hours/every X days of your Joomla database in a zip file to one or multiple emails
The best and easiest automatic backup method for Joomla 1.5! Doesn't need server tools like cron or scheduled tasks.

10) SignalLogin
SignalLogin is a Module, that is built to provide a more versatile way to show your Login-Forms. Along with various configurable Options, you can fully customize it's looks and switch between horizontal (i.E. Mini-Login-Bar at the top of your Page) or vertical (i.E. full Module in Sidecolumn).



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Profiting And Benefiting From Wordpress Ella

This article explored by Avion Technology will give you knowledge about "Wordpress Ella" - A latest version of wordpress written by Brandon Hong

The "Wordpress" developer team has successfully launched their latest version of Wordpress, called "Wordpress Ella". Numerically, the version number is called version 2.1

To the uninitiated, news like this seems like a normal announcement from software developers and are often passed on by. However, from the eyes of a trained mind and savvy businessman, the news of "Wordpress Ella" contain many benefits that online business owners can immediately tap into and profit from.

"Wordpress Ella" comes with the following enhancements which are a great resource for online business owners.

1. First on the list of enhancements from Wordpress Ella is an 'autosave' function that ensures you will never lose a post again. This is an invaluable tool especially at times when you have spent a lot of time in front of your computer screen, brainstorming on what to write to promote your business.

Imagine the horror or frustration especially in instances where the battery of your notebook died and you forgot to save. Or perhaps there was a blackout or you accidentally closed the browser window without saving your work.

"Wordpress Ella" autosave function is a real time saver and is an abosolute must for any online businesses.

2. Next in line on "Wordpress Ella" is the "Import" and "Export" functions. Let's talk about the import function first.

The latest release of "Wordpress Ella" has an import function that allows you to import your blog created from other popular blogging platforms such as 'Movable Type', 'Typepad', 'Livejournal', 'Blogger' and so on, into Wordpress itself.

This way, you don't have to lose any important data such as your blog posts and comments. This flexibility is another reason why Wordpress itself is so successful and continues to gain a huge following and user base.

Why would anyone want to transfer their blog from another platform to Wordpress? Well, one reason is because with most of these other blogging platforms, the user has to pay a monthly fee. Wordpress, as almost everyone knows is free, and you can easily install with a few clicks using Fantastico from within your hosting account's Cpanel.

Another reason to migrate or transfer the entire blog to Wordpress could be due to the limitation of some blogging platforms. Blogger, for example does not support the use of categories, which are critical when it comes to optimizing the blog to rank high for specific keywords related to the business.

Now, let's discuss about the "Export" function.

"Export" as the name implies, will export all the Wordpress posts and comments into a file (called XML). This file can then be imported into other Wordpress blogs. It's like a cross transferring of data between similar or related "Wordpress Blogs".

This is useful when one is starting a new blog and perhaps need to populate the blog with useful content instead of just displaying news feed. For example, if you have a blog on muscle building, and you started a new blog on weight loss, you can import the content (which are the posts and comments) from the muscle blog into the weight loss blog.

This way, when you drive traffic to your new weight loss blog, you can at least provide the reader with some useful content while you build up the content around weight loss. Naturally there is some correlation between these two topics. After all, if you want to build muscle, naturally you need to burn off the excess fats and turn them into muscles!

3. Another enhancement of "Wordpress Ella" is the new search engine privacy. What this means is that you can indicate whether you'd like your blog to be indexed or ping by search engines, especially Google, Yahoo or MSN, which are the three top search engines online.

Most experienced marketers know about the pinging power of blogs. Everytime when a post is published, Wordpress will ping or notify specific blog directories about updates to your blog, causing them to index or visit your blog, brining you that additional and much needed targeted traffic.

As crazy as it sounds, considering that most business owners would like to get their site listed in the search engines, there are also times when you might want to hide or mask your blog from the radar screen of search engines. This is true especially in cases where it's only meant for paid customers only. For example, you might be providing some sensitive information meant for paid customers and you don't want anyone doing a search on the search engines to stumble upon your blog and have access to the information.

4. Another powerful upgrade that "Wordpress Ella" brings is the ability to specify a static page as the front page for your site or blog.

Most savvy marketers employ the use of a mini site or a one page only sales letter when marketing their products or services. Normally such one page sites will also contain an opt-in box, where visitors and readers are enticed to provide their email address in exchange for a free gift, software, e-course etc.

When they do so, they will normally be enrolled in an autoresponder course that automatically does the follow-up with the said subscriber which either results in a sale or no sale.

With a blog, however, the main page or the front page will always a display of the latest chronological posts. You can create pages for a blog, however, in the past it was not that easy for the layman to do so.

With "Wordpress Ella", all you need to do if you want a static front page is to select this option in the Wordpress control panel. It can't get any easier than this.

These are just some of the enhancements that you can immediately benefit from "Wordpress Ella".



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Joomla Walks You through Pleasures of Technology

This article explored by Avion Technology will tell you "The Significance of Joomla" by Terry R Littrell


Joomla has created turmoil in the web industry as it is the leading content management system in the world. A content management system is software that allows a website owner to update the website content themselves without prior web design or technical skills. Any organization needing web site has to go for Joomla because it can be updated on a frequent basis.

The present scenario is ‘marketing dominated business' hence the demand of websites is also on the rise. Joomla comes handy because you can update in-house without any technical hassle. The content is still ruling the roof of business, whatever height the business must have reached. It also reflects in search engine ranking. Uniqueness of content and regular updating is corner stone of any business. Joomla acts as a tool to solve all these content management issues. It is ‘all in one' software.

Using Joomla has become compulsory feature of web Design Company across the globe. Though, maintaining a website is not an easy task but it is easy to maintain the websites that are created with the help of Joomla. The website maintaining professional feels that maintaining a website is quite a task. You will be able to maintain the websites yourself with the help of functionality and application of Joomla.


Joomla - competitive edge



A website built with Joomla proves to be more competitive than others. It enables a web design company to design websites those are rich with many powerful features which in turn allows businesses to add value to their web presence.



Affordable and scalable



Joomla development has become a ‘must' for all web design companies across the world. Joomla is highly affordable and services we get in return are highly commendable. It is a powerful and cost effective tool. Web designers are able to develop dynamic websites with joomla. Otherwise it would be a very expensive affair.



Open Source



Joomla is open source software. It offers, web designers and software developers with complete flexibility to modify and enhance the system to suit specific requirements of a business. It will not limit designers and developers in any way, who have complete control over the code.



Joomla the most comfortable to use



Joomla is the easiest to use and understand, compared to other software. Joomla is the easiest to install. It can be hosted easily on most web hosting infrastructure. Joomla doesn't demand any technical expertise from you. Joomla web design can be done by Web designers, who have no expertise in Joomla programming.



Joomla Community



Joomla has its own community on the internet. Information and tutorials are easily available. There are specialist blogs available to cater to the demands of web design and development community. The large selection of free add-on modules and components for Joomla offers the opportunity to include many new features, resulting into saving time of a web designer. A web designer can easily save time by using add-on modules and components to offer new powerful features on websites.



Resources are easily available



Many tutorials and documentations are readily available on internet. Web designing companies even train their employees through the tutorials available on net. There are many active Forums and Blogs specific to Joomla where technical queries can be posted and a quick response or support is usually available free of charge.


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Why Drupal is the Ideal Platform for SEO

This article explored by Avion Technology will give information regarding Drupal Platform for SEO written by Elizabeth.Ruda

There are several open source publishing platforms that allow businesses to thrive online, with Joomla!, WordPress, and Drupal being the three most popular. So when choosing the platform for your business, how do you know which one will help you optimize your online goals? If you are striving to maximize visibility, generate traffic, and increase clicks, you need to be search engine-optimized for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Here are 10 reasons why Drupal is the ideal open source publishing platform for search engine optimization (SEO).

1) Drupal is Highly Configurable

Search engines change the algorithms they use for building search results regularly, and Drupal keeps up with those changes for you. Drupal outputs your website in the friendliest of manners with all search engines. Your human traffic may not notice, but the search engines do and they are very grateful.

2) Drupal is Flexible

A key to obtaining a high ranking in the search engines is having ultimate control over highly detailed elements of your site. Drupal allows you to have granular precision with all the details and elements of your site, bringing you as close as you can get to manually built pages.

3) Drupal Stays Optimized

When you add new content and pages to your site, Drupal formats it properly for the search engines and renders them correctly for maximum SEO.

4) Drupal Eliminates Duplicate Content

When you have two different pages on your website that are basically the same, you run the risk of being penalized for duplicate content by Google. Also, when Google sees two different pages and doesn’t know which one is the most important, it splits the importance of each page in half. Drupal makes sure that every page on your site only shows up once, so you can avoid split importance and penalization.

5) Drupal Renders Clean Code

When search engines send their spiders to crawl your site, they are gleaning through your code to understand and rank accordingly. The cleaner the code, the easier it is for the spiders to understand and rank your site higher.

6) Drupal Integrates Easily with SEO

Drupal-based websites easily integrate with third-party SEO tools that will allow you to manage and study your site more effectively.

7) Drupal Fights SPAM

Drupal features several modules that help keep SPAM off your site. If you encourage interaction on your site with blogs, these modules will keep SPAM comments out and quality content protected.

8) Drupal is Landing Page-Friendly

Drupal allows you to create landing pages that talk specifically about what is being sold with the appropriate key words in the right places, and helps convert traffic into customers.

9) Drupal’s Supportive Communities

Drupal has an incredible amount of community support built into its core functionality. You can find support for help requests, volunteering tasks, etc. Leading authorities consider Drupal the top program on the web when it comes to fostering a supportive community.

10) Drupal is Thriving

The Drupal development community currently consists of over 300,000+ websites that have been built with Drupal. These sites are supported by thousands of developers and programmers who are committed to improving Drupal website design. The rallying point for the community is www.drupal.org, where you can get involved with the Drupal community at any time.



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Wordpress And Seo : Nice Read!

Avion Technology explored this article which will seeks to put in plain words the fundamentals of SEO and how you can make use of WordPress to help you written by Samantha Burkle


It is crucial to carry out SEO in order that Search Engines will feel your site is important and deliver it to people searching (i.e. your potential customers) The target for most is to get to the number one spot in Google, though of course there are other search engines as well, and getting to the number one spot in them is also important.

Being at the number one spot majorly increases your sites chances of being clicked.

With this in mind, those doing SEO try very hard to reach that spot.

Search engines rank web pages based on parameters, though they do not make their exact specifications public.

There are 2 important aspects of Search Engine Optimization; On page and off page. On-page SEO is about optimizing your website text, inserting keywords into meta tags, in the main text area of the page and the title of your pages. more examples include using alternative text on your images or using anchor text on your links. Off-site SEO on the other hand is about promoting your site on other sites.

WordPress allows you to do search engine optimization on your site very easy. Below are 3 tips for carrying out search engine optimization on a WordPress site.

- No need to learn HTM, make your Keywords Bold using the Visual Editor Use hyperlinks with anchor text.

- Image optimization is easy. Upload your pictures with file names that includes your keywords, this will give it a good URL. Also include a description, alternative text and title. All of this can be carried out from the media library.

- With a WordPress plugin such as the 'Ultimate SEO Plugin' you can very simply add data such as - meta tags, keywords and descriptions.

More traffic means more income. SEO is a great way to get traffic to your site because it is essentially free.


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Django And Drupal Application Development

Avion Technology explored an article by Karun, an interesting read!


Though the modern online world is cluttered with innumerable web application frameworks, only a few of them do matter, as they provide the best and feasible solutions in a stipulated period. And, Django application development has become hugely popular these days because it does offer such solutions. In point of fact, it is a freeware and comes as a part of huge open source software collection. It has been supported and developed with the help of Python language. Usually, it is used to create intuitive news website. But, with the passage of time more and more users have been using it to create all sorts of websites, as it offers a lot of applications, which suit your modern needs in this quickly changing web world. With the help of this refined framework, you can swiftly create the website as it has been duly empowered by data models, tools and files. To further help the programmer, it comes with various new components. This is the reason why various companies have been offering these web application development solutions to their clients who want to create their online identity with the help of a website as quickly as possible.
On the other hand, Drupal application development comes handy when you need to create an effective content management platform and other web application frameworks. Though there are other applications, Drupal has carved a niche in the market as a reliable and long-lasting web application framework. If you need a potent content management system, which can take a good care of your data and also offer you other quick solutions, then drupal is here to offer all that you want. To know more about this application framework, you can do a thorough research on the Internet.
Now that Smartphone have become an important part of our lives, there has been a great demand for GPS application development. Global Positioning System (GPS) has revolutionized the car-navigation and it easily processes the required data with the help of the latest technology. There are various commercial GPS devices, which are used for navigation and finding new places. Likewise, various leading companies in the world offer these development solutions for you. Prior to go for such developments, you need to finalize your priorities to avoid any confusion in the longer run. Simultaneously, a focused research on the Internet would further help you to get a clear-cut idea about this highly effective and sought-after system.


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Where Drupal Development Originated From?

Avion Technology explored an article about " Drupal History" written by Leslie Leroy

There is a free and open source content management system (CMS) called drupal development. It is coded in PHP and distributed through a normal public license. Roughly a minimum of less than two percent of website throughout the world will use this system as a back end. These websites can be anything from government, corporate businesses or even a rather small blog site. Another use for this is business collaboration and knowledge management.

Standard features will be on the normal version and this will mainly be typical to the content on management systems. There are several things included in this such as system administration, RSS-feeds, customization of page layout, menu management, and registration and maintenance on user accounts. There are different ways for the installation to be utilized. Some of these are brochure ware website, Internet forums, either single or multi-user blogs or community website.

In order to change and extend the core capabilities on this application there will be greater than fifty eight thousand different free community modules you can choose from. Other things that can be changed will be the behavior and appearance. This is known as content management framework because it has a plug in extensibility. This can be called a web application framework. It would have passed certain standards that would be required for these frameworks.

If a computer platform supports a web server and database then the application will be able to run. Some examples for databases is MySQL and PostgreSQL. The examples for web servers are PHP four point four point zero plus and this normally includes nginx, apache, lighttpd and IIS.

Dries Buytaert originally wrote it like a message board. It was then made an open source project in two thousand and one. The name originated from Dutch and the word actually was druppel that means drop (like a drop of water).

Buytaert wanted to name it dorp, which is Dutch for village. This had to do with the applications community prospects. It is called drupal development as there was a typing mistake made when they checked for the domain name.



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How Is Magento Helpful For Open Source Development

Avion Technology explored an article about Is Magento Helpul for Open Source Management

Ecommerce is rapidly growing and everyone who has Internet can get optimum of it. Being absolutely free Magento quickly got popularity to become the leader among other open source platforms for online commerce such as Zen Cart, osCommerce or VirtueMart. The developer of Magento Commerce platform is Varien, the company that specializes in the open-source products. Everyone wants to be successful in online business hence the need of Magento is seen predominantly everywhere.

Magento has been a boon attracting millions to master ecommerce. It has removed the hurdles and hindrances successfully making the businessmen more powerful. Magento is a rock steady platform enhancing ecommerce run briskly. It has balanced features like theme based structure, and support for digital products. Magento is an open source solution which means developers can create add-ons and plug-ins to expand its capabilities. In fact Magento is enjoying these welcoming changes as these are business boosting.

Once a developer becomes familiar with Magentos theme work, creating a store or several stores becomes relatively easy. Magento is highly feature rich as well as multitasking platform. Few well known features are mentioned below:

* Manage multiple websites and stores from one administration panel and product catalog.
* Web services API to make it easy to integrate third-party tools.
* Google Website Optimizer integration for A/B testing.
* Flexible coupon rules give you the ability to create numerous campaigns and buddy coupons.
* URL rewrites and many more

Why to go for Magento?

Firstly it is clean and smooth and looks professional and ultra modern.

Add-ons

The beautiful thing about Magento Commerce is, it can be installed additional layouts and add-ons. Magento , being less complicated doesnt require the shop owner to have prior programming experience. Magento is a simplistic yet powerful solution for e-commerce business owners.

Payment Gateways Are Available For Integration

There are many store owners losing sales because they cannot offer a certain payment solution for their customers, or they have to switch payment gateways because their e-commerce solution was not compatible with their existing provider. With Magento Commerce you can rest at ease whatever payment gateway you have, they most likely have it ready for you.

Can Manage Multiple Stores from One Administration Panel

You can go for more advanced option existing with multiple ecommerce stores. For example if you had camera shop and a book shop. You would set up two stores where as you can set them up all in one system and manage also very well with Magento commerce.

An Option To Up Sell At The Checkout

This option alone will increase your profits dramatically. Up selling, is a powerful way to increase your profits from an existing customer by simply offering additional promotions or products. This can lead to more money for your e-commerce business and having it automated, you have a silent sales person making money for you.

Built-in Product Image Zoom Capability

Sometimes as a customer you can see finer details about a product. Magento Commerce now has that option built in allowing you to upload a high resolution photo to let customers zoom into the product while they are browsing. Just think how it will have an effect on your sales and increase your business leads!



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Make Your Web Store Multi Language Increase Your Sales!

Avion Technology explored by an article about Oscommerce Module by Martin Wann

As an online merchant you often think how you can improve your web store, attract more potential customers and increase your sales. I'd recommend you a few small changes in online store interface, which can result into a big increase in the number of sales you get make it multi-language. Such concept is well understood by web stores, which offer their products internationally. But what about those, who work within one country? It provides a favourable position for them as well! There can be customers in one single country, who speak 3-5 different languages, along with foreigners, who are on business or private trip in your country.

OK, if I am Arabian, but currently live in the USA, of course I understand English and I can read terms and product descriptions on your web store. But if I see a possibility to read your store's content in my native language (and understand all the information much better), you'll get a loyal customer. One, who chooses your store from many other because you think of one, consider needs and wishes.

Here is a simple and affordable solution to add this nice feature to your online store - Translate Module. This module facilitates translations through your web-store interface. You don't need to translate your store manually or install any additional language packages any more. Translate Module will fully automate the translation process by using major translation engines, such as Babel Fish (AltaVista and Yahoo) and Google Translate. It's easy to let your customers use all of the most spoken languages while shopping at your store now. Translate Module gives your customers the ability to simplify a translation of any page of your web store into their native language - all it takes is just one click.

Translation Module gives you following benefits:

... better understanding for your visitors with an ability to read your product descriptions, information pages and other content in their native language
... you are showing respect for possible customers who don't know your store language but still can buy your products
... no need to translate your store manually or install any additional language packages
... multiple Languages Support - choose the languages your visitors can use
... translation process is completely automated
... easy to start
... setup once and it will just work for you

osCommerce Translate Module is one module that, to me, would always be relevant and would fit well on every web site. Without a doubt, any web site can only benefit from being translated into the number of languages offered by this module - English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, Korean, Italian and Arabic.

Automatic translations by Google, AltaVista and Yahoo cannot be as accurate and fluent as professional human translation. Nevertheless, human translation is very time consuming and expensive, still not eliminating mistakes. Translation Module enables translation with few easy and quick steps,while you are doing business. And it's constantly improving in compliance with the powerful translation services of Google, AltaVista and Yahoo.

The more visitors will be able to understand your product information - the more customers you will have - that is the key to success for every online merchant. There are Translate Modules for osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart and X-Cart shopping carts created by MagneticOne.

Want to try Translate Module out for yourself to see how it works? Simply click here to get the free trial http://www.magneticone.com/store/osCommerce.Modules/osCommerce.Translate.Module



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Best Joomla Templates For 2010!

Avion Technology explored an amazing article about "Useful Joomla Templates" by Joel Morrison

If you need to update your site or you have found that hiring a web designer to refresh your website is going to be a very expensive endeavor, you just may want to start considering something else - premium Joomla templates. These templates are considered premium for one chief reason. Firstly, they are paid templates instead of free templates. Like every other organization which has a paid and a free option, the paid members or paid templates are going to have some usability or credibility that the free ones wouldnt. In this case, it brings design and functionality into play, but as they're paid for, there is a greater chance that not everybody would have the same template as yours.

That is one thing that is really horrible about utilizing free templates. Since they are free and because there are many websites online, often you will be able to see the same template twice in one week! There is a good chance this won't happen with premium Joomla templates! Now, if buying one template each is becoming too expensive for you, which just may be the case, you even might need to consider joining a Joomla template club. These clubs would permit you to pay one price for an array of templates that is a bargain considering all the options you get, and you start to realize just what a deal it is that youre getting.

Firstly, with a price like this to join a Joomla template club you would get limitless domains, this means you could get unlimited templates. Second off, you could join up with their forum. This will be a community forum that would allow you to interact with other designers or businesses that make use of the Joomla template club to design their websites. Third off, you would get product updates and customer service. This means that any time there is a new version or security update, you would receive it for free if you belonged to the Joomla template club.

There is extra support for most of the high end Joomla templates. You could questions in their forums or even email them for help. The templates that are included are some of the best Joomla templates available. Right now there are different ones available - the one you select is left to you and depends on the web-site you have. For instance, for something like a professional, business or commerce web-site, you could choose a template called Aurora Dawn. Or for something like a blog you might want to choose something a little more fun such as Avignet Dream. By the way, you should realize that these are customized.

They are not like templates you have seen on the web before. Often they would allow you to place boxes, layouts, categories, pictures, videos, extensions, and colors depending on what YOU want. You can't do this with free templates, now can you!?! These are all Joomla templates, but as said above, if you join a web-site which has a club, you'll be updated as to when a new version other than the Joomla templates comes out and it would give you a chance to update your web site accordingly!


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A Multi Purpose Blogging Engine By Wordpress To Easily Manage Your Website

Avion Technology explored an interesting read about "Wordpress as a Blogging Platform " by Nick Hopess


We often come to a term called BLOG and BLOGGING and think too much or mostly get confused about it. This is because most of the Blog systems available are either too complicated to manage. Also the management section is not so appealing.

Here we want to introduce a blog engine which is most powerful and easiest to manage the content you publish as a post. WordPress installation is very easy and takes around 3 minutes to install and configure. WordPress, a multi tasking Blog engine has very nice, clean, catch and appealing content management section. A feature rich HTML (YSIWYG) editor helps you format the content for your web pages. WordPress has a Media Management section where you can manage your Images, Videos, and Files easily to use within or outside your Blog. Also it has a Links section where you can publish your other websites or related websites to your Blog on any of your Blog page.

A page management section makes it possible for you to publish the information pages with formatted text, images, videos and almost every type of content you think of publishing within pages. WordPress is a true Web 2.0 Blog Engine helps people to post comments on your blog. WordPress has a modular development methodology and is easily configurable with widgets management feature.
A huge WordPress community of 6706 Plug-in, 995 Templates (Theme Design), and 2842 Ideas helps you Setup and Manage your blog website easily. To start with you can find thousands of WordPress Themes for free just like any other Open Source product available on the internet. It has got trouble-free user management section where you can manage all your registered users at one place. An easy Import-Export feature is available to speed up the work. And last but not least, if you want to upgrade your WordPress website to a newer version, just click one button and there you are with a new version. Now WordPress is also available as a one click installation in mostly all Hosting Provider who uses Fantastico like application management software.

Creating new Design and editing the same in WordPress is easy with the inbuilt template editor. Alongside WordPress Customization is as easy as writing about self.

Above all, WordPress is all FREE and can be used as multiple types of websites like Blog, Content Management System, eCommerce Website and more.


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Website Baker CMS-An Overview

Avion Technology explored a new ” CMS- WebsiteBaker” article by Anny

Website Baker is a PHP-based Content Management System (CMS) designed with one goal in mind: to enable its users to produce websites with ease.

This Website Baker “Start” website is a resource for people wanting to find out more about Website Baker, and get a “start” with the project and our community.

For more information, please use the menu on the left and the top to navigate your way around this site and the entire Website Baker community.

Features
To list all of Website Baker’s features would be almost impossible, but here are a few…

* Easy to use interface
* Multi-level, multi-sectioned, modulated page support.
* Simple file/media management section
* Template based front-end, which can be customized per-page.
* Multiple user and multiple group login.
* High-level control with Group-based permissions system.
* User sign-up, log-in, and password recovery abilities.
* Ability for customized timezone, language, date format, time format, and display name per-user.
* No costs
* Total freedom – only requirements besides those in the GNU GPL are the need to retain the copyright notice on Administration footer – no need for “link-back’s” to our website (although it is much appreciated)


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You May Consider Using The Buddypress Set On A WordPress Platform

Avion Technology explored an article from articlebase regarding ” Buddypress Setup”

Myhostingbox has proven to be the best BuddyPress hosting provider. Thanks to our long-term experience and thousands of serviced customers we have achieved the best BuddyPress hosting package configuration. Our feature-rich BuddyPress hosting package gives you all the tools and resources that you need in order to start your successful BuddyPress website.
BuddyPress is a set of WordPress theme and plugins which extend the application functionality with many social networking features such as extended user profiles, private messaging, friends lists and groups as well as user wall (wire).

Since the last major version update to 1.2 BuddyPress can be installed both on WordPress and WordPress MU version.
If you are looking for a single blog website which emphasize on the members social interaction then you may consider using the BuddyPress set on a WordPress platform. On the other hand, if you are about to create a blog network website with social networking features, the WordPress MU hosting and BuddyPress combination will be the most suitable setup.

BuddyPress is a plugin that will convert your copy of WordPress MU into a social network. Check out the BuddyPress Demo here. Below are the features that are added to your WordPress MU installation thanks to the BuddyPress plugin.
Myhostingbox.com is glad to offer the first FREE BuddyPress templates collection that can be found on the market! By signing up for our buddypress hosting packages, you will have the opportunity to select one of these professional templates and use them for your BuddyPress social network to enhance its outlook and functionality. In addition to these great templates, you will also receive free BuddyPress installation, free module installations, free BuddyPress upgrades and of course 24/7 professional assistance for the application!
Even with a most advanced Learning Management System, your organization may face a necessity of creating a custom solution to suit the company specifics. Training software meeting all of your unique learning needs is a solid foundation for building an efficient system of computer-based learning, be it for ongoing corporate training, online education or commercial training programs.
If you need to configure or customize your eLearning management system, integrate it with another system or even develop your own eLearning application, surely there can be different solutions. You may try to create eLearning customization on your own or probably hire a specialist on 3-rd party developer jobs sites. But becoming an expert in eLearning development takes years of educational applications programming, understanding principals of learning and attracting students’ attention to studying process. We provide custom elearning development since 2003. As experts in this field, we produce efficient, reliable and affordable elearning solutions.

JoomlaLMS is an aggregate of e-learning tools compiling into a powerful learning management system. It is a fully functional eLearning platform with innovative training / testing options (self-assessments) and advanced conferencing applications.

JoomlaLMS provides powerful and popular e-learning features:

* Advanced User Management. Self-registration and enrollment options. Customizable user profiles using standalone Joomla components. support of CSV format to upload the users lists.

* Different user roles. Different levels for administrators and Front-End users. Navigation menu can be easily customized for different user roles.

* Payment features. Change course pricing at any time; Choose currency; Different payment gateways; Automatic payment status validation; Payment statistics.

* Quiz module. Create advanced quizzes with many advanced options. Track the quiz results; Pick the questions from the Questions Pool for any quiz.

* Integrated Live Conferencing with Collaboration Whiteboard. Recording and later viewing of the live events.

* Adherence to standards. JoomlaLMS supports the latest e-learning standards such as SCORM, etc.

* Flexible Course Management. Import and export your courses; Publish Courses for any period; Configure tools for each Course; Grant teacher role for any selected user for specified Course.

* Courses Subscriptions. Earn money from your e-learning project. JoomlaLMS supports paid courses and uses different types of subscriptions.

* Online help and tutorials. Permanently updated help and video tutorials that will save your time & effort.

* Reporting and tracking system. Activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module.

* Learning Path. Powerful and customizable native learning paths with all kind of embedded media and built-in Quizzes. Import SCORM packages or any existing Course material.

* Certification programs. Teachers can create customizable certificates/diplomas for students of the course. Grant certificates by completion of the Course or completion of the built-in Quizzes.

* Multiple Instructors per Course. Any number of instructors can teach a course which provides more convenient course management and added flexibility.

* Student/Teacher toggle modes. Instructors can toggle to the student view enabling them to see Course material from the learner”s perspective.

* Documents tool. Upload and publish any type of documents; use uploaded documents as Learning Path Steps. Shared Document Library to manage the documents bank.





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Magento Development For A Flexible Web Store

Avion technology explored an interesting read ” Magento Usage” from articlebase

Magento is an open source Ecommerce solution that was created by Varien and was built upon Zend Framework code blocks. It is a world class Ecommerce solution that provides unprecedented flexibility and control. With its amazing features, you can design your own web store in least time. If you are not willing to spend a lot of money and time on developing your web store, then Magento is the right choice for you. It was designed with the objective that no two businesses are alike and that each Ecommerce implementation has to be unique. Magento Ecommerce open source platform can be customized according to the specific needs of the client. Since it is an open source, it is cheap. Magento offers complete flexibility and control over the functionality, look and content of your website. It offers two editions a community edition which is available for free and an enterprise edition which comes at a cost. Magento application development is the perfect platform to develop modern Ecommerce solutions in accordance with the latest technologies. No other platform can match Magento is terms of reliability and feasibility. Many online shopping cart websites use Magento as a platform for successful running of their online stores. It is one of the fastest growing Ecommerce software.

Magento programming experts will help you to set up a user friendly and sophisticated online store. Developers can also customize this platform as per your demands. It is regularly updated with feature rich application. Magento themes and designs are highly aesthetic and they can draw huge traffic to your site. It has a secure coding platform and offers multi store functionality. It also has a user friendly coding system. Some of its amazing features include a sole admin panel for online store, advanced report and analytical features for a sale report, best purchase product report etc.

Magento web development is becoming one of the fastest growing open source Ecommerce platforms. Its eye catching and unique designs provides the users a delightful shopping cart website. The powerful features and capabilities of Magento guarantee you good return on your investment and helps you to take your business to the top.


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Significance Of Joomla Web Development

A nice read by benivolent explored by Avion Technology

Today it is a frequent follow for businesses to demand websites that can be updated in-house without authority technical skills. Businesses today appreciate the importance of content on a website and its blow on search engine ranking. Businesses require complete control over the content on their website and necessitate a system that will allow them to make regular updates. Joomla allows web design companies to meet this confront by providing influential content management capabilities to websites.

A Joomla template is actually a string of files within the Joomla Content Management System (CMS) that organize the presentation of the content. So, for all those unskilled a Joomla template is not a website in itself nor it represents a complete website design. It’s merely a template, i.e., a basic foundation design that’ll assist you to preview your Joomla website. In order to construct the effect of a ‘complete website’, the Joomla template works in tandem with the content stored in the Joomla databases.

Joomla has become admired with web design companies all over the world who are via -with Joomla to design influential yet simple to use websites for businesses. Joomla customization enables web designers to offer customers with a powerful and cost effectual solution which is simply scalable to prospect enhancements. Web designers can use Joomla for limited budgets to enhance your business growth. Web designers can use Joomla to expand powerful dynamic websites in a cost effective manner. Web designers are able to build up lively websites that would have otherwise been out of reach for smaller due to high cost of development.



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Features Of Flex 4 A Flex Developer Cannot Ignore To Admire

Avion Technology explored an article about Flex Development by christogelson

By now I am sure most of the Flex developers would have got the chance to experiment with the latest version of Flex which is Flex 4. Codenamed Gumbo it had an open development process on Adobes open source site. Introduction of Flex 4 was initiated by the company by playing a pivotal role in starting the thread. This was a golden opportunity for any Flex developer who always wanted something different from all the traditional Flex versions for flex development. Many developers contributed to its making.

While a Flex developer is sure to see some changes in the latest version there are few features that have remained unchanged. But do not be disappointed because those features which have changed are sure to make a big difference for any developer working on a big Flex development project.

1) Namespaces : Since time Flex was introduced to the software development niche Flex developers have been using Namespaces. Why they are used? Namespaces help identify the language versions in which the application is built; inform compiler about the location where the custom components are saved as well as decide scope with which the XML tag can be matched to a particular ActionScript class. In the latest Flex 4 XML has been restored to MXML 2009 namespace and contains current language tags. Hence components of both Flex 3 and Flex 4 namely Halo and Spark display their own namespaces.

2) Declarative Graphics : FXG the latest graphics format converter in Flex 4 will provide more versatility to the applications developed using CS4. Flash Player 10 as well as Flex 4 will deliver FXG graphical components like text primitives, graphics, gradients, fills, bitmaps, strokes, alphas, blend modes, masks and support for filters.

3) Layouts : While developing a Flex application the Flex developer chooses the components depending on their layout properties. For example a developer might choose Canvas as it will give him absolute positioning of x and y. Flex 4 has an updated layout tag which allows a Flex developer to select from all three layouts.

4) States : Most of the Flex developers feel that states can be best created using Flex Builder. In the previous version of Flex that is Flex 3 states showed how visual elements can be subtracted or added from the visual layer programmatically with similar tags for style, events and property modification. In plain simple words states allows a Flex developer to efficiently use the visual elements to make effective changes to the UI.

The main reason why a developer prefers to use Flex Builder is that the IDE is well equipped to record all the various steps taken to alter states and translate the same into the required code. Yes the end result which is the code can be manually written but takes lot of time and hard work.

Flex 4 contains several renovations with respect to states which have been developed by derogating tags used previously. Visual components have been empowered with changes required for various states. Unlike previous versions where components were to be added programmatically while moving to a particular state in Flex 4 components are permanent, they will be there in each state.




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Typo3 Open Source Content Management Solutions

Avion Technology explored an TYPO3 CMS Overview

Typo3 Customization is a well-known easily extensible open source system for powerful Content Management. It is basically used for website managing websites properly. By using this anyone can create a basic outline or template, structure the content and make the right navigational pages. Making a perfect template or structure is the controlling part of any CMS website. It consists of several files (HTML, CSS, images) to determine the basic structure and layout of the page. It will make a special marking, which is later filled automatically by the CMS with the appropriate content.
We can create TYPO3 templates from:

New Design to TYPO3 templates
PSD, AI or any other source design file to typo3 templates

HTML templates to TYPO3 templates
It makes many applications easily accessible; upload FTP for web pages, provide web and intranets solutions. This is the
friendliest program to use which does not require any technical Knowledge or skills. Neither any particular web development skill is required for running Typo3 CMS Customization services nor is knowledge of HTML required. TYPO3 is written using PHP and uses mySQL as the database and is compatible with all major operating systems such as UNIX, Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Firefox etc. Our expertise team has a command over PHP and mySQL and so we have developed many extensions and customized systems and have excelled in the language.

Prominent Features of Typo3 Customization:-

1. Easy to use.
2. Management & Administration of site.
3. Customization of templates.
4. Use various desired extensions.
5. Configure & customization of application.
6. Multiple versions of a website.

We provide all these services parallel to your concern and requirements. We have a team which is experienced, skill and knowledgeable that work with complete dedication to realize any of your website or web application needs by customizing TYPO3. The team takes challenges and are groomed in such a manner that can develop both Typo3 customisation and Typo3 extension development. We have been associated with such companies which have highly skilled and expertise developers in the Typo3 Systems.


1. Here is list of our typo3 customization services
2. Migration to Typo3 CMS
3. Typo3 Theme Development
4. Typo3 Extension Customization
5. New extension development
6. Modify existing extensions
7. Typo3 Template and Typo3 design
8. Custom web design



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