The designing industry is highly competitive, and to get ahead in the race, designers need to keenly focus on being technical as well as strategic. Here are a few common issues that designers have to face during web design and development.
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The first thing to get started is a theme folder. In this case, we’ll call it “base_theme.” The only file actually required to create base_theme is an .info text file which is saved as base_theme.info
According to estimates, as of July 2014, the Internet is used by over 2.8 billion people, out of which 70 percent use it on a daily basis. Studies show that the number of Internet users has increased tenfold from 1999 to 2013. These figures are enough to convince a smart person to have their own spot in cyberspace.
Investopedia defines outsourcing as “A practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to outside suppliers rather than completing it internally.” In this article, we shall discuss the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing web maintenance.
Drupal views help in querying and displaying information fast and it becomes so hard when it comes to custom table fields to be accessed in the view arguments. To help Drupal views understand the exposure of modules and custom table data, we use hook_views_data().
Vimal Joseph, Technical Architect, Zyxware Technologies is an ardent proponent of the free software philosophy. His arrival was marked by quite a few changes in Zyxware. The version control system ‘git’, our project tracker, etc are a very few of the changes he put forward in Zyxware. He is a man of integrity and discipline as one can see from the Zyx3 office that he heads. We Zyxians often joke that Zyx3 is the quietest when he is present! He is by nature a quiet, calm horse and he thinks he is an introvert. He has provided technical consultancy for various external agencies like Kerala State IT Mission, State Institute of Encyclopedic Publications, University of Calicut on projects like Malayalam Computing, ICT for Visually challenged people (Insight), Migrating content to Media wiki etc…
This is a sneak peek into the mind of our dear Vimal Joseph, the tech genius.
Slideshow is one of the common functionality you would find in the homepage of websites. It is nothing but the slides with text/pictures used to give an idea of the website. It can be used to summarize the various aspects of the company into a compact and user-friendly slider. Slideshows can be of different designs. Some of the websites use buttons to highlight the navigation of the slides while others use numbers, thumbnail images and so on. Here I have included an image, in which numbering is used for highlighting slider navigation.
What webmasters can do for making their site visible to intended audience? Identifying effective ways for managing content using stories and pages on a Drupal site can really make your website stand out from others. Here are a few tips for Drupal webmasters who would like to make their website unique, valuable and reliable.
Usually, when we talk about women who are going great guns in the corporate world, what comes into our minds is Indra Nooyi or Kiran Mazumdar Shaw - women who have conquered male bastions, women whom we admire and look upon with a sense of awe, women who literally have it all. Now, what if we have someone amidst us who has carved a niche for herself in her own small way; a woman who is capable of making it big in the corporate world?
Quite often, people complain that their website is not bringing any positive results. This is mainly because your visitors are not satisfied with your website, especially with the content and design.People who visit your company’s website expect to find certain important details about your company. Customers will not be satisfied if they don’t find the information they are looking for.
Being an open source content management platform, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications, from whitehouse.gov to the economist.com. It is built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. Though there are hundreds of content management systems, Drupal scores high when compared to all the others.
Here are the three reasons why you should build your website using Drupal.
Anoop John, CTO, Zyxware Technologies, is a man of many interests and an ardent proponent of the free software philosophy. This man is a polymath who loves to speak, and funnily enough has an opinion on everything under the sun! An avid blogger, he has documented a lot of data in his blog, www.thondomraughts.com, which covers his thoughts on topics varying from activism, to sociology, psychology, ethics, law and much more! All that being said, he is a simple man who just wants to make a difference, bring upon a positive change in the society and help his fellow people. This interview with him sheds light on his journey, his philosophies and the kind of man that he is personally.
Benzinga has its own pool of editors and contributors who can submit articles and write-ups to the site. The content pulled in from other news syndicates is monitored and filtered by the editors and a decision is taken on whether to publish it or not.
Audeze is a company dedicated to manufacturing high end audio head phones and accessories that provide exceptional quality in rendering sound output. Its high quality build and state-of-the-art technological innovations put together by their talented team of engineers help to realize a product that is unique and render the most accurate sound reproduction available today, as mentioned in their website www.audeze.com. An important channel for their sales is their website.
Those of you who have been regularly visiting this site would have started seeing small changes in the site related to how it integrates with social media sites. I have been experimenting on how to increase the interactions between us and the visitors on the site as well as between visitors on the site. This is still a work in progress but I wanted to share with you some of the things I have changed on the site
The first thing that you have to do when you want to improve something is to understand what is it that you are trying to improve. To do that you have to have some way of putting that thing which you are trying to improve into a quantity you can measure and get some kind of numbers on. This is applicable not just for your web traffic or social media marketing efforts but with anything (or rather most things) you do in your business.
If you are in the habit of running queries directly on your production database to generate custom reports then you will run into the requirement of having to connect to your Drupal database on the Acquia cloud hosting. One of our clients wanted to do this and this is how we got this working for them.
When you host your Drupal site on the Acquia cloud your site resides on a set of different VPSes that runs Varnish, Apache, MySQL and memcache. Additionally you have your staging server, your development server as well as your production servers - all of them being VPSes.
When you set out to build a website for your company there are a lot of aspects that you should be considering while deciding on the technology decisions. Based on these different aspects and based on how you prioritize between them the technology decisions that you take would vary. Going for a Content Management System is a no brainer if you wish to manage the content on your site. Both Drupal and Wordpress are good choices for building your new company website. However there are differences between them and this is an attempt to help you make a decision on this.
Maintaining a Drupal site is not just about managing the content on the site and administering users and the configuration. An important part of maintaining a Drupal site is in keeping the site updated with the latest security updates released for Drupal core and also for the contributed modules used on the site.
If you're in search of a reliable Drupal vendor for your next project, read on to discover why Zyxware could be your ideal partner.