Software Engineering Insights

Adding custom customer attributes in Magento's default One Page Checkout is often cumbersome for developers. Most often programmers get stuck while resolving problems encountered in Magento checkout configuration, which is the most important aspect of an eCommerce website.

Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, was quoted while saying "If I were to start Drupal from scratch today, I'd build it for mobile experience first and desktop experience second".

Blogs are of paramount importance to a website and especially to a Magento Developed Online Store. Blogs bring forth traffic and are the prime source of SEO leads. In this tight race of Blogging Platforms, Wordpress has turned out to be the fastest horse in the derby.

Ever since eBay Enterprise released the new version of Magento i.e. Magento Community Edition version 1.9 on May 13, 2014 at the Imagine 2014 Global Ecommerce event hosted at Las Vegas, more than 50 enhancements have been introduced in an endeavor to improve the quality and security of the updated platform throughout the product.

The war in the content management systems market would soon heat up as Joomla 3.1 is expected to add new dimensions to it. Other CMS solutions will face intense competition once 3.1 comes into the market. Joomla 3.1 beta version has been released for preview and it does pack and punch. One of the highlight features of the new version will be a feature called ‘Tags’. Though it is still under review, if included it might be one of the highlighting features of Joomla. Let us take a quick peek into what ‘Tags’ are and how they can prove to be a game changer for Joomla.

Developers in smaller and larger e-commerce agencies/shops are often faced with different development environments. Customers who want to evaluate e-commerce platforms like Magento, OXID or Shopware have to handle everything from downloading the packages, their LAMP stack and installing it on-the-go. Of course, you might have your own virtual machine, but for a quick shot you have to create another virtual host etc.

It is a season of good news for all the online merchants and shoppers. According to the recent report by the eMarketer, the eCommerce industry proudly surpassed the trillion dollars mark in the year 2012. The B2C sales have increased by 21.1 percent and the experts predict that it will increase by another 12.3 percent in the current year. This only gives much more hope and promise to the online merchants to plunge into the deeply rewarding and thriving sea of eCommerce and concentrate their eCommerce websites in a better way to capture the flourishing business potential.

Have you finally decided to take a plunge in the gratifying world of eCommerce development? In case you have finally decided to carry out your business online, significantly cut the costs and enjoy the benefits of vigorous and upbeat market, here are the 5 things that you must consider before getting your eCommerce website developed.

Uplift in the technology is noticeable in almost every industry.Technology's recent impact on retail industry can be gauged through frequent openings of new e-stores. Since the inception of online selling; industry and the users, both, have undergone many changes and improvements. With lot of stores online now, every one is toiling hard to provide best possible features and facilities on their stores and on the other hand, user's expectations from e-stores have also increased. Default e-store features are no more sufficient to bind buyers and henceforth an e-store demands more facilities and features from their software development vendors.

Today, the eCommerce industry seems to have smitten the entire world. It has actually turned the colossal globe into a small urban village, efficiently bridging the gaps between any two geographically different locations. However, as they say that Rome was not built in a day, it took eCommerce industry years of hard work, to get to a position where it is today. Surviving through user distrust, to online frauds, to aggressive marketing and awareness programs, the eCommerce industry today has reached a stage where today, more 80% of the users who are active online, have at least shopped online at least once and more that 50% of them have shopped online more than once.