It is indeed encouraging to note that ccbill integration will enable the merchants to carry on with their business with confidence and absolute flexibility. Merchants can make the best use of the customizable forms provided by ccbill in the integration of their online payment services. They will be all the more happy with the quality of customer support offered by the CCBill. The company allows the merchants to provide their customers with the payment types they are very familiar with. In other words merchants that opt for CCBill integration can offer credit card, bank debit, e-check and other types of payment to their customers from the United States of America, Canada or from the United Kingdom.

CCBill offers the best online payment processing solutions to its merchants especially when it comes to credit card payment processing. This is the one area that requires a lot of attention in order to prevent any kind of fraud. CCBill takes great care in the processing of all the other types of payments too and sees to it that the merchants receive complete protection against fraud. Therefore merchants can rely on the services of CCBill with great confidence and faith in their functioning abilities. As a jewelry merchant what are you waiting for? Get your business website integrated with CCBill today!

By using this marketing product, every marketer will be able to keep a customer database. This allows him/her to have a good relationship with clients. It also helps the customer in making the right decisions that are all geared to improve on the business as it offers the user with a complete and transparent analysis on to how the business is performing. When using Limelight CRM Integration, the marketer is also given an upper hand when it comes to matters related to email marketing. It has an automatic email responder system which allows the user to communicate and also take any new customer contact that it comes across.

This is definitely the marketing product that every marketer should own. It comes loaded with E-commerce solutions that are helps ever marketer create and develop multiple online campaigns. It also supports different billing options like single billing and automated continuity billing. When it comes to matters related to security, it uses cutting edge technology to ensure that all user’s needs are well taken care of. This marketing product is also very conscious when it comes to matters related to fraud protection. The fact that it gives the user multiple advantages makes it a very good product to market itself as it is guaranteed that it’s good features will sell themselves. All said and done, the face of internet marketing has been changed to the better thanks to Limelight CRM Integration.

Before the Revolution…

Berners-Lee brought the concept of using hyperlinks to navigate from one page to another in 1989. He proposed the theme of World Wide Web along with another scientist Robert Cailliau. In 1990, Geneva, Berners-Lee used a NeXT computer as the first web server of the world and within 1990, he made all tools for working well on web.

Web 1.0

Berners-Lee also stretched his hand by uploading Les Horribles Cernettes (image of famous CERN girls) on web which is regarded as the first uploaded image on web. But the web needed lot more improvement. In 1993, the web finally became public. Early browsers like Mosaic, Cello, Netscape Navigator came into existence. Gradually, the beta version of world’s first search engine (Google.com) was launched. Also in early 1990s, graphics based online services like PlayNET, Prodigy, MSN, and Quantum Link were developed. Bookmarking was one of the features of web 1.0.

By the middle to end of 90’s decade, entrepreneurs felt enthusiastic about the web’s immense opportunities. Business people headed towards web to gain profit. The initial rush for investing in web was huge resulting formation of dot-com bubble. However, this meteoric rise of dot-com investment did not last long. It just ‘burst’ as many companies encountered huge losses due to bulk initial investment with no return.

The rise of Web 2.0 concept

Many people thought that W3 was less opportunistic when dot-com bubble burst. This changed the perceptions about web. Web at that point needed a boost to go on further.

The term “Web 2.0″ was coined in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design. The concept came into existence at a conference of brainstorming sessions between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Participants in the conference agreed to the fact that web can have more information sharing, more funny applications and more features.

This resulted most interactive, innovated and user-friendly websites on web. Participation and Information sharing became the key for web 2.0 . Several social networking sites, photo / audio / video uploading & sharing sites, portals, forums, blogging, chatting came into existing under web 2.0 era. Also, searching, tagging, web based marketing got a new hype.

Also, design perceptions got changed also. Visually appealing graphics, new page elements, strong colors, animated graphics just started to dominate every site. Designers got their own space on web.

Is Web 2.0 over yet?

Web 2.0 elements have still strong existence on web. But many believes that web 3.0 or ‘beyond web 2.0 concept’ is just knocking the doorstep? Fiction, eh? Well, actually not. Web analysts think that web beyond 2.0 will be more person centric and focusing on individual lifestream & behavior. The web content will be more dynamically changing; widgets, drag & drop elements will improve the user interfaces of web. Semantic web has come as a utopic vision (say, web of data) that might change our perception about present web.

And who knows, the combination of web, computer and mobile will lead us to another revolution? Whatever future awaits for web, we might not forget to say a big thank you to Tim Berners-Lee on the occasion of 20^th anniversary of world wide web.

Top Merchants

• CCBill accepts multiple payment options like VISA, Mastercard, Discover etc.
• CCBill’s system is suitable for every type of merchant’s business specially those having  continuity programs.
• CCBill has an award winning technology for detection of frauds which helps merchants to get authentic customers.

What Codeclouds can do for you for integrating of CCBill?

Integrating features of CCBill into one custom made CRM is a great challenging task for every web development company. Codeclouds Technologies is a gem of web development companies that has in-depth knowledge about online billing system, CCBill’s APIs, Subscription Management System (SMS), etc. We at Codeclouds Technologies recognize the type of CRM that a merchant needs and we integrate CCBill system accordingly with the merchant’s website.

Codeclouds Technologies has great contribution behind success story of online merchants. Most of them have accounts on CCBill or on similar payment processing sites. As we have given our services to so many satisfied merchants, we feel glad to share our service details for custom CRM and CCBill integration.  What we can offer:

Website Development for the Continuity Program: Codeclouds Technologies develops client’s websites with customized admin control and online features. The site is developed in a way such that continuity programs can be implemented nicely with site’s functioning.

Integration with CCBill Checkout: Consumers may view the Checkout page before finally purchasing any item. Codeclouds Technologies makes it smooth for consumers to move from merchant’s web front to CCBill’s checkout page.

Customized Admin System / CRM for daily operation: We custom build the CRM such a way based on merchant’s needs  that merchant’s feel the system as his own back-office. We also professionally test the admin and CRM on a daily basis.

Integration with CCBill Datalink for data consistency: Our custom made system cross-checks every infomation between CCBill’s Server to keep data consistency through the use of CCBill Datalink.

Integration with CCBill Subscription Management System (SMS) for Shipment Tracking: We also integrate the subscription management API (SMS) with our custom made CRM. As a benefit of that, the tracking info gets regularly updated on CCBill.

Hosted Confirmation Pages: Merchants can use their own hosted confirmation page instead of CCBill confirmation pages. By using tracking pixels and analytics, customers can view / track their order information.

Ecommerce Tracking with Google Analytics: We enable the Ecommerce tracking feature with Google Analytics, which enables merchant’s to generate lot of reports, based on what merchant’s can fine tune the campaign performance. Reports are available through Ecommerce Tracking are Goals Overview (conversion and cancellation rate for your site), Goal URLs (number of goals completed), Ecommerce overview, Ecommerce product performance, Ecommerce sales performance, Ecommerce transactions, Ecommerce time to purchase (the timeframe from initial visit to the site to final purchase of the product from there). These data can be certainly helpful to monitor site’s sales performance and consumer behavior studies.

Fulfillment Center Integration: Merchants can integrate a fulfillment service with our CRM. In the past, we have successfully integrated popularly known fulfillment services like Nova, Atlast Fulfillment.

3^rd Party Mass Email System Integration: Bulk email sending may be very essential part of any e-commerce system. We incorporate 3^rd party bulk email sending system (i.e. MailChimp, Constant Contact) with our customized CRM.

Order Confirmation Emails customization: We also customize the template of Order Confirmation email site’s look and feel. This service of ours helps a merchant to build his own identity in front of his customers.

Suppression List integration: Suppression list is a mandatory compliance while merchants do business with affiliate marketing. There is a provision kept in the web front, by which visitors can unsubscribe from the mailing lists.

“Order Confirmation Call” System Integration: Order Confirmation call system can be suitably integrated to the merchant’s system by us. We have incorporated many the “Order Confirmation Call System API” with our custom made CRM (I.e. Profinity).

More services from Codeclouds Technologies:

Our job does not end just by providing all the above mentioned services for our merchants. Since we concentrate on providing a one-stop solution for all CRM related necessities of the client, we have efficiently included the following additional, beneficial services under our portfolio:

• Back-office support
• Daily Order Processing
• Regular fraud prevention measures
• Affiliate marketing

If you are a merchant of an ecommerce site or planning to implement CRM on your system through CCBill, then these are services which you might like to have in your system.

Follow these steps to add WordPress posts in blog section of your website:

Creating Blog folder

Suppose we have a site named QuadraInstitute.com ( URL: http://www.quadrainstitute.com/ ).  Assuming that there is no blog section in the site, we shall create one such section. We shall go to the root of our site and create a sub-directory (folder) there named ‘blog’. So, the URL path of our blog section will be: http://www.quadrainstitute.com/blog

Adding PHP code Header

By the way, your site should be based on PHP pages because, WordPress codes are written in PHP. Two code snippets can be given that you have to place on top of each page:

Code Snippet 1:
<?php
/* comments goes here */

define('WP_USE_FLAG', false);               //define constant and its value

require_once('/wp-blog-header.php');                //include the file once

?>

Code Snippet 2:

<?php

require_once('path/wp-blog-header.php');            //include the file once

?>

Loop

WordPress has a way to display each of your blog post. This feature is called Loop. Whatever HTML or PHP code you add within the Loop, will be repeated for each page. The following things are generally written within a loop:

Title (title())

Time (time())

Categories (category())

Example of a really simple Loop for generating the WordPress posts into your blog page can be done with this code:

<?php
get_header();    // function for getting header function
if (is_posts()) : // whether comment is posted
while (have_posts()) : //if there is any post, then continue loop
the_post();
the_posted_content();        //posted message
endwhile;              //end the loop
endif;                    //end the if statement
get_sidebar();            //function for getting sidebar
get_footer();             //function for footer sidebar
?>

Generating a list

Now, we are going to generate a list with posted data, title and excerpt, you have to apply the following code:

<?php
Require_once('path/wp-blog-header.php');    //include the file once
?>
<?php
// code for generating a list with posted data, title and excerpt
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=post_title');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<?php the_date(); echo "<br />"; ?>         //for date through loop function
<?php the_title(); ?>      //for title through loop function
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>   // for excerpt through loop function 
<?php
endforeach;
?>

For generating the last four posts on the list, you have to use this code snippet:

// Integrating the last four posts on your blog
<?php
Require_once('path/wp-blog-header.php');    //include the file once
?>
<?php query_posts('showposts=4'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php endwhile;?>

You will be amazed when four posts will be shown from WordPress to your blog. That is where we end now. Hope, you’ll face no problem putting these codes on your web page and to have WP posts integrated on your blog page.

Is it only Google’s brand name for which the mobile world is so enthusiastic about Android application development? Possibly not. The Android has its own advantageous features and brand value for which it is standing out of the clutter of mobile applications development platforms.

The reasons behind Google Android’s market popularity and business value are described below:

Open source: Google Android application development comes under open source platform. Apps for Android can be developed by any individual or a group of mobile application developers. You can get sample code, tutorials, and technical articles from Android’s official site. And there is a developer’s community and Google’s support to develop apps for Android. You will get a detailed guide about how to install Android SDK after you have installed JDK and Eclipse. From this guide, any developer can start building his own Android application. So, the open source software development platform, complete assistance and ease of mobile application development have helped Google Android to gain attention of mobile critiques and enthusiasts.

Java: Android applications are compiled in javac compiler and all coding is done in Java language for application Android. Java, originally developed by Sun Microsystems, is one of the most strong computer languages for today. There are many expert programmers in Java. Since, Android coding is built in Java, most of the Java developers feel interested to develop some applications for Android. In this way, Android has grabbed quick attention among many developers.

Free APP Market: Most mobile application development has its own market or application store. Like all iPhone’s applications can be sold through iPhone’s own App Store only. But Google Android applications have an open market. You can sell your Android apps in Google’s own ‘android market’ store or else, you can sell it to other Android application store. Google has given you freedom to market your Android apps to any Android store where you can gain maximum profit.

Linux based: Android is based on the Linux version 2.6 and that gives access to core mobile device features and to develop powerful mobile applications.

Why do you need an affordable web design?

What if you have a really low budget and you want the web page design of your site in a professional manner? You have seen various sites where nice User Interfaces are built, innovative online web applications work, the graphics used are of web 2.0 type and the pages are dynamic and database driven.  By experiencing the web 2.0 styled look and business websites with multi-functionality, you may feel to own one such website! But your pocket may not permit you to do so. Then, you will begin your search in the web design market to find most affordable web design services.

Affordability vs. Quality:

There are many companies on web that will give you offers like ‘free hosting’ or ‘free web design’ but they have hidden price tags under their offers. Even if you get an affordable web design company who will give you web design services in India at almost no cost, their services won’t match your expectation. You will end up spending all your money on an unprofessionally made, non-saleable website. And if you want quality of trendy web design, you have to spend a lump sum of money.  The motive for your ideal web design should be to get an affordable web design with minimum design quality and with some creative, professional approach.

What a general web design firm can offer you on a small budget?

Any professional web design company will offer you their basic package with limited facility.  You may get one domain, little domain space, common website pages and a ready-made web template to place your site online. Most likely, your pages will be all static.

Clearly, you won’t be satisfied enough to do business with such a website, formed by the result of limited web design services.

What is the solution?

Fortunately, there are still few expert designers left in the web design field who can design a profit making site at a low cost. Due to their bulk project handling and long experience they can offer you best affordable web design that suits your budget.  A reputed web design company can always provide you excellent solutions keeping their own profit level low, because, they always love to extend their client base. An expert web design firm can offer you the following facilities:

1)      Low cost creative web templates

2)      A site map and proper site coding with W3C validation

3)      Business mail Ids

4)      Effective navigation of pages such that your visitors visit all your business pages

5)      Giving one dynamic page facility through Contact Us page to collect your visitor’s feedback.

6)      Do SEO for your site at an additional affordable price such that you get regular visitors.

7)      Site hosting and maintenance at a lost cost

As a result of these facilities, you can have a small yet well functioning site as per your budget.

How to find the dream web design firm?

In Indian web market you can find web design firms like Codeclouds Technologies, who provide custom solution at an unimaginable low price to all their clients. How can you get enough information about their affordable web design services?

• You may personally know web design companies at your locality. Visit their offices and have a face-to-face communication with their officials to know their charges in detail.
• First, ask your friends and other businessmen in your network about whether they know about any affordable web design company’s services. Try to gather information from them about quality of services.
• Search on web about “affordable web design services”. From there you will get links for some really affordable web design companies. You will possibly find Contact Us page for any standard web design company. From there you can contact them. Ask for quotations to each of these companies telling them your requirements in short. Compare their charges and quality of services and finally choose the cheapest one with best web design services.

This way, you can avail a brilliant and affordable web design from a reputed web design firm.

Joomla is the open source content management software used extensively for ecommerce solutions by building websites and user friendly online applications. Joomla can be customized to develop many advanced software. One of the popular Joomla extensions is in the field e commerce shopping cart software. Joomla does not have any built-in feature for shopping cart. But being on the open source platform and being compatible to many other application ‘components’, the shopping cart facility can be integrated in it very well. VirtueMart is one of the most popular shopping cart software developed to work with Joomla platform.

You can download VirtueMart free of cost from its official website. Then from the Installers menu of Joomla environment (and Components sub option), you can install it easily. Does Joomla VirtueMart bring all the options for successful shopping cart functioning? Truly it does. Go through the following points to understand the advantage of using Joomla VirtueMart shopping cart solution.

Advantages from the viewpoint of Administration: As the online merchant of your Joomla VirtueMart driven shopping cart, you can get the following advantages:

• You can put multiple images of your product on the shopping cart and add description (like size, color, variations) for each product
• You can segregate product types.
• You can set different prices for various product types and consumer groups.
• Multiple currency and number formats can be set for prices
• You can view the stats about the new consumer and details of new orders.
• Detailed order management and report generation about the performance of business
• You can remove the shopping cart option and can use it only as an online catalogue to showcase your products.
• Administrator can keep the option for ‘virtual Goods’ which can be product specifications in the form of PDF or demo software or any similar thing for download. This facility does a better product promotion to your customers before the product is sold online.

Advantages from the viewpoint of Consumer: Now, let’s see what facilities your online buyers can avail from Joomla VirtueMart:

• Creating easy accounts for users and managing it
• VirtueMart shows any particular product is available or not
• Consumers can search for the products through appropriate categories, manufactures and product name.
• Consumer can view unlimited number of products displayed under this Joomla shopping cart.
• Consumers can download product features, pictures and software if the option (virtual goods) is made available by the administrator.
• Consumer testimonial is very important for every product sale. VirtueMart provides the option to give user rating and write testimonials for products. Consumers express their feedback of experiencing any product.
• VirtueMart sends consumers confirmation email after the purchase is done. One copy of the email is sent to the site admin also for sales update.

From these specifications you can understand how this powerful shopping cart software on Joomla works and is really helpful for the smooth functioning of your business. It’s really a great experience to use Joomla VirtueMart shopping carts for professionally selling your items online.

Following are the reasons why ASP .NET is the natural choice for versatile and commercial web application building:

Less Coding: In ASP .NET the dynamic website building and web application development require less coding than other alternative solutions.

Multi-language compatibility: ASP .NET framework lends its support for multiple advanced languages like VB .NET (Visual Basic .NET), C# (pronounced C sharp), J# (pronounced J sharp). Web application developers have freedom to choose any of these languages which may be easy for development or as clients demand these.

Ability to create web forms: ASP .NET can serve to build Windows type User Interfaces (UI). ASP .NET provides two types of controls: HTML controls and web forms controls. Server side web form controls like Label, TextBox, Button, LinkButton, ImageButton, Hyperlink, DropDownList, ListBox, DataGrid, DataList, Repeater, CheckBox, CheckBoxList, RadioButton, RadioButtonList, Image, Panel, PlaceHolder, Calendar, AdRotator, Table, XML, Literal  help to make rich internet web forms and innovative online applications.

Security: The data-validation and authentication is well executed under ASP .NET framework. Using .NET inheritance, base classes can be developed which can serve the authentication purpose before displaying the information to a user.  You can customize the page information regarding what the current user is entitled to view. If any page’s displayable data is not secure, that information can be secured by content Encoding in ASP .NET framework. ASP .NET does a better performance by early binding and compilation, native optimization and catching facility which decrease security risks.

Uninterrupted processes: All the processes of ASP .NET are put under monitoring system of ASP .NET runtime environment. If any of the processes is found dead, a new process replaces that to make sure that the relevant service is continuously available.

Easy Deployment: The ASP .NET applications are easy to setup and deploy. You can easily install the final application in your target server.

Auto debugging: The IIS (Internet Information Services) is the web application server from Microsoft that runs ASP .NET application environment. If there is any fault or bug in the system like infinite loop, information leaks, system malfunctioning etc. then the web application server tries to fix the error. It shuts down the processes and restarts it.

Data Access: ASP .NET can collaborate with ADO .NET to work with databases.  Web database applications and forms are strongly needed in dynamic websites. ADO .NET serves this purpose exactly with the help of ASP .NET framework. You can access, modify, insert, delete records in a database and display records from server to your web browser.

Due to its strong secure framework and interesting application features, ASP .NET is widely regarded as the strong server side control framework and has multiple functionalities for building online web applications and dynamic web pages. Worldwide ASP .NET has gained a steady market due to its mass acceptance among corporate people for providing reliable ecommerce solutions with custom web application development. Upgrade to ASP .NET in the coming years will give us more secure and versatile online applications dominating the web in a smarter way.

Open source benefits:
Being on the open source platform, you can get following facilities:

• You can free download Magento shopping cart software
• Developers of Magento can create add-ons to the original software to build custom shopping carts for ecommerce business.
• You can view the code and understand the software logic for each user interface development.

Special benefits:
Besides advantages of its open source framework there are other features what makes Magento a special software to use in the e commerce shopping cart segment:

• Layered navigation: This feature lets customers to filter their search. Like, if your product is kind of clothing like shirt and pant, you can design Magento’s Layered Navigation through Category, Price, Color and Manufacturer etc. The layered navigation feature helps consumers to narrow down the search results.
• Upsell and cross-sell: During the final checkout on item, other selling items can also be placed on Magento shopping cart. So, by ‘upselling’ customer who buys one product may feel interested about buying the other product also. In another Magento module, merchant can promote multiple products, saying, “Customer who felt interested about Product X, also checked out items like Product Y and Product Z”. This module can be placed during ‘cross-selling’ even before selling one product.
• Magento’s Dynamic User Interface: There is an advanced AJAX interface in Magento CMS that automatically updates shipping and billing. The whole calculation happens in background such that customer can see the final result without refreshing the page.
• Pre-selected shipping methods and default payment: The shipping method and default payments can be set for Magento on a prior basis. This actually saves your final payment time and the default price gives some idea about the estimated price tag.
• Multi-websites and multi-store functionality: Multiple websites can be managed from Magento Commerce and you can create multiple stores in Magento. Suppose, you have three kinds of products: software, movies and music. You can book two domains like coolestsoftware.com and audio-video-download.com. Both of these sites can be maintained by Magento. Under coolestsoftware.com, you can keep ‘shop 1’. Under audio-video-download.com, you can keep ‘shop 2’ (selling music) and ‘shop 3’ (selling movies). This way the Magento Commerce can manage your shopping carts
• Customized layout: The layout for Magento can be customized and you can edit the CSS. The .PHTML that holds the header structure of the page, can also be nicely adjusted. So, every online merchant can personalize the look and feel for his site. By customizing the Magento CMS, you can add your content at the final checkout page also.
• Extensions through Magento modules: Magento has a number of free and paid extensions. The free and paid Magento modules can perform several tasks like, earning points for consumers, live chat and customer support, newsletter service, creating more static block and content, adding links to Facebook, Twitter and many more. And payment gateway can also work as well with Magento module. The extensions are very much compatible to the Magento platform. These extensions help in Magento order processing, better customer relationship and effective product promotion.

Due to Magento store’s customizability and integrated shopping cart solutions, online merchants are relying on Magento. Also there are free and costly Magento templates according to your industry that you can download and customize in your own Magento CMS. If you are looking for open source ecommerce software for your shopping cart solution, try Magento today. Download and install it. Then customize it according to your own purpose. That’s all it takes to experience the fastest growing shopping cart software.