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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Do We Really Need Confirm Password On Sign Up?


In order to define the characteristics of a password field is that it is simply text as dots. However, the intention of this kind of behavior is quite apprehensive, and making users feel more secure & protecting them from the more curious eye. The accidental effects of this is to create a usability problem. And the users cannot tell if they have filled the password incorrectly until the validation of the site informs them.

When it comes to signing up forms, which are one of the thickest web pages in order to design. The two things i.e., including & excluding certain form elements affect the conversion rates. The task of the designers is to figure out which elements the people should include or exclude.


Lower Conversion Rates With Confirm Password Fields
Most of the people believe that the confirm password field is necessary in order to include while creating the password. It is due to the reason that the password field masks the input of the user. In case, the user mistypes the password, they would not recognize it. The confirm password field catches the typos in order to promote users to type the password two times. However, the confirm password field seems quite sensible, including it can lower the conversion rate.

The “confirm password field” is merely an additional option. As our point of view, you do not need to confirm the password while sign up. Therefore, the more fields & procedures are out there in order to complete the sign up procedure, you must think twice about signing up.

The password field is starting out that means if you do not see what you are typing as in you could easily make a mistake, as well as submit the wrong password without knowing it where the “forget your password” function comes in handy form. You can say this is an inconvenience, nevertheless, you'll have to up & running again with a new & old password.

According to researchers that the confirm password field is responsible for over a quarter of all users, and it results in it abandon the Sign up form. It was also responsible for numerous users' corrections, including field refocuses & deletes. When the users removed the confirm password field and replaced it with an unmasking option, then the number of user correction is decreased. Just only that, it has been increasing since the start that means completions & conversion rates.

When we talk about- Excluding- it is quite appropriate that not confirmed password field. However, many websites exclude it, nevertheless, do not offer an unmasking option. If the user mistypes the password, the masking will keep users from recognizing it. Undoubtedly, it leads to unsuccessful log-ins, user frustration & password resets.

The “show password” option is quite easy to do. Place an icon button or text inside the password field. If the user clicks on it, then it will display their input unmasked, and allowing them to toggle it in order to turn the masking on or off as needed.

Text Button- This button should have both “Show” & “Hide” options as the default with a masked password. And with the user clicks in order to unmask the password, it should have “Hide” option.

Icon Button- This is one of an effective way in order to represent unmasking. If it is clicked, it will display the eye icon with a slash over it to represent the masking.

Wrapping Up

Now, this is time to put down “confirm password” field to rest. One of the most common convention to sign up forms that have evolved into something better. If there would be longer sign ups, then users will suffer more from high corrections & abandon rate. In order to give users control over the password inputs, by doing so, you can give the users the peace of mind to completion the process of the form. 

Get a better paragraph with CSS3 Hyphentation


Hyphenation means that- splitting words to improve the layout of the paragraphs.

How can you achieve proper word wrapping within the elements with a dynamic width? There is a fluid layout available with a dynamic width in order to deliver the responsive user experience. That means no element is having a fixed width instead of the width is defined as percentages. Undoubtedly, it causes major issues while designing, and “word wrapping” is one of the major problems. Initially, the designers do add word-wrap: break-word to the element, and it should automatically do the wrapping. Nonetheless, in actuality, it is not working automatically.

If you have an element with a dynamic width word-wrap: break-word, and this is not having any effect. Nowadays, the browser does not use the calculated width in order the enforce the wrapping. Instead of that they seem to ignore the declaration.

The concept “Hyphenation” is usually needed when the width of the column or the page is quite narrow in order to accommodate the line, allowing paragraphs to align with proper spacing. It could also minimize the rivers from appearing and as a result of breaking apart. In order to compare, let us dive into the terminology-

We have been able to hyphenate paragraph in print media for years, but now we are able to hyphenate paragraphs using new CSS3 property, which are called as “hyphens” with a lack of support from the browsers. At the times of writing, the new property “hyphens” that is only supported in Internet Explorer 10, Safari 5.1+ & Firefox 6 with the prefix, and surprisingly it has not been implemented in Chrome.

When we talk about it usages, the property hyphens accept the three values i.e. none, manual or auto. The auto value will let the web browsers hyphenate the paragraphs automatically when it is proper. The default one is manual whereas you can set hyphens through ­ auto.

There is also one thing that you have to notice in order to use that is you have to define a lang- attribute on an element, which carries text that should be hyphenated.

With the use of manual value, as the content author need to specify manually how the word should break in order to insert ­ notation in between the word.


Wrapping Up- If the feature supports all the web browsers, surely that paragraph on the web will be much better displayed. Until we have got an alternative method to using a Javascript library, which is called as Hyphenator, which has better compatibility & work in diverse languages. 

Friday, August 21, 2015

Adding WhatsApp Share Button into WordPress for More Traffic


When we talk about reality in modern times, then we can't deny the fact that the usage of Smartphones has taken more even more things in our daily life. In reality, it has been increasing rapidly for last past few years. Since the increasing popularity of the smartphone, we highly recommend you the mobile version or responsive website, whether you are running a blog website or whatever it is. We do follow an ample of mobile applications, and the most popular plus widely used the messaging app- WhatsApp. Billions of people around the globe use this messaging app & love it, too.

Now, we are going to tell you about the sharing button of WhatsApp on the blog the same as Facebook & Twitter buttons.

Surely, it is beyond our imagination is that with the emergence of WhatsApp sharing buttons, it will flow an abundance of traffic to your website, as well as it will make sharing quite easier. If the readers will like the article, then they will surely share to WhatsApp, by doing so, it will be frequently shared by a number of people out there.

Now, you can start thinking of adding WhatsApp sharing button thing into your WordPress blog due to the reason is that it is worth it.

Before diving into the concept of- how to add share button, let us share some facts with you.

The widely famous website- Buzzfeed added WhatsApp button sometimes back. WhatsApp is now sharing more contents as compared to Twitter button. That's amazing as well as favorable, too. The share button is like email the content to your friend option & quite fast also. Undoubtedly, it has an immense power in order to make anything go viral around the web.

How To Make Use Of 'Mobile ShareBar Plugin' for 'WhatsApp Button'

One of the easiest plugins is “WhatsApp Share Button” in order to add the button on your blog. It is an absolutely free plugin, and supporting URL tracking via Google Analytics. With the use of the Mobile ShareBar Plugin, you'll get more traffic as well as more social media shares to your website. Here we are guiding you step by step how to use the plugin in a better way. The simple steps are as follows, for WordPress website:

  • First of all, all you need to download & install Mobile share bar plugin that will let you spend not a single buck out of your pockets.
  • After that, you have activated the plugin, then go to “settings” & “mobile share bar & configure” option. It is completely simple as well as a straight forward option.
  • All you need to have an option to shorten the URL through Bit.ly
  • The next step is that you have to select the places where you wish to show the share button on your blog. It would be great if you choose your home page, posts in order to show Facebook & WhatsApp button. You need to select the position of share button for the mobile site.
  • Click on the save changes. Do not forget to clear the WordPress cache.

When it comes to non-WordPress websites, use the WhatsApp sharing button general tool in order to generate a code & add it to your blog.


What About Traffic! You'll get more & more traffic

By using Mobile share bar plugin, undoubtedly, you'll get more & more social traffic to your website. Users can share your informative & good content with the help of WhatsApp share button with their friends.

Only for iOS & Android Smartphones


Currently, the share button is only available in iOS & Android Smartphones who are using the newest Android version. Hence, it will only be displayed to those who access the blog page of yours with one of these phones, and it appears when the user scrolls down on your page.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Knolling- One of the best E-Commerce Design Trends for 2015


To keep your online store on trend, it can be the difference across losing sales & staying relevant. It applies not only for the products that you are marketing, nonetheless, it is so pivotal that how you represent all.

In the blog, we'll dive into one of the most appealing & famous design trends that you can leverage in order to keep your online store. Let us tell you more about design trends:

There are some designers who think like that- “trend” is a kind of dirty word, nevertheless, it is just a way in order to identify engrossing patterns in a collective manner of our culture.

When we talk about its definition, it is something that a ton of people really loves at one moment as a result, it makes your store & design make familiar to the visitors. Follow these tips that would not make the design of your online shop amazingly better than that of rivals, nonetheless, it could help your products more appealing in front of potential customers.

Essentially, there are two questions that you should ask yourself before making & implementing any design decision:

#1 Do You Want Your Brand To Follow Design Trends?

In order to strike out on your own & doing something boldly assorted is a kind of big risk that could get big benefits if people find the change refreshing.

#2 Who is your market target?

Some trends appeal to particular people, however, some people repel others. Making sure that the demographic is looking for, as well as it is pivotal to decide how can you use the design in order to make your shop a great destination for a lot of people out there.

Let us dive into the concept of design trends for this year, have a look & how you can implement it:

#Knolling

It is the process of arranging objects in 90 degrees angles or in parallel as a method of organization.

Have you ever heard the term “knolling”? If yes, you are quite familiar with the term- trend. Truly, it is everything now. Do you familiar with the latest trend that our friends are using in Instagram nowadays? That means arranging a bunch of things or products in a grid neatly- that is known as “Knolling”.

After that, it has become exceedingly famous with product photography & Instagram. In addition, it is not merely pleasant to look at, but it is amazing in order to get an understanding of the store's collection- one of the nicest way to show a potential outfit for your online clothing store. 

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

How Windows 10 Impact On Web Design


All we know that Windows 10 is absolutely available and the final version of Windows. For now, the famous company- Microsoft will cease major version releases & pick out the frequent update model with new releases. Right now, Windows 10 ties many different ideas into a surprisingly usable package.

Windows 10 introduces features that will have a long-lasting impact on web design, here's what we are talking about:

It Smooths New Devices
Well, Microsoft missed the mobile revolution. This is one of exemplary desktop OS and it is one of the most widely used around domestic & business sectors. After Android & iOS, a Windows mobile is a commonly third choice. Windows 10 is foremost full responsive OS. The Operating system will run on all the hardware company, including mobile. Microsoft's new approach to mobile is delivering a few high-end consumer devices. At least, one has come this year.

While that may mean that we'll see more windows mobiles in future, and it is not the biggest device news. The operating system (OS) Windows 10 will also power Microsoft's Xbox One. To bring desktop browsing standards to television. With Xbox One runs a complete version of edge. The veteran web designers will need to design for much larger HD screens, and has viewed at a greater distance than mobile & desktop with new input methods.

The Operating System- Windows 10 may be designed for windows mobile, nevertheless, it is broadening devices beyond mobile that will have a long-lasting impact.

“CORTANA” Will Revolutionize Search
Microsoft's personal assistance software- CORTANA. It only works in some territories such as U.S, U.K, the China, Germany, France, Italy & Spain. And later, support will be added for Brazil, Mexico & Canada.

When we come to its significance of CORTANA is how we interact with it. When you search the web by typing, tend to search in short phrases, for instance, web designing blog. Nevertheless, we one search by speaking, then we tend to ask longer, and qualified questions. Here is an exemplary- “CORTANA, where I can find a good web design blog?”

Both content marketing & SEO has been moving away from keyboards for some time, however, the arrival of natural speech patterns in some kind of queries. That will clear & quality content even more essential over the next few years.

Opening Up The Development Market
The strength of Windows was always based on fundamentally two key factors- the large choice of apps available & budget. One of the biggest weaknesses in Windows 10 is the lack of that app choice. Edge has almost no plugins available yet. The better design is a rapid update approach of Windows 10 is the lack of app's choice that makes it surely better than Windows 8.

Upgraded security & stability that means the software manufacturers may well look again at Windows versions. The more options that mean greater invention & options. It can only benefit, not to just Window users, but all web designers.

The OS- Windows 10 Is Constantly Updating
It is an ongoing service, and continually being adapted & developed. This is kind of approval that Adobe just have pioneered in the last couple of years, and it is a signal of the direction that all software is moving on. Well, it creates value for web designers that is, it is beyond the bug fixes & security updates for those who use Windows.

Wrapping Up

The Operating System- Windows 10 delivers on the premises what that Windows 8 had made. Undoubtedly, it is young, a functional operating system that works amazingly well on touch screens as well as it will soon embrace on mobiles. 

Do You Have A Strong Or A Weak Logo?


There's a common question- Do you have a strong or a weak logo?

 Whilst a dancer may ask himself, “I wonder what Michael Jackson would think of my dance moves?” or a designer would ask himself, “what would Paul Rand think of my dance moves”?

 A well-known & veteran graphic designer & art director is Paul Rand, who quite famous for designing the corporate logos, including the logos of Steve Job's NeXT, UPS, IBM, Inc., etc.

 Well, when Steve Job hired him for designing the NeXT computers logo, then he paid him 100,000 dollars. Steve Job asked him if he would come up with a few options, and Paul Rand said, “No, I will solve your problem for you & you will pay me. You don't have to use the solution. If you want options, go & talk to other people”.

 After that, Paul Rand came up with a 100-page brochure detailing the brand, including the precise angle used for the logo as well as a new company name.

 According to Paul Rand, the logo design is-

“The foremost role of a logo is to identify its simplicity. Its effectiveness that depends on adaptability, visibility, memorability & timelessness”.

Well, Paul Rand followed seven steps in order to measure the logo, as in:
  • Is it distinctive?
  • Is it Visible?
  • Is it adaptable?
  • Is it memorable?
  • Is it universal?
  • Is it timeless?
Once you have done with all the above 6 steps, then ask yourself the final question- is it simple?

#1 Distinctive
When it comes to “Distinctive” that means unique & different from every logos. It must stand out from the crowd. This is something that is not easily confused by others. In short, simple+ understandable.

For instance, old Bing uses youthful & lively color, i.e blue and 80% of all logos are blue. But when we talk about “typography” then it says- openness & breadth that are good for search engines as like Google uses that.

The logo of bing is having no artwork as compared to their rivals. It embraces a lot of words to convey its meaning, but there is nothing appealing & unique about the words. The letters use a lot of white space in the background, and still the letters seem to merge together, especially the base of “I”.

We'll give 3/10 to the logo of “bing” for its uniqueness.

#2 Visibility
When it comes to “visibility” that means easily seen or noticeable, due to the reason that the logo of “bing” is having a generous amount of space & it's visibility is quite high! You can notice, most of the designers use usually black & white in their logo while creating the logo for optimal visibility. But the deep yellow dot on “I” is lost when the logo is put in black & white. Make sure that the logo looks good in black & white.

We'll give 6/10 for visibility.

#3 Adaptable
“Adaptability” that means that it works across a variety of applications as in- on T-shirts, cups, on a truck or a road sign. We hope that you got the idea what does we mean about adaptability.

Bing's logo scores 5/10 for adaptability.

#4 Memorable
The logo should be something that is unforgettable. If the person feels the need of your business, then your logo comes to mind immediately. The logo of Bing is flat & full of lackness of emotions- that make it difficult to remember.

We'll give 2/10 due to it is difficult to remember.

#5 Universal
The universal logo carries a consistent meaning & this is probably the most difficult part in creating a logo due to the reason is that- everyone is different. Well, Google uses color, whereas Apple uses a staple- neutral color & worldwide fruit.

When we talk about bing logo, it needs to reveal the power & deepness, but not at the cost of approachability.

We'll give 4/10 for the universal concept.

#6 Timeless
While crafting a timeless logo, one of the biggest principles to remember is to use the hottest colors, coolest styles & showy fonts. It is pivotal to find out the core of your design. Trim off the additional decoration part. The thing that can work is “minimalism” that means saying more by saying less. The Bing logo seems quite good by avoiding flashiness & short term sparkle.

We'll give 6/10 to bing's logo.

What About “Is It Simple” Statement?

Paul Rand once said, “A logo cannot survive unless it is designed with the utmost simplicity & restraint”.

In Paul-Rand-Logo-Test, it is pivotal to add & create stand out qualities in your design, therefore, it is unique, memorable, durable and so on. The last step is all about stripping out & eliminating addition details in order to reveal a pure & playful end-product.

Hence, simplicity is the king among all qualities we mentioned above. Well, a highly creative & unique logo may lose points due to the reason is that- it is unique & creative at the expense of “simplicity”. The Paul-Rand-Logo-Test can apply in order to create any logo.

And now, it is your chance to try it & tally your score. Do you have a strong or a weak logo? Share with us! 

Monday, August 10, 2015

Reasons: Why People Don't Buy From Your Online Store?


You are seriously wasting your money only if you can't make your clients/visitors smile. You must spend huge dollars on AdWords, SEO & Social campaigns. Is it all pointless? Are there no sales & no profit?

If people come to your website, and your present website would scare them off, we all want to say that your first impression counts. According to searches, web designs drive a massive visitors to the website. When it comes to “awful web designs” that lead to lower trust & higher friction. It means that it does not matter how much traffic you drive to your website- if the design of the website is not alluring plus user-friendly, then you can unexpectedly lose massive potential customers.

Have a look at one of the most common mistakes that make people would not buy from your online store:

The Visuals are of “Low Quality”
If your shopping website just embraces online catalogues with poorly online catalogues, then it will surely one of the reasons to lose the traffic. The images of “real staff” instead of dated stock images that are copied from Google.

The website must have “call to action” & solid reasons to choose you, and also containing “real videos” of an organization in case if you handle it. It encourages great impressions of a well-functioning organization.

The Website Is Not Alluring Enough To Target The Potential Customers
Do you know your target audience? Does your business handle consultants, academics or truck drivers?
Having all these pivotal things into your mind, then examine your website carefully. Does the web design speak out to your demographic? Is the language comfortably within their education level that you are using? Will the designs, content & images appeal to them? It is important to be careful while designing & writing the content, it must be for everyone.

“Boring & Stale” Content
Roughly data says,” the users have hardly spent approx. 6 seconds in order to read the written content. It means you do not have much time to capture their attention, therefore, make sure you present the great stuff to your visitors.

We are dead sure that you have not ever scrolled to the bottom of the web page to where the copyright data is listed or found that it is outdated by a year. All these things do not offer much confidence to the company who owns the website.

An outdated website or expiry web designs surely turn off the clients. Make sure that your present website is up-to-date according to new trends in web designing and all.

When it comes to the blog, then it must be informative & interesting one.

If You Underestimate The Worth Of “About Us” & “Contact Us” Pages
You must be surprised regarding how many readers read the content from “About Us” page. The sources say, “About Us web page is one of the most visited pages among all”, and “Contact Us” page almost takes the same level. Whether you are running a big company or handling work from home, the website must contain contact us page to your website. If there is a simple web page without basic contact information, then it looks suspicious & transient.
Visitors actually know more about you, and if you think you have a great staff then tell about them. If you have high-profile clients, then let people know about them in the form of testimonials.
Hence, having both web pages can make a big difference.

If “Shopping Cart” Is Making Hitch For Users
Have you ever purchased from your website as in the functionalities of your website? How many steps are involved? If it involves more than one step, then it is undoubtedly so many. In short, the checkout page must be one page.

To require guests to sign up before they can check out, or just view the home page – is again one of the turns off options. You need to ease the option of check out for your guests.

The “Trust Indicators” Are Missing
When the visitors land on your website, and naturally they do not know about you or they may do not like you. So, how can you expect them to buy products from you?

If the website embraces “bad reviews”, “missed contact information” or “a lack of social proofs”, then you'll lose confidence from them. Most of the people cast their reviews from third-party websites such as Google+ or other local directions. All these independent reviews embrace a lot of weight of trust. It is pivotal to generate them, ensure that all these are positive.

Set “Google Alerts” in order to monitor what other people say about your business & address their comments immediately to manage the online reputation.

Here're the following things that visitors think of mistrusted website:

  • Complicated Layouts
  • Bombardment of Pop-up advertisements
  • Small Prints & small font-size of content that is hard to read
  • Stale Webs Designs
  • Slow Load time of the website

If You've Adopted Bad Strategies Of SEO
The bad techniques of bad SEO can hurt your website, undoubtedly, and it makes complete waste of time. If your website embraces links that are irrelevant to the website's themes, keyword stuffing, linking to irrelevant websites & cloaking.

“Mobile-friendly” Is Missing
If the website is not mobile-friendly, then it will surely lose its ranking among various search engines. Do you aware with that what exactly consumers looking for in a website accessed from the website? Have a look:

  • Speed of the Website
  • Finger-friendly & big buttons
  • Limited scrolling
  • Swift access to business info
  • One-direction scrolling (either horizontal or vertical)

If the website is not mobile-friendly, then it will drive less traffic, therefore, pay attention to it.
“Videos” Are Missing That Illustrate The Products
If an image can speak thousand of words, then a video is worth than thousands of images. In any way, videos are powerful and providing a quick & an easy way in order to impart a lot of information effectively. Include videos to the website, it also improves SEO.



Wednesday, August 5, 2015

PHP vs. Ruby On Rails


Are you trying to compare the two that are out of the blue?

Absolutely yes!

When it compares the two things, then it would be the matter of comparing two things that are completely out of the blue. ROR (Ruby on Rails) is a framework for Ruby, on the other hand, PHP is a language that embraces myriad frameworks.

Usually, the comparison makes sense if we compare PHP+Frameworks & Ruby+Rails. However, some people may get hung up over trying to compare the two, and it is one of the legitimate questions that many developers may ask.

You may be one of the developers who have been searching the benefits & shortcomings of both ecosystems- PHP & Ruby On Rails, and genuinely want a clear answer for over the years.


Depending on your preference, choosing between two

Whether your answer is yes or no. Both the ecosystems- PHP & Ruby on Rails are both powerful and depending on your preferences whether or not choosing between two. In addition, the two embraces many strengths. It would be useful to compare the two in a level-headed fashion.

Web developers do use both and both play the pivotal role in the niche of the global web development industry.

The Good Side- PHP

Simplicity & Learning Curve
What people absolutely love about PHP is its “simplicity” & “learning curve”.

  • When you first get into PHP, all you need to learn & have a single HTML page. After that, change the extension to .php
  • Inline php <?php //code ?>
  • Run it on a PHP web server

All the process is quite simple for someone if one starts totally fresh the coding part to get something usable done & developed within few minutes. This is one of the benefits has been embraced in PHP and that is why it is so popular among coders in a productive way.

However, the simplicity comes at a cost. It is a double-edged sword as in it leads a lot of sloppy & un-maintainable code. All these things make people use frameworks that force a specific code standard. The advantage of PHP is its simplicity as well as the shallow learning curve that is one of the big things that is going for it. And it actually has benefits to business, too. It is quite easier to find developers who know PHP.

But it is quite hard to find out ROR developers who are more expensive.

When it comes to documentation, then the docs for PHP is far more useful than Ruby on Rails guides.


PHP is meant for the Web
One of the best things regarding PHP is that it is really focused around the web. Nevertheless, it is not merely a general purpose programming language such as Ruby, Python, Perl, C, etc.

To solve web problems, PHP embraces inbuilt functions that are specific- thanks to it, which makes PHP a straightforward language for the sake of the web. For instance, send a header to the browser, use the header () function. But this is not the case with Ruby on Rails as in the things are not as simple as in PHP in order to load libraries & use the modules/namespaces in order to get the same functions.


PHP has an abundance of resources
PHP embraces a ton of resources, including frameworks, applications & libraries that are available. From Frameworks (Symfony) to CMS (WordPress & Drupal) & Libraries (Doctrine), in actual, PHP has a lot of good resources available.

For instance, in order to develop a simple CMS, by default, people do use WordPress instead of building Ruby on Rails app for it. Believing that- it is a pretty simple solution more than anything.

Simple to install/use
In order to use/ install PHP is a deadly easiest task. With PHP, you do not have to know about or care needfully about the web stack. However, many hosting services use LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment as long as your files are in place they just run & this is it. Using a framework like CodeIgniter is comparatively simple as you ever do not need to use the command line, simply, just copy the entire framework directory onto the server & run. That is it!

The Bad Side- PHP

PHP leads to a lot of bad code. There is a lot of sloppy code that you need to handle.


The Good Side- Ruby On Rails (ROR)

ROR- The Mature Framework
The more you work on this technology, more you love it. It enables developers to develop “high-quality codes” for clients that are much faster & more maintainable.

ROR is a stable & mature framework, and many large industries are comfortable with ROR technology in order to introduce their environments. When comparing to PHP ecosystem that embraces so many frameworks where there is a risk of selecting a framework & finding that it is just not the well supported so many years from now.

Speed & Development
You'll be just love working with Rails or ROR due to as a development platform. It is ultra automated. Numerous routine tasks have been automated so that you just focus completely in order to solve the business problems instead of hacking the way around a framework.

- Rails community provides a wealth of plugins.
- Providing a very good starting point for development.
- Rails have a testing framework that can be used.

As a programming language- Ruby On Rails is pretty amazing language, and the code of it is quite concise & powerful. After coding on ROR, you'll find coding in PHP rather boring!

The Bad Side- ROR (Ruby on Rails)


It is not at all easy & straightforward language as PHP. ROR is quite a powerful language, although. If you choose ROR as a developer, it would be a reason that it is much powerful language than PHP.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

How To Optimize The Speed Of The Website


Websites- Slow & Steady Surely Cannot Win The Race!

Slow websites do not merely frustrate & deter the visitors, nevertheless, these kind of websites also banish from the search engine rankings. Here, we are going to explain some pivotal things that you can do a lot of things outside of the website for speeding up the performance of your website.

In this blog, we are going to outline the essential steps in order to ensure that you can speed up your website-

The speed of the website is “usability” or usefulness- this is something one of the major parts.

What does really mean by the “fast speed” of the website? Loading time & Processing time of the website is one of the major things that are actually embraced by the fast speed of the website.

When it comes to “Loading time” of the website, then it takes all the information to download the users' devices. Primarily, it is affected by the speed of internet connection, as well as the actual size of the files.

When we talk about “Processing time”, once the files are downloaded, the files have to be processed & provided by the browser, the process depends upon how well the code is written. The only thing that you can control is “the coding part” that stands out your website among your rivals.


Introducing Focal Things
(In order to enhance the pace of the website)


    - JavaScript
    - CSS
    - Images & Compression
JavaScript

When it comes to “JavaScript” then it can be really slow, especially, JavaScript can have much more impact on the part of “processing” as compared to “CSS”. In order to achieve insignificant things, JavaScript can get exponentially heavier in terms of file sizes.

Much slower speed is not at all the fault of the language. Sometimes, it does important to use libraries like JQuery or JavaScript Plugins to get things done. Since these plugins & frameworks come up with additional options as well as features that you may never use as a non developer.

There's also one term i.e. bandwidth-stealing that you should also aware of that in order to speed up the website.

When we dive into the concept more deeply, then, in addition, plugins might not work all together as in they might slow each other down or one might stop another from working, eventually.

If you really want to enhance the speed of the website, then here are the things that you must have a look:

Include the JavaScript (JS) file at the bottom of the Web page: JS files can slow down by stopping the web browser from providing the HTML before they are loaded. The next thing, improve the user's experience, as well as lessen up the perceived loading time in order to link to those external files at the bottom of the web page that is right before the tag.

Avoid Frameworks: While designing the full-fledged apps, then you can ignore the part i.e. Avoid frameworks. If not, then a light-weight, good & flexible framework can give developers a platform.

Whether it is small-sized or large-sized websites that include JS frameworks that may be used excessively, then on this kind of websites, JS mostly uses in the back-end of the CMS for administrating content. When we come to “front-end” then you may have an image slider. The content does not need to look fancy & animated. JS should be reserved for improving the user experience.

However, all frameworks are same, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, etc. While choosing a framework or plugin for a project, then it is imp. to ask yourself if you are going to pick one of the frameworks due to its features.

It would be better if you Hire a professional developer: It is always a great idea to hire a professional developer if you are not from the niche of coding. It would be cheaper in cost to hire someone who has a profound knowledge of it. If the things go drastically horribly wrong, then hire a developer since they would have much experience to solve the issues & resolve them. Most pivotal, they know very well to work with less code. Due to fewer code runs, as well as runs faster.


CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

It matters a lot how fast your website runs on the user's laptop, desktop, tablet or phone. It is important that the way CSS has written, it effects on how fast a particular device to display the web pages.

In order to optimize the website, then it is better to pick CSS to start with.


CSS Preprocessors

Use CSS Preprocessors such as LESS, SASS & Stylus. Surely, if you use them in a wrong way, then you can generate larger stylesheets as you intended. However, the potential advantages are worth it.

For instance, if you want to lessen the number of HTTP requests that is made to the server, including all resets, frameworks into one LESS file. If it compiles, then it will all be in a single stylesheet. In addition, most preprocessors offer the options to output all CSS in minified form.

In this way, you can use diverse files as you need for purposes of code organization without affecting the file size.


Images

In any content driven website, the biggest thing is “images”. They tend to be bulky and gear the speed like hell if it would not be optimized.

With retina screens, forcing to use bigger the images if you want things to look on every device. The problem is not getting easier to solve. The worst can be that it is an issue to forget about until the end up spending more than intended Bandwidth. When each byte counts, this is something that you can't afford to forget.

Responsive Images

How can you save the bandwidth? It is where one turn to the element & the image set the property. These are comparatively new as well as not fully supported, nevertheless, allowing browsers in order to pick the appropriate image size for the device.

Opt For The Right Format

Numerous image sizes are there in order to pick the right format. Use the following format:

For instance, for complex graphics use JPEG format, for simple graphics uses SVG or PNG format. GIF is for animation.
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