CMS is a very effectual tool to perpetuate and administer websites and the content. But how well a CMS gratify to your requirements confide in a great deal on your choice of the same. While arbitrating a CMS solution for your website, there are many crucial attributes you should look out for. However, before you initiate opting a CMS solution for your website, you should have a clear examine about your essentials & fundamental functionality attributes that you want it to have. Here are some key hallmarks you need to look for.

Basic Functionality :

The content management system(CMS) should be able to carry out fundamental function like composing, removing, rewriting and arranging web pages. There are certain incomplex CMS solutions that allow composing of content but arranging the same as per default settings. Make sure you review about this attribute if want to have complete administrate over the contents of your web pages. Although you may have the impression that you don’t need the arranging attributes right now, you cannot be sure that you wouldn’t need them in the offing.

Visual WYSIWYG Editors :

The visual editors lets you compute, rewrite and revise the website contents without any technical knowledge whatsoever. Moreover, the editors provide you to embed headings, ordered/unordered lists, internal/external links and other aspects on a web page without giving any particulars about their appearance. Also, the editor should be allowed to deal with other assets such as pictures and files.

CMS Management :

The CMS should allow content managers to handle picures and files effectually. In fact, it should make it compulsory for content managers to add ALT tag for each image. Also, it should also provide fundamental rewriting features such as size modification, degree rotation etc. Additionally, another imperative consideration should be the possibility of the CMS to upload and attach prominient documents formats and other files and how they are rendered to the website users.

CMS Customization :

The CMS should be flexile enough to accord your essentials and requirements. Rather than pursue technology as a default setting, it should delve to allow separation of design & content. It should allow flexile for the data to be recouped and presented.

User Interaction with CMS :

The CMS should allow the congregate of user feedback or authorize a 3rd party plug-in to do the same. If you have a community/networking/forum on your website, then your CMS should have options for group chat, user comments, quality ratings and other user interaction tools. The CMS should allow you to enable forms & gather responses. The imperative purpose of a CMS is to accord tasks like fields customization without any technical expertise.

CMS User Management :

There may be times when you have sevaral content managers for administrating the website contents. Thus the CMS should be able to oversee who can rewrite what portion of the website contents. Eg. the HR dept. of the firm would need to rewrite content on the ‘Careers’ section of the website while the development crew would update the ‘attaché’ section. Thus the CMS should furtherance authorizations that allow particularization about what users can rewrite what pages & what portions of the website.

Regarding the Author :

Koushik Rajagopalan is a Quality Analyst at Pixelbyte Lab IT Services, a professional web development company that has a team of skilled Indian Web Designers & Developers. The company offers wide range of web design, web development, CMS Development, open source development services.

Wordpress 3.0 is not just a next release version. It is combining of wordpress with wordpress MU. It is most widely welcomed by the blog community. Here by below are the most wanted traits,

Multiple Domain Management :

Combining of wordpress with worpress MU(Multi user) has not been developed with usual blogger in mind. It has been developed with big organizations in mind like colleges, institutions who would like to offer blogging for their students under single domain. Many Domains support, where users can officiate their blogs with other domains under single back end management. This feature could be very handy & have to say, this could be the ideal time to include.

New Theme :

Wordpress 3.0 comes with a long awaited new default theme. Apparently, wordpress have planned to release a new theme evey year. The main font used is Georgia. It has two columns with customized side bar & footer. The horizontal menu’s has drop down. Background & header can be customized at any time.

Simple Menu Management :

Menu’s Management – This is the most wanted feature in wordpress 3.0. Multiple menu’s, categories creation & customization of links are available. The menu feature comes along with the widget. It facilitates the tasks of the users to use wordpress.

Reordering of Pages and Posts :

A long time pending feature for reordering pages & post has been made easier finally. Drag & Drop feature, has been developed to make the reordering not burdensome. If an user have more than one thousand posts, it was harder to manage it. Now there are few tools available to make life easier.

Enhanced Security :

For a long time, lot of people was not happy with the wordpress password storage in plain text. Unsurprisingly, security features have been improved with MU capabilities in mind. Improved registration, customized configarable admin features & few manadatory extra fields have lessened security threats.

Conclusion :

The features that are been mentioned here are taken from the most recently build version. One important thing, this version is still unstable. Neverthless, wordpress have taken its superstruct to the next level that no one could have thought about. It is evolving to be the most flexible & powerful content management system(CMS).

Microsoft’s free e-mail service(Hotmail) transfiguring towards a new overture hoping that Hotmail edges over its rivalries Google & Yahoo’s e-mail service.

The upgraded version of the e-mail service is expected to reach its users by July (or) August. Category wise sorting of e-mails (or) messages & also manage key contacts & social networking. When an e-mail is received with attachment(Videos, Photos & other popular formats), preview feature is available without opening the attachment.

New tools are added to make the free e-mail service to be adorable & more easily usable for sending images, videos, documents etc. . Another cool thing is enabling of accessing/syncing hotmail with mobile phones.

Microsoft excutive Mr. Jones said that, our e-mail service wasn’t offering the best as it was capable of. The main thing about the renovation to make sure the users don’t spend much time in managing their mail boxes rather they should spend more time with reading their e-mails (or) messages.

Microsoft hopes that by adding new features will change the thoughts of the users that Hotmail is not being zestless as its rivals Google & Yahoo are adding more & more exciting features to their e-mail service.

Over a period of time, even though Microsoft only made few variance, still it remains the largest using free e-mail service with more than 350 million users followed by second largest Yahoo(More than 280 million) & third gmail(170 Million & above).

Hotmail mainly concentrates on providing new ways of presenting videos & photos through e-mail. It expects this feature should become popular as more than 52% of storage consumed by photos & videos as attachments.

Hotmail’s new technology will check out if an e-mail composed of image as attachment & flaunt its thumbnail automatically. It will also provide similar kind of preview if it finds links of photos & videos sharing websites(Youtube, Flickr …).

Lot of modifications are made to make the e-mail sending easier. A new progress/status bar will enable users to check out their usage upto 10GB & Photo attachment upto 50MB by adding their photos to skydrive(Free online storage provided by hotmail) where only the recipients can view it.

Any useful internet material can be searched through the new pane that will connect to its search engine bing where the search-generated content can be inserted into the e-mail with a mouse click. undoubtfully, microsoft concentrates more on security as it enable SSL for web address.

LinkedIn – A proficient social network has been working to make it more social as well as professional. With the huge popularity of Twitter & Facebook, LinkedIn is adapting few of its attractive & successful attributes. LinkedIn allows users to tweet from their base to other clients with a hash tag. LinkedIn has developed a similar feature like follow feature in Twitter to follow company profiles for their users.

From now onwards, users will have the ability to follow a company of their network. They will also receive real time remainders in the activity stream of their profiles. It is quite similar approach as some on Twitter becoming an admirer in Facebook.

The core idea of this theme is to keep a track of the company updates such as career openings, profile updates, up-to-date developments & more, in true, you can use the follow button on a company profile & then the updates will be added in your activity stream. Type of updates to be received can be customized by an user.

It is not quite surprising that LinkedIn is developing advanced features, as this seems to be their part of their strategy. With over 61 million members in their network, LinkedIn is progressing quite steadily. New URL shrinker, advanced sharing features, outlook mail client integration, API integration are been introduced.

It will be very interesting if LinkedIn integrates with Facebook like they did with Twitter. Most prominient research showed that social networking is expanding very significantly with over 390 millions users in facebook. Hence, LinkedIn might step in to integrate with the huge power of Facebook.

Web Analysts, Security experts, technology nerds & even microsoft have recommended all the Information Technology commune to upgrade IE6(Internet Explorer6), yet most of the popular surveys suggested that IE6 is hanging around & doing pretty well, especially during the business hours. The usage stats counts around close to 20%.

A popular advertising network has conducted a recent research & the study showed that IE 6 usage ranked 4th among all browsers. The study also suggested that, IE6 is been used more at the Business hours/WOrking hours & the browser usage ranks down after the working hours. The same scenario were observed at the week ends too.

The study also showed that when IE6 usage drops, other popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, IE8 usage were increased. The usage proved to be more in the off-business hours.

The study proved that users use technological advanced browsers at home than at work. Looking at the funnier side, employees of top corporates are switching over to the advanced/secured browsers at home, whereas the IT corporates sustains with IE6 to keep it live. IE6 was introduced in the year 2001 along with Microsoft windows Xp. Currently, microsoft is upgrading its browser version to IE9 & set to include advanced web standards like HTML 5, CSS3 etc.

Internet Explorer 6 :

Microsoft have said that, it will support IE6 till 2014. New service package 3 will be available in July’10.
Google said that, it will stop its most of its services(Gmail, Calendar…) supporting IE6 after google identified that hackers from China tried to broke into their network. That was due to vulneribilities of IE6. Youtube have stopped their services in IE 6 this March.

It’s pretty much sure that IE6 funeral is certain. It’s wistful to see this happening, after all IE 6 have ruled the web browser world for almost close to a decade. Popular statistics including W3schools showed that IE 6 had 70% of users for a long period of time. Still, it is inevitable to end the IE 6 usage.

In this modern web world, web browsers have huge effect for the internet users. The new web browser edition CHROME was welcomed by internet users highly as it is a product from GOOGLE. After the release, there has been lot of comparison between the browsers. Now, lets compare Chrome(Google) Vs Safari(Apple)

Usability among these two web browsers :

Safari is highly featured web browser which has lot of features to offer internet users. Safari’s simple layout makes it easy to use. Whereas, Chrome on the other hand, has recreated some of the common features such as address bar, Tab, UI that makes the internet users to spend meager amount of time to learn and get adapted soon.  Usability has not got so much better with chrome.

Tab Formulation :

Safari has traditional tab system where no. of tabs in the browser under the common one. In the other hand, Chrome offers different menu’s for each tab to work in the new tab window. Chrome offers drag tab feature formulation for separate window.

Memory consumption :

There are several tests has been conducted and it was proved that chrome is more efficient than safari. Separate Tab system & light weighted in chrome enables advance memory utilization with the OS.

First Start :

Chrome is best among any browser when it comes to speed. Google has developed chrome to unmatch with any other browser when it comes to speed. The light weight technology proves chrome is the best.

Support for plugins :

Chrome has little support to plugins when compared with safari. Safari has rich support of plugins for various needs.

Performance :

When it comes to modern Web standards, rendering and compiling JavaScript methods, both the browsers are excellent in that. In safari, all the intensive tasks performed are good in Mac OS but not in windows.

Web Security :

Safari has reported only small no. of vulnerabilities so far. On the other hand, Chrome is developed with extra ordinary security & it has its own check methodology for possible web risks. At the end, chrome has a little upper hand over safari.

We PIXELBYTELAB expertised in Websites Development & CMS makes the development look simple. We innovate website development using our CMS-Content Management System Pbware as well as open source content managment system(CMS-Word press, Joomla, Drupal etc.). We customize your website with our CMS as well as with the open source.

In this competitive world of website & web application development, it is very important to be exquisite as well as be simple. While developing a website using CMS, it will have a huge importance for the quality we build and how fast we can develop them with the overall costs. While we develop interactive websites we make sure to keep the end user in our mind & concentrate highest on the usability for our customers as well as the target audience.

When we go for open source content managment sytems, three of them are the best & popular accross the world. They are, Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Each of them has their highlights and restrictions and they cannot be widely used for everyone. The skill set along with the experience of a designer & developer decides which CMS would be useful for the induviduals/small business/Enterprise. Lets know more about them.

Joomla

We consider Joomla is one step ahead than Wordpress, having huge amount resources for designers as well as for developers to innovate dynamic website development. Joomla has huge community of users, also offers excellent support for designers and developers, along with target audience of the websites.

Even though Joomla seems to be good for designers as well as developers, it seems to lack in developing flexible websites with ideal usability. Enterprise/small business/Induvidual requires non-technical personals to manage.

In recent surveys, joomla is considered to be the most popular Content Management System used today, it also said that joomla does not offer to create a work flow in sections and to manage the content. That is, end users have difficulty to update content frequently.

Wordpress

Wordpress is an excellent CMS(ease of use) that allows one/multiple users to manage websites with extraordinary blogging abilities. Anyone can use the CMS with out any difficulty. The main draw back is that it lag in flexibility. Wordpress was mainly developed for creating & managing dynamic blogs. But it is often found difficult and time consuming process.

Drupal

Joomla & Drupal are compared to each other for many good reasons. Both CMS-Content Management System offers web development to innovate dynamic websites. What distingushes Drupal is that its capability to take the web development process to the next level. Not just that, it is very useful for long term process & provide cost effective solutions with flexibilty for web designers & developers.

The time that takes to learn Drupal is quite long, but once when you have done that it will be very easier to use all the the features of the CMS. At the end of the day the time taken to learn would be worthy. We develop excellent websites quicker and cost effective with end users can manage their websites on their own with drupal.

Choosing the correct CMS-Content Management System for your business is very important. The usability of your website is the top priority as your business grows, hence you would need professional guidance like us to choose the right CMS.

In the modern web, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has got top priority to promote your business via website. If Web searchers are not able to locate your website with the related keywords, then they cannot read & have a look at your website. That can costs you big time if you are going to lose your customers.

Many think that SEO is different web science that only some of them have mastered. There are quite a lot constraints to think, and there you need to locate a firm like us who is specialized in SEO to optimize your website according to your goals.

There are small tips & techniques that can be done by yourself. We have got few proven tips that can help you to optimize your website & make people to find your content & make search engines(google, yahoo, bing … etc) to crawl & index.

Prepare fresh & quality content.

Our best tip is to update content quite frequently in your website to attract your target audience. Links are important in SEO. Hence, quality content can make people to connect with your website. That might prove your website to be important for search engines & give importance.

Correct & related keywords.

Make sure how your target audience will get into your website using which keyword. Research them & get it into your meta information.

Include neat & elegant title.

If you think SEO alone is very important then you might not get any cute titles. Hence, try to make sure you insert titles that are clear and have your keywords. Once you have done that, try to make sure to get the titles in the H1 tags. That will be very useful in SEO.

Avoid using lot of images or Flash.

A flashy intro or lot of images in the content might hurt your website as Search engines are likely to crawl text. If unavoidable, try to avoid them in the home page. If you are going to use images, then don’t forget to add alt attribute for each image.

Don’t forget to use Robots.txt

Adding robots.txt will help the search engines crawler to determine what needs to be indexed in your website. There are a lot of things can be done by robots.txt, for that, you need a study on that.

Code your websites with clean and semantic markup with w3c standard.

Search engines will crawl your website easily if your code is clean. Insert correct tags in the content. Another modern trend is using style sheets that avoid hassles while crawling.

Don’t use black hat seo methods!

Don’t get tricky to increase traffic for your website. Duplicate content, hidden text and other back hat seo techniques can make the search engines to believe for a short while. But in the longer run, search engines will penalize your website.

Hence be patient & don’t forget your target audience!

Search engines will index your content frequently. It might take some time to see the results. Keep working for quality content and provide your target audience something good.