Web Design

Success is not just about providing the best products or services anymore. It’s about combining real-world leadership with an online presence that meets – and exceeds – the expectations of today’s Internet-savvy customers. If your company is unable to put up a good professional website, then it seems natural for visitors to your website to assume that your company cannot deliver good products or services.

 

What is a web application? It’s a business system or application delivered over the web. It might be an internal expenses application used only within a company (intranet); a reseller purchasing application used with partners (extranet) or an online system available to members of the public like an eBay or a E-books search site.

Deciding whether a web-site might better be called an “application” can be tricky – but in general if the site presents forms and stores data in a database – it’s a web app.

GSP WEB has all the skills required to deliver your online system:

  • . We have strong expertise with Microsoft IIS and ASP.NET – the leading Microsoft Platform for web-site delivery.
  • . We are experts in MS SQL Server, used at the server side to manage the database.
  • . We also have strong expertise in JavaScript and AJAX – technologies necessary to deliver the interactivity required by web-site users.

Creating a new web application or online system is a significant software development project, which requires careful management.

If you’d like to understand more about the technologies we use to implement leading-edge online systems and web-applications, please continue reading.
Hosting and Development Platforms

GSP WEB primarily uses Microsoft tools for web-application development – which means we use Microsoft Server 2008, which includes Microsoft IIS / ASP.NET as the web-server. We generally use Microsoft SQL Server as the back-end database.

We use Microsoft tools primarily because we believe they allow us to be more productive. We can write the system code using C#, which is a very modern and powerful language.

The major alternative to Microsoft technologies is Linux. You may hear the acronym “LAMP” mentioned – this stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP”, and refers to a collection of technologies commonly used together on Linux-hosted web-applications. We appreciate that the Linux platform has some strong benefits – notably that components are mostly free – and we see good sites being developed using LAMP. But most of our customers still use MS products, and we’re happy with this choice.

In truth, the vast majority of developers have strong expertise on only one platform – so very, very few people are really in a position to say “this platform is better”. And the right platform may well depend on exactly what sort of application is being developed.

A new factor in this debate is Microsoft’s new SilverLight technology. We believe this will make the development of some types of web-application much, much faster.
Web Technology Overview

In the beginning, the web used HTML. HTML was originally a very simple way for people to write pages which included text, graphics – and links to other pages. The extreme simplicity of HTML powered it’s very quick adoption, and launched the web.

HTML has since been massively extended, which has led to huge problems with browser compatibility which continue to cause web-developers headaches on a day-to-day basis. The core problem is that HTML simply wasn’t designed for the purpose it is being used for – which means it doesn’t work that well.

In recent years, there has been a major push to find ways to develop “rich internet applications” – i.e. web-sites which are significantly more interactive than plain-HTML sites, and provide users with more interesting and convenient ways to obtain information.

The following is a brief summary of the competing technologies for Rich Internet Application development:

 
 
AJAX and JavaScript JavaScript is the language used within browsers to make things happen on the user’s PC. JavaScript makes menus pop down, and automatically changes colours when you enter data. AJAX is a special technique in web development that allows web-pages to do things “in the background” – avoiding the need to refresh the whole page. AJAX and JavaScript are used very intensively to implement sites like Google’s Gmail and Google Maps, and online supermarkets.

AJAX however has some significant disadvantages – the development tools we have for AJAX programming are poor compared with client side tools, and AJAX often encounters significant browser-compatibility issues. Complex AJAX sites can require huge amounts of testing and fixing. There are solutions to some of these problems, but AJAX remains a quite expensive technology.
Flash & Flex Flash is supported by all major OSes, and delivers very good cross-platform compatibility – a flash app that works on one OS generally works on all. However, Flash programming is specialised, and many developers do not have the skills. It is rare to see whole web-sites developed in Flash, probably because it’s too difficult.
SilverLight This new MS technology shows considerable promise. GSP WEB is hoping that it will allow the development of Rich Internet Applications without the complexity of Ajax. However, it requires a plug-in, and it’s currently only supported on Windows and Mac. These issues will limit early adoption of SilverLight.
 

E-Commerce Solution

ERP !DEAS can help you become a next generation organization by giving you a full feature-rich ecommerce portal with on demand customized features.

Our Technical Exposure :

jQuery, AJAX, GoogleMaps API, HTML, XHMTL, DHTML, XML, ASP, PHP, SQL, Javascript, VBscript, .NET and Flash Actionscript.

Tools : Oscommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded, Xcart, Cubecart, Magento and others.

Our E-Commerce Software Development Service Offerings include:

  • . Web Design using Web 2.0 techniques for Rich Internet Applications
  • . Custom eCommerce Solutions and web-applications such as online flower shops, Shopping carts, Document Libraries etc.
  • . New Ecommerce Website Design & Development.
  • . Customization and enhancement of existing Ecommerce Solutions.

What is in it for you?

A well designed eCommerce website is a wonderful source of generating extra income for your company with very low overheads.

Whether it is your first ecommerce website, or you have an existing ecommerce website for which you want a makeover, and if you are looking to expand into the Internet sector and take the best benefit of this rapidly growing market, ERP !DEAS is the right choice for you. Get back to us now and know how our online retailing and ecommerce software developers and designers can help make your online business a huge success. With us, you get:

  • . A Great Ecommerce Site Strategy : Our ecommerce programmers use the right tools and technologies as they are aware of the latest development in Ecommerce arena.
  • . Increased Conversion through Enhanced User Experience.
  • . Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization.
  • . A Customized Shopping Cart.
  • . Custom Solutions : If you have any technical or business limitations that prevent you from using out-of-the-box solutions, ERP !DEAS can get you overcome those limitations by conceptualized and tailored applications with custom ecommerce web designs that will meet your specific business need.
  • . 3rd Party Application Integration : If your competitor is taking all your business or if you are missing the necessary business intelligence to get a clear picture of your ecommerce transactions, you may be using a sophisticated supply chain, Point-Of-Sale or an Accounting package to manage your brick-and-mortar stores. ERP !DEAS can make your ecommerce website work seamlessly and beautifully and integrate 3rd party applications to your own application. We’re in line with the latest technology trends Let us help you ensure your website becomes an essential and fully integrated component of your business.
  • . Support & Maintenance : We can increase the performance of your site and at the same time, do the necessary optimization to ensure your site is better equipped to handle your traffic and customer service queries. We will be able to improve the overall site performance, stability and robustness of your current solution too.
  • . Domain Expertise : We focus at bringing you domain experts for all projects we undertake and our development practices are led by subject matter experts in the education technology sector.
  • . Ramp up and Ramp Down Ability : We give you the ability to be flexible in your association with us to suit your dynamic needs. We can meet your resource and infrastructure requirements for both small and large projects, at the same time re-aligning the resources to our other projects, as and when needed, so you have the resources available to you at all times i.e. when you ramp up after ramping down.
  • Increased Security : When it comes to managing critical information, ERP !DEAS has a Data Protection policy in place that protects every bit of the information that you provide to us. At ERP !DEAS, no one other than the PC owner can view someone else’s computer without explicit written authorization and all the work is done in a paper-less environment, that’s how strict we are.
  • . Tested and Standard Processes and Methodologies : ERP !DEAS has tried and tested on a number of processes and innovative methodologies, which have built in risk mitigation strategies and cost efficiencies. Our approach to offshore elearning solution development work addresses the key issues of transition management and operational efficiency improvement.

We can build in the multiple features to your ecommerce website, much more than you can ever imagine, through our excellence in software and web development. Your Marketing and Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Product Catalogue and Launches, Order and payment Processing with gateways, Website Look and Feel, Content Management, Storefront and administration would no longer be a difficult task for those who maintain it, as we promise you an enhanced used experience with the use of latest tools and technologies.